I’ve asked this in the infectious diseases section, but wanted to ask in the biology section too since there may be people who know more about influenza.
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Not to sound paranoid, but there are a few odd things about this virus that are emerging. The most alarming is that it appears to have genetic material from avian flu, human flu, and swine flu. Since flu viruses do not exchange genetic material during their reproductive cycle, how could this be a natural phenomenon?

The answer to that question is another question.
While a virus mutates all the time, there must be stages of milder versions around.
In the case that there are absolutely no mild versions of this virus around, then the chance is bigger that it may have been engineered.
If there are many mild versions around, then it is probably of natural origin.

So the question is: Are there many mild versions around and is there a killer mutation.

If the mild version and the killer version is the same virus that acts differently in different people so in the case there is no mutation, then with 100 deaths if there are 100.000 infected people around, you can call this a regular flu with less than 1% death rate.

If we have 200 people outside Mexico that got infected by just going there for a couple of days, then inside Mexico we must have at least a couple of million infected people. They are infected people we don’t know about because they just have a mild flu. Assuming there was no mutation, then 100 deaths is no issue and we just discovered a new flu by checking some death causes.
In this case it is probably not engineered.

Caution must be taken to rule out a killer mutation, and a new virus has the potential, and that is the hysteria you see in the media.

If some person get infected with swine flu by a swine and a human flu at the same time, then it can recombine in the human. I think it is also possible a swine got a human flu and a swine flu and the virus recombined in the swine. Note that the swine will not cover its nose when sneezing and spread the flu with other swines, infecting humans as well.

Ok I have the swine flu right now, bleh.

For everyone else that has had it, do you think it was any worse than the regular flu? I have had the regular flu twice and both times it was wayyy worse than the swine flu.

I totally agree. I had the regular flu a few times too, and it was HORRIBLE. I had the swine flu a couple wks ago and it wasn’t as bad. Mostly just body aches and nausea.

I would like to know where to get information on the Signs and Symptoms of Swine Flu H1N1 Virus.
Also, how to fight the Swine Flu and how to protect my family.

1. Symptoms:
The typical symptoms of swine flu are:
a sudden fever (a high body temperature of 38°C/100.4°F or above), and
a sudden cough.

You may also have:
headache,
tiredness,
chills,
aching muscles,
limb or joint pain,
diarrhea or stomach upset,
sore throat,
runny nose,
sneezing, or
loss of appetite.

2. How to protect your family:

The virus spreads from tiny droplets of water that are sprayed when you talk, cough, laugh, sneeze, or spit. The droplets spray about 3 feet (1 meter) in distance. They are not visible. You can be unknowingly exposed to the infected droplets if you are within 3 feet of an infected person. To avoid infection you can stop hand-shaking, kissing, avoid crowded spaces, and stay away from people who appear to be ill. Wash your hands often, don’t touch your face, get plenty of sleep, and eat heathy foods to otherwise boost your immune system.

my grandpa has colon cancer and i feel bad for him i just want to know if there is some kind of food or drink to prevent it plzz help

I am sure it depends how advanced it is.

In some cases removal of cancerous polyps are the end of it.
In many other cases it is much further along before it is found.

Eating a healthy diet for a lifetime would probably have gone a long way to preventing it. But now who knows.

If what you are looking for is a non-invasive answer, you might give these non-melanoma topical skin creams a consideration:

http://www.cymilium.com/SkinCancer.html

http://www.curaderm.net/technology/diseasestreatablenmc.aspx

I have to do a school project. it involves making a comic book with your treatment as your hero and the cancer as the bad guy. i cant think of a fairly new cancer treatment for my hero. my cancer is going to be lung cancer. so it has to be a new cancer treatment. but it also has to be old enough to be approved. please help!

Denise is correct. We have nothing effective against advanced stage lung carcinomas.
The best policy is prevention. Over 90% of them would not occur
IF PEOPLE WOULD NOT SMOKE CIGARETTES.
Over 31% of all cancer death can be attributed to cigarette smoking.
Is smoking cigarettes really necessary ? – Of course not.
It is simply another chemical addiction to nicotine that kills
more people each year than four years of World War Two.
Your comic book hero should be a person with a whip
who snaps the cigarettes out of the mouths of teenagers.

Operation is out of the question. Chemo will not work in the two spots it is in. This is not for myself.

If it is non-surgical, chemo and radiation is typically standard, and even that is spotty. Radiation alone practically does not offer a great prognosis, largely because most lung cancers are slow-growing and resistant to chemo/radiation because they are very slow-growing (thus similar to the body’s cells). The best thing to do is just not lose hope, because sometimes that’s all you have. My mom just had adenocarcinoma removed from her colon, and is currently going through chemo. I will keep your loved one in my thoughts and prayers.

Prostate cancer is a tumor of the prostate gland, part of the male reproductive system. The prostate cancer secretes part of semen that helps sperm survive. Women do not have prostates.

Prostate cancer usually grows very slowly compared to other cancers and takes a long time to learn to live outside the prostate. Many men (we know through autopsy studies) live out their lives and die from other causes, never even knowing they had prostate cancer. But others will be affected by prostate cancer, and need to be treated. That’s the conundrum in the science today–trying to figure out who needs to be treated and who can be left alone.

Prostate cancer CAN be cured, and IS cured all the time. It is one of the most curable when caught early. There is nearly a 100% cure rates when the cancer is contained within the prostate itself.

Early on, there are no symptoms. When symptoms manifest themselves (urinary trouble, pain) the cancer is usually advanced and incurable. Also, benign conditions can cause urinary symptoms. This is why it’s important to have a regular PSA and digital rectal exam starting at age 40.

Prostate cancer is caused by genetic factors in at least some cases. It may not be possible to completely prevent all cases of prostate cancer, but a healthy diet (low in red meat, high in fruits and vegetables) as well as other healthy lifestyle habits may reduce the risk.

See: http://www.ehow.com/how_5275952_estimate-prostate-cancer-cure-odds.html

and:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5308649_prostate-cancer-treatment.html

as well as the Prostate Cancer Foundation at http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org

Research has shown that Chemo destroys cancer cells and healthy cells and seldom cures cancer – just extends life a little and does not always give a high quality of life. Radiation is not much better. Surgery has pros and cons. I have read about many alternative (natural) methods that have been used successfully in Europe and the Far EAst for years to actually stop and in many cases eliminate cancer.

I now someone using high PH water, and has suppressed his cancer.

He was stuck in a wheelchair or his bed in the summer of 2007, and when I saw him walking in June, I was really surprised. He is walking again normally, and doing his Ty Che, volunteering at the suicide center phone bank, and living a normal life again.

His website is htts://www.kangenpowerteam.com

Dr. Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for discovering that cancer can be killed when exposed to 8.0 PH enviroment, but will spread when exposed to less than 4.0 PH, cancer can spread and reproduce quickly.

This research was done after find out my friend was healthy again.

You might want to do a google search for Dr. Otto Warburg

Google Cure cancer with high PH therapy

Google Dave Perkins cancer cure – he lived another 7 years after his doctors said they could do nothing more for him, yet he lived until the age of 67.

How would you judge this person/scenario: Today, a scientist finds the cure to cancer, and tomorrow the same scientist goes out and commits a murder. Is the scientist a good person? Will the scientist go to heaven or hell?

Depends on who they murdered and whether it was justified. There are some people in the world who ought to be murdered, Osama bin Laden, for example.

Curing cancer, would it be a good thing? Think of all the pharmaceutical manufacturers and their workers who will be thrown out of work, all the oncologists and surgical nurses that will be out on the street, hungry and with no way to feed their children.