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So now the media is making up imaginary diseases to scare the sheeple?

Illnesses like malaria, dengue fever and the lesser-known Chickengunya, a mosquito-transmitted virus, have already reached beyond the tropical regions where they are normally confined into more temperate zones.

Look, I don't care how much you dress up Avian Flu, it won't frighten me. Call it Circling-Vulture-Waiting-To-Strip-The-Flesh-From-Your-Genitals-itis for all I care. It's a slightly different form of the the flu.

I predict a headline from the near future: "Avian Flu: Since it comes from birds, will it be more resistant to Chicken Soup?"

Articles like this make me wonder if I'm the one of the few people in the world with a working immune system.

I like that old diseases are making a come back because sheeple won't vacinate their little snowflakes, because some tard somewhere said that vacines cause autism.
(hint: NO, they dont. Your belief does not change reality.)

these people are a bigger threat than the "new" stuff

OH THE HUMANITY! How can it be worse? I mean, these already killed Socialite Kissing! What's next??

/got nuthin

Pestilence retired sometime in the 1930's, mumbling something about penicillin. So we replaced him with Pollution.

/not a direct quote.
//Fantastic book by my two favorite authors.

Isn't this just nature's way of saying there are too many people?

Well, there goes my dream of ever visiting Madagascar.

/cough

The swine flu going around right now is a mild strain, but scientists say it is a step away from being deadly. Wouldn't it make sense to encourage people to pass it around so that we can get some of the swineeey antibody goodness that we apparently lack?

Ill take my swine flu now plz. k tks.

/slash

As long as Dustin Hoffman is there I will be just fine.

/rent me one of those suits too...

About time. This world is long overdue for a Malthusian correction.

The longer we put it off, the worse it's gonna be when it hits...

that'll be funny one day when subby is laying a makeshift bed in a crowded hospital hallway surrounded by the dead and dying and he thinks, "I shouldn't have used the STUPID tag."

Where's the surprise? I thought everyone already knew they were inevitably going to die, and that nobody will care about them in 100 years because nothing they did really made a difference. Unless of course they started a cult, or became President.

I'm just praying that my asthma doesn't act up and make me start coughing when I'm going through customs to return to the US next week. A cough + coming from SE Asia + being around chickens = EVERYBODY PANIC!

" . . . You know how many disease scares there used to be? Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? shiat, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during the dirty bomb scares." - World War Z

Just listen to me. I know how to save the human race.

Everyone stay home and play computer games all day.

No person to person contact. No speading of diseases.

Humanity is saved!

It's working for me!

I prefer to think of this all as job security...

fastbow: About time. This world is long overdue for a Malthusian correction.

The longer we put it off, the worse it's gonna be when it hits...

Lifeboat Ethics.....

Honestly, until it's a zombie virus, I'll just keep washing my hands and not particularly give a rat's ass about any potential sick somewhere.

/stockpiling ammo for the zombie thing, tho
//and antibacterial hand gel with enough alcohol in it to kill ebola
///hygiene is a good thing

St_Francis_P: Articles like this make me wonder if I'm the one of the few people in the world with a working immune system.

Your fully functional, but naive, immune system won't help you when yellow fever, malaria, or dengue show up in your area.

/just sayin'

When you look back at the 21st century the biggest stumbling block will be the disease of ignorance.

these ants are crazy!

I thought I told you to take care of those burritos

if pandemic has taught me anything its move to madagascar before they shut down everything, as in the one and only port they apparently have...

eddyatwork: So now the media is making up imaginary diseases to scare the sheeple?

They're not even being scary - talking about something that can affect all people killing millions, when there are billions on the planet. That's like in a town of 10,000, 10 people die. Would that scare you at all?

If it aint Captain Trips, Willy don't care.

I'm still worried about Y2K. It'll get you when you least expect it.

calm like a bomb: St_Francis_P: Articles like this make me wonder if I'm the one of the few people in the world with a working immune system.

Your fully functional, but naive, immune system won't help you when yellow fever, malaria, or dengue show up in your area.

/just sayin'

All of which are very survivable with modern medicine. Not saying that I'd want to get any of them, I know people who've had both malaria and dengue, and they were pretty miserable, but the reason so many people die from them is because they live in places with terrible medical care.

calm like a bomb: St_Francis_P: Articles like this make me wonder if I'm the one of the few people in the world with a working immune system.

Your fully functional, but naive, immune system won't help you when yellow fever, malaria, or dengue show up in your area.

/just sayin'

Where I live that will probably only happen after the zombie apocalypse. And then I'll have bigger problems to worry about.

I would love to see the human race get cut in half from a disease.

I really doubt that yellow fever, dengue or chikungunya (not chickengunya like the article says) is going to show up. The mosquito that carries those diseases, Aedes Egypti, is limited to tropical regions. Malaria could show up but it's already been eradicated in the US once, it'd have to show up here in huge numbers for the mosquito population to pick it up and spread it.

Also your healthy immune system isn't going to help much against animal strains of the flu. Sure, only the old and the very young die from human flu but animal flus can be more virulent, causing death in young and middle-aged adults as well.

