Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 34840419)

So I ask you how many people do YOU know who has swine fever?

How about a show of hands among us as to how many of us are acquainted with anyone who has it or has had it..and I mean actually KNOW they have have/had it?

Originally Posted by superbiatch (Post 34840222)

If I get it, I won't be using Tamiflu. I've spoken to some of our senior pharmacists who said it probably only reduces the symptoms by a day so I'd rather build up my own immunity.

I wonder how many of the Tamiflu manufacturing management are receiving bonus' ;)

Originally Posted by Bunnie

If you thought of organisms as computers with IP addresses, each functional group of cells in the organism would be listening to the environment through its own active port. So, as port 25 maps specifically to SMTP services on a computer, port H1 maps specifically to the windpipe region on a human. Interestingly, the same port H1 maps to the intestinal tract on a bird. Thus, the same H1N1 virus will attack the respiratory system of a human, and the gut of a bird. In contrast, H5 — the variety found in H5N1, or the deadly “avian flu” — specifies the port for your inner lungs. As a result, H5N1 is much more deadly because it attacks your inner lung tissue, causing severe pneumonia. H1N1 is not as deadly because it is attacking a much more benign port that just causes you to blow your nose a lot and cough up loogies, instead of ceasing to breathe.

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 34840419)

So I ask you how many people do YOU know who has swine fever?

How about a show of hands among us as to how many of us are acquainted with anyone who has it or has had it..and I mean actually KNOW they have have/had it?

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 34841268)

Bring out your dead

And they daub your door with a picture of a pigs face.

I've had something since wednesday, matches all the symptoms except I don't have a thermometer so I don't know if I'm running a temperature but thursday I felt like death warmed up.

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34841282)

Give us a call then!

Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 34841301)

Since I'm on the mend now I'll let nature take its course. As SB says let your natural immunity get built up plus I don't like to take any medicines unless they're absolutely necessary.

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34841302)

it's not just tamiflu and treatment is given if the symptoms have been there for less than 7 days.

Originally Posted by zing (Post 34841307)

What are they thinking? we might really need these stocks in the winter and they are wasting them now .I have not really been keeping up but what else do you do besides Tamiflu

Originally Posted by superbiatch (Post 34841313)

I think there will be more than enough stocks available ;) (call me a cynic but....)

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34841316)

I'm not sure which treatments are available but it's not just tamiflu.