PIGS.

swine flu.
i know, everyone is pretty much sick hearing these words.
okay well, well
yesterday at 2 pm or so
i was feeling so sleepy from all the lunch i consumed..
and i stumbled on channel news asia.
they had singapore's health minister talking about this flu
and it got me scared.
LIKE REAL SCARED.

first of all,
this flu is different from all the flu we usually have,
the avian flu, or even SARS..
because this type is more contagious than those other 2

second, a person can infect you,
even before he/she is showing symptoms.
so there really is no way to protecting yourself.
because you will never know if he/she is healthy or not,
even he/she may look healthy.
and even that, he/she will only start showing symptoms
TWENTY FOUR hour, after getting the virus. crazy right?

and third, in this state,
the flu is already eligible of human-to-human transmitting.
whereas avian flu wasn't.
and if this continues,
the virus HAVE A CHANCE to mutate themselves,
and therefore, more humans will die,
because we don't have a natural immunity to the virus.

oh and another thing, the kinds of flu doesn't stop to avian and pigs.
do you know what other kinds this world has?
horse flu AND dog flu.
*sigh*

in 2003, where SARS were all the rage.
i thought that i had it, and i thought my life will end in 10 days.
because i had breathing problems, and coughing aswell.
until the point that whenever i breath, it will have this weird sound.
and i said to my mother "i think i'm going to die."
so she took me to the doctor
and the doctor said i had this really, really bad throat inflammation.
hahahaha.
well anyway.
wash your hands kids :)

oh and p.s. WHO just up the pandemic alert already from level 4 to level 5.
they upgraded the number from 3 to 5 in a week.
and if you don't know already
the scale only goes to number 6
*eek*