Swine, Bird & Human Flu combination Emerges.

[sillygirl]

Pah...here at the university we've got emergency meetings all over the place as our students drift back from abroad...8 cases here in UK now.

Where's me camo pants? Walkie-talkie? Spare pack of ciggies...I'm ready for a pandemic.

[Midwinter]

For better or worse, I went out today and did a little extra shopping. Dropped 10,000yen on assorted can goods and dry foods then boxed then up in the cupboard. I figure there's probably about a month worth of food there now, so all I really need are a few cartons of smokes and I'm set. The way I see it, if I don't need it then that's all well and good, but I'd rather have it stocked now than dealing with a ast minute panic in the unlikely event this escalates.

[CrankyBastard]

How fucking crazy, anyone knows a single sneeze can travel 50 meters or more.

[SIZE="3"]50[/SIZE] meters!!!!!:suspect:
Are you adding the distance covered by the aircraft?

[TennoChinko]

It starts with a fever ...

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[TFG]

Not per second, Cranky.

SHIT!!!

The woman in her twenties pulled off the plane last night does NOT have the New strain of Influenza.

But!!!!!!!!! Get this.

A High school kid that came back from Canada and arrived at Narita airport on April 25, who went to his school clubs in YOKOHAMA till yesterday, is suspected of having this New strain of Influenza and is in the Yokohama National hospital undergoing tests, the results of will be announced this evening.
This kid has interacted with students, teachers, eaten in restaurants and traveled on trains and buses, in and around Yokohama.

The kid came back from Vancouver on flight 017 arriving at Narita airport at 3pm on the 25th.

[CrankyBastard]

Not per second, you idiot.

No need for name calling.
I thought you were inferring that a single sneeze projected the virus a distance of 50 meters away. I guess you meant something different.

[TFG]

No need for name calling.
I thought you were inferring that a single sneeze projected the virus a distance of 50 meters away. I guess you meant something different.

That is exactly what I was inferring.

A sneeze can travel 50 meters, not in one go but air circulates and this has been proven.


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Sneeze powered travel has yet to catch on. This is at best an oversight and at worst a broad conspiricy by the car companies to prevent efficient new methods of travel from catching on.
Here you will learn how efficient it really is. The average sneeze produces 28.439 newtons of force, lasts for 1 second, and results in the expulsion of 4.17 liters of air. Air has a density of 1.3 grams per liter.

To reach a speed of 100 km/hr (62.137 miles/hr) requires a total of 15, 951.085 sneezes which result in the expulsion of 66.516 cubic meters of air. The total force produced by these sneezes is equivalent to firing 124.312 shots from a 12 gauge shotgun.
At a rate of 1 sneeze per second, this requires 15, 951.085 seconds.

http://mymindblewup.com/know/num/nexus?compType=1300&obj0=1103&var0=100

[L S]

I don't remember this happening during the Bird Flu global, deadly, mutated, zombie, necro, nuclear, pandemic in 2006.. Maybe I slept through it.

GJ

We were actually on a long bender together with the Captain during whole bird thing...don't you remember? Is that chandelier place still around in 'Buya? Those necro-mutants were hot.

[TFG]

I hate to admit this, Especially to Cranky Bastard but, you are correct.


The max distance droplets can travel from a sneeze is reported as 3.7 Meters.

Still, there is a difference in 3.7M and the 2M the Japanese authorities decided to draw the line at. Doesn't really matter anyway as it lingers in the air anyway and people walking through that space waft it much further.

[Greji]

I hate to admit this, Especially to Cranky Bastard but, you are correct.


The max distance droplets can travel from a sneeze is reported as 3.7 Meters.

Still, there is a difference in 3.7M and the 2M the Japanese authorities decided to draw the line at. Doesn't really matter anyway as it lingers in the air anyway and people walking through that space waft it much further.

I don't worry about it. I locked myself in the closet a week ago with canned goods, a port-a-potty and a couple of boxes of kleenex for that emergency wank. Call me when the plague scare is over.

[MeinJapanLongTime]

Not per second, Cranky.

SHIT!!!

The woman in her twenties pulled off the plane last night does NOT have the New strain of Influenza.

But!!!!!!!!! Get this.

A High school kid that came back from Canada and arrived at Narita airport on April 25, who went to his school clubs in YOKOHAMA till yesterday, is suspected of having this New strain of Influenza and is in the Yokohama National hospital undergoing tests, the results of will be announced this evening.
This kid has interacted with students, teachers, eaten in restaurants and traveled on trains and buses, in and around Yokohama.

The kid came back from Vancouver on flight 017 arriving at Narita airport at 3pm on the 25th.

