It's in Gisborne

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories...flu-fears/

So what do you guys think of it?

Personally I think it's a load of crap, last i check something like 10 people had died of it and all of them in mexico where it originated. People who had it reported it didn't feel as bad as normal flu. Shit even normal flu is killing more people every day than swine flu and you don't hear anything about it on the news. Crap all utter crap.

As far as I know it's been in Gisborne for a while, and this is just the first time it's been publicized, either way I've recently had the flu so hopefully my immunity has built up a little from that. Either way I'm not particularly worried about it.

Yeh my mum was on the team that went to test the students, according to her the test results should be in around friday.

That's why you go to LHS really

Quote:last i check something like 10 people had died of it and all of them in mexico where it originated.

Where did you hear that from youtube comment?

A June 8th update by the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) states that "73 countries have officially reported 25,288 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 139 deaths

108 of the deaths were in Mexico and 48 in the US.

It's not really that deadly of a flu pandemic, but should still be of a concern because historically influenza has been known to kill thousands and spread fast.

RJ Wrote:

Quote:last i check something like 10 people had died of it and all of them in mexico where it originated.

Where did you hear that from youtube comment?

A June 8th update by the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) states that "73 countries have officially reported 25,288 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 139 deaths

108 of the deaths were in Mexico and 48 in the US.

It's not really that deadly of a flu pandemic, but should still be of a concern because historically influenza has been known to kill thousands and spread fast.

(Normal flu) Death rate extrapolations for USA for Flu: 63,729 per year, 5,310 per month, 1,225 per week, 174 per day, 7 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second.

Source: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/f/flu/deaths.htm


Suddenly swine flu doesnt seem that dangerous to me

Haha that's crazy. I see WHO has declared Swine Flu spread to be of actual pandemic status now too.

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x3pwnage Wrote:A June 8th update by the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) states that "73 countries have officially reported 25,288 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 139 deaths

108 of the deaths were in Mexico and 48 in the US.

It's not really that deadly of a flu pandemic, but should still be of a concern because historically influenza has been known to kill thousands and spread fast.

(Normal flu) Death rate extrapolations for USA for Flu: 63,729 per year, 5,310 per month, 1,225 per week, 174 per day, 7 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second.

Source: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/f/flu/deaths.htm


Suddenly swine flu doesnt seem that dangerous to me

well using the quoted figures for deaths per case of swine flu (which are confusing but ill go with 139 deaths per reported case) there is a 0.550% chance of dieing from swine flu if you catch it.

If you live in the US, assuming that the average Joe catches (regular) flu once a year (a conservative guess of the average flu rate), the death rate being 63,729 p/y with a total population of 306,641,000 people there is a 0.021% chance of dieing from regular flu if you catch it.

Your 26x more likely to die if you catch swine flu than if you catch regular flu. I don't really find this very concerning.

actually i find a 0.021% chance of dieing from regular flu much more concerning... maybe i should check my calculations

Keep in mind that regular flu tends to kill very young or very old people, while swine flu kills anyone. I'm not going to bother looking up statistics but I think most of the swine flu fatalities have been regular healthy people.