Flu pandemic?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/03.html

'They' had better hustle with the pipe line ..because at the other end...glacial melt is rushing...

global warming~ is this true,

for as we sit a ~ponderin'

ice melts into arctic seas.....( tracks disappear as we speak ) 

the caribou fall in and drown

on their way to their calving ground

and wondrin' why there is no sky

and nothin' 'bout birdsong

the trees are fried  and there ain't no sound

'cept a murmer of the last phalarope, as she sighs.....too late   too late    too late

Yes, Anna, you're right. 

No I don't have any aromatherapy stuff, apart from some good quality scented candles.  But I like the link - Thanks!  I've saved it and hopefully will be able to lay on supplies by the time the next bug comes round.  I'm a lot better today, but I think once a cold or flu come on, you can only comfort the symptoms and the virus itself will have to run its course.  You know what they say, if you  treat a cold, it will last 2 weeks, but if you don't treat it, it will take 14 days.  lol

But what I've noticed about the colds I've had in the last several years is that they never have the same symptoms.  Some start with a cough straight away, others are just headcolds.  Some have aches and/or fever, some don't.  The viruses just continue to mutate and I think that's why this swine flu thing has everybody so freaked out.  No one knows how it will behave.  Remember the pandemic of 1918?

I think the common sense rules are best wash, wash, wash.  Cover your mouth if you sneeze or cough and for cryin out loud, stay home if you're sick.  The sad part is that there are so many people in low wage jobs with no paid sick time and no health insurance, that they just drag themselves and all their germs around - business as usual.  As for history, one of the reasons for the persecution of Jews down thru the centuries is that they were blamed for startng plagues.  Whenever a plague hit, it was the Jewish population who weathered it best -probably because of their washing rituals.  

Hi Anna, is there anything you are not smart about?? I wished I had half the knowledge you do. that goes for all of you on here i fell like a little southern country bumpkin most of the time and not just cause i am blonde,;-( I guess i dont read as much as i should.

 Gen for our Canadian friends - I  think they should pospone migration from mexico for a few weeks to see how the situation developes, what do you think? 

OTTAWA, April 28 (UPI) -- The Canadian government issued a warning to citizens against non-essential travel to Mexico, where the death toll from a swine flu outbreak surpassed 150.

A total of 13 cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Canada, health officials said Tuesday. Cases have cropped up in four provinces -- British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia, Canwest News Service reported. The cases appeared to be mild, officials said.

Canadian travel operator Transat A.T. Inc. said Tuesday it was canceling flights from Canada to Mexico until June 1. Transat, which operates Air Transat, Transat Holidays and Nolitour, said it would arrange flights to bring all its customers home from Mexico, Canwest said.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has begun mandating in-flight announcements about precautions and has placed posters at airports and border crossings, the Toronto Star reported.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the government set up a pre-departure screening process in Mexico City to help ensure that some 15,000 migrant farm workers headed to Canada this week would not bring the H1N1 strain of flu. The workers must fill out a questionnaire, undergo a physical exam and have their temperatures taken by two doctors before their permits are issued, Kenney said.

About 4,000 farm workers from Mexico arrived in southwestern Ontario in January and February, but none have shown signs of the illness, which was first reported in Mexico on April 17.

first baby to die in states (texas) 3 confimed in soth of England (Rons patch).

All related to Mexico visits.  

Why are people still flying, it only takes one contaminated victim to step on a plane and as they are breathing recycled air during the flight, anything can happen given that there is a seven-day incubation period. my advice,avoid large groups of people aviod travel if you can and be prepared. stay in and look at Poe lol