Joshua Marinacci wrote: > And when was the last pandemic? 90 years ago? There abouts, yes.
Most health experts are convinced another one /will /occur, however -- especially given the speed and quantity of travel today. The question is when -- but there seems to be agreement that the current swine flu outbreak isn't it. > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
