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We're all going to die (AKA Flu thread) MERGED

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    #152
    mike65
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    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    We should expect our iodine tablets in the post any day now.....

    Hey!

    Cribber :mad: ;)


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    #153
    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    aaaaaaggh it's in scotland, we're definitely all ****ed


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    #154
    mike65
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    Two people have been admitted to a Scottish hospital after returning from Mexico, where more than 80 people have died after contracting swine flu.

    Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said the patients had both displayed mild flu-like symptoms but were not giving cause for concern.

    Neither of the people involved had travelled in areas affected by swine flu outbreaks.

    The Scottish Government said it was closely monitoring the situation.

    It is understood the two travellers were admitted to Monklands hospital in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, after returning from Mexico on Tuesday.

    Precautionary tests are being conducted on them, with further tests expected over the next few days.

    Nah we're not, if this were a proper honest pandemic we'd know.


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    #155
    Hagar
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    But there's always an upside... Bargain Alert. :pac:


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    #156
    Quartet
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    in the space of a weekend, members of boards.ie have become experts at biology aswell as economics.. mind-blowing what we could achieve if we pooled our resources.

    Whats the old hoary chestnut ....
    Give a thousand monkeys a thousand typewriters (well maybe PC's!) and in a thousand years and they will produce the works of W Shakespeare...!

    Remember things have speeded up considerably since the days of typewriters and we possibly have a lot more than a thousand monkies on here:D


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    #157
    Rented Mule
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    I think that we should get Cowen, Linehan and Harney on the next flight to Mexico City.......and leave them there.


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    #158
    Dubh Geannain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    My housemates returned from a trip to Mexico last Monday. :eek:

    The girl had been sick most of last week but says she's feeling better now!

    I've tackled them on it but they won't be going to the doctor to get themselves checked out. The main reason I think they won't go is that they wouldn't p**s on you if you were on fire.

    Should I give the men in radioactive suits a call and tell them to pop round by the house?

    Any other suggestions? Hell I could already be a carrier myself :eek:


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    #159
    Mr Benevolent
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    Call the HSE and ask 'em.


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    #160
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Dubh Geannain wrote: »
    My housemates returned from a trip to Mexico last Monday. :eek:

    The girl had been sick most of last week but says she's feeling better now!

    I've tackled them on it but they won't be going to the doctor to get themselves checked out. The main reason I think they won't go is that they wouldn't p**s on you if you were on fire.

    Should I give the men in radioactive suits a call and tell them to pop round by the house?

    Any other suggestions? Hell I could already be a carrier myself :eek:

    have you seen the film Quarantine?


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    #161
    Dubh Geannain
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Confab wrote: »
    Call the HSE and ask 'em.

    Gonna do that anyway. But I wouldn't trust that crowd to treat a runny nose. Just found out at the weekend a friend of my sisters has been wrongly diagnosed with MS for the last 8 years.

    Ireland will probably be one of the least prepared if this thing got mpre serious.


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    #162
    Nodin
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    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    We should expect our iodine tablets in the post any day now.....

    Those are only to stop the dead from rising.....


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    #163
    Sierra Oscar
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    Spanish government have just confirmed a case in Spain and are investigating 16 other possible cases as a result.

    Denmark are investigating a number of potential caes.


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    #164
    Indie18
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    xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »
    aaaaaaggh it's in scotland, we're definitely all ****ed

    In Scotland, oh your god:eek:.........

    *Douses self in petrol lights match and jumps out window in panic*


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    #165
    Seraphicblue
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Seraphicblue


    the works of Grandfather Nurgle are indeed magnificent!


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    #166
    OctavarIan
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    I seriously hope it doesn't arrive over here. I'd hate to catch it and then have a cough, or even worse, a sore throat! Just doesn't bear thinking about:eek:


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    #167
    Mr Benevolent
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    I love the tags for this thread...
    mass_hysteria, mexico, panic, pig, swine_flu, this is the end, we're doomed


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    #168
    5318008!
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    I bet white power groups in america are secretly delighted about this.


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    #169
    Milkey Bar Kid
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    First european case in SPAIN .

    Swine flu + Spanish flu = the end of mankind.


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    #170
    jackdaw
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    pfft ... a load of bollix ... the media making a fuss about nothing...

    im not worried ... im more worried about Barça - Chelsea tomorrow..


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    #171
    DrumSteve
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    ah sure... arent we all meant to be dead from SARS.


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    #172
    Milkey Bar Kid
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    I dont know why everyone is getting so worked up about this swine flu, and bird flu and everything. Look on the brightside at least it isnt man flu !!


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    #173
    Indie18
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Indie18


    Milkey Bar Kid wrote: »
    I dont know why everyone is getting so worked up about this swine flu, and bird flu and everything. Look on the brightside at least it isnt man flu !!

    What if it mutates with the man flu? We could be looking at some kind of swineman flu, then where will we be?


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    #174
    dsmythy
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    The Sky News hysterics department says there is a suspected case in Manchester.


    DrumSteve wrote: »
    ah sure... arent we all meant to be dead from SARS.

    SARS never mastered the ability to spread human to human like normal flu.


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    #175
    thelordofcheese
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    Indie18 wrote: »
    What if it mutates with the man flu? We could be looking at some kind of swineman flu, then where will we be?

    I imagine it'll be the first virus to speak in the third person.


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    #176
    KerranJast
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    Indie18 wrote: »
    What if it mutates with the man flu? We could be looking at some kind of swineman flu, then where will we be?
    On the upside if we can get it to affect bears then we'll have the perfect weapon to use against ManBearPig. I'm super serial.


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    #177
    dsmythy
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    Confab wrote: »
    I love the tags for this thread...

    'I smell bacon' is one now as well...


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    #178
    missingtime
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    A girl in work is just after meeting a friend who was in mexico for 2 weeks.

    ...it's HERE!

    Cough, splutter, wheeze.


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    #179
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    dsmythy wrote: »
    The Sky News hysterics department says there is a suspected case in Manchester.





    SARS never mastered the ability to spread human to human like normal flu.
    I could be wrong but I think Sars could spread from human to human, Bird flu couldn't.


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    #180
    pgasm
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    CANOPUS BIOPHARMA AND LEADING CHINESE RESEARCHER TEAM UP TO TREAT AVIAN INFLUENZA, TO PREVENT POSSIBLE PANDEMIC


    http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/canopusbiopharma/34441/


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    #181
    Indie18
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Indie18


    The WHO is advising all countries to be vigilant for seasonally unusual flu or pneumonia-like symptoms among their populations - particularly among young healthy adults, a characteristic of past pandemics.

    Took this from BBC, its good to see that 1960's rock bands are doing their part in all of this.


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