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[irons_4_ever]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8099832.stm

to be expected and sadly i think the death toll will keep rising, the country don't seem to be doing alot to try and contain it, i see some country's going to crazy measures and then us doing bugger all, shut a school now and then.

[stonemonkey]

"The patient had underlying health conditions."

The statement added that, at the family's request, no further details will be released.

Well, that's useful for anyone with the same health condition to know.

[McLaren Fan]

I think the government have done a good job of containing it. It would be an insane overreaction to take similar steps as seen in Mexico.

The person who died had an underlying health condition, so I don't think their death is anything to worry about. Moreover, normal seasonal flu kills thousands each year in the UK alone, so I don't think we need to worry about one death from an already ill person out of a thousand or so cases.

[Jensonb]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8099832.stm

to be expected and sadly i think the death toll will keep rising, the country don't seem to be doing alot to try and contain it, i see some country's going to crazy measures and then us doing bugger all, shut a school now and then.

But, on the other hand, H1N1 is no more deadly than the conventional Flus which strike this country through the winter, in fact in many cases it is more benign than those flus. So I think we'll be fine.

[bud]

But, on the other hand, H1N1 is no more deadly than the conventional Flus which strike this country through the winter, in fact in many cases it is more benign than those flus. So I think we'll be fine.

media hype over nothing!

[Hanwombat]

No different to regular flu, thousands die from flu every year

[irons_4_ever]

she was only pregnant,

[irons_4_ever]

the baby has now died how tragic

[irons_4_ever]

Plan to vaccinate whole UK for flu

Health chiefs are preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu.

In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent.

It comes after the first British patient without underlying health problems died from the disease, taking the number of swine flu-linked deaths in the UK to 15.

Peter Holden, the British Medical Association's lead negotiator on swine flu, told The Sunday Times: "The high risk groups will be done at GPs' surgeries.

"People are still making decisions over this, but we want to get cracking before we get a second wave, which is traditionally far more virulent."

He added: "If the virus does (mutate), it can get a lot more nasty, and the idea is to give people immunity. But the sheer logistics of dealing with 60 million people can't be underestimated."

The latest swine flu-linked death happened at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NHS East of England.

Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson warned on Saturday that other healthy people were at risk of dying from the disease.

He said: "As with all flu-like viruses, some people are at higher risk than others. Unfortunately, people who are otherwise healthy could also become seriously ill or, sadly, die."

But Sir Liam added: "Fortunately, this particular new virus isn't nearly as severe as it could have been. If it had, for example, come out of the bird flu variant it would have been producing much higher levels of mortality."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090712/tu ... 23e80.html

well that's one way to create panic

[Hanwombat]

I dont do injections

[cap-dude]

Nor do I.
Besides, your more likely to die from a million other things right now.

But, global warming, recession, swine flu, crap government. Geez, we need some good news.

[7UpJordan]

Nor do I.
Besides, your more likely to die from a million other things right now.

But, global warming, recession, swine flu, crap government. Geez, we need some good news.

This is why I never watch the news, all it is is "credit crunch, someone's died, swine flu, terrorism, scandal this, recession that, we're all going to die, global warming this, let's report one somebody who died 25 years ago like it only just happened today."

They might as well rename it the Bad News.

[Jamie]

My Mum said there's rumors of one of her Kid's to have it. (she's a teacher)

[headless]

Afew people very near to where I live have it aparently, also a couple of kids.

1 healthy person has died of it in UK now.

[Jamie]

I thought there was a cure?