Swine flu

[allotmentlady]

Swine Flu worrying isnt it and a mutual friend of ours is in new york where 8 cases have been confirmed!

[Creemteez]

Mr C and I were thinking of Mexico as a possible holiday destination this year. Maybe not.......

[blue411]

Two people have been admitted to hospital in Scotland after returning from Mexico with flu like symptoms, nothing to worry about though apparently. Its amazing how fast things like this can spread though isnt it.

[jacob marley]

That pigletwillie has gone quite lately he ain't hiding is he ....jacob

[pigletwillie]

Swine Flu worrying isnt it and a mutual friend of ours is in new york where 8 cases have been confirmed!

As over 10 000 000 people live there its not exactly rampaging its way through the populace is it. Still, Accapulco it aint this year.

[BrideXIII]

not in the habit of snogging pigs or BA stewards, think i might be safe for now

[TonyF]

Swine Flu worrying isnt it and a mutual friend of ours is in new york where 8 cases have been confirmed!

Why is it worrying? The UK government (and French I'm pleased to say) have huge stocks of the anti-viral that deals with it. And there are no major cases outside Mexico, those in the UK and elsewhere are either described as mild or once past the hype, as not being swine flu at all. And there have been no deaths outside Mexico so with people on 'alert' any potential case of flu, swine or other, is going to be picked up quickly.

There is a view in many of the professional sites and comments that this could be another avian flu scare, lots of hype and at the end of the day, very little happening actually.

Far too much scaremongering going on, even the US government is saying their actions are just precautions and the WHO are saying don't panic - so don't panic!

If I were a gardener, I'd be much more worried about getting tetanus by not taking the simple precaution of getting a precautionary jab and then having the decennial booster.

[cwipnip]

wasnt there all this hype about avian flu, to me it seems all the press are alarmist

[jacob marley]

Not being a cynic some of these press storys are generated from the power's that be to take the population's mind of more serious things that they want us to put into the back of our mind's....jacob

[bubblewrap]

wasnt there all this hype about avian flu, to me it seems all the press are alarmist

No the pigs have learnt to fly!

[mapcr77]

As over 10 000 000 people live there its not exactly rampaging its way through the populace is it. Still, Accapulco it aint this year.

Actually it is 20 million, so yes, loads of scaremongering, and the WHO leading on the panicking, which is why governments have to react. (After all, they cried fire so many times over avian flu, didn't they?)

[MrsC]

Not being a cynic some of these press storys are generated from the power's that be to take the population's mind of more serious things that they want us to put into the back of our mind's....jacob

Well said JM, well said! I'll worry when I sprout 2 pink furry ears and a curly tail

[MrsC]

Oink, oink

[MrsC]

QUOTE=TonyF;436728]Why is it worrying? The UK government (and French I'm pleased to say) have huge stocks of the anti-viral that deals with it. And there are no major cases outside Mexico, those in the UK and elsewhere are either described as mild or once past the hype, as not being swine flu at all.QUOTE

If the Government had huge stocks of anti-viral to deal with it, then they must have known about it? Can't stock it overnight can they? So if this so called 'swine flu' is real and serious etc etc then an early warning would have been put out and measures put in place. Sorry, just don't buy the whole 'swine flu' pandemic rubbish! Not having a go at you Tony or anything

[bluemoon]

Not being a cynic some of these press storys are generated from the power's that be to take the population's mind of more serious things that they want us to put into the back of our mind's....jacob

Well said, JM. (I'm not an old cynic either.)