kuliuzar

Shockule,ma lasi ba cu "aviara gripa" si cu "porcina gripa"?Asta-i "metal" curat...

kuliuzar

Corect:"Long Live Rock and Roll!!!:)

kuliuzar

mai bine tragi un chiul pe cinste decat sa se inchida scolile din cauza gripei porcine,fereasca Domnu"!!!

kuliuzar

se spune "salamalecu damn it"!:))))

sanmarco

De ce a aparut in Mexic?

kuliuzar

da,au boala pe ei ca beau tequilla si mananca taco si mult coriandru...e timpul sa-i puna la punct,mama lor de hispanici...

Fleeky

Ai mare dreptate shok.......azi scoala lui fiul meu este inchisa pana luni ca  toti pot avea gripa porcina(schweinegrippe).Asa ca trebuie sa stea acasa si sa piarda cateva zile bune de invatat.Asta este boicot pe fata ,peste un an sau 2 vom avea gripa tusei cainelui sau a pisicii ca a  pestelui nu cred ca va fii.Vor inventa americani ceva ca populatia sa munceasca sa se scoata aceasta criza financiara.......ce zice voi ....nu sunt departe de adevar?!!!!!

shok

si fleeky are dreptate...cateva zile de concediu fortat pentru bugetari...oricum banii pe care ii economisesc acum cu aceste concedii sunt un nimic...ar putea sa trimita in concediu pe aia care stau si dorm la serviciu si au salarii imense 8-)

kuliuzar

Mexicaanse griep neemt weer toe in Mexico :),asa-i fleeky are dreptate...

kuliuzar

=)))))))))))))))))))))))

misterra

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Flu

By May 1, as the whole world donned surgical masks, a relatively new strain of swine flu virus, H1N1, had become the focus of the 24/7 global media machine. The official alert level had been raised by the World Health Organization to a Phase 5 outbreak, just one bracket shy of the peak, which signifies the most deadly sort of  global pandemic. Condign warnings of mass death and economic disaster dominated the airwaves and the Internet. That next week, swine flu was, to all intents and purposes, the only story.

Yet on May 6, Mexico City-in which this new black plague had staged its breakout-lifted a weeklong ban on restaurants seating customers. The next day, the national government allowed universities, high schools,
churches and museums to re-open; grammar schools opened five days later.
Face masks disappeared. And around the world over the following week, this new disease-which has quickly proved little more contagious than ordinary influenza, and quite effectively treatable with antiviral drugs-faded away, but for wildly overpublicized reports of the occasional-and isolated-death.

Through May 18, the World Health Organization reported a grand total of 8,829 confirmed cases in 40 countries, resulting in 74 deaths, six of them in the United States. For perspective, in the United States alone, each and every year the garden-variety seasonal flu infects between 15 and 60 million people, hospitalizing 200,000 and killing 36,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

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What had happened, as reported by The Economist among other rational observers of the story, was that the first known case was a little boy in the Mexican state of Veracruz, who was diagnosed on April 2. The first confirmed death-of a 39-year-old woman in Oaxaca-occurred on April 13. But the Mexican health authorities hadn't the technology to perform genomic analysis, the process by which new viruses may be quite quickly identified, and they did not send samples abroad until April 22. By the time the strain was isolated-as the not terribly aggressive and eminently treatable bug that it is-the whole world was in full-on panic mode.

In effect, the pandemic was over before it began. This did not forestall any number of global outbreaks of idiocy, among them the slaughter of 400,000 pigs in Egypt (never mind that the disease is mainly transmitted human to human), and a characteristically odd statement from the Vice President of the United States, who averred that he wouldn't let his family take Amtrak.

Yet every single news story, during the brief shelf life of this incipient pandemic, referred in gruesome detail to the Spanish Flu of 1918-19, which killed 675,000 Americans and some 22 million people worldwide. Never mind that this was long before antibiotics, let alone genomic analysis, and that the recommended precautions included mustard
baths, gargling salt water, and Bovril. This pandemic is always ritually cited by the media as they do their best to whip up a firestorm of alarmism over the latest health-related tempest in a teapot.

The great swine flu outbreak of 2009 thus joins a long, ignominious line of equally overhyped nonevents.

A 1976 swine flu outbreak at Fort Dix, NJ set off a similar hysteria, during which America's top health official  estimated it would kill one million Americans. One person died.