[Closed] I think I've got Swine Flu!

Better than my place - when i turned up today with no voice a sore throat and an incessant cough. I was asked if i could be more quiet while i get on with everything.

Oink!

You jolly well have not got Swine Flu, Peter; you've got Cake Flu.

And I think we all know why that's happened, eh? 😉

I think somebody's been a bit of a naughty boy...

As a cautionary measure we do have stock of antibacterial telephone & key board wipes that can be collected from office stationery for you to use.

does anti-bacterial stuff kill viruses then?

point out to the HR bod that its a virus, not a bacteria? Then again I've no idea how you kill a virus, is it the same as bacteia (i.e. alcohol?)

AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 7 people dead on the other side of the world, we're all DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMED

DAMIT, should have hit reply 21 min ago before going for lunch!

O.M.G we're all going to die.
Panic buy everyone, before it's too late.

does anti-bacterial stuff kill viruses then?

got swine flu?

you'll be needing some oinkment then...

and...gone...

Antibacterial stuff can kill viruses, but it's not a certain thing.

I remember the disinfectant that we used to clear off nasty shit in Guildford. You do not want to be putting your hands in it. Really nasty, cytotoxic stuff.

From memory, it's easy to kill bacteria because they have things in their biochemistry that you can stop working (the 30s rhibosomal subunit is one that thing that a lot of antibiotics go for). Viruses don't have that sort of thing (as they hijack a cell's inner workings to produce many copies of themselves), so most "normal" stuff doesn't work.

Good gods, I haven't had to remember that sort of thing for years. That hurt.

ive got man flu. id rather have swine/pig flu

7 people dead on the other side of the world,

Erm.. 160 dead so far actually. And five reported cases of infection in the UK.
But yes it is still a very tiny number and the risk is still small.

A pig flu?
That's impossible....

coat...door...

i could really eat a bacon buttie right now.

so thats about 1 in a billion chance of dieing of it then, if only 7 people cork it in the world.

Jesus some people are dumb!

PS i once saw a car crash, ive now started telling everyone never to go on or near any cars, just in case

You and half the D-list celebs. Don't forget you can't spell pandemic without panic. 😕

Erm.. 160 dead so far actually. And five reported cases of infection in the UK.
But yes it is still a very tiny number and the risk is still small.

I think the confirmed cases are only 7 though - unless things have rapidly changed since breakfast time
The other deaths are just suspected swine flu - for now

If alcohol kills the virus, then I think I'll start self-medicating now.

Which is better, Bowmore or Laphroaig?

How many men die each year from Man Flu? I am close to death at the moment....

so thats about 1 in a billion chance of dieing of it then, if only 7 people cork it in the world.

160 people have "corked it" so far.

But the general scare is about the [u]potential[/u] for it developing into a worldwide pandemic - which it may or may not do.
Not about the actual risk of catching it right now.

Jesus some people are dumb!

Yeah - particularly those medical experts, virologists and geneticists at the WHO - they're really dumb 🙄

I think the confirmed cases are only 7 though - unless things have rapidly changed since breakfast time
The other deaths are just suspected swine flu - for now

Indeed. 7 confirmed deaths in Mexico, and 1 little boy in the US today.
The remaining 152 deaths in Mexico are suspected to be swine flu - but not yet confirmed.

Im hoping the pandemic gets going - the planet is really too full at the moment. Plus Im selling face masks on ebay.

7 confirmed deaths, 160 peope dying of not entirely known causes in a country the size of Mexico is hardly newsworthy.

i am reading this while sat in a doctor surgery with a fever and sore throat. I am a swine to live with apparenty.

Am i going to die?

There's a case of it down here in Torbay 😯

As most of us are fit and young we're well positioned to fight off these bugs right? Bugs kill of the weak so maybe it's nature's way of keeping down the population? Like pikes....

7 confirmed deaths, 160 peope dying of not entirely known causes in a country the size of Mexico is hardly newsworthy.

Well no, but the evolution of a animal-borne virus to a human-borne form that is [i]potentially[/i] lethal and to which we may have no natural immunity is definitely of interest enough to make the news.

Not worthy of the hype perhaps, but worth reporting certainly.

Also bear in mind that [u]if[/u] it does turn out to have killed 159 in Mexico, then that is a pretty high mortality rate given that they were talking about around 1000-1500 infections.

[i]As most of us are fit and young we're well positioned to fight off these bugs right? Bugs kill of the weak so maybe it's nature's way of keeping down the population? Like pikes....[/i]

"Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old."

From here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu.

If this kind of thing comes back we may well be doomed.

thought i had it , had what i thought was a cough / oink , but turned out to just a normal sneeze / fart type of thing.

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I rang up the nhs hotline but all I got as crackling :-/

There's some research that claims that a very large proportion of 1918 pandemic victims in fact died from secondary infections that would be relatively easy to control with anti-biotics today

are you board on the way to work , on the bus , train or tube ,pretend your on the fone , and talk about your 4 weeks tour of mexico , hang up and then sneeze.

Smudge this your coat?

I rang up the nhs hotline but all I got as crackling :-/

LOL! Brilliant...
🙂

I woke up this morning covered in Rash-ers

It is important to bear in mind that regular strains of flu kill 250,000-500,000 worldwide each year so swine flu has killed very few compared to the regular strains.

It is the potential for it to spread that is worrying in my mind

Think I [i][u]might[/u][/i] have that swine 'flu.
Every time I sneeze my tail wiggles.

If I were a pig I would be extremely worried!

"Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old."

'kin yes, brilliant, happy happy day, die young people, never been so happy to have turned 40 - never mind the grey hair and wrinkles at least I will still be cycling and have a choice of some very tasty, cheap second hand kit 😀