By Here is a new stereotype I guess we can label ESL teachers in Korea with besides being dope smokers, you are also infected with diseases:
KBS is reporting that six American English teachers have been confirmed with the swine flu, and seven others who lived in the same housing are showing suspicious symptoms. Three Korean youngsters returning from New York are also showing suspicious symptoms.
The English teachers in question, recruited by a hagwon in Seoul, are believed to have been infected while they were undergoing training from May 18 to 22, acting as a team and living in the same place. Another seven teachers with high fevers and runny noses are undergoing tests. [Marmot's Hole]
The Marmot has more on this so click the link and check it out.
11:10 pm on July 13th, 2009 1
the use of face masks and boosting your immune system by taking lots of vitamin-C is still an effective way of preventing the spread of the Swine Flu virus.
2:02 pm on July 17th, 2009 2
i always advice my kids to wear face masks when going into crowded areas. swine flu is really scary and i dont want my kids getting infected by it.
4:22 pm on November 3rd, 2009 3
go to hell
Thank you very much everyone see you later~!
BYE BYE
10:46 pm on December 22nd, 2009 4
One of my sisters got infected with H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine Flu. Fortunately, she did not have very high fever and she was able to recover fast .
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5:47 pm on April 19th, 2010 5
We should be thankful that the swine flu did not spread very rapidly. it is not very deadly like Ebola but swine flu can still kill you.
6:31 pm on April 19th, 2010 6
Any flu can kill you. Swine flu was media hype and fear mongering at its best.
In 2005, influenza only appeared on the death certificates of 1,812 people in the US. The average annual US death toll from flu is, however, estimated to be 36,000.
^ Ellenberg, Jordan (2009-07-04). "Influenza Body Count". Slate. <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2218367/.” target=”_blank”>http://www.slate.com/id/2218367/.
With respect to the current swine flu pandemic, influenza surveillance information is available but almost no studies have attempted to estimate the total number of deaths attributable to swine flu. Two studies have been performed by the CDC, however; the most recent estimates that there were 9,820 deaths (range 7,070-13,930) attributable to swine flu from April to November the 14th.
^ "CDC Estimates of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths in the United States, April – December 12, 2009". H1N1 Flu. CDC. 2010-01-15. <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm” target=”_blank”>http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm
A total non-event. Oh yeah, the face masks were less than useless.
Yukihiro Nishiyama, professor of virology at Nagoya University's School of Medicine, commented that the masks are "better than nothing, but it's hard to completely block out an airborne virus since it can easily slip through the gaps". According to mask manufacturer 3M, masks will filter out particles in industrial settings, but "there are no established exposure limits for biological agents such as swine flu virus." However, despite the lack of evidence of effectiveness, the use of such masks is common in Asia.