Ok the rate of infection MIGHT be stabilizing in Mexico

[nadinbrzezinski]

time to give props

After all if this is the case, it is the MEASURES taken by the government to cut all kinds of sources of infection

A little knowledge goes a long way

(And yes I expect the facts impaired to make fun of this... we know about that)

Now on the DOWN side this might be establsihgin and spreading in NYC... that is bad news

But hey, all in a day's work

And yes I for one, if THIS NEWS is correct... am happy to hear it, contrary to the sarry nellies running around screaming every-time FACTS and NEWS STORIES are posted

IN fact, I'd hazard those are the ones who'd panic when told clearly (like now) NOT TO.

[rcrush]

1. Its going to start turning people into Zombies.

Get your shotguns while you can.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. What's best, solid or shot?

I'd only ask the expert on this

:hi:

[rcrush]

4. They like fireworks.

It distracts them while you blow their heads off.

[Creena]

5. Awesome movie. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Completely missed it!

I will have to google it

No wonder I missed it, land of the dead

Didn't watch it

[Creena]

7. Land of the Dead

Romero zombie flick - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Dead

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Thanks

and welcome to our little island of whatever it happens to be

[Hannah Bell]

3. if the OP had her way, we'd all be in quarantine right now.

right, everyone who didn't buy into the OP's repetitive posts on the "threat" were fear-mongerering. uh-huh.

[dkf]

9. Stabilizing? How so?

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Numbers are not rising as fast, give me a sec and will give you a link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu

Bear in minds this APPEARS to be the case

[Mojorabbit]

10. I am giving it a couple of weeks

to see what they come up with when they get more testing kits. I think we will have a better feel for what is happening then.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. What I fear is what is happening in NYC... if this is now spreading

to the four winds in NYC it means it has established itself in two countries

Aka we MIGHT, not saying it will happen, see a WHO raise in alert status

I am almost willing to bet that it depends on those hundreds of kids probably sick that bloomberg was reporting earlier

[Hannah Bell]

13. yes, we"might" see that. we might see the second coming or alien invasion, too.

there's not been one serious case outside mexico so far.

but there "might" be.

when the virus mutates, maybe in october. or sometime. maybe next year. sometime or other, someone will DIE!

[Mojorabbit]

15. The infectious disease docs

on promed are concerned about that possibility . Time will tell. It is impossible to predict.

[Hannah Bell]

18. yes, impossible to predict. though so far, there's no evidence anything like that is happening.

but hope springs eternal. we may have a death-dealing pandemic yet!

[Mojorabbit]

19. Well forgive me if I take the opinion

of some eminent infectious disease physicians over yours. It is impossible to predict but we do have historical precedents to gauge the situation we have now for some clues. It could go either way and I don't see what the purpose is to shut down all conversation on the situation.

[Hannah Bell]

14. the testing supplies w/b in Mexico city by tomorrow. should be a matter of days to confirm current

cases/deaths. contrary to a number of posts on this subject, there's hard information in the post the hypsters are so studiously avoiding.


"Cordova said that starting Tuesday laboratory tests will start in Mexico to confirm the presence in patients of the A/H1N1 virus, since up to now samples have been send outside the country because of the lack of equipment for making the diagnosis here.

He said that by Wednesday, when additional equipment is due to arrive, Mexico will be able to carry out as many as 600,000 tests per day."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5557868

[Mojorabbit]

16. If they arrive tomorrow

they will then have to be distributed, the staff instructed in how to do the tests and then thousands of people will have to be tested. I don't expect a good picture in a few day.

[Hannah Bell]

17. some apparently arrived today. & they *do* have qualified lab folks in mexico,

not so much more training required.

on edit: kind of funny, you were ready to believe confirmed deaths lept from 20 to 159 in one day, with 150 more "possibles," because you got a twitter (tweet?) saying so, but you're not ready to believe medical supplies could get to mexico on schedule, or that tests could be run in less than a couple of weeks.

we all have our biases. ours go in opposite directions, i guess.