Are you afraid of disease?

A lot of people are afraid an international crisis.  They believe that in the future a pandemic will kills millions of people all at once.  With millions and millions of deaths everything will change.  No one will be able to buy food or medicine because international trade will dissappear.  Those who aren't killed by the pandemic will starve or die from fighting.

A lot of movies and books have been written about this subject.  My favorite is called 28 Days Later about a guy who wakes up in a hospital to find the city of London totally empty.  There was a virus that turned everyone into walking dead people (Zombies) who eat the living.  It's scary!

Many Americasn have prepared for a large pandemic.  They have enough food, fuel and water storage to survive for 1-5 years in their houses.  They even have things like 100 bottles of toothpaste!  They also have weapons to protect their families.  

Do you think you need to prepare for a pandemic?  Post your comments below by clicking "Comments".

Cayenna

swine flu

Swine influenza (also called swine flu, hog flu, pig flu and sometimes, the swine) is an infection by any one of several types of swine influenza virus. Swine influenza virus (SIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs.[2] As of 2009, the known SIV strains include influenza C and the subtypes of influenza A known as H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2, and H2N3.
Swine influenza virus is common throughout pig populations worldwide. Transmission of the virus from pigs to humans is not common and does not always lead to human influenza, often resulting only in the production of antibodies in the blood. If transmission does cause human influenza, it is called zoonotic swine flu. People with regular exposure to pigs are at increased risk of swine flu infection. The meat of an infected animal poses no risk of infection when properly cooked.
During the mid-20th century, identification of influenza subtypes became possible, allowing accurate diagnosis of transmission to humans. Since then, only 50 such transmissions have been confirmed. These strains of swine flu rarely pass from human to human. Symptoms of zoonotic swine flu in humans are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general, namely chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort.