Swine flu hits Oregon
Carla Axtman
Via MultCo Commish Jeff Cogen:
Oregon’s first probable case of swine flu was identified late Wednesday following testing by the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory.The Oregon Public Health Department will hold a news briefing at the Portland State Office Building at 11:30 this morning. Details below.
“The probable case was in a Multnomah County adult female who consulted her physician after experiencing flu-like symptoms,” according to Dr. Mel Kohn, head of the Oregon Public Health Department. The woman, who was not hospitalized and is recovering normally, had contact with someone who had recently traveled to Mexico and been exposed to the swine flu there, he said.
The specimen from this case was sent to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further characterization, with final results of testing expected in several days.“It is very likely that this test will be confirmed by the final step of laboratory testing,” Kohn said. “So we are not waiting – we are treating this as a case of swine flu.”
Alright people. If you cough, cover your mouth. Wash your hands often with soap and water. If you feel sick, STAY HOME. Don't give the rest of us your heebee jeebees.
The symptoms of this nasty bug:
Swine flu is a respiratory disease in pigs whose spread to humans has been historically rare in the U.S. Its symptoms are similar to those of normal seasonal influenza such as fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing, sometimes accompanied by runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Eating pork that has been properly handled and cooked will not transmit the virus.
Now then, let's be careful out there.
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Apr 30, '09
OH MY GOD IT'S...
...the flu. Come on guys, geez. This is embarrassing. AIDS and malaria are ravaging Africa and nobody blinks, but we're in full meltdown over the fraking flu.
More people were killed in the Ford Administration by WIN buttons than swine flu.
12:04 p.m.
Apr 30, '09
Please keep perspective...last year over 30,000 people succumbed to ordinary flu in the US.
Apr 30, '09
I think we should definitely keep perspective. But this flu is especially nasty and now seems to be spreading at a fairly significant clip in a short time.
A precaution seems prudent to me.
Apr 30, '09
Pretty telling state of affairs when the President of The United States has to go on national propaganda to very slowly, enunciating ever so clearly to the ever so educated American people "When. You. Cough. COVER YOUR MOUTH!. Wash. Your. Hands. Often. With Soap and Water. If. You. Feel. Sick. STAY HOME!"
12:17 p.m.
Apr 30, '09
We aren't "in full meltdown" we are advocating for and taking reasonable precautions to prevent or mitigate a pandemic that could potentially kill thousands to millions of people.
Regular seasonal flu kills roughly ten times as many Americans every year as were killed in the attacks on 9/11.
Apr 30, '09
Awesome 1970s swine flue PSA
Apr 30, '09
If you cough, cover your mouth. Wash your hands often with soap and water. If you feel sick, STAY HOME.
You forgot the big one, STOP SPITTING. How this filthy habit became acceptable and commonplace is a mystery to me. It’s hard to walk the streets of downtown PDX and not have to step around disgusting, nauseating puddles of saliva.
Maybe it will take a good pandemic to break folks of this habit.
Apr 30, '09
THIS IS SERIOUS, WE MUST DO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO PANIC AND TAKE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apr 30, '09
I don't mean to sound cold, but maybe this is just another demonstration of "natural" population control?
12:49 p.m.
Apr 30, '09
"...fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing, sometimes accompanied by runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea...."
But going to work ALWAYS makes me feel like that!
Apr 30, '09
Well, they said pigs would fly before a black man got elected President.
He got elected, and swine flu.
Apr 30, '09
Well, Naismith, between avian flu and swine flu -- perhaps pigs are now flying?
Apr 30, '09
B: I particularly liked BHO's admission that mass transit spreads disease when he said that if you are sick, you should avoid using mass transit.
Good advice. Anytime, sick or not.
Now if he will just admit that multifamily units also spread disease, we could be well on the way to a sane housing policy. (If you can smell the neighbor's smoking or cooking, you are getting their air and their airborne pathogens.)
Apr 30, '09
We are all gonna die.
Apr 30, '09
were gonna DIE
1:22 p.m.
Apr 30, '09
Buckman Res, I saw a member of the City Council spit loudly the other day and its was disgusting. I walk everywhere and avoiding people's street loogies is a daily chore.
Apr 30, '09
"More people were killed in the Ford Administration by WIN buttons than swine flu."
Hahahahaha, good one.
Apr 30, '09
"If it bleeds it leads" media strikes again...
On average 1 million (mostly children) die a year worldwide from malaria. http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/facts.htm
About 2-4 million people in the US are sickened each year from salmonella (1000 die each year). http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/salmonella_food_poisoning/stats.htm
Cover your mouth, wash your hands, chill out. http://shouldibeworriedaboutswineflu.com/
Apr 30, '09
You heard it here first.....masks will become a fashion statement this year. People will decorate their masks and accessorize their outfits with them. How many days/weeks? before runway models are wearing them?
