in all honesty cold does not affect flu as it spend most of it's life at body temperature. it spends a teeny tiny amount of time in the air. it nomrally comes out in saliva or mucus and directly into the other person. this can happen just through talking.
and i was under the impression that it will spread just as fast as spanish flu. it isn't spreading as fast now as it lacks the amount of vectors needed. after a certain point it will grow expotentially.
and i'm not defeatist i'm a realist.
All wrong. Flu is slowed in cold weather, killed in sub-zero.... which is why the Inuit (eskimo) can go there entire lives without ever once catching a viral or bacterial infection- assuming they avoid contact with us civilized types and our collection of diseases. Which says something, all things considered.
And Avian flu is far less virulent (thus far) than Spanish Influenza. Probably won't stay that way.
You're no realist, either. Realists would say "ok, this will be ugly, let's fight it however we can even if it might not help much". You say "ok, we're boned, who wants lunch?"
spanish flu was avain flu. it was h1n1.
and yes flu like all cell growth in slowed in cold temperature. but is irrelavant as flu spends most of it's live in the human body which is nice and warm and cosy. inuits don't get it as it is pretty sterile. but as spanish flu showed once they have something they are still succeptible. spanish flu wiped out whole eskimo villages.
and we are screwed and there is very little we can do about it. it's a pattern that happens every so often. some plague comes up which is new and deadly. it kills lots of folk. then goes away. it's a little population gap.
it's been said that a vaccine has been made and will be properly announced within the next few days or something like that.
The Parrot from south AMERICA had the H5 N1 strain, if it's true a vaccine has been discovered then that will be stockpiled aswell.
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i would be very suprised any type of vaccine had been discovered in this amount of time. even testing for that kind of stuff takes at least a year.
It has been confirmed I don't know what it does but it said it was a vaccination aswell as vulnrable people would be 13-40 year olds.
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can i see a link?
I didn't find it on the net, I heard it on sky news and read it in News of the world.
It maybe on the net you have to look for it, If I could I would scan the article for you.
But nooo I aint allowed to touch the scanner because I might break it...
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i checked on both sky news and news of the world websites and found nothing. i won't be able to get news of the world up here neither sky as i'm living in halls.
Tell ya what I might be able to sneak in a scan shhhh.
here it is.
Last edited by Shoden; 10-24-2005 at 06:30 PM.
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I don't see why everyone is worrying so much... Sure, bird flu could kill us. But, we could outside tomorrow and get knocked down by a bus and die.
No point in worrying about something that could happen, and there could be a big chance that it will. Live life to the full, I guess, who knows what's gonna happen.
Tell that to Cloud no. 9.
if they have a vaccine, they have a vaccine don't go into physics and stuff that differ from the basic subject.
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i am very doubtful of this vaccine. mainly because i am doubtful of the news of the worlds reporting. it would seem odd to be able to create a vaccine this quickly. and the real question is will it be effective? will it be available enough to vaccinate the majority of people? or will we face the same problems we do with tamiflu?
who cares.
just leave it, vaccine is a vaccine.
You think they would joke?
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I must admit I am skeptic about the vaccine. why you ask? Because I didn't see anything in that article truely talking about the vaccine. I don't need the specifics but some addition information I would indeed ask for.
Also I ask for this info because I would not put it above the government/newspaper/scientists to lie about such a vaccine to keep us come. With no actually reporting on the vaccine I see little reason to trust it. Perhaps a later article will give more info. For now lets just say I am sceptic until I see more info on it. Afterall, why wouldn't a news article cover some more info on it? Or why wouldn't the scientists tell the reporters more?
STILL Updating the anime list. . . I didn't think I was that much of an anime freak! I don't even want to consider updating the manga list!
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