And when was the last pandemic? 90 years ago? On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Jess Holle wrote:
> True enough -- for most flus. > > Health officials are quite worried of something like the last flu > pandemic, though -- in that it caused healthy people's immune > systems to go into overdrive and hit the young healthy adults hard. > > Sure we have antivirals, etc, now, but it's not clear that they'd be > enough in terms of efficacy or quantity. > > Health officials are generally not worried that the current strains > of swine flu have this potential, though. The swine flu's potency > does not appear to be anywhere near that of the bird flu of a few > years back and that was nothing like the potency of the last flu > pandemic. There's reason to worry, but there's no clear reason to > worry that much about *this* outbreak -- unless your immune system > is already on shaky ground or you have no access to good health care. > > -- > Jess Holle > > Joshua Marinacci wrote: >> >> When *treated* the flu annoying rather than fatal. When you hear >> about millions of people dying of the flu (like what used to happen >> every 30 years or so in centuries past) it was because of lack of >> sanitation, lack of healthcare, lack of clean water, etc. It is very >> rare for a healthy person in a first world nation to die of the flu. >> - J >> >> On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:02 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> Da : James Williams <[email protected]> >>> A : The Java Posse <[email protected]> >>> Oggetto : [The Java Posse] Re: Noro Virus on JavaOne 2008, >>> Swine Flu on JavaOne 2009? >>> Data : Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:29:57 -0700 (PDT) >>> >>> >>>> I think the EU was a bit premature in their >>>> recommendations. >>>> >>> Indeed EU didn't make (yet) any specific recommendations on >>> travels. The EU "health minister" spoke "on her own behalf" >>> (clearly public officers shouldn't talk on their own behalf >>> and it was an unfortunate action). >>> >>> Nobody knows what will happen three weeks from now. The >>> spread could be worse or better; from my point of view I'm >>> interested in being explained why there have been dead >>> people in Mexico and no in USA or elsewhere (as numbers >>> increase, it becomes less and less likely to be just due to >>> low figures). It could turn out that there is some specific >>> worsening factor in Mexico and the bug is less dangerous as >>> we think. I repeat, who knows. It's useless to think about >>> it _now_. >>> >>> -- >>> f.g. >>> >>> -- >>> Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project Manager >>> Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." >>> weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - >>> www.tidalwave.it/blog >>> [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
