Swine Flu from Mexico reaching Pandemic level?

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Settled in 1835, Saint Joseph quickly grew into the largest community in Florida. A ship carrying yellow fever arrived in 1841. By the end of the year everyone in town had died or fled and the town no longer existed. Only the graveyard remains today.

So I am learning from history. I have locked myself in my home office and only read the discussions about the boken characteristics of the v.3 vs. v.4 of the 35mm Summicron on the swine flu thread of the Communicable Disease Center website. There are some rather noted epidemiologists that seem to know as much as lens characteristics as we do about communicatable diseases.

The first paragraph is totally true. The second totally false.
 
I don't know... I haven't read much about this flu, so i can't talk properly.
But I was thinking that the US are having lots of problems with Mexico's immigration. I don't know...
 
Crap! We just booked a trip down to Los Cabos for two weeks one month from now (May 25th).

Right now there's no plan to cancel, but who knows only time will tell.

Perhaps daily mega-doses of tequila will keep me safe.

Note to self: Bring autofocus camera.
 
Al Patterson said:
Maybe so, but during the 1970's swine flu scare, my mother father and sister got the shots and got sick. I didn't get the shot, and didn't get sick.

Co-incidence?
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Vaccines are far different now. Even then, the benefit generally outweighed the risk. Now, flu vaccines (and almost all others) are of a different variety that extremely rarely makes a person sick with the given disease. Few of them work on the model of "give them a small dose of the complete virus to trigger immunity" model.

In short, this is misinformed (or lying) scaremongering.
 
Coincidence, or possibly the wrong vaccine not improving matters when it comes to a strain it does not cover. At any rate, many millions get flu shots every year, and only a tiny percentage of non-responders get sick from flu in the years where the vaccine matches the current strain.

Whether vaccination is a smart idea outside risk groups is another question - regular flu only strikes a very modest percentage of the population per year, and is unpleasant rather than lethal for those without any extra risk. The protection is not disproportionally bigger than the danger of developing allergies against preservatives or the chicken substrate. Personally, I preferred not to - but since we have kids either me or my wife get vaccinated every other year, as sick care can be rather hard to do when all of the family are simultaneously down with fever...

Sevo
 
Double Crap! We just found out the charter company suspended all trips to Mexico until early June.

And to think my camera bag was all packed and ready to go.

Added note: The charter company was kind enough to book us on a cruise off the Somalian coast. ;-)
 
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"CDC estimated that about 36,000 people died of flu-related causes each year, on average, during the 1990s in the United States."

Until they start stacking up the bodies the swine flu seems more like a media event than anything else.
 
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