WHO declares swine flu a global pandemic

[caseysmom]

Actually the flu shot changes every year depending on what is circulating, there is no "normal" flu.

A family friend's whole family is quarantined for a week, one of the children has the swine flu, I see nothing to make jokes about.

[Hellow]

Actually the flu shot changes every year depending on what is circulating, there is no "normal" flu.

A family friend's whole family is quarantined for a week, one of the children has the swine flu, I see nothing to make jokes about.

Yes, thats true. The "normal" flu changes every year. I was referring to it in a general sense, basically what they make the flu shots off of. Although, really, there is no such thing as normal in the microscopic world.

The joke was intended for the media's coverage of the swine flu, how they love to blow things out of proportion and how people will believe what they say without fail. AIDS, rhino virus, many many other viruses are more widespread than the swine flu. I dont understand the WHO's actions apart from it being a rather new virus to show up.

[pomtzu]

Check your PM - Reggie

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Gosh, I hadn't even heard anything on the news lately about the swine flu. I thought it was subsiding!

By the way, what is the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic? Just wondering.