New swine flu map showing it's spread. You will shit bricks

[The Straight Story]

[Windy]

1. Uranus is especially frightening....... nt

[leftofthedial]

9. The virus in Uranus

is not swine flu

[skooooo]

12. That struck me too.

:scared:

[autorank]

34. It's all so scatilogical

[HughMoran]

36. Yeah, keep it far, far away from my anus

yikes!

[konnichi wa]

2. Just as long as it's on Uranus and not on mine I'm not that worried.

:silly: :D
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[skooooo]

13. selfish pig!

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Shouldn't that be 'selfish swine'?

[Bicoastal]

3. The populations of at least 6 planets have been DECIMATED!

It's like a ghost town in downtown Saturn!

:scared:

[eShirl]

4. they're all up in Uranus!

:wow:

[Occulus]

5. That map is FRAKKING WRONG

Pluto is NOT a PLANET

WHERE are you GETTING these LIES??!!111

YOU DONT NO WHAT YOuR TALKING ABOUT!!!!1111

:P

[The Straight Story]

8. Swine does not care, it went there anyway

:)

[madeline_con]

10. priceless

:rofl:

[baldguy]

45. Pluto is too a planet! It's frakkin' round and it orbits the frakkin' sun! What more do you want?

It's just a conspiracy by the IAU & Neil deGrasse Tyson that keeps it from its rightful place!

[ArbustoBuster]

46. Pluto is a planet! I'm Ceres!

Only a moran doesn't think Pluto is a planet.

(And the IAU. They also think it isn't a planet. But they don't count!)

[leftofthedial]

6. ...big round bricks

[Truth2Tell]

7. Three Uranus jokes within two minutes of the OP

I love DU :)

[konnichi wa]

16. But not one including Klingons

I'm disappointed.
:rofl:

[DainBramaged]

19. I don't think the Klingons on Uranus can get pig flue?

[MercutioATC]

11. Pigs. In. SPAAAAAAACE!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Well, DAMN...

So much for my vacation to the Outer Planets!

And I've heard so much about the cold beauty on Pluto...

:P

[L. Coyote]

17. IGNORE!

You earned it!

[The Straight Story]

21. Don't forget to wash your hands after ignoring

:)

[tridim]

18. We'd be shitting molten lava if we were really that close to the Sun.

*Diagram not to scale

[Canuckistanian]

20. The Neptunians are pissed. They blame us for starting it.

Their Senators say they're going to build a wall just in front of Uranus.

[rurallib]

22. Should have tightened that asteroid belt to keep the virus from Uranus.

[no name no slogan]

28. No matter how hard you try, you just can't keep stuff out of Mianus

Or Uranus, for that matter.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Can you imagine what a whacky place the Solar System would be if that thing were to scale?

Just imagine the interplanetary hijinks!

[Texasgal]

24. *snicker*

:thumbsup:

[jobycom]

25. Maybe that's the real reason they are discontinuing Saturn?

[madinmaryland]

26. Thanks for keeping this crap out of teh lounge!!!

:rofl:

[The Straight Story]

27. GD is the lounge of politics and current news

:)

[blaze]

29. LOL!

I needed that!

Thanks! :hi:

[WestSeattle2]

30. Damn, my ex-brother in law lives on

Uranus. He's a real pain in the ass so I won't call to warn him of his impending doom.

[Bluebear]

31. Whoa, is that some new side-effect they're announcing?

[Wednesdays]

32. Wow, I see it's being contained.

No evidence of it being on the Andromeda or the M33 Triangulum galaxies.

[Orsino]

33. I worry about its effect on the burgeoning space tourism industry.

Imagine the deals Shatner could get you now.

[The Straight Story]

39. Swine flu negotiator ....

[Hannah Bell]

35. speaking of "uranus," does anyone remember when newscaster types began pronouncing

it "yer'-uh-nus" instead of "yer-a'-nus"?

i swear the second was used universally when i was a kid, but somewhere along the line i started hearing the first in the media - but people told me the first had always been the "right" pronunciation.

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. I know you're lying because Pluto is not a planet.

