Swine Flu parties??

[lizardking]

Just read this on the beeb website....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8125191.stm

[[AJ]]

I see the method in their madness. Still madness though!

[Carfiend]

Edward Jenner is having a good laugh with Charles Darwin about this one.

[GilbertGrape]

Carfiend said:

Edward Jenner is having a good laugh with Charles Darwin about this one.

Afterlife?

[Elskeggso]

Didn't people used to do a similar thing with chicken pox?

[Tiggsy]

a bit selfish.....but hardly darwin like. No one (healthy) is dead from the flu!

[grumbledoak]

Elskeggso said:

Didn't people used to do a similar thing with chicken pox?

But, chicken pox isn't fatal, and it is much, much better than shingles.

[Carfiend]

GilbertGrape said:

Carfiend said:

Edward Jenner is having a good laugh with Charles Darwin about this one.

Afterlife?

Well what else is going to be going on when you stick people in the ground? It must be very dull for them.

[DrTre]

grumbledoak said:

Elskeggso said:

Didn't people used to do a similar thing with chicken pox?

But, chicken pox isn't fatal, and it is much, much better than shingles.

But you get shingles AFTER you've had chicken pox.

[eddie1980]

But you get shingles AFTER you've had chicken pox.
[/quote]

Absolutely its a resurgence of the chicken pox virus.

[Ry_B]

Good thinking...but from waht I've read heathly people survive, no healthy people (without other issues/complications) have died so far (not reported anyway) so if we all get it, most younguns should live as far as im aware.

[Mr Will]

grumbledoak said:

Elskeggso said:

Didn't people used to do a similar thing with chicken pox?

But, chicken pox isn't fatal, and it is much, much better than shingles.

Chickenpox can be fatal, from what I have read it kills about 20 people in the UK every year.

[elster]

Seems a fairly god idea to get Swineflu in its earlier strains to create immunity to later strains.

[DrTre]

elster said:

Seems a fairly god idea to get Swineflu in its earlier strains to create immunity to later strains.

Indeed it does, I've done my bit and notified the PH staff of the breaking news.

Edited by DrTre on Tuesday 30th June 15:40

[IainT]

Off to Mexico in 4 weeks time... just been told that on retuen I'm not allowed back into the office for a week. Bonus!

[grumbledoak]

DrTre said:

But you get shingles AFTER you've had chicken pox.

If you are 'lucky' enough to skip Herpes Zoster as a child, your first adult outbreak will not be the relatively mild childhood form. You don't have to have chicken pox first, though most of us do get it as kids.

[DrTre]

grumbledoak said:

If you are 'lucky' enough to skip Herpes Zoster as a child, your first adult outbreak will not be the relatively mild childhood form. You don't have to have chicken pox first, though most of us do get it as kids.

I understood what you wrote to mean that if you contract CP as a child, you won't get shingles....the converse is true: You only get shingles if you've had CP.

[Tokar]

The damned virus will probably mutate a fair bit before it becomes a real killer. Those that have had swine flu already may not necessarily be immune when this happens, the virus could pick up a more "standard" hyper virulent coat proteins from a less lethal but still "standard" flu strain...then we are all buggered.

Sorry for technoblabble (I am a mad scientist!)

[Hairspray]

Found out today that someone at our school is off with Swine Flu. So they sent a letter home. I'm betting a load of parents will not be letting their kids come in tomorrow....

[Lucie W]

http://www.medicineonline.com/news/12/1875/POZ-par...

swine flu parties sound infinitely more appealing...