So whats the deal?
By tashanda
@tashanda (58)
United States
May 2, 2009 12:22am CST
I'm pretty sure you all have heard about the new swine flu that's traveled the world faster than the wind, but I'm wondering how do these epidemics keep happening? First it was the spinach, then the tomatoes,then the peanut butter now we have a new flu strain that nobody thought to warn the public until it was found travelers started getting off the planes in other countries coughing.I mean why weren't the people, especially the children, planning trips to mexico for spring break informed that hey you can com if you want but please be advised that we have a deadly flu floating around. Then they named it swine flu and while scaring the world silly talking about it they mixed pictures of pigs in with the pictures of families in Mexico looking as if their living through the second coming of the Black Plague, but still can't understand why some pig farmers slaughtered all their pigs and are now suing the gov't for reimbursement of their losses because the pigs have nothing to do with the flu. Am I alone in thinking that this maybe a military experiment gone wrong? Your thoughts on this please?
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3 responses
@coolmailpankaj (338)
• India
2 May 09
Hi.
It can't be a military experiment for sure.
It has not sort of reached here till now, so I am not sure about the scale of this disease but seeing the reaction of people form western countries I think it is a big deal.
By the way, what it has to do with pigs?
@tashanda (58)
• United States
2 May 09
Same here its only been in the media a couple of days. Well from what I can gather the first known case was in some remote part of Mexico and thats where the largest number of known cases are and where just about everyone who has gotten sick visited recently. As far as pigs go at one point they were saying that was where it came from tainted meat then I heard on another broadcast that they had nothing to do with it. That scientist just called it the swine flu because there really wasn't a name for it.
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
2 May 09
It is a flu virus that knows how to mutate.
Actually those superbugs in the hospital kills more people per year, just that they do not spread outside the hospital uncontrollably.
Sometimes i think that those virus are so good at adaptation, much better than us humans, sooner or later, they will take over as the master of the Earth.
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
2 May 09
Well if it is an experiment we will never know, the only thing I know is that the press is having a field day with it and scaring the hell out of people, making it worse than it is for sure, this kind of things happens every now and then, remember the bird flu?, mad cow desease? well we seem to have something new every so often, I just wonder some times, it could be man created, but like I said before we will never know.