[ddeclue]

38. You know the Sun is "too big to fail" so we'll probably have to bail it out..

:rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

40. I see that poor old Pluto gets treated as a planet when the news is bad. Fuck the Pluto Haters

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. It's not the flu that causes the fever

it's being so damn close to the sun. I better draw the curtains.

[old mark]

42. I had no idea we were so close to the sun - no wonder it's so

fucking hot!

We should move to Mars at least!

mark

[sfpcjock]

43. Common flu far more deadly than swine flu in U.S.

Not saying there's no risk from swine flu here, but look here:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Common-flu-far-more-deadly-than-swine-flu-in-U-S/SYwVqQF_3Umy0qY3qhp9zQ.cspx">Common flu far more deadly than swine flu in US

Reported by: Don Germaise
Email: [email protected]
Last Update: 3:56 pm

SPECIAL REPORT: Swine Flu

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- The Florida Department of Health wants to put the swine flu (special report) scare into perspective. There are no confirmed cases of swine flu in Florida so far. However, thousands of people die each year from common strains of influenza.

According to the state health department web site, Florida averaged 2,477 deaths per year from the flu and pneunomia between 2005 and 2007. Pinellas County averaged 150 deaths per year in that time period. Hillsborough County averaged 86 deaths.

The Centers for Disease Control estimates 36,000 people die annually in the United States from the flu. A disproportionately large number of Floridians are in the group. The flu is far more dangerous for the very young and very old. Florida has more deadly cases of the flu than most states because of its elderly population.

A state health department spokesman told ABC ActionNews.com this afternoon they received 50 samples of possible swine flu cases in Florida. None of them tested positive.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/04/28/US-seasonal-flu-kills-13000-since-Jan/UPI-64801240974841/">U.S. seasonal flu kills 13,000 since Jan.

Published: April 28, 2009 at 11:14 PM

ATLANTA, April 28 (UPI) -- There have been no U.S swine flu fatalities so far, but since January more than 13,000 people have died of complications from seasonal flu, officials said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report said no fewer than 800 flu-related deaths were reported in any week between Jan. 1-April 18, the most recent week for which figures were available, CNN reported Tuesday. Seasonal flu is expected to keep killing hundreds of people every week for the rest of the year.

The researchers looked at deaths in the 122 largest U.S. cities with about 9 out of 10 of the deaths among people age 65 or older, the reports said.

Dr. Brian Currie, medical director at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said most times the elderly already have health problems that the flu makes worse.

"Regular influenza can be taxing," Currie told CNN. "It causes their underlying disease to decompensate and then they don't have the reserves to get through it. While it may not be the direct cause listed on the death certificate, it certainly contributed."

Worldwide annual death from seasonal flu is estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, the CDC report said.

One of the reasons medical experts are concerned about swine flu is that many of the more than 150 who died in Mexico have been young and otherwise healthy.

[eppur_se_muova]

48. Hey, I could use some Dryer Balls ...

what can I see? The humidity is through the roof here.

[sfpcjock]

44. Swine Flu Update

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/04/swine-flu-update">Swine Flu Update - Mother Jones
— By Kevin Drum | Wed April 29, 2009 10:59 PM PST

It turns out the swine flu outbreak may be a little bit less deadly than we thought. Here's the latest from the Los Angeles Times:

As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza — at least in its current form — isn't shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.

....When the current virus was first identified, the similarities between it and the 1918 flu seemed ominous.

Both arose in the spring at the tail end of the flu season. Both seemed to strike people who were young and healthy instead of the elderly and infants. Both were H1N1 strains, so called because they had the same types of two key proteins that are largely responsible for a virus' ability to infect and spread.


Richard Webby, an influenza virologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, told the Times, "This virus doesn't have anywhere near the capacity to kill like the 1918 virus," which claimed an estimated 50 million victims worldwide.

Among those 50 million were my grandmother's two sisters. So this is good to hear. But wash your hand anyway, OK?

[malaise]

47. Swine flu spreading like spam

Seems logical. :evilgrin: