Swine flu

[DaBestSpoona]

I just smoked some ribs this weekend, I am a goner.

[Magsåvningsreserven]

shit's gettin serious yo, already in your country. maybe your neighbour is coughing pigs right now

[Kesnel]

SARS and bird flu never came to all that much, relatively speaking. It's probable that this will go the same way. Hopefully, at least.

Also, I can't believe no one has said:

'Brings a whole new meaning to the expression "sick as a pig".'

So I had to say it.

Hur hur hur.

[DaBestSpoona]

Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive

3 hours ago

JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.

Scientists are unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identifed first in the United States. They say there is nothing about the virus that makes it "Mexican" and worry such a label would be stigmatizing.

Two Israelis who recently visited Mexico have been hospitalized with symptoms of the flu. Health authorities have not yet confirmed whether they actually have the virus.

The current strain of swine flu is thought to have originated in Mexico where more than 100 people have been killed by the disease so far.

Laboratories in the U.S. and Canada have confirmed that of the samples tested so far, the swine flu virus in Mexico and U.S. appear to be the same.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

I'm hoping Falafel Flu is next

[freecat]

it's gotta be america creating a virus to kill mexican and then put an embargo making american product the only reliable source of food for the whole south america

... (5)

i don't care at all, price will go down, i'll eat more hence being happier.

[Orion]

I think we all know it's Al Qaeda that's responsible for this.

INFIDELS!

[semper]

apparently, this virus is so new that nobody has any resistance yet. Normally, the groups that are vulnerable to a flu are children and very old people, but here, I read, the age group in danger of getting contaminated is people between 20 and 40.

SUFU'S IN DANGER

[DaBestSpoona]

Swine flu google map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5

[Magsåvningsreserven]

apparently, this virus is so new that nobody has any resistance yet. Normally, the groups that are vulnerable to a flu are children and very old people, but here, I read, the age group in danger of getting contaminated is people between 20 and 40.

SUFU'S IN DANGER

Swine Flu Defence Task Force assemble!

[cernunnos]

HOW is "swine flu" offensive to jews and muslims? I just can't get this logic. Please enlighten me.

[Servo2000]

Swine flu google map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5

oh shit

san diego's goin off

nothing in RI although worm may have brought the disease back from NY

[freecat]

can you get it by spending too much time on mexican websites ?

[ProfMonnitoff]

i thin junglejane sent me a pm once

oh shit

[julzkind]

i must have missed it in the monthly newsletter...always leaving us girls out cause they think we cant handle shit. fuckers.

I think we all know it's Al Qaeda that's responsible for this.

INFIDELS!

[Orion]

I was thiiisss close to calling you in to broker a peace deal...hahaha.

[bill]

need 2 cop ccp mask

[lovethrust]

people only freak out about 81 people dying in Mexico City when there is a possibility that they might too

[BAGUETTE]

[sawn-off chef]

nice sig ^^^^^^

[totally epic]

Yo I'm down wit da sickness. I'm going to the DR's tomorrow to make sure I don't have this shit.

[doctorworm]

should i really go to health services to make sure that my mild cold like symptoms (loss of voice, stuffiness, general feeling of being sick, etc.) aren't swine flu?

(servo could be right)

[sawn-off chef]

can never be too safe, if it's just a 20 dollar co pay to nip something like that in the bud i'd say its worth it.

[samsikle]

ohhh my god swine flu in santa clara.. LOL right down the street from my exbf's house holy shit

edit nevermind. they updated and cleared those markers, 408, we're safe kind of!

[Charlie Delta]

HOW is "swine flu" offensive to jews and muslims? I just can't get this logic. Please enlighten me.

How would "Mexican flu" NOT be offensive to Mexicans I ask you???

NOW EXPLAIN DAT!

[doctorworm]

did you get home to a super parcel from a supergayswapperson???

NOOOPE

[Tisswat]

[semper]

brilliant^

[ProfMonnitoff]

Real talk though, stupid media blowing this all out of proportion. How many 10s of thousands of people die from normal flu every year, but 100 die in a week from "swine flu" and everyone freaks.

[freecat]

that's why tv sucks.

[junglejane]

i thin junglejane sent me a pm once

oh shit

yeah i'm gonna be going through my rep list. if you have neg repped me i'm going to send you an infected torta al pastor via PM.