thursday 1 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 today will decide whether to shut all schools for a week here. All those freakin uni kids from US are spreading it like Madonna's legs Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Just had a very interesting conversation with a girlfriend who is married to a doctor. Her husband feels the biggest fear he has is that because we are going into winter with the swine flu and there are so many other flu's around if it mutates with one of these other flu's that is when there is going to be a problem. The swine flu is so contagious and if it mutates into something similar to the Spanish Flu then we could see deaths from it. SO I AM NOW OFF TO BY A MASK !!!! Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Snowhuntress - I got that message from hubby via a Health Dept person (at the end of a phone in Melbourne), but yet the Dr who has been the spokesperson for WA interviews from the Health Dept here told me face to face that it only has a 15% transmission rate, so even people in the same family are unlikley to contract it from a sufferer.... Who's telling the truth or are they making it up as they go along!!! Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 They made thier decision Thursday! Quote: Hong Kong has closed all primary schools, kindergartens and child care centres for two weeks in an attempt to control the spread of the AH1N1 swine flu virus. The decision was taken after 12 students at a secondary school were found to have contracted the disease. High schools will remain open because teenagers are not believed to be as vulnerable as younger children But I have to say WTF? Closing all little kids centres because HIGH SCHOOL kids tested positve, but not HIGH SCHOOLS? There's some logic for ya. Now the cynic in me says - the schools reopen in two weeks - in two weeks time the Swine Flu will be circulating thru the community ... and the little kids will get it then. What have we achieved except a massive disruption to schooling/work/everyday lives. I say that as an informed mother who has complied with regulations and recommendations and kept my own kids home for a week - but I am not so niave as to believe they are now 'safe'. For goodness sake - they just had a week off when they were well - and in the coming weeks the likelihood is that they will catch it and spend a week at home sick. Different if it was at a containable stage - but that stage is long past. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Definitely making it up. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 As of 14:00 GMT today, the WHO has raised the threat level of Influenza A H1N1 to Phase 6 - "pandemic". Of course, as everybody knows, this doesn't mean the flu has become more virulent or deadly - it just means it has become established in a greater number of countries worldwide. The researcher in charge was reticent in raising the level in an interview a few days ago, because he believed certain ill-informed, reactionary countries would use this to forment panic, and it would lead to inappropriate measures being taken. Too late dude! The PRC banned the importation of North American pork and pork products several "phases" ago! More inappropriate? How about the one pig in Afghanistan that has been put in quarantine! Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 awwwww the poor little piggie Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 do they have pigs in a muslim country? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Originally Posted By: Mamabear They made thier decision Thursday! Quote: Hong Kong has closed all primary schools, kindergartens and child care centres for two weeks in an attempt to control the spread of the AH1N1 swine flu virus. The decision was taken after 12 students at a secondary school were found to have contracted the disease. High schools will remain open because teenagers are not believed to be as vulnerable as younger children But I have to say WTF? Closing all little kids centres because HIGH SCHOOL kids tested positve, but not HIGH SCHOOLS? There's some logic for ya. This is what happens when trained administrators become leaders. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday do they have pigs in a muslim country? It's in the Kabul zoo . The pig is a popular curiosity there, since most people don't come in contact with them because pork is not halal. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 haha a pig in a zoo!! Reminds me of Zoorasia in Yokohama where they have Seagulls as an exhibit!! I can see them at the bloody beach thanks!! I was half expecting the next exhibit to be a dog!! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Quote: where they have Seagulls as an exhibit Somewhere in Niigata that does pigeons TB if you are interested! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I went to a circus, at the end, they had about a thousand birds fly through in a straight line over the audience. There was also a pelican. Amazing. Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Someone at Mr Snowhunters work has just been diagnosed as having Swine Flu. Luckily Mr Snowhunter has been off for a week with torn tendons in his shoulder, so hoepfully he will be in the clear. Link to post Share on other sites
Curt 1 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 First death in the UK from it I see. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 haha lady colleague carted off to isolation in hospital. She got out today, false alarm. Link to post Share on other sites
Queen of Chiba 0 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 She was just trying to get off work Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Quote: Parents 'organising swine flu parties to ensure their children contract the virus before winter' There are fears that parents are taking their children to ‘swine flu parties’ in the hope they will catch the disease now and build up immunity. Discussions over whether parents should take steps to acquire immunity before the main flu season in the winter, when the virus is expected to be more potent, have taken place on family website mumsnet. One user posted: 'Great idea. Get it now while it's mild and there's plenty of tamiflu. There could be a swine flu party.' It follows the practice of parents deliberately exposing their children to playmates with chickenpox in order to allow them to have the once-only disease at a convenient time. But today British Medical Association expert Dr Richard Jarvis warned against taking the same approach with swine flu. His warning came the day after news emerged of the first death of a child with swine flu in the UK. Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I see on the news today in JAPAN they have found a strain of Swine Flu that is resistant to Tamiflu Link to post Share on other sites
KlingKlang 1 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Haven't seen that. Seems to have bombed out of the news the last few weeks here. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I haven't been following UK news the last few weeks so surprised to read this this morning More than 100,000 swine flu cases could be diagnosed every day by the end of next month, the Health Secretary has warned. Britain has moved past the stage of trying to contain the spread of the virus and into the “treatment phaseâ€, Andy Burnham told the House of Commons. Cases of the H1N1 virus were doubling each week in Britain and could reach six figures daily by the end of August if current trends continued, he added. Anyone with flu-like symptoms will be advised to stay at home and telephone their GP for advice. Doctors have warned that “several million†people could become ill as the flu season returns in autumn and winter. Mr Burnham emphasised that most people who had become infected with the virus had developed only mild symptoms but widespread disruption to the economy is expected as people take days off work with flu. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Yes noticed that. How's it progressed down in Australia? Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 more cases, quite a few deaths. 3 yr old was the lastest - prior to him it seemed all of the deaths were in adults with underlying or serious conditions. There are a HEAP of viruses around at the moment. Everyone seems to be sick. Hubby has staff off left right and centre, kids sport teams are struggling to field full teams each week, and I think I would have been lucky to have had ONE day in the last month without at least one of my kids off school in bed sick. Not JUST swine flu doing the rounds, but perhaps the presence of swine flu in addition to other virii (is that even a word) is making an impact. Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Hearing similar back home. And I'm due to be there in a matter of weeks. Get well people! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Remember your masks, UK folk! [quoite]Britain now has the third highest number of cases of swine flu in the world after America and Mexico, where the virus was first reported. An estimated 8,000 people are thought to have contracted the disease in Britain in the last week, from around 27,000 who called their GP complaining of the flu. Link to post Share on other sites
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