++++ WHATS UP WITH THE UK BOARD ++++

[**cupie**]

Hi Tommy  37 dead in Australia.... there's a lot to be said for being anti social at the moment.

[*CountessA*]

There's a lot to be said for not associating with pigs.

[tommy.irene]

And you have to keep away from birds.. what happened to bird flu..did the pigs eat the birds

[tommy.irene]

Just seen my last post was a snipe..252..  am away to UK

[*FluffyDuckee*]

G'day Tommy. 


Bird flu, Pig flu.....  what next.... 


Horse flu?  (Sorry Brumby)

[Roo]

Horse flu was around not that long ago Fluffy....I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there isn't a Mouse Flu around the corner.

My days would be numbered!

[Poddy]

i thuink the next epidemic of flue should be dolphin flu.

That might get dolphins back to the status that they were before someone went all out to make them what they are now 

[tommy.irene]

Its 8am goodmornin to you all

[**cupie**]

Morning tommy

[*Ubbie Max*]

Evening all.
 

[*Ubbie Max*]

Oh, & good morning Tommy
 

[*Yibida*]

Yo Tommy !!...  { Ubbrd..had to toss out mi tartare sauce thanks to you! }

[tommy.irene]

Hi  Yibida and Ubbrd good to see you its 5.45pm in uk...and there is 100,000 cases of Swine Flu in UK..31 dead... its spreading very fast

[Poddy]

  I'm glad I dont go anywhere where are a lot of people gathering.

i want to stick around for some more years at least

[tommy.irene]

The figure for England is double the total of the previous week.

Some 840 people are described as being "seriously ill" in hospital with the illness - and 63 people are being treated in intensive care.

The death toll in the UK stands at 31, but that is likely to climb when the Department of Health releases its weekly update online later.

The shocking new figures come as the National Pandemic Flu Service opened across England, allowing people who think they have the H1N1 virus to bypass the NHS to obtain antiviral drugs.

The new phone hotline and website service use a checklist to diagnose cases and has been designed to relieve the pressure on the health service.



 
Swine Flu: Health Q & A
What is it? Could I catch it?
Your questions answered.



Visitors to the Government website are asked fill in a detailed questionnaire before being given a positive or negative swine flu diagnosis.

Call centre staff manning the telephone hotline - 0800 1513 100 - will use the same algorithm. They are expecting to field up to 200,000 queries a day.

If a caller is confirmed to have swine flu they will be given an authorisation number, which their designated "flu friend" can use to pick up antiviral drugs from the local collection point.

Over 2,000 staff have been recruited and given six-hour long training sessions before they start work. They are not required to have any previous medical experience.

Some critics claim the "worried well" will abuse the DIY diagnosis to apply for medication unnecessarily.



 





Others fear swine flu symptoms could mask other serious illnesses, like meningitis.

Seventeen-year-old Gemma Drury, from Chesterfield, was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus by two separate doctors.

She was in fact suffering from meningitis and is now recovering in hospital.

Her father Kevin told Sky News: "If two doctors could get it wrong with Gemma, what hope would someone on the end of the phone with no medical training have?

"It's not the right way to make a diagnosis."

The Department of Health insists the service is simply a way for people to get access to Tamiflu and other antiviral drugs quickly.

Anyone displaying unusual symptoms will still be advised to contact a medical professional.


 


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This was all I needed, I've just spent four long years getting over SARS and now I catch this.

Typical.

Posted By :Mr. Unlucky Report This
People of my generation remember the Asian Flu epidemic.
The government of the time raised a campaign of awarenes with the slogan "coughs and sneeezes spread diseases - trap your germs in a handkerchief"

We should do the same again but with an one the spot fine for anyone sneezing in a public place without using a handkerchief. This would dramatically cut down the spread of the infection.

Posted By :terry colman Report This
I'd make a valid comment if I could but I think I've got swine flu so I'm off to get some drugs.
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People like you, Andrew, are as bad as the tabloids and press in scare-mongering this.

Jesus. Most of us probably won't get it. I've never even had normal flu, and I don't see myself catching swine flu... unless the filthy vermin who catch my train to work carry on breathing all over me.

