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How is everyone doing so far? Anyone caught the flu yet?

I haven't caught swine flu yet.
I don't see how any of us can get swine flu, seeing as we all got wiped out by the bird flu pandemic a couple of years ago...

[ Edited by Ruud on 2009/11/25 15:51 ]

It's a pure marketing IMHO.

Something to keep the 24 hour news channels busy

My uncle got it but he's over it now afaik.
More people will die of "normal" flu this winter.

Ruud: very true. Take a look how many people will die this year suffering from HIV or other illness. But as they say - when 3 people die - it's a disaster. When 3 million people die - it's just statistic.

I've had it. It wasn't any different from normal influenza. Maybe 3-4 days of fever and some normal flu symptoms.

I just can't understand the irrational fear people have about this thing. An example: In Finland, normal seasonal influenza kills roughly 1000 people per year. So far the A(H1N1) has killed 10, and the epidemic is dwindling down already. All but one of those victims have had some serious long term condition that has contributed greatly to their passing.

Media has a veiled interest to produce horror stories about this, for example the recent stories about the "mutated H1N1 in Ukraine (black lungs)", which turned out to be total bollocks. When some actual mutation was found, the papers screamed about "mutated H1N1 that'd kill everyone" (was it in Norway?). WHO had to step in and release a statement stating that these small mutations are perfectly normal for the influenza virus, and that the vaccination works equally fine against it. The same mutation has been found pretty much everywhere anyway, no one just gave a damn before media brought it up.

Who still remembers the Avian influenza?

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Yeah, and in Sweden it's usually about 1.5-2x that many, which kind of corresponds to Sweden's bigger population size I guess...

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15 here. But here it's increasing, rapidly. In fact, Norway, Italy and Sweden was the European countries that has the fastest growth of the flu last week. In Sweden's case it's kind of interesting, since Sweden is one of very few countries in the world that has offered a completely tax funded vaccination to a 100% of the population, and about 25% has taken the vaccine this far.

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Which is kind of interesting. One can only wonder why...?

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Didn't Ukrainian politicians try to turn this into a political issue, due to some election or something?

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Found in Norway, and here in Sweden too, in a few of the dead ones...

I won't take the vaccine, despite it beeing free. I don't trust it, and I'm not that scared of the swine flu anyway. I took the vaccine against the "normal" flu last year, since I wanted to be protected for a long time planned vacation trip to London and Paris during christmas holidays. But the vaccine isn't 100%, and it sure didn't protect me. I had a 40.5 degree (C) fever on new years eve last year...

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Just stay away from me!!!



But seriously, I think I had it, same story, bollocks.

To give an example - just a recent article in the biggest PL portal:

http://www.onet.pl/

first news item (now):

http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/2084721,12,media_nowa_grypa_to_farsa_sensacyjne_wyniki_sledztwa,item.html

First news entitled "Is the new flew a hoax? Sensational journals' investigation conclusions"

They claim Dannish magazine "Information" found out many WHO "independent" members are listed on pharma companies' paycheck lists. Also some quotes from Russian "Nove Izvestya" there.

A conclusion is - new flew might turn the biggest swindel in our history.

Money talks you know, especially biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig money.

DiskDoctor: As i said on the beggining - it's all about the money. We should invent some kind of boing flu so all AmigaOS users will have to drop it and buy MorphOS ;)

[ Edited by pampers on 2009/11/25 20:19 ]

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It's available already: MorphOS. Once you use it, you get infected. But it rather seems to be a brain desease, those w/o a brain seem to be immune.

@Zylesea

How come I got it then?