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Do you have swine flu?

By Jill on 5.1.2009

Here’s how to find out.

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16 Responses

  1. 1
    preying mantis 5.1.2009 at 1:57 pm |

    Honoes!

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    Cara 5.1.2009 at 2:08 pm |

    Hahaha. This was basically me earlier this week. (I’ve since entirely calmed down, thank you very much.)

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    Manju 5.1.2009 at 2:10 pm |

    I always knew Jill was really Joe Biden.

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    Lianna 5.1.2009 at 2:20 pm |

    Another method:

    http://doihavepigflu.com/

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    GallingGalla 5.1.2009 at 2:28 pm |

    exACTly.

    swine flu is popping up just in time for racists to use it as another reason for racists to slander people with brown skin.

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    Kristen J. 5.1.2009 at 2:37 pm |

    I prefer Lianna’s answer…it comes with a prescription for bacon. Which is critical for combating swine flu.

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    Manju 5.1.2009 at 3:01 pm |

    Hmmm…Bacon. I like Bacon. Not Canadian Bacon. Real Bacon. Bacon at Lugers when the markets were soaring. Those were the days my friends, I thought they’d never end…

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2626214649_9578ee369b.jpg?v=0

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    anon 5.1.2009 at 3:06 pm |

    Oh christ. I posted a huge thing here and because it went away after the error message on no fields filled in, all i want to do right now is *scream*.

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    anon 5.1.2009 at 3:08 pm |

    Shorter version:

    Valid reasons for concern (no valid reasons to *panic*) Effect Measure.

    Valid reasons to never ever eat factory farm pork products ever again: SWINE Flu Is Now Politically Incorrect.

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    Holly 5.1.2009 at 6:14 pm |

    HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS I HAVE IT

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    Cara 5.1.2009 at 6:15 pm |

    OMG HOLLY HAS IT AND I BLOGGED NEXT TO HER WITHOUT A FACE MASK

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    drakyn 5.1.2009 at 6:56 pm |

    Don’t worry, if you move to Madagascar you’ll be safe.

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    Arkady 5.2.2009 at 11:54 am |

    My favourite pun so far has been ‘Parmageddon’, tho ‘Aporkalypse’ came close.

    On the serious side I’ll second that recommendation for Effect Measure, and add one for Aetiology: http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/ So far it looks as though it’ll be more like the 1968 outbreak than 1918, think of it as a particularly bad flu season where everyone (no immunity, whereas normal flu circulates in a population with a lot of resistant people) gets sick in a very short space of time, rather than the end of the world that the media keep going on about . Of course, we could also get very lucky and the containment of individual cases will stop the spread completely.

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    Lauren 5.2.2009 at 7:34 pm |

    Holly says:
    May 1st, 2009 at 6:14 pm – Edit

    HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS I HAVE IT

    Cara says:
    May 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pm – Edit

    OMG HOLLY HAS IT AND I BLOGGED NEXT TO HER WITHOUT A FACE MASK

    DYING.

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    engineering_physics_femme 5.2.2009 at 10:19 pm |

    I’m a little worried about it myself, only because there’s been a case at my university in my grade level, and I also got my wisdom teeth taken out a few days ago so my immune system probably isn’t up to snuff. I hope they cancel classes over it so I have some time to recover from my surgery.

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    Arkady 5.3.2009 at 6:27 pm |

    I also got my wisdom teeth taken out a few days ago so my immune system probably isn’t up to snuff.

    Um, unless you were given immunosuppressants or cortisone based drugs, your immune system should be fine. Injury-repair from a surgery doesn’t really involve the immune system much unless it gets infected. (heh, trust in the xenophobic little white-van-men circulating in your body, ready to beat up any foreigners that they meet. Sadly not my analogy, friend thought of it whilst studying immunology)

    (not a doctor, just a grad-student virologist with a bit of immunology background)

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