Posted By :Matthew McConaghy Report This
Interesting to see that shortly after the government launched it's 'Pandemic Flu Service', I logged on to get advice. Only to be told that the website was 'very busy' and to return at a later time.
That is just typical of our government. As always they have not allowed for such interest and anticipated that the website would be subject to such demand.

We should rename it the ' Pandamonium Flu Service'.

Posted By :John Bretherton Report This
All the people complaining about not getting a proper diagnosis should have a think about why it is being done this way!

If someone with Swine Flu walks into a doctors, usully full of pensioners, and it spreads, someone will die, if the doctor does a home visit, then carries the virus back to the doctors same problem.


I think it makes good sense to do it this way, if you haven't got swine flu and just normal flu, the tamiflu will only help!


Mexico should have been isolated as soon as it was caught, it could have been over and done with in two weeks! Now it will be atleast a year.

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[tommy.irene]

Hi poddy am away back to uk its 6.45pm in uk

[*CountessA*]

*setting watch to UK time*

Hello, Tommy!

[Poddy]

Good morning Contessa and Tommy,

[RiffRaff]

Countessa UHM.

[*CountessA*]

Thank you, Riff - checking involved.

[*marlee*170681]

<a href="http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Lynnie_43/?action=view&current=6April-DameEdna.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Lynnie_43/6April-DameEdna.gif" border="0" alt="Hello Possums">[/url]

Hello Possums!

Loves yer hat Tommy xxxx

Hi to ye all...can't stay long...gotta do stuff.

Catch up with ye later xxxx

 

[**cupie**]

I think ya piccy when poof possum....here have this one

[*CountessA*]

*waves hello to Lynn*

Lovely to see you drop in. You'll need to stay longer next time so that the kettle has time to boil!

[**cupie**]

Hi Lynn whenever you want to post a pic....use the direct link on PB....and just below the italics symbol when you're posting is a small framed box...click on that and paste the direct link between the img bits in between the brackets

[*FluffyDuckee*]

Afternoon Cupie, Tommy, Lynn, Countessa. 

And should Yib be lurking around and hiding in the curtains, - no I have NOT just gotten up!!  Was up quite (well kinda) early and even been out.

[**cupie**]

HI fluffee....I guess Lynn was doing the speed visit...like speed dating but even faster.

[tommy.irene]

Goodmorning all you nice people..its8.30am in uk..

[**cupie**]

Hi Tommy...I see the UK thread is getting some action...lol.  

[*marlee*170681]

Hi Lynn whenever you want to post a pic....use the direct link on PB....and just below the italics symbol when you're posting is a small framed box...click on that and paste the direct link between the img bits in between the brackets

(copies Cupie's instructions to see if I can do it)




Hope that worked!

I'm always doing stuff at 100 mph...not on speed, just normal for me.

Should try to follow me around the supermarket!

Have me shopping list written out according to aisles in Woolies...grab a trolley, then make a run for it...chuck stuff in from the left, chuck stuff in from the right...knock a few people over (they shouldn't be in me way)...and I'm at checkout before ye can say:

"Bob's yer Uncle".  (never did have an uncle called Bob)

[*wheels*]

Hi Tommy, TGIF afternoon here!

[*wheels*]

Hi Lynn,

or you can just copy and paste the IMG link directly from Photobucket without using the forum menu 

[*marlee*170681]

Hiya Wheels...I live in Cairns, and tis almost time to lock meself in for the night.

Glad me piccy turned out up there (ta Cupie).

[**cupie**]

Sounds like tourist season in our local supermarket.....zoom.....I see my instructions worked?  Luvs the gif...consider it lifted...hehehehe....

.....you don't think I missed this did ya?.....Yibida is our resident gif wobber.....watch out...they crop up everywhere when you least expect it.

[*barny*]

Sounds like tourist season in our local supermarket

Why is it called tourist season, when I'm not allowed to shoot the suckers ??

 

[*marlee*170681]

SNAP! Wheels...our paths just crossed!