NHK is reporting that the kid had an "A"-type influenze, but that is is a Russian strain, not the one they're worried about.

They also said a 4-month-old supposedly has it on Yokota AB. Waiting to hear something official about that one.

[Behan]

I don't worry about it. I locked myself in the closet a week ago with canned goods, a port-a-potty and a couple of boxes of kleenex for that emergency wank. Call me when the plague scare is over.

For me that would be paradise.

[MeinJapanLongTime]

NHK is reporting that the kid had an "A"-type influenze, but that is is a Russian strain, not the one they're worried about.

They also said a 4-month-old supposedly has it on Yokota AB. Waiting to hear something official about that one.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97TCL000&show_article=1&catnum=0

[quote]TOKYO, May 1 (AP) - (Kyodo)—]

[Iraira]

Had the men and women in yellow scan me for fever when I got back this morning. Figure that my lungs are so tarred up from cancer sticks, that no self-respecting, new trendy virus would be caught dead in such filthy alveoli. Nicotine also lessens Tourette's Symptoms, but I digress. Got scanned, released and my tortillas (corn, flour, whole wheat, and 7-grain) were all let into the country along with a 4-pack of Easy Mac.

[2triky]

Got scanned, released and my tortillas (corn, flour, whole wheat, and 7-grain) were all let into the country along with a 4-pack of Easy Mac.

Mission accomplished.

[Iraira]

Mission accomplished.

I did get scolded at LAX by the ANA check-in-chick as my bag weighed 23.15 kilos, and "the limit is 23 kilos". I apologized for buying a second box of Milk Duds at Target.

[2triky]

I did get scolded at LAX by the ANA check-in-chick as my bag weighed 23.15 kilos, and "the limit is 23 kilos". I apologized for buying a second box of Milk Duds at Target.

Haha...now that's bacon I can believe in...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Bacon? That looks more like gabagool to me.

[2triky]

Bacon? That looks more like gabagool to me.

I might have to concede that fact.

[Mulboyne]

Kyoto is handing out information pamphlets about swine flu to foreign tourists.

[TFG]

Swine flu has arrived in Japan.

Two school kids and a guy got off a plane at Narita after one of the kids coplained of a fever and the guy had a bad cough, then after they get them off a plane another thick kid who had not written anything about feeling ill on the health form suddenly announced he felt feverish, they checked them all and all 3 of them were type influenza A positive, later DNA test confirmed they have swine flu. Now, because of this stupid kid, 15 passengers who sat around this kid got to leave the airport and they can not find them and neither do they know they have a high risk of already being infected.

[Western All Stars]

I'm glad I don't have to ride the subway anymore.

[TFG]

Yeah, those subway trains are virus breeding grounds with all that stale air and heat.

So much for PM Asshole playing Winston Churchill with his, "We will stop it at the beaches". What a total prick. No wonder people are complaining about his plan to spend 150 Billion Yen on a cultural Manga Center. That Must be a contradiction of terms.

[Behan]

Both JR and Keisei have stations at Narita Airport with which to carry the virus to us.

[TFG]

They went to Osaka it is believed so, those on the Shinkansen are probably now infected and speeding their way around the country.

Couldn't do that in 1918 when Cranky bastard was around. LoL

[kusai Jijii]

Swine flu has arrived in Japan.

Two school kids and a guy got off a plane at Narita after one of the kids coplained of a fever and the guy had a bad cough, then after they get them off a plane another thick kid who had not written anything about feeling ill on the health form suddenly announced he felt feverish, they checked them all and all 3 of them were type influenza A positive, later DNA test confirmed they have swine flu. Now, because of this stupid kid, 15 passengers who sat around this kid got to leave the airport and they can not find them and neither do they know they have a high risk of already being infected.

Congrats! You just won the T.I.J. 2009 Award.

[Takechanpoo]

Now TFG cannot help becoming pleased with every single small misfortunes to Japan which this dude think made his life into mess and ruin.

[FG Lurker]

It's quite possibly beneficial to get infected with the current H1N1 strain. It isn't a particularly dangerous flu strain and getting infected now could provide immunity against later mutations.

[Iraira]

It's quite possibly beneficial to get infected with the current H1N1 strain. It isn't a particularly dangerous flu strain and getting infected now could provide immunity against later mutations.

Which is one potential reason why the virus doesn't seem to be bothering those over 60. More than likely those folks caught a "relative" of the new virus many years back.
Or, as with some respiratory diseases, they cause a disproportionate immune response in healthy individuals, so kids, codgers, and those with immune system deficiencies avoid the worst.

Anyway, swine flu party anyone?

[Greji]

so kids, codgers, and those with immune system deficiencies avoid the worst.

Anyway, swine flu party anyone?

Codgers invited?