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swine Flu - whats govt doing?
Fundaah
#11 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:16:00 AM
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@Gen kago

This flu infected 33.33% of the world population in1918-19 and killed 10% of the world population same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza

It's a bomb and can wipe out mankind in the current era of global village.Usicheze



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Obi 1 Kanobi
#12 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:22:00 AM
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Actually,a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds in africa and asia. It will unfortunately not get even half the coverage that the Swine flu has got in a single day.

Talk of inequality.

Funny that no western country has issued a travel alert to mexico.

To quote Moi 'Mufrigaa'

Swine flu my foot.


I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.
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Njunge
#13 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:24:00 AM
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@Kago,

Not true.In Mexico alone 152 confirmed dead............and as i post New-zealand has confirmed a case and there are suspected cases in Brazil,Guatemala,Peru,Australia and South Korea........hapan machezo...!!


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Obi 1 Kanobi
#14 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:29:00 AM
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@Fundah,I watched something to the effect that this is a new strain of flu (a mixture of swine,chicken and human flu),CDC is still developing a vaccine,its treatable and will go away,if you get diagnosed early and placed on medical care.

In 1918,I don't think they even new what spread flu.




I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
mukiha
#15 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:58:00 AM
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Good point @Ob1....every time a minister says the phrase 'swine flu' another child dies of malaria! This thing is just another media hype just like bird flu!

S what if 200 people have died so far? The disease has no cure and it kills quickly,therefore it will extinguish itself!

Malaria,however,is 'PREDICTABLE,PREVENTABLE AND TREATABLE' -to quote Dr. Davy Koech (formerly of KEMRI). It should not be killing anyone.

There was an interesting feature on Al Jazera yesterday about how some Chinese professor has eradicated Malaria from the island of Comoros. But the WHO has refused to certify his method because it has not been published in a 'recognised,refereed scientific journal'
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Wendz
#16 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:10:00 PM
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Oooooh noooo! now what is this? and the gov is doing nothing?? Too bad..... The way i love my pork chops!! had just discovered a place where they make them soo well!!! and even take their time to removed all the mafuta.....

Where is @Sasha?

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Kaffir
#17 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:14:00 PM
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Unfortunately,it has past the stage of containment,meaning we just have to prepare to manage the cases as they come. Waiting for it at the airport is useless. It will come into the country,as its mode of spread is too efficient. Im expecting it in Africa/Kenya before the week's end. Good thing though is the mortality rate is rather low (except for Mexico for so-far unknown reasons). We hope it keeps that way.
Obi 1 Kanobi
#18 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:18:00 PM
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@ Wendz,don't worry,you can continue enjoying your pork-chops,just don't share your table with some person recently from mexico.

I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
Lawman
#19 Posted : Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:33:00 PM
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as many other have mentioned we have many things to worry about than the swine flu.

Anybody remember Ebola - the world doesn't care because the loss is negligible.

Mexico - big partner for USA,,,,big stuff

I guess the media and internet is a demi-god

Why care of swine flu while I'm struggling with basic treatable malaria,TB,pneumonia,aids with me .... oh oh I forgot I did not eat supper (hunger) and ..... I have no job even after toiling in higher education corridors....

To us with access to newspapers,media and internet we will be worried but to the locals ... homa ya nguruwe call a VET
PONDI
#20 Posted : Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:46:00 AM
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A SWINE flu red alert was issued across the planet last night — as the boss of the World Health Organisation warned chillingly: “The whole of humanity is under threat in a pandemic.” She further added,“The biggest question right now is this: How severe will the pandemic be?”
The global peril from the Mexican virus was raised from “phase 4” to “phase 5” — one short of the most dreaded 'Phase 6'. A “phase 6” would be on the scale of the 1968 flu pandemic which killed up to four million worldwide. She ended on a positive note saying the world is better prepared for an influenza pandemic than at any time in history... should we be scared?

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