superman's girlfriend Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 and now they're saying the swine flu could mutate into something more deadly Like what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Kevin- Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 and now they're saying the swine flu could mutate into something more deadly Like what? Well like a more dangerous bug and become immune from antibiotics that kinda thing and be more harder to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superman's girlfriend Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 and now they're saying the swine flu could mutate into something more deadly Like what? Well like a more dangerous bug and become immune from antibiotics that kinda thing and be more harder to beat. Okay but i thought antibiotics didn't work against viruses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Kevin- Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 and now they're saying the swine flu could mutate into something more deadly Like what? Well like a more dangerous bug and become immune from antibiotics that kinda thing and be more harder to beat. Okay but i thought antibiotics didn't work against viruses. OK I don't know the specifics OK all I read is that they think the swine flu could mutate into something worse thats all I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adellejefferiesxox Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Yeah Swine flu has mutated from bird? -> pig -> human. And now human -> human -> creates a super bug (deadly flu). I'll need to buy a mask soon lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy H Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 It is not looking very good here in London. Five school children from the same school have caught the virus. The school is now closed for a week. I can see more and more schools closing over the next few weeks. The fact that we are now up to 28 cases, and quite a few being person-to-person contact is quite worrying. I just hope that people are being very cautious and paying attention to the obvious, like putting their hands to their mouth if they cough, sneezing into a tissue, washing hands etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Kevin- Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Yeah Swine flu has mutated from bird? -> pig -> human. And now human -> human -> creates a super bug (deadly flu). I'll need to buy a mask soon lol Thank you for that. I was beginning to think I might need to become an expert in flus to explain myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adellejefferiesxox Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 25 confirmed cases in Australia and rising...GREAT. No offence to people in Mexico but why can't they just stay in their own country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Kevin- Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 25 confirmed cases in Australia and rising...GREAT. No offence to people in Mexico but why can't they just stay in their own country. I think its mainly coming from people holidaying in Mexico and bringing it back and its so funny how the swine flu has practicaally disappeared from the media. Just goes to show that its the usual hype of nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adellejefferiesxox Posted May 26, 2009 Report Share Posted May 26, 2009 Can you eat pork? A: As safe as it ever was. Handling and consuming animal products, such as pork, can transmit some viruses. But that's not how the H1N1 swine flu virus is spreading, said Christine Layton, a public health policy analyst with the North Carolina-based nonprofit research institute RTI International. Swine flu is a respiratory virus, spread from person to person. In other words: A sneezing chef is a threat, not the spare ribs he's basting. In fact, if the swine flu virus were primarily being transmitted from pigs to people, public health officials probably wouldn't be so concerned. That kind of transmission tends to limit a virus's human spread to farmers and meat workers—people who are likely to come into contact with animals' bodily fluids. (Related: swine flu pictures.) Q. Can those face masks really protect me from swine flu? A. Yes and no. The blue surgical masks you've seen being passed out to Mexican pedestrians are better than nothing but probably only marginally useful, said Andrew Pekosz, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. While such masks block the relatively large, virus-carrying droplets sneezed out by infected people, the viruses themselves are much smaller and could easily pass through. Specialty masks, designated N-95 or N-99, are better filters but still not perfect. For better protection, Pekosz recommends combining a mask with regular hand washing and keeping 3 to 4 feet (90 to 120 centimeters) away from other people. Q. Is this just another media health scare? How worried should we be? A. The truth lies somewhere in between panic and eye-rolling. Making the jump from animal-to-person to person-to-person transmission is a rare skill for a flu virus to "learn." This ability makes H1N1 swine flu potentially dangerous—and makes the concern about it a bit different from the worries over bird flu, which has yet to make such a transition. Human-to-human transmission is a big part of why public health officials are pouring resources into swine flu and why they want you to be aware that the virus is out there. That said, experts like Johns Hopkins's Pekosz and RTI's Layton say there's currently no reason to lock yourself up in the house. For one thing, the cases outside Mexico have been no more serious than your average flu bug. Right now, nobody is sure why that is. And while the severity of the symptoms could increase, Pekosz said there's not really an immediate, serious threat to individuals within the United States. "However," he said, "it certainly merits the public paying attention, and it warrants the public health efforts that have been going on in terms of monitoring and research." Q. How does a pig-bird-human mash-up swine flu virus happen, anyway? A. Blame the pigs, and the virus. Flu viruses are "very messy reproducers," RTI's Layton said. All eight flu genes replicate independently. If a cell is infected with three different flu viruses, reproduction can mean a reshuffling of genetic material from multiple parents, thrown together randomly into the "baby" flu virus. Most of the time, those cut-and-paste viruses don't work out very well, Johns Hopkins's Pekosz said. But every so often, this natural reassortment will come up with a new flu virus that has some kind of advantage over its competitors. H1N1 swine flu is one of those, but we've certainly seen others in the past 30 years, he said. Pigs are part of the problem because they can become infected with flu viruses from birds and humans. As such, swine seem to provide a particularly good environment for this genetic square dance to take place. Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...-flu-facts.html What are the symptoms of swine flu in humans? The symptoms of swine flu in people are expected to be similar to the symptoms of regular human seasonal influenza and include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing. Some people with swine flu also have reported runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. How can human infections with swine influenza be diagnosed? To diagnose swine influenza A infection, a respiratory specimen would generally need to be collected within the first 4 to 5 days of illness (when an infected person is most likely to be shedding virus). However, some persons, especially children, may shed virus for 7 days or longer. Identification as a swine flu influenza A virus requires sending the specimen to CDC for laboratory testing. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/key_facts.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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