Jan & John
« Reply To This #10 on: May 05, 2009, 09:53:23 AM »
One sad thing happened in my area...
A worker who visited Mexico has actually passed on the flu to the pigs where he works. Transmitted from Human to Pig !!! They are in quarantine and it's only one farm but this has given the whole industry here and around the world a black mark.
Now "the media" (a four letter word sometimes IMHO) is reporting that countries are now banning our exports. Turns out this is actually only 10 of the approx 200 countries that we ship to. But it's enough to get people worried about their livelihood.
Our farmers need our support. We had pork tenderloin last night - done up with paprika and italian herbs - delicious
jan
ps sad - but I think this joke is funny because it is so true - how quickly we judge...
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world's deepest hunger meet" - Fredrick Buechner (in Wishful Thinking).
"Every child should be well born, well fed, well taught, well housed and well treated."
Maude Riley, Alberta Council on Child and Family Welfare 1923
"Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop." --Mother Teresa
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Peter S
« Reply To This #11 on: May 05, 2009, 10:10:09 AM »
verba volant, littera scripta manet
Jan & John
« Reply To This #12 on: May 05, 2009, 10:27:07 AM »
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world's deepest hunger meet" - Fredrick Buechner (in Wishful Thinking).
"Every child should be well born, well fed, well taught, well housed and well treated."
Maude Riley, Alberta Council on Child and Family Welfare 1923
"Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop." --Mother Teresa
1 click per person per day on this link means 1 additional cent for the Fistula Foundation - thanks!
Jane Sladen
« Reply To This #13 on: May 05, 2009, 11:12:26 AM »
Peter! That is hilarious! Thanks for keeping this thing in perspective!
Jane Sladen (Nova Scotia - tiny Province with the most cases in Canada - they didn't even need to go to hospital!!)
Wood Fairy Glenda
« Reply To This #14 on: May 05, 2009, 06:42:56 PM »
Thanks, Peter -
Sent the URL to my physician daughter in Milwaukee where they're dealing with swine flu hysteria.
Wood Fairy Glenda
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« Reply To This #15 on: May 05, 2009, 08:00:11 PM »
Thanks Peter! Dang, wish I had bought stock in 3M. Always a day late and a dollar short!
Jane
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind... Kahlil Gibran
TheTatiana
« Reply To This #16 on: June 11, 2009, 05:27:09 PM »
Did anyone happen to see that the World Health Organization declared the novel H1N1 influenza virus a pandemic today? We're now at alert level 6, a full-scale pandemic. Cases are continuing to climb exponentially. Don't quit taking precautions, just because it's not in the news as much as it was.
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joanna_h
« Reply To This #17 on: June 13, 2009, 03:10:16 AM »
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I'm really getting sick of the hype. I'm in the city with the most swine flu cases per capita of anywhere in the world (Melbourne, Australia) so the hype gets bad at times. The local strain is very mild- Most people catching it are saying it isn't even as bad as normal flu and there has been very few hospitalizations. Unfortunately for me who has to travel overseas soon a lot of other countries aren't taking that into account. Singapore, which is where i'm going, seems to have a special fear of swine flu from Melbourne. Just what i needed. I'm hoping the fever i have now isn't Swine flu.
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Kay
« Reply To This #18 on: June 13, 2009, 04:18:25 AM »
Swine flu, which is H1N1, is a generally a mild flu that can spread easily from person to person. Bird flu, which is H5N1, has a high mortality rate in humans, but cannot spread easily from either birds to people or from person to person. Particularly in areas where bird flu is endemic, such as in Southeast Asia, the fear is that swine flu will recombine genetically with bird flu, to create a flu virus that is highly lethal and can spread easily from person to person. If that happens, no one will be laughing.
Tatiana
« Reply To This #19 on: June 13, 2009, 04:36:06 AM »
Thanks Kay. That makes sense...
