I haven’t heard that interview but the secretary must be playing on the safe side. Health is a funny issue because you cannot spout conclusions all the time. The general rule is if there is a plausible mechanism, you don’t dismiss it unless you have good proof of otherwise.

SARS, avian flu, hepa. Just scares?! Hepa is not a scare of the past. We’re still grappling with these viruses despite the availability of vaccination programs, despite multiple regulations for sanitary conditions. SARS might have subsided but it’s not just luck that the Philippines were spared from a SARS epidemic.

influenza has always been primarily transmitted through droplet nuclei, a fact DOH heads will probably know as most (if not all) are MDs. I’m sorry… and what do you propose the DOH do instead of contact tracing?

I am beginning to think that all these are nothing but a haux. Remember the other scares in the past – the SARS, the avian flue, hepa, and so on?

Further, just today, I read from the column of a doctor from St. Lukes Medical Center that who heads the Institute for Communicable Diseases that this A(H1N1) is not airborne. It requires ‘droplet’ prevention so as not to contact the virus. And more.

But the way the health secretary puts it, anyone can be a suspect hence his new myth of ‘contact tracing’. At a later time, I will react to this kind of scare being perpetrated as probably just a haux.

… if the “more enlightened minds” take the opportunity to examine the stones that hit their windshields, they’d realize that it was thrown for a purpose… to wake y’all up from your fantasies and bring you back to reality…

… the little children remind that everyone is lost in distorted priorities…

and due to our unique geography, flu medicine need not be able to cover a lot of the population because flu outbreaks will probably be concentrated in certain regions only and not nationwide.

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you see fear mongering, i see health promotion. i also see an opportunity for people to finally learn to cough or sneaze into hankies or their sleeves. Ew… those who cover with bare hands or worse, let it out in the open.

They sure are still here waiting for the unseen opportunity to throw stones right in your windshield because that seems to be their cheap concerns.

Enlightened debate is not even allowed to proceed. Perhaps, DJB is correct – somehow bloggers must exercise self-imposed restraint if not comments that have nothing to do with the points discussed in the blog be subjected to ‘thought controls’.

… like swine flu, i travel thru web threads… exposing flips/flipflams goody-goody suckcesspool ooooopsie successful life (daw)…

… some reached their goals and lost their selves in the process… others are/were unfortunate, nevertheless, sampakan pa rin yabang… a malady which swine flu has no match…

Always, the easy way to seemingly win pseudo points, is ‘attack the messenger, not the message’. As I am wont to repeat, _____ nga kasi. San ba yan nagaral if I may use reyna elena here?