Comments on: What should worry you more than swine flu

By: Cathy Shey

Cathy Shey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:48:38 +0000

We should be thankful that the swine flu did not spread very rapidly. it is not very deadly like Ebola but swine flu can still kill you.

By: | Acne Treatments Asia

| Acne Treatments Asia — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:40:22 +0000

If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.

By: JunLee Arandia

JunLee Arandia — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:51:26 +0000

My brother got infected with H1N1 or Swine Flu in Mexico. He got a mild fever and luckily he did not die.

By: Michelle Reyes

Michelle Reyes — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:57:56 +0000

One of my sisters got infected with H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine Flu. Fortunately, she did not have very high fever and she was able to recover fast .
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By: Tim Patterson

Tim Patterson — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:26:53 +0000

Here’s a good feature in the NY Times about the impact of big U.S. pig farms in rural parts of Eastern Europe.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/business/global/06smithfield.html?ref=global-home

By: Tim Patterson

Tim Patterson — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:04:46 +0000

Right on, Mark, thanks for the clarification.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:42:25 +0000

Just to be clear – people don’t get used to or accustomed to antibiotics; the bugs do. When a drug is in the environment (be it a lake, the road, or a human being), the drug will kill all of the bugs that are sensitive to it. But if even one of those bacteria has a freak mutation that makes it able to survive – even barely – the exposure, that one bacteria will reproduce a whole colony all over again, except this time the drug won’t work on any of them, because they’ll *all* have that immunity.

So while I agree, using antibiotics (especially ones as potent as penicillin) on animals is setting ourselves up to breed superbugs, its important to be clear on whats going on.

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:49:24 +0000

Plenty of people are still prescribed Penicillin. From children to adults, Penicillin is still given, it hasn’t gone away. Amoxicillin is more popular, but is still in the Penicillin family.

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:46:26 +0000

My question that I have asked for so long how about the people who are allergic to these medications, what happens to these people?

I had a friend tell me she broke out after eating a chicken breast she bought at a market where she lives.

This is really not good.

By: Travellohr

Travellohr — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:44:59 +0000

Penicillin? Do they even given Penicillin to humans anymore? I think the medical community stopped because they feared we may become too tolerant to it. But we’re getting it anyway because we have to eat. And unlike the current flu thing, this unnecessarily innoculating animals isn’t going to go away so easily.