Swine Flu. Are we in big trouble with this then?

[Meglet]

This sounds worse than the bird flu that thankfully never really happened.

news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/top_stories/801/80183/story8018356.shtml?

Sky news have a press conference on now about possible cases in new york. When do we start panic buying .

and SARS, that never really happened, and West Nile virus..

I'm quaking in my boots

Well, we're about due for a pandemic that wipes a few million out.

It seems to be moving frighteningly fast.

Meglet you do seem worried.. I don't think you need to start panicking.

I just saw this on the Spanish news, outbreak in Mexico. Blimey. Looks bad. There's no vaccine either.

I mentioned this to DH after I had heard about it on the radio news.

HIs answer - "don't answer the door to anyone wearing a sombrero".

I am scared too but I get scared about everything. It looks like not that many people have died.

lol Sidge

New York now chaps.

And my contact in America is saying it's in Kansas too. (Though I never trust an American )

boredwithmyoldname I worry about everything .

well i will bet my trousers you won't catch swine flu

go and eat a bacon sandwich that will cheer you up

really? Do you know about these things Bwmon?

(thought I saw you on other thread but can't function well enough to have a search..)

hi flight
yes i posted about this happening a month after sanofi pasteur announced they were building a big plant in Mexico to manufacture flu vaccine and prepare for a pandemic

very serendipitous

i lived through sars and face masks and schools closing and was impressed by the level of panic -- perhaps I am a bit too cynical about these things

Better activate that zombie plan then.

flightattendant just saw your other thread. Go to bed and don't keep reading scary stuff! I hope some sleep helps.

BWMON they would have to be Quorn bacon sarnies.

Is there evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission yet, or is it contact with pigs only? I think it's impossible to produce a vaccine until there is h-to-h transmission, as that involves a virus mutation.

Anyway, latest WHO update is here.

Yes I do beleive there is evidence of transmition between humans and 60 people have died already and 1000 people have been effected with the illness - so a high death rate if caught.

They seem to think that some flu jabs will combat the illness - who knows the vulnerable may still get by as they have had jabs.

The last big one was after WW1, ore died of the flu than in the war.....

Radio 4 news just said it is human to human.

We will be fine... nothing to worry about

I read there have been, (non-fatal), cases in Texas where my brother lives, and even though I know Texas is HUGE I am worried. Even more worried since dh pointed out that all it takes is for someone infected to travel on a plane, (we live near Gatwick). He was joking but I know I will worry about it now.

merlin, why would he be joking? It's true. It probably arived at Heathrow/Gatwick this morning.

Don't mean to put the wasp down the knickers here but NHS 24 have been doing extra training for a flu pandemic. So preparations have started then.

Wheres my hankies?

stop it you lot

really stop it

Or days previously in fact given an incubation period.