When Is A Swine Flu Not A Swine Flu

[Lost-Chances]

When it has never infected any pigs.

"According to the latest World Health Organization reports, the swine flu is no longer the swine flu because no pig in the world has been reported with the H1N1 which has killed 176 people in Mexico and one in the United States."

Fucking incredible. It also astounds me that some farmers care more about their pigs getting it than them getting it, as shown by this US farmer ""That is the biggest concern, that your herd could somehow contract this illness from an infected person. If a person is sick, we don't want you coming anywhere on the farm,"". Incredible.

Discuss names of what to call the swine flu that has never infected any pigs.

[BareNakedMike]

Mad Human Disease?

[Meepster]

Farm goes down = You go down

[Conspiracy3]

It started out with pigs. It then switched over to humans when the virus mutated to a new strain. That new strain is only compatible with humans.

[Pho333nix]

Aren`t there far more casesé deaths than that?
I just read it's up to 17 deaths in the US...

[MW10T]

Blarg.

[Dromedary]

At 5/30/09 05:38 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: It started out with pigs. It then switched over to humans when the virus mutated to a new strain. That new strain is only compatible with humans.

I call a conspiracy.

Misguided scientist disease?

[BananaBreadMuffin]

At 5/30/09 05:34 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: Fucking incredible. It also astounds me that some farmers care more about their pigs getting it than them getting it, as shown by this US farmer ""That is the biggest concern, that your herd could somehow contract this illness from an infected person.""

But if I get swine flu, I'll go to my GP, get a prescription of tamiflu, and take a few days off.

If my livelihood gets swine flu and all die I'm pretty much fucked.

[Twilight]

At 5/30/09 05:34 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: Discuss names of what to call the swine flu that has never infected any pigs.

Mexico's Revenge.

[Lost-Chances]

At 5/30/09 05:38 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: It started out with pigs. It then switched over to humans when the virus mutated to a new strain. That new strain is only compatible with humans.

The plague is now called Rat Flu.

Nice logic.

[platypuspwn]

I call it the flu

[Dromedary]

At 5/30/09 05:44 PM, platypuspwn wrote: I call it the flu

The flu of what?

[Proottalfain]

The media flu

[andhination]

At 5/30/09 05:43 PM, Lost-Chances wrote:

At 5/30/09 05:38 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: It started out with pigs. It then switched over to humans when the virus mutated to a new strain. That new strain is only compatible with humans.

The plague is now called Rat Flu.

Nice logic.

He never claimed to agree with that logic, thats just the reason they call it that.

[Viridis]

oink

[Shanus]

At 5/30/09 05:34 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "According to the latest World Health Organization reports, the swine flu is no longer the swine flu because no pig in the world has been reported with the H1N1 which has killed 176 people in Mexico and one in the United States."

On to the more important topic, so it's only killed 1 NON 3rd world country inhabitant??
Hmmm, sounds like a pandemic alright. And I think I'm more likely gonna be hit by lightning than die from piggie flu

[Robotchk12]

It's called swine flu because the virus itself is made up of 2 parts pig influenza, 1 part avian influenza, and 1 part human influenza. They just named it after the dominant species of flu.

[andhination]

At 5/30/09 06:49 PM, Viridis wrote: oink

snide

[K111]

At 5/30/09 05:40 PM, MW10T wrote: Blarg.

we are so fucked

[SkullScar]

At 5/30/09 06:55 PM, Shanus wrote:

At 5/30/09 05:34 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "According to the latest World Health Organization reports, the swine flu is no longer the swine flu because no pig in the world has been reported with the H1N1 which has killed 176 people in Mexico and one in the United States."

On to the more important topic, so it's only killed 1 NON 3rd world country inhabitant??
Hmmm, sounds like a pandemic alright. And I think I'm more likely gonna be hit by lightning than die from piggie flu

Actually it's killed at least 3 people in New York City alone. However, your point still stands, the hype is a bit much.

[Shanus]

At 5/30/09 07:07 PM, SkullScar wrote:

At 5/30/09 06:55 PM, Shanus wrote:

At 5/30/09 05:34 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "According to the latest World Health Organization reports, the swine flu is no longer the swine flu because no pig in the world has been reported with the H1N1 which has killed 176 people in Mexico and one in the United States."

On to the more important topic, so it's only killed 1 NON 3rd world country inhabitant??
Hmmm, sounds like a pandemic alright. And I think I'm more likely gonna be hit by lightning than die from piggie flu

Actually it's killed at least 3 people in New York City alone. However, your point still stands, the hype is a bit much.

Well I thought it would've killed more, but still. It's just making people scared for no reason. That's the worse thing.

Like the world health organization didn't even hold a meeting when the person dies in Texas and the infected numbers went over 1000, and people saw that as a sign of it being the end.

The media worries too much :/

[sdarkson]

At 5/30/09 05:40 PM, Dromedary wrote:

At 5/30/09 05:38 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: It started out with pigs. It then switched over to humans when the virus mutated to a new strain. That new strain is only compatible with humans.

I call a conspiracy.

Misguided scientist disease?

Probably someone did it with a pig that was sexy?

[DaSadGirl]

The police officer flu : ( 28

[BenwaHakubi]

Pigs do not get it they are just the carriers. Also eating pork or pork products CANNOT give it to you it is only if you were in contact with infected pigs or people.

[SkullScar]

At 5/30/09 07:23 PM, Shanus wrote:

At 5/30/09 07:07 PM, SkullScar wrote:

At 5/30/09 06:55 PM, Shanus wrote:

At 5/30/09 05:34 PM, Lost-Chances wrote: "According to the latest World Health Organization reports, the swine flu is no longer the swine flu because no pig in the world has been reported with the H1N1 which has killed 176 people in Mexico and one in the United States."

On to the more important topic, so it's only killed 1 NON 3rd world country inhabitant??
Hmmm, sounds like a pandemic alright. And I think I'm more likely gonna be hit by lightning than die from piggie flu

Actually it's killed at least 3 people in New York City alone. However, your point still stands, the hype is a bit much.

Well I thought it would've killed more, but still. It's just making people scared for no reason. That's the worse thing.

Like the world health organization didn't even hold a meeting when the person dies in Texas and the infected numbers went over 1000, and people saw that as a sign of it being the end.

The media worries too much :/

The media is why we expected it to be such a catastrophe in the first place, more importantly though is that it kept us informed and able, preventing a far worse scenario from occuring.

Now they're just trying to milk the story.