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Why does the BBC tell us how many have died from the Pig 'Flu but don't tell us what the survival chances are ? NO MENTION of Survivors.
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152 dead in Mexico so far. 27 confirmed cases. Presuming the others weren't Swine Flu, what on earth did they die of, and isn't that illness far more scary? Or is it normal for people to die of flu in Mexico? In which case, why are so many dying of something that isn't the deadly Swine Flu and therefore so much more curable? Why aren't we helping that country?
That's because it's very difficult to get.
A lot of people will have got this and recoverred on their own.
Some days ago the fatalities against reported cases stood at around 5%.
But those are mostly cases that actually got medical help and in a country like Mexico that could be quite a small number.
The ratio is more likely to be 1% or half a percent or lower.
However if a million people in the UK were to catch it and even 0.1% died, that'd still be 1,000 deaths.
A lot of people will have got this and recoverred on their own.
Some days ago the fatalities against reported cases stood at around 5%.
But those are mostly cases that actually got medical help and in a country like Mexico that could be quite a small number.
The ratio is more likely to be 1% or half a percent or lower.
However if a million people in the UK were to catch it and even 0.1% died, that'd still be 1,000 deaths.
Dont like vehicles then Gromit. How do you get to your cofffe shop in Isington then?
It si true however that, at present, numbers are small. Deaths are bad news and bad news is good news for all the news companies.
Anyway we have nothing to worry about Brown is riding to the rescue.
Oh no we're all doomed
It si true however that, at present, numbers are small. Deaths are bad news and bad news is good news for all the news companies.
Anyway we have nothing to worry about Brown is riding to the rescue.
Oh no we're all doomed
Gromit....I admire your optimism and you may be proved to be correct:
152 dead in Mexico so far....reported deaths
Now worldwide spread.
H1N1 already mutated to cause human to human transmission.
That is the story so far.........now providing the virus does not mutate again, which respiratory viruses are prone to do and if they do not become resistant to Tamiflu or Relenza..which could well happen, then we would be looking at in the next 20weeks:
30million to be infected with a death rate of 30,000 deaths.
That is the good news.
Believe me you do not want to contemplate the bad news.
152 dead in Mexico so far....reported deaths
Now worldwide spread.
H1N1 already mutated to cause human to human transmission.
That is the story so far.........now providing the virus does not mutate again, which respiratory viruses are prone to do and if they do not become resistant to Tamiflu or Relenza..which could well happen, then we would be looking at in the next 20weeks:
30million to be infected with a death rate of 30,000 deaths.
That is the good news.
Believe me you do not want to contemplate the bad news.
"In each of the eight countries that has swine flu, more people have died in road traffic accidents, during the past week than have died from this stain of flu."
In 2005 there were 3,201 folk killed on British roads. When Britain was hit by the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, 250,000 were killed by it.
In 2005 there were 3,201 folk killed on British roads. When Britain was hit by the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, 250,000 were killed by it.
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