Swine flu

[National Office Week]

Apparently they have a cure, a new type of oinkment!

Damn you beat me to it - I was trying to get that in before someone else did!

ha ha

Kim

 

[Pixels Ink]

 

Excellent pic Colin, I nicked that for my humour blog

 

[JamieM]

The people in Scotland were in my mates ward at the hospital. He's meant to be coming to mine tonight.

Might banish him.

 

[Delta-SI]

Urgent update from BBC News

 

[Rich Leigh]

Haha, I love how seriously we're all taking this...

I'm a regular visitor to Sickipedia.org (don't ask...) and read this the other day, it's not hugely PC but I loved it:

Bloody Mexicans (I toned that bit down...), even their diseases are sneaking across the border!

 

[Cornish Steve]

what i don't get is..WHY THE HELL ARE PEOPLE STILL TRYING TO GET TO MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because Mexico is a big place with a population of 110,000,000 people, there have been only 343 confirmed (and 2,500 suspected) cases of swine 'flu there, and most of those cases are from a particular region. It's like saying there are 300 cases of the plague in the London area and asking why people are still flying to Scotland.

 

[KM-Tiger]

... asking why people are still flying to Scotland.

That's an easy one.

If you are English it's much cheaper to be ill in Scotland. No prescription charges, no hospital car parking charges. Those fools in England pay for all of that.

 

[Dawg]

Because Mexico is a big place with a population of 110,000,000 people, there have been only 343 confirmed (and 2,500 suspected) cases of swine 'flu there, and most of those cases are from a particular region. It's like saying there are 300 cases of the plague in the London area and asking why people are still flying to Scotland.

I can't find the source but I read yesterday that there are about 130 deaths a week due to respiratory failure in Mexico City alone.
I also believe that this strain loses it's transmission potential very rapidly, down to about 10% in two generations.

Perspective needed?

 

[elaine@cheapaccounting]

Just heard on the radio news - only about 100 cases now in Mexico are confirmed and they do not think it is as bad as first thought.

I wonder what we will have to worry / panic about next week.

 

[s brown]

2 people at my mums work are now being tested for it quite bad now x

 

[Barnie]

i also work for a large high street chemist and beauty retailer and the company have sold out of masks and sold out of hand sanitizer/cleanser, all store orders have been stopped

i think there are 100 lines which are on back order at the moment, and we are yet to have a confirmed case in wales as yet