[**cupie**]

LMAO...I'd like to see that barney, but I don't think they let us shoot the tourists...maybe in Montello though????.......can my pet monkey join in?  I call him chopper chimp.  Hit monkey....hehehe

[*marlee*170681]

Ye nicked me "Ms Moonee Ponds" ???

*runs around lookin for some gladdies to pick*

[**cupie**]

I thought you nicked it from me...with the the apostrophe infraction for Sir Arfur.......Here have this one....You know Sir Les...he's minister for the Yarts.......you can see why...look at how well waxed those legs are eh?

[*marlee*170681]

Booger! Got lost in PB, and me browser had a "hissy fit".

Anyway, time for me to have me supper, then watch Friday Night Footy.

Until tomorra...think about this:-

[**cupie**]

See ya tomorrow lynn  

[*CountessA*]

All Points Bulletin

Apostrophes on the loose; armed and dangerous. If seen, do not apprehend - repeat, do not apprehend. Suspects are considered extremely dangerous. Call for backup and wait for the Colon-el to arrive...

I know. That was ... bad.

[tommy.irene]

Just called in for a 10 minute tea break 1.45 pm here in uk

[*FluffyDuckee*]

*Waves to Tommy*

Did ya have a biccie with your cup of tea Tommy?

[tommy.irene]

160 Children in quarantine who had not sought help from the Foreign Office.
It comes as experts said children under the age of 14 have become 'super-spreaders' of the virus, leaving England battling a raging epidemic.

 Prepared: Masked Italian students arrive at Stansted as news breaks that swine flu cases in England doubles in a week to 100,000
The number of swine flu cases has doubled in a week to 100,000 with most of the new cases among children below 14 years old, according to officials.
A third of those who have died from the virus have been under 15 and 20 per cent of those who have ended up in hospital were under the age of five.
The NHS is now planning for up to 65,000 deaths from swine flu, with 30 per cent of the population - and 50 per cent of children - catching the infection.
Meanwhile, a British family on holiday in Bodrum, Turkey, have been put in quarantine in hospital after a six-year-old boy was diagnosed with the virus.
The child, who has not been named, was spotted after thermal cameras showed he was extraordinarily hot and tests later found he had swine flu.

Head doctor at the 75th State Hospital Dr Levent Ozbek said: 'After further investigations and treatment, the family will be our guests in the hospital where all necessary treatment is given to the patients.'
The Health Protection Agency yesterday said for the first time that the disease was probably at epidemic levels - or one in 500 people reporting flu-like illness.

It makes it the most virulent flu outbreak since the winter of 1999/2000, when 21,000 lost their lives.

Officials have also warned that a third of those who have died so far had no serious underlying health problems.

Such is the level of concern that the new National Flu Pandemic Service website crashed within minutes of going live after receiving 2,600 hits a second, or 9.3million an hour.

The dramatic news emerged as:

Universities warned campuses may have to close in the autumn if the epidemic gets worse;

GPs started to cancel summer holidays to deal with extra cases and call in temporary staff to cover for sick colleagues;

Small businesses appealed for extra help over fears they would be driven to the wall through absences and swine flu sickies.

 Alarm: Workers at one of the 19 National Pandemic Flu Service call centres answer calls from people concerned about swine flu

[*CountessA*]

It's terrifying - something that started out looking like a media exaggeration is shaping up to be utterly horrific.

Anyone who's got 'flu-like symptoms, please take it seriously.

[*marlee*170681]

Hiya Folks...Tommy is on his way as I type.

Bit busy on the UK board at the mo, but rush hour should be over shortly.

Hope ye all had a great Saturday (I did)...nice & wintry in Cairns today, so I fertilised me garden.

Saturday 25 July
Weather should be fine today.
Possibly a few clouds in the morning.
The Great Barrier Reef is calling!
Low 17 °C   High 27 °C

[tommy.irene]

Goodmorning its 8.30am in uk...and Ireland is havein a nice sunny day

[tommy.irene]

Hi Lynn your spaceship got here before me..ha..ha

[tommy.irene]

Am trying the change colour

[tommy.irene]

Well that didnt work