What has the Ukraine got?

[FluffyMcDeath]

Well, outside of the hottest Prime Minister in the known universe

they also seem to have a virulent lung busting virus.

H1N1 has been ruled out apparently - but it's early days yet.Is this the real flu we've been waiting for? Maybe something like the H5N1 (like what Baxter accidentally shipped to eastern Europe as virus seed stock for H1N1 vaccine)?

Maybe it''l burn itself out before anyone even figures out what it was (fast killing pathogens tend to be self limiting) or maybe it won't. Time will tell.

 

[Robert]

Scary stuff.

 

[Glaucus]

...and now a return to reality....

40,000 cases and only 100 hospitalized and only 30 deaths? We can safely rule out h5n1 as it has consistently tracked a 60% death rate, meaning there should be about 24000 deaths. The numbers in the article suggest something more like h1n1.

Also, the article mentions the non existent Ukrainian town of Lvov. It's actually Lviv. Gotta wonder about this article.... How do you find this stuff?

Meanwhile, other articles say it IS swine flu:
Ukraine's swine flu death toll rises to nearly 50 (Roundup)
President: 48 die of flu in Ukraine
Ukraine shuts schools, halts campaigning over H1N1

:roll:

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Re: ...and now a return to reality....

Maybe have to put that down to the over exuberance of early reports.

Sounds less severe by the next days news. No negative effect on the Prime Ministers hotness though.

Elsewhere I read that estimates for US cases is between 2 and 6 million infected so far with between 9 and 21 thousand hospitalized at some point.

So, between .6 to 2% of the population has already had the flu.

 

[Glaucus]

Re: ...and now a return to reality....

No negative effect on the Prime Ministers hotness though.

No argument there! :mrgreen:

 

[Speelgoedmannetje]

No Star Wars Leia jokes either?

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Re: ...and now a return to reality....

Also, the article mentions the non existent Ukrainian town of Lvov. It's actually Lviv.

It seems that Lvov (or L'vov) is the Russian spelling (when translated directly from the Cyrillic). Poland also uses the 'o' vowel.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

From the BBC