Strange Killer Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico

[Sionnach Glic]

I think he means one on the scale of the Spanish Flu, with a similar death toll.

[Monroe]

Aye. When people say pandemics they bring up the 1918 one. Hell I'm not even sure what you mean by 30 years ago unless you mean AIDs.

[Captain Seafort]

Nope - there was a flu outbreak in 1968 that started in Hong Kong and ended up killing a million people.

The Beeb

[Monroe]

Nope - there was a flu outbreak in 1968 that started in Hong Kong and ended up killing a million people.

The Beeb

oh wow. That's bizarre no one talks about it.

[Nickswitz]

It was Hong Kong, how much does anyone talk about Hong Kong.

[Monroe]

It was Hong Kong, how much does anyone talk about Hong Kong.

True its Asian but at the time it was also part of the UK which is the United States' closes ally and all. You'd think some mention of Beeps would be in the news.

[Nickswitz]

Nahhh
That's like calling to attention the beginning of WWII, if it weren't for school, I wouldn't really know that WWII was there before Pearl Harbor.

[Monroe]

Nahhh
That's like calling to attention the beginning of WWII, if it weren't for school, I wouldn't really know that WWII was there before Pearl Harbor.

lol good point.
Poland what?

[Mikey]

Well, it's closer to home now. A death has been attributed to swine flu in Texas.

[Tsukiyumi]

I'm not too worried. It sounds like some slightly stronger regular flu.

If I can survive super-pneumonia, staph infection, and third degree burns all without setting foot in a hospital, I doubt some slightly improved flu is going to kill me.

[Monroe]

I'm not too worried. It sounds like some slightly stronger regular flu.

If I can survive super-pneumonia, staph infection, and third degree burns all without setting foot in a hospital, I doubt some slightly improved flu is going to kill me.

How do you know it was a Staph Infection if you didn't get it at the hospital?

[Tsukiyumi]

I'm not too worried. It sounds like some slightly stronger regular flu.

If I can survive super-pneumonia, staph infection, and third degree burns all without setting foot in a hospital, I doubt some slightly improved flu is going to kill me.

How do you know it was a Staph Infection if you didn't get it at the hospital?

Symptoms are symptoms, and hospitals are not the only place you can get staph.

[Nickswitz]

Nahhh
That's like calling to attention the beginning of WWII, if it weren't for school, I wouldn't really know that WWII was there before Pearl Harbor.

lol good point.
Poland what?

Exactly, I really didn't know that Poland had anything to do with the war until last year in Global. So yeah, we in the U.S., we try to mask everything except the necessary evils, and even those we cover up quite well.

[Monroe]

Phase 5:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_ ... _flu_world

So long as it doesn't become Phase 6 I think we'll be okay. Anyone know if SARS got to phase 5 or 6?

[Mikey]

Nahhh
That's like calling to attention the beginning of WWII, if it weren't for school, I wouldn't really know that WWII was there before Pearl Harbor.

lol good point.
Poland what?

Exactly, I really didn't know that Poland had anything to do with the war until last year in Global. So yeah, we in the U.S., we try to mask everything except the necessary evils, and even those we cover up quite well.

I beg to differ - high school was actually anathema to learning for me. I had a teacher in high school who thought that the "Tet" in "The Tet Offensive" was a location instead of a holiday. However, I had a very well-grounded upbringing in the world as a global community. Perhaps it was because my families were twentieth-century additions to the US.