New H7N9 virus could pose global threat

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Slimebeast said:

curl-6 said:

Slimebeast said:

Enough of this alarmist nonsense already.

Ebola virus, SARS virus, swine flu and now a duck flu (again).

You can only cry wolf so many times.

You never know when its doing to be the real thing though. Better to be told when there's a possibility than to find out once a pandemic has begun that, "oh, hey guys, there's a pandemic already on the go. We could have maybe prevented it by warning people to stay away from country x when we first found out about it, but we didn't want to alarm you." Covering up an outbreak is never a good idea.

Did you already forget the swine flu mass hysteria?

Did you not notice the hyperbole in the article you quote?

"even more deadly", "Why experts are so worried", "it gets really worrisome", "more and more dangerous", "global concern", "particulary worrying", "severity and speed" "extremely resistant", "no vaccine".

That is mental rape. I want to vomit.

There's absolutely no proportions whatsoever in that article.

Oh I remember the Swine Flu hysteria alright, my dorm floor actually got quarantined because one of my neighbours got it. (We had to stay on the University campus for a certain number of days and report if we got sick) XD

We got lucky with that one, but if it had turned out to be worse, we would have been prepared, which is a good thing.

The article does use strong language, but that's par of the course in non-technical journalism. I didn't find any of it overpowering myself.

And its cool, I didn't take it personally. :)