The title of this post brings me back to the comment I wrote in my profile page when I started this blog back in November last year. Yet it ha never been so relevant as it is today. First with the credit crunch and now with this swine flu outbreak. Confirmed cases are being reported from several continents throughout the world which have so far killed 160 people in Mexico and 1 in America.
Has anyone ever heard of swine flu before? I certainly haven"t. Will it be as bad as a Survivors type pandemic? (from the BBCTV series of the same name}. This is highly unlikely because, according to reports, the swine flu virus is easy to dissinfect. Even washing up liquid aparrently kills the virus if it"s used to wipe contaminated surfaces. The problem starts when humans catch it. Like ordinary colds or flu, it can be spread just by someone sneazing without a tissue. Face masks are being produced in their millions but according to TV doctor Dr. Hilary Jones, face masks only give limited protection. In a recent TV inteview he said that as you breathe into the mask, it becomes moist within a few hours making them porous which allows particles to get in. Only people such as health professionals who come into contact with lots of people will need to use them. -- more on this topic later:
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