don't panic, but "SWINE FLU COULD SPREAD GLOBALLY"

kidding

Official soundtrackers to the 2009 swine-flu pandemic:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3186/2576714064_2e479b9771.jpg?v=0

http://www.frightcatalog.com/i/360x360/1217003.jpg

how about this?

I have brainiac in my head now.

Anyone read/know how long the disease takes to begin showing symptoms in someone? I read that the first cases in Mexico were reported in March. Does that mean it's likely that the infected people got the virus in March, or perhaps February?

u hav pork flu and r going to die sry

Dr. Icey over here

Last night my Mom got on the phone and said, "We should probably just kill all Mexicans. That would solve a lot of problems at once." Me = o_O

Is that a pic of Pig Destroyer, Grimly?

The band he posted? That's Clinic, I think.

ok wth erica

I KNOW!!!!

Jesus that sounds like something my dad would say (ie it is appalling).

think of the tacos ma

Or my dad. Or my mom. Do we all secretly have the same parents? Do any of your parents make unexpected visits to Missouri occasionally?

my mum merely wants facemasks, i don't think she has anything against Mexicans

i ain't being seen dead in one of those things fwiw

(facemasks, not Mexicans)

HAA

in asia u see people wearing these things* all the time when they hav colds to protect others - thats called consideration - think abt it rest of world

*facemasks, not mexicans

This reminds me of how we were all supposed to die of SARS a few years ago, then MRSA, then bird flu.... Oh yeah, smallpox was in there somewhere. And anthrax.

Smallpox was never in there.

ps a significant number of people did die from those things

people are still dying from MRSA in particular

yeah, mrsa is actually a huge problem, ~Bill~

dudes be cool to bill he has pork virus and is going to die

Uh yeah MRSA is a big serious deal and anyone who is wanton and shortsighted with their antibiotics gives me an Alex-in-NYC-level rage-on.

my mom likes mexicans

so my trip to San Miguel the first week of June might be last trip ever : /
later dudes

upon arrival u will cough up a blt and expire

x-posts Yeah, my Mom is sort of a not so great person in many ways. Dislike of Mexicans just tip of the iceberg really. Your mom most likely > mine.

sorry sorry poor judgement it makes it look like i am referring to mexicans as "things" ;_; when in fact i mean no such inference, bleh foot-in-mouth disease

lol remember the foot and mouth disease farrago, they executed so much goddamn livestock :(

my micro prof has been hammering home this whole semester that wtf docs anytime anyone's got anything with the potential for resistanc you should treat with multiple antibiotics

My friend, her experience with MRSA was so bad she attempted suicide to try and get over it. And she still has outbreaks every now and then. It's wicked shitty.

abbott i forget what are you studying??

hoos is mexican

just wash the pork chop off w/antibiotic soap and u should be fine

gbx is your prof repping for throwing broad spectrum at everything or against it?

I am studying biology; want to be an epidemiologist.

Is MRSA such a huge deal in the US as here?

hoos is dying of swine flu because ericas mom killed him

!!!!

i <3 u, that is what i'd like to study (if i get an MD/MPH)

not throwing broad spectrum, but multiple antibiotics. multiple antibiotics (even if it's known that the bug responds to just one) doesn't impose the same kind of selection pressure: a given bug would have to develop/harbor resistance to, say, three different drugs instead of just one.

mrsa is a nightmare as far as nosocomial infections are concerned.

guys do we have to quarantine hoos to 1p3???

*whew,* okay

We should start our own Dragnet, you & me, of epidemiology good time funventures. I'm just going for an MPH.

Oh no! Hoos to thread to check-in and verify this is not true pls.

i was going to have quesadillas for dinner tonight :/

rip hoos, he was mexican not a facemask btw

Verify he's not a Mexican?

n/a make "spanish" quesadillas--you should be ok

Can I hang out w/ the epidemiological duo just because I find it fascinating even though I might not know much?

mostly i am interested in spatial epi/medical ecology, but i need to find someone here who will let me study that w/them. also, which dept??? eco, mph, or geography???