The official "Swine Flu" thread.

[Joe90]

I don't blame Mexico for this flu. But that said, would now be a good time to secure the border?

Shades of the SARS crisis......

There was talk about travel bans from the US to Canada during the SARS episode, but NOBODY talked about closing the border to CHINA.

The World Health Organization blamed Canada for not containing the virus, all the while ignoring that the SARS virus. Came. To. Canada. On. A. Commercial. Flight. From. China.

[hobub]

Why don't we just open the border to Mexico and not have any illegals passing through then. (You are comparing apples with stones.)

[toys2cool]

I don't blame Mexico for this flu. But that said, would now be a good time to secure the border?

Ellis Island had a quarantine section before letting imigrants through. I guess we know more than they did.

if it is coming from there I say close it until things get better,to me it doesn't matter where it's from.It could be Cuba,Mexico,Canada,China I don't care.Where ever it's from close the thing

[theantiquetiger]

Exactly...

We're not talking Captain Tripps here.

Awesome book!!!!!

You have a higher chance of getting killed on the way to the doctor to be checked for "Little Piggy Cold", than dying from it.

[JPkempo]

Hector is that you?

[hobub]

If the suggestion that people who are not citizens sneaking through unsecure borders might just carry a deadly flu might is political, sorry I'm out of it. I have no further opinion in the matter.

But as I said before, Ellis Island had a quarantine section to keep nasty diseases out.

And that is no way any put down to the people of Mexico. I just hope a pandemic is not on the horizon.

[Bill]

Merle Allin is the culprit?

[MysteryWho]

I read today that travel and border measures don't really have much effect.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS307127.htm

[Joe90]

I read today that travel and border measures don't really have much effect.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS307127.htm

I don't believe anything that the WHO has to say. They're as crooked as Ice Dance Judges at an Olympic Event.

Experts still looking for origin of outbreak

See what I mean? It's already been genetically linked to the Spanish Flu from 1918. And where did they discover that came from?

Can you say Guang Dong Province?.
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[Mikey]

Most of my family on my fathers side died of the influenza of 1918 in New Jersey.

My grandparents (my fathers parents) were buried in a mass unmarked grave at the local cemetary.

Old timers told me there's hundreds of people buried there.

Scary stuff

[livnxxxl]

I read today that travel and border measures don't really have much effect.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LS307127.htm

I could be wrong, but I very seriously and personally find that hard to believe. I could see the travel and border measures as having no effect due to the dumb aces that keep travelling back and forth knowing the whole time that there is at least a potential risk involved. No one ever thinks that it could happen to them. It really aggitates me of their poor choices being made. Not only are they putting their lives in danger, but others just as well.

[Hector]

Exactly...

We're not talking Captain Tripps here.......I'm not scared -- I'm more pi$$ed off that Mexico is taking the blame for this. The last pandemic we had was SARS, and Canada got blamed for that. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, both SARS and SWINE FLU have their origins in CHINA. Avian Flu, Swine Flu... It's all the thame sam ding...

Now the World is talking about boycotting North American produced pork... They won't be boycotting Chinese products, or closing the borders to Chinese nationals. If you like pork, it's gonna be cheap for the next 6 months...

You are into something here...

"Medical detectives have not zeroed in on where the outbreak began. One of the eight deaths in Mexico directly attributed to swine flu was that of a Bangladeshi immigrant, said Mexico's chief epidemiologist, who suggested that someone could have brought the virus from Pakistan or Bangladesh.

Miguel Angel Lezana, the epidemiologist, said the unnamed Bangladeshi had lived in Mexico for six months and was recently visited by a brother who arrived from Bangladesh or Pakistan and was reportedly ill. The brother has left Mexico and his whereabouts are unknown, Lezana said."

http://news.aol.com/article/swine-flu-outbreak/452130?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fn ews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fswine-flu-outbreak%2F452130

[Hector]

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[Hector]

Hector is that you?
http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2...Flu%20Mask.jpg

Too skinny...and too much hair.

[livnxxxl]

I have been wondering that if the mask they are all wearing actually really do help at all?

I can remember some time ago it was said that duct tape and plastic wrap would be great for wrapping up your house to protect yourself against.......(whatever it was going on at that time) So naturally a lot of people went out and bought up all they could thus leaving the shelves empty everywhere. It was to the point where one could not even find a roll of duct tape if you needed one much less buy a roll for a good while. Needless to say I wasn't going for it then and I am not going for it now either. I need more concrete proof to support the evidence. It turned out later that it was released that all of the duct tape and plastic wrap that people were buying up and using would not have did one darn bit of good. What a waste. Does anyone else remember what I am typing about here. I am having a youngzeimers attack and I cannot remember what exactly that is was going back at that time. People sure did panic as usual though.