Swine Flue outbreak in Mexico, US; 20 confirmed dead.

[The Larch]

Just heard on BBC that the European Commission is calling it "Novel Flu" or "Mexican Flu" in order to not depress pork sales.

US administration uses "Human H1N1" as official name instead of Swine flu arguing that it's misleading to add references to pigs, and Israel has been using "Mexican flu" since the beginning as well, because the ultra-orthodox Health minister didn't want any reference to pigs on its name.

It's argued that calling it "Swine flu" makes people thing pigs are a vector of infection, which is not the case. Some countries are slaughtering their entire pig livestock for fear of infection, which is, pun intended, pig-headed.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I've seen kobolds with better loot.

Where?  I need some more magical weapons. 

[Ed Anger]

I've seen kobolds with better loot.

Where?  I need some more magical weapons.

This is not a Monty Haul campaign. You will be grateful for 2 copper pieces and a ball of string. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

I've seen kobolds with better loot.

Where?  I need some more magical weapons.

This is not a Monty Haul campaign. You will be grateful for 2 copper pieces and a ball of string. 

That was about all we got last night.  Dark dwarves and some fire bats.  Cheap bastards. On the plus side I rolled a bunch of nat 20s.  Isn't this so much more uplifting than reading about the latest hysterical health scare from Big Pharma and the Liberal Media?!

[Ed Anger]

I've seen kobolds with better loot.

Where?  I need some more magical weapons.

This is not a Monty Haul campaign. You will be grateful for 2 copper pieces and a ball of string. 

That was about all we got last night.  Dark dwarves and some fire bats.  Cheap bastards. On the plus side I rolled a bunch of nat 20s.  Isn't this so much more uplifting than reading about the latest hysterical health scare from Big Pharma and the Liberal Media?!

We need clerics of Tyr to heal the Beaners.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I think Tyr has been killed off in the terrible Forgotten Realms 4th Ed.

[Ed Anger]

I think Tyr has been killed off in the terrible Forgotten Realms 4th Ed.

I bought the 4th ed player's handbook in anticipation of playing with my friends with that web based game service they was going to put out.

Months later, I got jack shit.

[saskganesh]

here, have a pile of rusty shortswords.

[KRonn]

I assume this has been going on in Mexico for some time. That has to be scary stuff. WHO officials now raised the worldwide outbreak to a level 5, one level short of being a pandemic.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30487509/

Mexico to shut down government in flu fight
Decision comes as the World Health Organization warns of pandemic


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/

WHO notches up swine flu pandemic alert
Global outbreak considered imminent; vaccine efforts will be ramped up

[Razgovory]

I think Tyr has been killed off in the terrible Forgotten Realms 4th Ed.

I thought it was a very similar god.  Helm.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Whatever. The Realms were crapped on in the new edition. 

[Neil]

Whatever. The Realms were crapped on in the new edition.

Indeed.  It's exactly the same shit they did to BattleTech.

"We're tired of having a rich backstory.  We want to jump on board the bandwagon du jour (WoW for 4e Realms, collectible miniatures for BattleTech), and we want to do all new things with the game world, but the backstory constrains us.  Well, fuck it.  Let's just blow up the universe and timejump a century."

Abominations.

[Neil]

I assume this has been going on in Mexico for some time. That has to be scary stuff. WHO officials now raised the worldwide outbreak to a level 5, one level short of being a pandemic.

In the meantime, Neil has raised the worldwide hysteria over something that's not really a big deal to level 10.  If you take the 'dem' out of 'pandemic', you get what this really is.  In fact, if you want to be really creative, you can kick the 'dem' out front, add a couple of letters and get a 'demos panic'.

[crazy canuck]

Does anyone know the last time we had a threat level of 5?  I heard some disease control type on the radio saying that the reason for the concern is that the Spanish Flu also started by being mild in the spring/summer but then as "flu season" arrived it turned very deadly.

They are concerned the same might happen with this given the fact that it is a new virius.

[Malthus]

Does anyone know the last time we had a threat level of 5?  I heard some disease control type on the radio saying that the reason for the concern is that the Spanish Flu also started by being mild in the spring/summer but then as "flu season" arrived it turned very deadly.

They are concerned the same might happen with this given the fact that it is a new virius.

I think that the "six stages" system developed by the WHO is relatively new and has not seen a pandemic since its development - I think this is the first time a phase 5 has occurred.