Originally posted by Dark Ghost
What I find very concerning is that after so many years of research, study and experiments on viruses, humans cannot even cure the common cold...It just seems staggering that we are so ignorant on how to deal with viruses and, most importantly, finding ways to counter and weaken their behaviour.

Well, it's not due to a lack of trying. I know there are many in the medical field who are not sincere in wanting to cure illness for the sake of profits, but there are also researchers who do honestly try. We can kill any virus we want, but to kill it while it's in a person without damaging the person is the tricky part. There have been advances though. The common cold can be shortened significantly now, like I had mentioned previously. The flu can be shortened as well, the key to it all is catching it at the 1st sign of symptoms, when it hasn't taken hold completely. People really just need to be aware of how each illness starts out, and the initial symptoms.

[edit on 28-4-2009 by 27jd]

Originally posted by nixie_nox
The biggest joke is WNV, somethign that killed like 15 people, almost all seniors, and can be so mild that people would catch it and not even know it.

Yeah, we had our WNV freak out time here in AZ as well. But like you said people started hyperventilating and demanded government intervention so they were spraying large areas with tankers to kill mosquitos, personally I wasn't too thrilled with that idea, let's spray poison (however mild) into our air on a large scale to prevent somebody from feeling a little under the weather. I say let your immune system do what it's supposed to, stop relying on others to save you from mild illnesses. People want everything done for them I guess.

But I wonder how many here screaming that is is gonna be a life threatening pandemic, refused a flu shot because they thing it is big pharma reaping money?

There's no winning with some people, they just like being scared and bad news travels much faster than good news as we all know. If we were to go back to the bird flu and SARS threads, I'm sure we would see mirror image posts of those who were certain the end was upon us. I get the flu shot yearly, and even though the government probably injected me with a dormant terminator virus that they will activate at will, I haven't gotten the flu since i started getting them, the human flu sucks.

On a side note, last night on the news they mentioned that the swine flu has broken out before, in the late 70's and it fizzled out then as well. This really is about nothing more than news ratings, IMO.

Unconfirmed reports of it in Medford Oregon and Fresno, California.

Several possible cases are reported in Santa Clara County (San Jose) and other parts of the SF Bay Area, but nothing offical as of yet.

Originally posted by FredT
Unconfirmed reports of it in Medford Oregon and Fresno, California.

Several possible cases are reported in Santa Clara County (San Jose) and other parts of the SF Bay Area, but nothing offical as of yet.

FredT,

Just wanted to say thank you for keeping us up to date.

We also have some reports of it here in Missouri now.

not confirmed by CDC though.

[edit on 30-4-2009 by mrsdudara]

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