Apr 30, '09
we are fucked
Apr 30, '09
The Swine Flu Pandemic, Visualized Chart
or just take the test at the self-diagnostic site:
Do I have the Swine Flu?
Apr 30, '09
Adams,
Doesn't that mean your thought process applies to you?
Apr 30, '09
...masks will become a fashion statement this year
It's begun: http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2009/04/pimp-my-swine-flu-mask.html
4:02 p.m.
Apr 30, '09
Schools with high Latino populations are now getting phone calls from parents saying they are keeping their children home from school so that they are not exposed to the virus from Mexican children.Who live here. Unbelievable. For that kind of irrationality, I am afraid there is no cure.
Apr 30, '09
...maybe this is just another demonstration of "natural" population control?
No, this is a demonstration of the social costs of industrialized pork production.
Apr 30, '09
I kid you not, I heard this on a call-in on NPR today: the "Mexican Flu", as the Israelis have coined it (though they apparently "own" the commercial pig farm where the viri apparently originated, so I guess it would be more appropriately named the "Jew Flu"), is actually a plot to kill off all the "American" workers so the Mexicans can come up here and rape all the (white) women and steal all the jobs.
I kid you not, I heard this on NPR today.
Apr 30, '09
Dr. Paul sez, "don't worry about it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/
Apr 30, '09
STAY HOME (AND MAYBE GET A LOT SICKER)? Or GET MEDICAL HELP FIRST, AND FOLLOW THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE ABOUT GOING HOME ETC?
Apr 30, '09
GOP RESPONSE TO BIRD FLU
Blame the swine flu pandemic as a "wrath of God" for gay marriages.
Lobby for prayers in schools to help appease God.
Back the anti-gun control lobby arguing that guns will be needed to cull pigs.
Have the CIA waterboard pig farmers in Kansas and Iowa.
Deny the swine flu pandemic (along with global warming and evolution).
Blame the "MSM" for scaremongering. Listen to Faux News "experts" like Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage, as well as Rush Limbaugh (the pig).
Lobby for more tax cuts for the rich as "free market solutions" to the swine flu pandemic.
Have Dick Cheney and Harry Whittington go off on a swine-hunt.
Get Sarah Palin to shoot some pigs from a helicopter.
Declare Mexico a "terrorist state"; start another Gulf War (i.e. gulf of Mexico).
Apr 30, '09
i'm scared
May 1, '09
i'm scared from: news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25410752-25717,00.html Flu hysteria unmasked Andrew Bolt May 01, 2009 12:00am GOD, save us! We're all going to die all over again, and from yet another foreign virus.
"We could have a billion people dying worldwide," warns the US National Centre for Disaster Preparedness.
Oops, I misread my notes. That claim was actually from the great bird flu scare of 2005, which in the end killed just 257 people.
"Apocalypse bug!" cries CNN. "Killer virus," howls a Newsweek cover.
Oops again. Those headlines are actually from the great Ebola scare of 1995, which actually killed just 800 people, all in Africa.
No, the killer virus stalking us this time is swine flu.
So here's the swine flu warning from the US Health, Education and Welfare Department: "The projections are that the virus will kill one million Americans."
Damn. Wrong again. That headline is, in fact, from the great swine flu scare of 1976, during which just one American died from the virus, but another 33 from the vaccinations the US Government ordered in its Do Something panic.
It's so often the same scary story now, isn't it? Remember the great bird flu scare of 1997, with headlines such as "Race to prevent world epidemic"? Just six dead.
Remember the great SARS scare of 2003, which the BBC warned "could have a similar impact to the 1918 flu epidemic that killed 50 million"? Fewer than 1000 dead, most in poorer Asian countries with even poorer health care.
Now here we go again, once more frightening ourselves half to death - sicker from the scare than the disease.
<h2>Just eight people are confirmed dead from the latest outbreak of swine flu - seven in Mexico and a toddler in the US, who now seems to have had other medical conditions as well.</h2>read the rest of the story at the link above
May 1, '09
omgee! theyre talking about closing school if there are any cases aroung us. i live in cottage grove, and im only a freshman in highschool! i dont wanna miss school. so those like doctor people need to stop freakin everyone out! theres WAY to much media attention for this, its just a new strainof the flu. it stupid.
May 1, '09
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May 1, '09
Wolf! WOLLLLLFFFFFFF!!!!! AIEEEEE!!!!
