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We haven’t heard anything of the continuing situation of the virus within pig populartions. This is important because viruses multiply and mutate easily in pigs. Of course, pigs don’t matter as much as humans, but what’s happening with pigs has implications for humans.
Presumably it would be possible pigs to catch swine flu from a human. This could happen at farms or livestock markets. Then we have swine flu spreading, multiplying and strengthening within pig poplulations, which is likely to spread back to humans with a vengeance.
……… and then spread back into pigs again (and the occasional chicken) – which will further infect the human population until eventually – we are all DOOMED !!!
Meanwhile, back on planet reality, we have at most a couple of hundred deaths across a number of major countries – which deaths are only suspected to be linked to ‘swine flu’.
This is a pandemic???? I don’t think so.
The global effects of so-called ‘swine flu’ pale into insignificance when you think of the annual death rate from Malaria in Africa alone …… 3 MILLION !!!!! Now THAT is an issue – but hey who cares???? The Media don’t, obviously.
It’s not a pandemic yet, but it could become one. Previous pandemics have started in a small way.
The global effects of so-called ‘swine flu’ pale into insignificance when you think of the annual death rate from Malaria in Africa alone …… 3 MILLION !!!!! Now THAT is an issue – but hey who cares???? The Media don’t, obviously.
I think a lot fo people do care about that but it’s a sort of steady-state situation, it’s been like that for ages, so it’s not news. Also, there are about 12,000 deaths a year from normal flu in the UK, but nearly all of those are among very weak and frail people.
Armageddon is here
And none of us have any medical expertise, or at least not enough to know the real prognosis.
But i am a scientist :D/
Word of the day
Pandemic.
A combination of the ancient Greek words ‘pan’ meaning ‘everyone’ and ‘demic’ meaning ‘frighten the absolute living shit out of’.
A draft forecast prepared last September warned that up to half the British opulation – or 30 million people – could get influenza if the bug outbreak turns into a pandemic.
In the worst case, there would be 2,000 hospital admissions per 100,000 people – or 1.2 million people. There would also be 1,250 fatalities per 100,000 – or 750,000 people.
and dont forget feeling perky could give you swine flu
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