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Originally posted by nikiano
Take care, Asen. Hope you can avoid catching it.... whatever it is.
Didn't realize you were a medical student until I just read your prevous post....now I really feel stupid for my recommendations yesterday about how to keep safe by handwashing, etc.. You obviously know about all that.
I also didn't realize that you were getting information straight from the medical community.....all I can say is....wow. Thanks for updating us with current "inside" information. I really appreciate it.
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[edit on 1-11-2009 by nikiano]
Originally posted by tarifa37
reply to post by asen_y2k
Finally MSM www.ft.com...
Originally posted by Luppakorva
reply to post by asen_y2k
Sure thing.
Here they are:
www.europe-airports.com...
You can find both, departures and arrivals.
Originally posted by waterdoctor
reply to post by ecoparity
Based on current reported case mortality rates and the demographics of the effected I would agree with your observation up to a point. The infection rate seems to be higher, if the published numbers are correct, than what we have seen in the past. If that is true then we may be seeing the clad of the virus with the mutation that makes it more communicable. This was identified in Northern Europe earlier this year, I am sorry but I don't have the link. If the CFR comes in at .05% or so you are correct. If we see an order of magnitude jump in the CFR then the virus has mutated to a more pathogenic strain or is something else.
Originally posted by ecoparity
Originally posted by waterdoctor
reply to post by ecoparity
Based on current reported case mortality rates and the demographics of the effected I would agree with your observation up to a point. The infection rate seems to be higher, if the published numbers are correct, than what we have seen in the past. If that is true then we may be seeing the clad of the virus with the mutation that makes it more communicable. This was identified in Northern Europe earlier this year, I am sorry but I don't have the link. If the CFR comes in at .05% or so you are correct. If we see an order of magnitude jump in the CFR then the virus has mutated to a more pathogenic strain or is something else.
Supposedly if we see a jump to 1% then we might be dealing with a mutation. The thing to keep in mind though is most mutations in a virus at this stage will be in overcoming treatments (like the tamiflu immunity response which was the first mutation).
This virus is already just about as communicable as it can be, it has the genetic hooks for A and B connections. The only mutations left would be temperature viability and the dreaded avian flu recombination. It might be a temperature mutation but given the conditions in Ukraine it isn't needed which for me leaves just an avian flu recombination. I think we'd have thousands of dead already if that were the case.
Anyway, that's why I doubt we're seeing a mutation, I think we're just finally seeing the virus in its true operating environment. If that's the case then we have a lot to think about in the US and other Western countries.
Originally posted by waterdoctor
reply to post by ecoparity
The temperature mutation was the article I was referring to. I do not want to even go to the H5N1 recombination possibility.
The problem we are going to start seeing however is new and artificial selective pressures on the virus.
I had the N1H1 flu this May. I had the long lasting version and it was no fun.
Originally posted by ecoparity
..we're getting to see how the swine flu operates under ideal conditions. Now that those same conditions are coming here that's not a good thing.
Originally posted by ecoparity
Originally posted by waterdoctor
reply to post by ecoparity
So did I and I was hoping all that suffering bought me some immunity but as of last night I'm sick once again with some kind of flu type virus. This is the longest I've been awake in the past 36 hours....
Originally posted by ecoparity
reply to post by seattletruth
I get it, you believe its something more conspiratorial in nature. Prove it.
Youtube videos of blogs and blogs don't prove anything for me.
I've seen not a single reported symptom that would lead me to believe this is anything other than a bad outbreak of swine flu.
Theres no good news here, even with that. Either we have a mutation which is very bad news for all of us or we're getting to see how the swine flu operates under ideal conditions. Now that those same conditions are coming here that's not a good thing.
If you want to believe its something worse like a government operation to kill off the population then go ahead, I just don't see how they could possibly pull that off and remain alive. Pathogens mutate, there's no way to release one and hope it will only kill off the target. We've proven that in programs to try and develop such pathogens many times.
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Originally posted by Luppakorva
reply to post by seattletruth
Hey hey hey...now .... please, no reason to do that fear mongering which is not based into facts.
If they can't say it's not swine flu yet, it most likely has been just another illnesses that people tend to die every day and every year or they have not been able to confirm those cases.
It does not make it to be mystery plaque. Those "reliable" news sources.. Now I have been in this thread from the very beginning and I really have seen NONE reliable sources to back that up. Only few rumors and blog articles, that's it. You're saying 10 ..show me one reliable one?