/rolls eyes/
Common sense is good. Panic, not so much. However, I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that PSU isn't bothering to keep a number of their bathrooms stocked up on hand soap. Great time to be parsimonious, eh?
May 1, '09
Posted by: DH | Apr 30, 2009 4:02:59 PM
Schools with high Latino populations are now getting phone calls from parents saying they are keeping their children home from school so that they are not exposed to the virus from Mexican children.Who live here. Unbelievable. For that kind of irrationality, I am afraid there is no cure.
Yes, they can't think logically. Equally stupid is the way the left always thinks there's nothing whatsoever to their fears. Come on. People are lazy. If they bother to care about something, there's a reason. In this case, I would point to the WHO statement, that the etiology would have been very unlikely "in any country other than Mexico". Translation: they live dirtier than anyone in the world. Yes, the dumb American may misprocess the data, but it's not complete fantasy. I don't much care, except that this is a good illustration of something that is common to most news items.
And why do Mexicans live that way? A language that allows for little personal responsibility, coupled with a religion that promotes the notion that it is fundamentally evil to not leave child bearing to chance. Here, we subsidize the religion and the children thereof. How dumb is that? I mean, it's not like Mexicans don't know that. It's against the law to wear a Roman collar in public. They know what the Catholic Church is doing to them.
Actually, those that call those coming across the border illegally "economic terrorists", can't complain. We've justified abrogating national sovereignty for years on the basis that neighboring countries condone the terror organization, no? We actively subsidize the Catholic Church. If it continues to terrorize the people of Mexico, why shouldn't they come here illegally to seek relief if we're going to support the Catholic Church? We're still in Afghanistan on that basis. The Taliban had zero to do with 9/11 or WOMD. They simply wouldn't turn over the Al-Quaeda there. Until we stop subsidizing dioceses that are saying they can't pay for legal judgments against them, for documented abuse, why shouldn't Mexicans consider US policy to be aiding and abetting factions which are causing chaos in their lives?
Generally, if you want to see where the spin vortex of a story is centered, look at Israel's comments. They have officially announced that they will not be calling it "swine flu", but the "Mexican flu". "We don't negotiate with terrorists or swine".
I'm serious. What can one do but celebrate what could have been?
May 1, '09
No, the killer virus stalking us this time is swine flu.
The killer stalking America is butt ignorance! It's endemic. Thrives in the native fraud and fuzzy spin of the English language. Requires very specific environmental parameters to survive. Take most the French words out of the language, and in German, or Dutch, the condition is virtually unknown. The Mexicans aren't producing the killer virus. The Normans brought it 1000 years ago and we are still vectoring it today. Our pandemic is nearly a reality.
May 2, '09
Gee so much hype here you guys are taking your eye off Al Gores promised apocalyptic flood in 80 years. Shame. The global whining boogeyman is gonna get ya......DO NOT FORGET IT OR YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
May 3, '09
Yeah, say it's just the flu when you get it but then they don't know how to treat it because you were unlucky enough to get one of the strands that they don't know how to treat yet. Don't forget history: So many people died when comin on The Oregon Trail. A lot of then died of the FLU because they couldn't treat it.
If you were to get a strand that they didn't know how to treat, then yeah, you're screwed like those people were. So keep tellin yourself it's just the FLU. They made a big deal of the bird flu too.
My point is that basically, it's as nasty as AIDS or Malaria at the moment because you might get a strand that is not recognizable or you might even get a bunch that they can't recognize. So yeah, go ahead and get something that they can't recognize and see if they'll find a treatment before you die. It's like playing a game of chicken with death, you're most likely gonna get screwed...
May 3, '09
Teddy? Strands they don't know how to treat? I've never vaccinated against the flu till recently. I'm old, fat, grey, less healthy than I should be. So I do.
Fact is, we don't "treat" the flu. It's a virus. We leave it alone and get through it.
However, as you mention, since it's a strain our bodies have never seen, and radically different enough and virulent enough to run a harsh challenge to our immune system, that makes it dangerous. Yes, if you get a flu shot, you may have some immunity or in the least a chance at a partially-activated immune system better-equipped to put up a good fight once the predator comes knocking... but we don't "treat" the flu really...
I'm noticing that you can't get a straight word out of the media, the President or anyone. Every hour it changes up - lots of cases, just a few; lots of deaths, well.... eight maybe; really really mean virus, ummm.. not so bad.
I've begun to hit delete on the swine flu updates sent by our director of research - they are meaningless, and even the best sourcing is unreliable at this point.
May 3, '09
Real Mexicunt has outdone him or herself. That was gibberish!
May 9, '09
One thing that gets me is though it is a fact that 30,000 people "suffered" it last year, 30,000 didn't die from it succumbed is the same thing as caught.