WHO declared swine flu pandemic

[glo]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting.

It means the swine flu virus is spreading in at least two regions of the world with rising cases being seen in the UK, Australia, Japan and Chile.

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It is the first flu pandemic in 40 years - the last in 1968 killed about one million people.

However, the current pandemic seems to be moderate and causing mild illness in most people.

Most cases are occurring in young working age adults and a third to a half of complications are presenting in otherwise healthy people.

Dr Chan said: "We have evidence to suggest we are seeing the first pandemic of the 21st Century.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8094655.stm

[glo]

Two social workers in our team are off sick with suspected swine flu. (According to the latest health guidelines here in the UK antiviral drugs are prescribed by symptoms alone, rather than waiting for confirmation through lab results)

More worryingly our special needs school has been affected too. I worry about those guys, because many children are profoundly and multiply disabled, and many have additional health problems.
Please keep them in your prayers.

[Layla454]

Its spreading around rapidly and the Governments all over the world have been slow to react.

May Allah protect us.

Ameen.

[Yanal]

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Swine Flu has been proved unstoppable in todays papers. The so called vaccine is now being given to health workers over old,young people. So sad.

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[Blackpool]

Swine flu is nothing to fear of if you are healthy. It's just a bloody cold and fever that can be cured by a prescription medicine called "Tamiflu." Count yourselves lucky it isn't a bird flu strain!

[north_malaysian]

there are about 800+ cases reported in Malaysia.

[Yanal]

:sl:

Another virus has arrived in Canada: ://us.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/AnyArticle/p.rdt?URL

800 is not as much as 8,800+ here in Canada.

:w:

[north_malaysian]

:sl:

Another virus has arrived in Canada: ://us.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/AnyArticle/p.rdt?URL

800 is not as much as 8,800+ here in Canada.

:w:

another virus? :exhausted

yeah 800 is not much, but we have dengue fever and another tropical fever called Chikugunya... so whosoever got a fever should get their blood test...

i hope this thing just stop.. our neighbour Singapore has like 1,000+ cases and it's a very small country..

[The_Prince]

whatever most of you do, dont take the vaccine, as thats the real deadly substance:

http://www.infowars.com/baxter-to-de...d-flu-scandal/

http://www.infowars.com/journalist-f...t-mass-murder/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_International

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5-Y08qbjo

:) dont take the sham for a vaccine. you really expect there to be a vaccine so fast to a disease that is quite new and unlike other things they have seen? and you expect vacines to be ready by september to this disease that really got looked into by mid april???? :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSX_jS0STA

also i expect everyone to visit each link before they brush this post aside.

[The_Prince]

p-o-p-u-l-a-t-i-o-n c-o-n-t-r-o-l

[Yanal]

:sl:

MashAllah nice links:thumbs_up. Yes another virus but so far only found in Canada:skeleton: may Allah cure this virus before it becomes a pandemic like the swine flu. Ameen. I think all countries should be cautious because the swine flu did start in Mexico and now it is known in almost all countries,likewise the new virus in Canada can also spread.

:w:

[north_malaysian]

:sl:

MashAllah nice links:thumbs_up. Yes another virus but so far only found in Canada:skeleton: may Allah cure this virus before it becomes a pandemic like the swine flu. Ameen. I think all countries should be cautious because the swine flu did start in Mexico and now it is known in almost all countries,likewise the new virus in Canada can also spread.

:w:

It started in Mexico, but it came to Malaysia from USA, Australia, NZ and the Philippines.... sooner or later it'll come.... I am so afraid if something like SARS happen again... we're traumatised by it.

[Layla454]

whatever most of you do, dont take the vaccine, as thats the real deadly substance:

http://www.infowars.com/baxter-to-de...d-flu-scandal/

http://www.infowars.com/journalist-f...t-mass-murder/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_International

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5-Y08qbjo

:) dont take the sham for a vaccine. you really expect there to be a vaccine so fast to a disease that is quite new and unlike other things they have seen? and you expect vacines to be ready by september to this disease that really got looked into by mid april???? :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSX_jS0STA

also i expect everyone to visit each link before they brush this post aside.

That sounds pretty far-fetched to me

[glo]

:sl:

Swine Flu has been proved unstoppable in todays papers. The so called vaccine is now being given to health workers over old,young people. So sad.

:w:

Health workers are usually prioritised for the first vaccinations. That makes sense really, because they are the ones who will provide medical care for the rest of the population.
They are also the ones who have contact with people with severe health problems ... and they don't want to transfer potentially dangerous viruses onto them.
So vaccinating health workers first is in the best interest of everybody really.

Vaccinations aren't expected to be ready here in the UK until late August.

[glo]

:sl:

Another virus has arrived in Canada: ://us.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/AnyArticle/p.rdt?URL

:w:

another virus? :exhausted

But viruses are with us all the time. They are forever trying to find ways to inhabit the human body and thrive in it ... and the human body is forever trying to recognise and fight the viruses.
It is daily warfare, and very much part of human life.

[The_Prince]

That sounds pretty far-fetched to me

why? those are facts, not theories.

it doesnt sound far fetched to you that a vaccine is already ready to go only a few months after this unheard mutated virus popped on the scene? and it doesnt sound far fetched to you that the people in charge of the vaccines are the same company thats been caught with bad vaccines, mixed with flu viruses' themselves! a near impossibility!

which one really sounds far fetched. you got to be the most gullible person or people to believe all of the above.

furthermore why do we even need a vaccine? this virus hasnt killed that many ppl, most ppl seem to be just fine with medicine we already have, why get a vaccine?

im not taking no vaccine, thats forrrrrrrrr sure.

[glo]

I heard yesterday that the WHO is holding back on the H1N1 (let's call it by it's proper name, swine flu sounds so unpleasant) vaccine, because they want to run more tests to ensure it is safe.

Yanal, I don;t know what the vaccine is you are talking about, but it cannot be the H1N1 vaccine - because that is still being produced.

Prince, I don't think it is very complicated to produce a vaccine from an existing virus. The time-consuming part is to 'grow enough of the stuff' for millions of people and to run tests to make sure the vaccine is safe (i.e. it aids the body to produce the right anti-bodies, without causing the illness in the recipient)
I am trying to read up on how live vaccines are produced, but it is taking me some time.
Perhaps Skye knows more?