07-16-2009, 07:35 AM
The mexican flu, or swine flu or 2009 flu pandemic. It started slowly but now there are thousands infected and almost 1000 deaths world wide.
Of course this also happens with a 'normal' flu strain but this one clearly is more dangerous, and experts warn for mutations that make the virus more deathly.
I don't worry too much usually, I am quite healthy, never took a vaccine and probably only got the flu once the last 15 years. Still, this flu is normal in the sense that it will spread to the whole globe and many people will get infected.....I don't see any possibility to prevent that. So if there would be a fatality rate of 1 % millions would die worldwide.
Here (Sweden and Holland) government are making rankings of which people would be first in line for vaccinations and medicine (tamiflu) because there clearly isn't enough of it for everybody.
I will just try to eat enough oranges, and maybe go to work by bike in autumn and winter instead of going by metro. I don't feel like getting a vaccine (and I am not in a group that gets precedence either).
Of course this also happens with a 'normal' flu strain but this one clearly is more dangerous, and experts warn for mutations that make the virus more deathly.
I don't worry too much usually, I am quite healthy, never took a vaccine and probably only got the flu once the last 15 years. Still, this flu is normal in the sense that it will spread to the whole globe and many people will get infected.....I don't see any possibility to prevent that. So if there would be a fatality rate of 1 % millions would die worldwide.
Here (Sweden and Holland) government are making rankings of which people would be first in line for vaccinations and medicine (tamiflu) because there clearly isn't enough of it for everybody.
I will just try to eat enough oranges, and maybe go to work by bike in autumn and winter instead of going by metro. I don't feel like getting a vaccine (and I am not in a group that gets precedence either).