i am the miserable woman with allergies from he11 lol

i sure hope it is allergies hope you get well soon my dear

Is this like all those bird flu epidemics or SARS outbreaks or Anthrax?

It's a combination of pig, bird and human viruses.

i'll take a footlong ham and cheese to go be seeing you

"Everywhere there's lots of Piggies leading Piggie lives,You can see them out to dinner with their Piggie wives."...Piggies by The Beatles be seeing you

You can't get the virus from eating pork.

i know,it was a little joke be seeing you

well i say ignore it it will go away!

I wonder if you could get it from ground water contamination, from Hog farm waste?
I know when that stuff piles up it sure stinks.

Nothing to worry about folks.


Obama Says Swine Flu ‘Not a Cause for Alarm’
By Jeff Zeleny

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/obama-says-swine-flu-not-a-cause-for-alarm/

Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

President Obama spoke at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.President Obama said on Monday that the growing number of cases of swine flu in the United States and abroad was “not a cause for alarm,” but he sought to assure Americans that the government was taking precautions to prepare for the prospect of a global health pandemic.

“We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States,” Mr. Obama said, speaking at the National Academy of Sciences. “This is obviously the cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert, but it’s not a cause for alarm.”

The remarks by Mr. Obama, which came at the beginning of a previously-scheduled speech that he delivered to scientists in Washington, marked the first time the president has personally addressed the swine flu. He said his administration was monitoring the disease and taking precautions to ward off a wider spread of the swine flu, which emerged from Mexico last week.

Mr. Obama said the swine flu outbreak underscored the need for a larger investment in scientific research in the United States. He said science should not be seen as a luxury, but rather as a key element of the nation’s security.

“Science is more essential for our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment and our quality of life than it has ever been before,” Mr. Obama said. “If there was ever a day that reminded us of our shared stake in science and research, it is today.”

Mr. Obama said federal funding for physical sciences, as a proportion of the gross domestic product, has fallen by nearly half over the last quarter century. He used the speech to bolster his argument for increasing funding to scientific research, which is a challenge given the budget shortfalls and economic condition of the country.

I just read that they're looking for a pig with a respiratory problem.

An old friend called me from Europe. He says their news showing around 300 dead in California only. Supposedly their news team went hospital by hospital and talked to staff, to get the real numbers.

Not sure if their news just trying to capitalize on sensation, or if our news is trying to contain the panic.

That's interesting, NoGames.

CNN is still trying to hype it.
They compared it to meningitis. Talk about wanting to freak people out.CNN is a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xajNkkOBc7k

Swine Flu in Humans

The first isolation of a swine flu virus from a human occurred in 1974, confirming a long held suspicion that swine flu viruses could infect humans.

CDC reports the receipt of approximately 1 human swine flu case report every 1 to 2 years (swine flu has been a nationally reportable condition since 2007). Since 2005, 12 cases have been reported in the U.S., most with exposure to pigs.

Most swine influenza infections do not have a presentation distinct from human influenza infections. Seroprevalence studies have shown 23% positivity in those with occupational exposure to pigs.

The Fort Dix Incident

The most widely known incident of swine flu in humans centers around an outbreak of a lethal influenza virus at Fort Dix in New Jersey in 1976. During that outbreak, 13 solders had severe respiratory illness, and 1 soldier died. A novel H1N1 swine influenza virus (Hsw1N1) was isolated, and approximately 230 other soldiers displayed evidence of infection.5 The virus did not spread outside Fort Dix, no swine exposure was ever elucidated, and swine were never definitively established as the source.2,5 The incident prompted a massive vaccination campaign that was plagued with problems.2,8

1918 and the Swine Flu

The current swine influenza strains circulating in pigs worldwide include H1N1, H3N2, and H1N2. In the U.S., one of the sub-types of the H1N1 virus has been circulating since the early 20th century [2]. Recent research has shown that this virus was likely seeded into the swine population from humans during the 1918 influenza pandemic and is a derivative of the 1918 pandemic strain—illustrating that interspecies transmission of the 1918 virus was from humans to pigs, not pigs to human [6].

And somebody said that pig waste was just another earmark,,,,

The original reservoir for flu viruses is actually wild birds, which can spread infection to domestic birds and people - as we saw with the H5N1 avian flu in Asia - and to pigs. Pigs make particularly good biological mixing bowls, since they can be infected by bird, swine and human flu viruses and provide a hospitable environment for the viruses to swap genes and create entirely new strains in a process called reassortment. That is what may have happened with the A/H1N1 swine flu virus, which contains genes from bird, pig and human flu viruses. "When you get a large concentration of pig farms, people, wild bird and poultry, these things do happen," says Peter Daszak, the president of the Wildlife Trust and an expert on emerging diseases.

In recent years, since the ongoing H5N1 bird flu virus first surfaced, health officials have focused mostly on Asia as the breeding ground for the world's next pandemic flu virus. But Daszak points out that Mexico, where people, pigs and poultry can exist in close proximity, is an overlooked hotspot for new viruses.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090429/wl_time/08599189453400

I bet they wish they had an earmark to do research on pig wastes!