WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level

Solarch writes "Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, the WHO raised the pandemic threat level for H1N1 "swine flu" to 5. Global media outlets(such as CNN, Fox News, and the BBC) preempted normal broadcast coverage and immediately published stories on their websites. To clarify, the WHO's elevation is mainly a sign to governments that the virus is spreading quickly and that steps should be taken on a governmental level to stage supplies and medicines to combat a possible pandemic. Unfortunately, broadcast coverage focused on phrases like 'pandemic imminent' (CNN marquee). In other news, patient zero, the medical term for the initial human vector of a disease, has been tentatively identified in Mexico."

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Re:Semi-Pandemic

[capandbells]

Actually, the major issue with this flu is that it is most dangerous to those with strong immune systems because of the potential for cytokine storms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm). But yeah, anti-virals will help a lot.

Re:I dunno?

[captnbmoore]

I dunno is on 3rd.