As of this evening, 1800 cases in Mexico, with 160 deaths. Thats a nasty flu. It is now in San Diego and Imperial counties in California, with no mortalities. But a near 10% death rate in Mexico is pretty scary.
That one is in the county to the East of me. They are checking on one in the county to the west of me. I suspect it won't be long before it's in our county too. We have a lot of farming and Mexican immigrants here so I'm sure I'll be seeing the panic here soon. It will be interesting to see if there is any tie-in with people travelling back and forth between Mexico and the spread in the states.
From what I have have read your right. Here is how he answered that question.
COX: Let me clarify. This is very late for seasonal influenza. The routine kind of influenza strains that we see every year. That's declining. The regular season is in its pale really. What we're seeing now is different. It's not seasonal influenza, it's what we call Swine Influenza. Has different characteristics and we don't really see enough of it in people to have a seasonality.
These are quite unusual cases. It's in fact a little bit easier that it's occurring now in the end of the influenza season because we don't have so much noise or so much background influenza to look through. But it is, you know, initially we want to take very special measures to make sure this really was a different strain because sometimes towards the end of a season it can be harder to take the strains that are just regular flu. So this is not routine seasonal flu it's just occurring at the tail end of the seasonal – of the season of regular influenza.
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On one hand it is inevitable that we will have another pandemic flu. In fact, we are overdue (on average). Is this it? Who knows. But it WILL happen.
On the other hand, the regular old flu killed 36,000 people in our country last year but we never hear about it because it's all old people and babies and that doesn't make us immortal, healthy adults worry...
This statement reminds me of the first time I was told you could actually die from the flu. I didn't believe the person who told me at first.
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King..
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite.
There was no 'rewrite'. The 'original' was simply an abridged version that was edited down to size because the original manuscript was so large, and the publishers didn't feel that people would buy it, at the time. Remember that this is before King reached his legendary status.
The unabridged version, which is more to tune with the original manuscript, is a truer version of King's vision than the unabridged, and, IMO, is a far far better read. I've read both, and the unabridged leaves far too much out and is a bit of a wash.
Of course, it's all in personal preference, but I could never read The Stand without reading the unabridged version these days.
AP quotes Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs as saying, “The president’s trip to Mexico has not put his health in any danger.”
The AP also reports:
The outbreak coincided with President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at the anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who died a week later from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t say if Solis had swine flu or not.
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King..
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite.
There was no 'rewrite'. The 'original' was simply an abridged version that was edited down to size because the original manuscript was so large, and the publishers didn't feel that people would buy it, at the time. Remember that this is before King reached his legendary status.
The unabridged version, which is more to tune with the original manuscript, is a truer version of King's vision than the unabridged, and, IMO, is a far far better read. I've read both, and the unabridged leaves far too much out and is a bit of a wash.
Of course, it's all in personal preference, but I could never read The Stand without reading the unabridged version these days.
Gonna soak up the whole "end of the world" atmosphere and read The Stand by Stephen King..
Go for the original, it's better than the rewrite.
There was no 'rewrite'. The 'original' was simply an abridged version that was edited down to size because the original manuscript was so large, and the publishers didn't feel that people would buy it, at the time. Remember that this is before King reached his legendary status.
The unabridged version, which is more to tune with the original manuscript, is a truer version of King's vision than the unabridged, and, IMO, is a far far better read. I've read both, and the unabridged leaves far too much out and is a bit of a wash.
Of course, it's all in personal preference, but I could never read The Stand without reading the unabridged version these days.
Never read the abridged version myself - only the uncut - one of his best works.