Having a super-virulent strain isn't that likely, I'm sure we all know the last time was the Spanish flu pandemic but this swine flu scare shows just how woefully unprepared our health system is. Tons of people flooded hospitals, how are they going to be able to deal with even more people than that, people who are actually sick?

Illnesses like malaria, dengue fever and the lesser-known Chickengunya



Chicken gun, ya?

Laws yes. Everyone panic, that's spelled M-O-O-N

FTFA Overcrowding and Lack of Sanitary Conditions Could Contribute to Future Global Pandemic

Overcrowding in the U.S? Maybe in some urban areas, but my county in California has a population density of less than 60/sq mile. My house has a septic system, and the little neighborhood I'm in has it's own wells and water tank. So we have no lack of sanitation or water. Guess I'll just relax, and worry about some other potential apocalypse. This one doesn't affect me.

siromega: When you look back at the 21st century human race the biggest stumbling block will be the disease of ignorance.

FTFM.

/I blame the people that made up the concept of the Invisible Sky Wizard

Came here to make a Pandemic reference, I'm glad it's been taken care of.

Thanks, Virulency

I'm only going to worry when the viruses get about 6 feet tall and start carrying switchblades.

Be pretty hard for a new disease to top cancer, but it would be interesting to watch one try.

When the pandemic hits, whichever one, it will always be more devastating in the third world. But the 50 that die in the first world will get all the coverage. I mean, in 2006, the tsunami killed around 250K, but those were danged old furriners that don't even speak American. Instead, our media still talks about Katrina, where about 1500+/- died. We'll die here because we're too lazy to wash our hands, but they'll die elsewhere because they have no clean water, soap, or alcohol gel. Pathetic.

/sorry for sermon, off soapbox

rynthetyn: All of which are very survivable with modern medicine.

If you are lucky enough to be part of a 100 case outbreak. 10,000? Good luck getting a bag of ringers.

Virulency: if pandemic has taught me anything its move to madagascar before they shut down everything, as in the one and only port they apparently have...

You inspired me to go looking, and I've found the most horrible thing ever.

Pandemic 2 lied to us.

Madagascar has a major airport, which services an entire network of smaller airports in Madagascar, plus a few cities in Thailand, France, China, South Africa, and Kenya.

There's nowhere to hide!

Jade E.: Virulency: if pandemic has taught me anything its move to madagascar before they shut down everything, as in the one and only port they apparently have...

You inspired me to go looking, and I've found the most horrible thing ever.

Pandemic 2 lied to us.

Madagascar has a major airport, which services an entire network of smaller airports in Madagascar, plus a few cities in Thailand, France, China, South Africa, and Kenya.

There's nowhere to hide!

Shut...Down...Everything!

Including the airport?

We, we have an airport?

Oh yes. It's very nice.

Shut!...It!...Down!

came here looking for the Ric Romero reference, found none, guess it's up to me to make it.


/at least now i won't leave disappointed like i did when i rtfa
//gee i was hoping for a new more immediate threat to panic about
///gonna have to get my melodrama elsewhere tonight
/iv Luthiel

Chickengunya

Thank you, sir.

Let me try to put this in perspective for you all. The very worst H1N1 Swine flu mortality, under perfect conditions, in the United States would be around 100,000. Not very spectacular when you realize that a normal flu season kills about 36,000 Americans.

However, based on its unnaturally persistent mortality, if there would be a major epidemic of H5N1 Avian flu, the maximum mortality in the United States would be between 10 and 30 MILLION. Or as high as 1 in 10 Americans.

Many of these fatalities could be preventable, if America had a reserve of hospital ventilators, which we don't. We have just 2,000 more than the 100,000 we need in a normal flu season. Otherwise, about the fifth day of the Avian flu, when people commonly develop Acute Respiratory Distress, the mortality rate from ARD is about 50% on its own, *with* a ventilator. Doctors can tell if you will live or die by looking at your chest X-ray.

Fortunately, some of the best influenza experts in the world are working on Over The Counter recipes of drugs that can prevent people from developing ARD in the first place. And, in the last few weeks, it was announced that a major cause of ARD is long term arsenic exposure, which first inhibits the immune system, then causes an overreaction resulting in ARD.

So believe in H5N1 Avian flu or not. It doesn't matter what you believe. The WHO, CDC, and the world medical community are taking it deadly seriously.

Well, I was a little bit worried about the things I read in this article. I thought, "Hey, maybe I should stay informed!"

But then I read this thread. I feel better now. Thanks Fark! Now I know. Pandemics are for brown people!

/viva la social darwinism!

namatad
I like that old diseases are making a come back because sheeple won't vacinate their little snowflakes, because some tard somewhere said that vacines cause autism.
(hint: NO, they dont. Your belief does not change reality.)

these people are a bigger threat than the "new" stuff

Why should you care what other people do? If you're vaccinated, you should be protected, right? I'll grant you that vaccine's may not cause autism, if you admit that they don't prevent illness, either.