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Maybe. Which is why the media are remaining reasonably quiet about it. It'll be a few weeks before we know the full extent of it.

The fact that more cases are being reported hourly is surely disconcerting? It's spread from the US and Mexico to around the world within the day, I can only imagine it hitting the general populace within days unless quarantine is kept very well.

It seems that it's been developing in Mexico since March and that most deaths have been recent contributing to the rise in media interest, it could take a lot less time to develop now in other countries.

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Jono your assertion that it could only be central to the Mexican people because non-Mexicans have fallen 'mildly ill' seems highly illogical.

The reason it has killed many Mexicans is because most were from poor, heavily populated areas where standards of living are diabolical and prevention to diseases is low because healthcare doesn't exist. If swine flu reached the shanty towns of Venezuela do you expect that the inhabitants would only fall mildly ill?

Nobody knows the full extent of the virus's spread. It could potentially have already infected hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and within days they could be dead.

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The "black death" is still reported thousands of times per year to the World Health Organisation, particularly in Africa and some parts of Asia. I find it highly unlikely that people from Europe are any less likely to catch a disease, and even less likely that immunity from such things can be passed down centuries through genes. Plus even if it did, what on earth would the bubonic plague have to do with swine flu?

i think it was due the fact that it killed the weaker parts of the population, thus leaving the stronger people to survive who intern passed this on through their genes, it's not that we are immune but i think we have a ever so tiny bit more resistance because of what were once exposed to.

it's like Sickle-cell disease occurs more commonly in people (or their descendants) from parts of tropical and sub-tropical regions where malaria is or was common. One-third of all aboriginal inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa carry the gene.

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It was said today that the death toll in Mexico has reached 100 also two people have been reported to have 'flu like symptoms' in Britain.. should we panic yet?

p.s i've been sneezing all day annnd i've been to heathrow recently.. should i panic yet?

well hayfever could be in with may approaching, plus it's been miserable in the uk today, the media seem to forget that the normal colds and flu still continue. i think this strain is as strong as the average flu and not like a common cold, so it really knocks you about, you don't just sneeze and cough and feel a bit rough. so i wouldn't worry too much if you're sneezing.

on the grid.

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well its be confirmed in the UK now, it's going to be something like 28 Days Later :hahaha:

i had gammon for my dinner tonight :eek:

good news though, you can get cheap hol's to Mexico now :woohoo:

Earthquake hits Mexico City

A strong earthquake has struck south of Mexico's capital, Mexico City, causing buildings to shake and prompting workers to rush out onto the streets.

The quake had a magnitude of 6.0, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The USGS said the quake hit 240km (150 miles) south of the capital at a depth of 40km.

Mexico is currently battling an outbreak of the swine flu virus, which has claimed 149 lives in the country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8021545.stm

:eek: it's the end of the world

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you have to take precautions. i think everyone under 18 and the children will be vaccinated soon, everyone else should be strong enough to cope with the strain. i think it weakens as it travels.

the media are really dramatizing it, they don't realise that if it is a killer, then it can kill them too. i suppose sky news have had one of their 'experts' on again.

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