seems its in britain, according to the aol home page, cabin crew have contracted it after a flight from mexico city, lets hope it doesnt get out of hand.
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seems this flu is worse than first thought.is the media being over cautious or are governments not being as transparent as they should be.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8018991.stm
also please read the comments from people living in mexico.
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seems its in britain, according to the aol home page, cabin crew have contracted it after a flight from mexico city, lets hope it doesnt get out of hand.
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If you read the article from the bbc you will see that the cabin crew tested negative on their return from Mexico.Originally Posted by balto
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this man does not have. however yesterday it was not thought to be in europe but now there is 2 suspected case in france.this virus seems to be spreading very fast, human to human. i wonder how britain will deal with this because they dont seem to have acknowledged it yet.
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Reading some of those comments from people in Mexico, things seem to be far worse than the news is portraying. Scary Stuff.
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oh surprise surprise the press got it wrong
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Its bird flu all over again!!!!! Lets send the masses screaming to their doctors and worry them senseless over something that might never happen.
OMG its in europe
OMG its in britain
OMG a cabin crew have been found positive
OMG they got it wrong.
Whenit is clearly and unambiguously a problem knocking at the uk door then we should worry about it. If it isnt then we should do what we as a country can do to help those suffering and just get on with our lives and take the newspaper reports with a pinchof salt.
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It sounds like the government have tried a massive cover up and it has gone very wrong. We heard so much about bird flu, how did this just creep up on us?
I actually received a booklet in the post last year on how to control an outbreak of pandemic flu within my work setting, from Nhs Scotland, I thought it was starnge at the time, now I wonder.
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the difference between bird flu and this type of swine flu is that it passes from person to person that is why it spreads so quickly.in the back of our minds we all hope the media is over exaggerating and it over hyped. i dare say france is not far from knocking on britains door.
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We just have enough to worry about dandod without the media winding us all up into a panic. I can worry all day about anything beleive me but I am NOT going to be wound up about something which might or might not happen and about which i can do nothing about. I will be watching the story develop but I really think we need to be calm and the media doall it can to bring us allinto worrying. IT makes me cross
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There is always going to be flu scares on a pandemic scale but, how much can we believe in relation to the risk...........a lot of money was made, through the last 'bird flu' scenario, by the companies manufacturing the vaccine...is this just another panic reaction that will lead to a nice financial spin off for somebody.
I shall simply continue taking my spoonful of cider vinegar each day and carry on with not a care and the risk of catching this virus will be minimal.
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seems this virus is spreading by the hour. suspected cases in canada,france,spain and worse still scotland. when are the government going to update us on the situation or are they just going to do what they usually do which is wait until is too late and then apologises and say they made a mistake and should have done something sooner.
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it is pretty worrying. think a man flu pandemic is more likely at the moment though!
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The two people in Scotland are showing 'mild' flu symptoms but, nothing has been verified.
Apparently preparations are in place with plenty of vaccine from the avian flu scare....which did not happen.
This is apparently a combination of avian and swine fever which can pass from human to human.........I thought each strain of flu was a different virus and am wondering how the previous flu vaccine would be any good with this new strain.......of course I could be wrong or just simply dottled....
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I suggest we blow up the north bound train track at Inverness and barricade the A9 immediately!
But seriously, there is nothing you and I can do so why worry?
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Hang on there alex let me get over The Ord first!
Ashoo ASHOO...NO I do not have swine flu but after sitting in the garden, a touch of hay fever.
With regards to the new strain of the influenza virus what all the ballyhoo about? This happens on a regular basis and of course it will travel, along with the passengers on a flight, those socialising, travelling by train etc.
I don't think there has been any sort of cover up and whilst I appreciate that it will cause problems for the elderly and the very young there is no need for all the exagerated media hype.
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Lizz that is the problem though, it is not affecting the very young and old, it is young fit adults in their 20's and 30's who are dying.
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have been keeping an eye on this, as i will be traveling very shortly.. and have found that if you go to the cdc website, you will get much more info, without any hype...
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/?s_cid=s...k_internal_001
it is a bit worrying.. but at the moment there are no reports to not travel
http://itqueries.com/
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sure i read in the paper that they were advising you not to fly to affected areas. that was in today's p&j
but think brandy your not heading to new mexico so that shouldn't be ahastle unless you planning an indirect route!!!
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There's always something to worry about.
Stay indoors, don't speak to anyone, hide under the bed and everything will be fine.
Ooooh - and don't kiss any pigs.
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