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omg this stuff is really scary ecspessaly sence i have been sick for like a week now i thought i had the flu but a doc i seen (not my normal doc my insurance got messed up) at an urgent car place said it was strep and i was like "strep would make me hack my brains out and cough up a bunchof nasty stuff and make me sick to my stomche and give me a head ache ect." and she's like "its probly also an upper respitory infection" she gave me antibiotics and now my mom and lil sis are sick but she get a step test and it came back negative and an upper respoitoriy infection is not contages so i like to see her explain that one lol but hopefully my insurence will put me back with my reagular doc so i can tell her if i am not better but i am probly just over reacting buti am not to worried thati would have it i never go anywere i have social anxiety so i dont have to much human contact but i go to like walmart and small places and we live in OK so i dont think theres been any outbreaks here so far so o well lol hope it dosnt turn to empidemic that would be bad!!!
An upper respiratory infection is contagious... they include the common cold. If you do'nt have a bacterial infection, then the antibiotics are not going to help you. Antibiotics don't work against viruses.
The World Health Organization is very concerned right now. Mexico is closing museums and schools. The flu has so far killed 61 healthy young people — not babies or old folks — so it appears deadly.
All it take is one person flying out of Mexico on an airplane to somewhere in the U.S.
This is the important one to watch. If they have the Mexican swine flu, then it's going to go pandemic. It might turn out to be like the Spanish Flu of 1918, which is bad but not as catastrophic as if the bird flu went pandemic.
I've been thinking that maybe the economy would manage to make a partial recovery in a couple of years IF there were no other stressor ...... like nuclear terrorism ..... or a deadly pandemic ...... heh. Kinda looks like either could happen soon.
Remember too that such a flu could really do damage in the Middle East, etc.
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That is eerie to say the least---------------typically; influenza takes out either young kids or people my age on up, I am age 51.
That's actually typical of the most deadly epidemics such as SARS, bird flu, or the 1918 Spanish Flu (which this one most closely resembles, being h1n1 type).
What happens is that the virus turns the immune system against the person's own lung tissue, there's a desperate overblown attempt to defend against the virus so that the lungs get damaged, swell up and fill with fluid.
Young people with healthy, powerful immune systems are more likely to have this autoimmune reaction called a cytokine storm.
I suspect that the Mexico will take the brunt of it---------although; it may wreak havoc on Mexican immigrants-----------legal and/or illegal here.
Just out of curiosity, why do you think that it would affect Mexicans in the United States more than other people in the US? Or is that not what you are saying?
I think because its said to be human to human and the outbreak started in mexico. The more people in contract with those exposed the harder hit. Just as its said that two of the children in NY had been to mexico. In fact that is probaly why its hitting thoise 20 to40 the most;they work and have more contacts.
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