Just like that bird flu talk you have to be very unlucky to get this, how many people live in sodding Mexico there's loads of them, how many have swine flu just a dozen/24 or so ?
Just like that bird flu talk you have to be very unlucky to get this, how many people live in sodding Mexico there's loads of them, how many have swine flu just a dozen/24 or so ?
The potentially-deadly virus has now been confirmed in seven countries, although the only deaths have been in Mexico, where the outbreak originated. More than 150 people have died so far in the Central American country.
British passengers screened for swine flu amid fears that disease has spread worldwide
The United States has announced 44 infections, while three people have the virus in New Zealand and six in Canada. There have been two confirmed cases in Spain and one in Israel, and fiften other countries have said they are investigating possible infections.Six people were being tested in Ireland.
The Foreign Office has revised its travel advice to Mexico to warn against all but essential journeys, prompting Britain's two biggest holiday operators to cancel their flights to the country for the next week
mexico Population: 109,955,400 (July 2008 est.)
BLACK Confirmed cases followed by death
RED Confirmed cases
YELLOW Unconfirmed or suspected cases
There's 6 confirmed cases here where I live. They shut down a school here cause they think several of the teachers may have it and could have exposed a bunch of kids. They're also investigating two deaths in southern California as possibly related to swine flu. The problem is it takes a few days to get sick so people spread it before they know they have it. I think the numbers will start to multiply quickly.
I think the reason
Peace.
anything i say is purely speculation and conjecture. i dont know shit and i have probably been drinking. view my posts with amusment and please wait for someone with some real knowledge to come along.
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The number of suspected cases of swine flu in Scotland has jumped to 23, after another 16 people with mild symptoms of flu were identified by health authorities.
Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish health secretary, said this afternoon that "mild, cold-like" symptoms had been experienced by two more people linked to Iain and Dawn Askham, the newlywed couple from Polmont near Edinburgh who tested positive for swine flu on Monday.
They are now undergoing tests for the virus, along with the seven people thought to include the couple's family, close friends and work colleagues, who exhibited mild symptoms on Monday.
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Sturgeon said that a further 14 cases involving people who had recently travelled to Mexico and the United States were also under investigation. These new, unrelated cases were spread across Scotland: the health boards in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothians, Forth Valley, Grampian, Tayside and Lanarkshireall have cases on their hands.
"All of these are travel-related cases," Sturgeon said. "What I would stress is that they're symptoms that are, at present, described as mild. These people are also undergoing tests. I would stress that these are not confirmed cases."
She said the new cases would be subjected to "significant investigation and contact tracing by Health Protection Scotland".
She said a passenger on the same flight used by the Askhams to fly home from the Mexican resort of Cancún last Tuesday had also shown mild flu symptoms in England and was being tested.
Dr Harry Burns, Scotland's chief medical officer, indicated that most of the extra cases involved people aged between 25 and 40, in common with the large majority of victims in Mexico.
It is understood, however, that one of the nine people with symptoms within the Askhams' "contact group" is a five-year-old child and other possible sufferers may include colleagues of Mrs Askham at a branch of Boots in Polmont, where she worked as a dispensing assistant but had no direct contact with customers.
A Boots spokeswoman said: *"Colleagues who may have been in contact with the virus have been asked to stay at home. They have been tested and treated as a precaution."
The parents of the couple, Iain and Pauline Askham and Linda and Brian Colston, issued a statement through the Scottish government this afternoon thanking medical staff for their "superb" care and reporting that the pair were making "good progress".
"They remain in good spirits," they said. "They were both quite shocked that the result was positive for swine flu but are relieved their symptoms have been very mild.
"We are aware that some close friends have displayed some mild symptoms, having been in close contact with Dawn and Iain, and we understand they are receiving treatment and are being closely monitored."
Asking for the media to respect their privacy, they said: "This is an incredibly difficult time for us all and we are overwhelmed by the attention we have been receiving as a family."
Sturgeon, the Scottish National party's health minister, said that none of these new possible cases had yet proven positive for swine flu – the results of tests are expected tomorrow – but it was likely further swine flu cases would emerge.
"I fully anticipate we will have more cases under investigation in the coming days," she said.
Sturgeon and Dr Harry Burns, the Scottish chief medical officer, said health authorities in Scotland had offered to share all their data on the spread of the virus with the World Health Organisation.
Sturgeon spoke earlier this afternoon with the WHO general secretary, Dr Margaret Chan, and also took part in the UK government's Cobra civil emergency meeting this afternoon.
Sturgeon said the Askhams were "continuing to improve" in a specialist infectious diseases isolation unit at Monklands hospital in Airdrie. "Their conditions never gave us cause for clinical concern," she said.
She declined to confirm a suggestion from Gordon Brown earlier today that one of the couple could be released from hospital today. "They remain in Monklands hospital at present. No decision has yet been taken on their discharge," she said.
Sturgeon and Burns were pressed by reporters about the risks to passengers on the Askham flight and whether they were being traced and separately tested as a precaution.
They said the Health Protection Agency believed the Askhams only became contagious when they began to experience symptoms.
"It's when patients become *symptomatic that they're at the most infectious stage, and then they're advised to stay at home," Sturgeon said. "I would stress 'advice' – we can't force them to stay at home. They're then treated with antivirals.
"One of the things giving the Scottish government encouragement is that , outside Mexico, everyone who's contracted swine flu is displaying mild symptoms and tending to recover quickly. That's cause for encouragement at this stage."
Burns said there was "a very stark difference" in the infectiousness and virulence of the Mexican cases and those outside Mexico. He said it was possible that this virus had been circulating undetected in Mexico for months, with most people suffering mild symptoms and not contacting doctors.
that it from your thctalk swine flu reporter
the hunter
back to the studio i mean er new posts!
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