Swine Flu: A pandemic?

[AHadley]

Basically, Mexico is not a very nice place to be if you want a hospital to keep you alive.

[Feared_1]

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/02/siegel_swine_flu_h1n1/

[sabrebattletank]

http://doihaveswineflu.org/

[mrtwosheds]

They assure us you cannot catch it from eating pork. But pigs do catch it. In order to avoid catching it from people we are told to wash our hands...So how is it that Pork is safe? Do all the pigs scrub up nice and clean before they go to the slaughter house? What protects the cook from catching it from uncooked meat?
I sense a little lie here, I suspect commercial interests are being protected at any cost.

[bigbadbogie]

Because people aren't getting swine flu... they are getting a new form of influenza which is a combination of swine flu, bird flu and human flu genes.

I don't know why it is still known as swine flu. It should be known as Influenza A.

[squirrelof09]

It's going to go through as many name changes as the US war has gone through already.

[Feared_1]

They assure us you cannot catch it from eating pork. But pigs do catch it. In order to avoid catching it from people we are told to wash our hands...So how is it that Pork is safe? Do all the pigs scrub up nice and clean before they go to the slaughter house? What protects the cook from catching it from uncooked meat?
I sense a little lie here, I suspect commercial interests are being protected at any cost.

The virus is killed at 160 degrees (Fahrenheit). Unless you assume that's a lie too...

[sabrebattletank]

The virus is killed at 160 degrees (Fahrenheit). Unless you assume that's a lie too...

Can a non-living entity really be "killed?"

[bigbadbogie]

The virus is killed at 160 degrees (Fahrenheit). Unless you assume that's a lie too...

So anyone who takes a hot bath is cured?

[Feared_1]

Anyone who cooks their food can avoid it

Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160°F kills the swine flu virus as it does other bacteria and viruses.

[Nielk1]

They assure us you cannot catch it from eating pork. But pigs do catch it. In order to avoid catching it from people we are told to wash our hands...So how is it that Pork is safe? Do all the pigs scrub up nice and clean before they go to the slaughter house? What protects the cook from catching it from uncooked meat?
I sense a little lie here, I suspect commercial interests are being protected at any cost.

If we were to cook a human who had it and then eat them, we would not get it.

Can a non-living entity really be "killed?"

Because viruses are forms of life. It can be argued that we are viruses by our actions instead of classifying us by our makeup.

So anyone who takes a hot bath is cured?

Well, try that. See you in the burn ward.

http://www.cqcapd.state.ny.us/newsletter/estime.htm

Adult: If the temperature is 160 degrees Fahrenheit, it would take 1 second [to cause a third degree burn];

[bigbadbogie]

What if I were to sit in a huge oven on some heatproof object and I am cooked that way?

It would be frikkin hot, but it would kill the virus without causing any burns.

[Nielk1]

What if I were to sit in a huge oven on some heatproof object and I am cooked that way?

It would be frikkin hot, but it would kill the virus without causing any burns.

Hot air burns you, and if you shelled yourself from that hot air you wouldn't get hot.

[Steeveeo]

What if I were to sit in a huge oven on some heatproof object and I am cooked that way?

It would be frikkin hot, but it would kill the virus without causing any burns.

^Should learn the 3 types of cooking: Convection, Conduction, and Radiation.

[mrtwosheds]

My point was, that pigs are catching the mutated version from humans. So what is there to stop a cook from catching it from uncooked meat?
Nothing. I just see people telling us that we cannot catch it from their products, when they almost certainly have no idea if this is true or not.