My dad works for the WHO (World Health Organization) and he's been doing investigative work on new flu strains ever since late last year. He's in Laos right now and his work takes him all around Southeast Asia. His team discovered a new strain of flu that looks like it's a combination of avian (bird) flu and swine flu. I'm too lazy to find the wikipedia page for "recombination" or whatever the process is called that makes the joining of strains possible.

Anyway, the reason I'm posting this blog is to give TL a scoop on what is sure to be a pretty big news story in the next couple weeks. What is going to make this so big is that the flu physically affects hosts structurally.

Basically aside from normal flu symptoms (in animals, "normal flu symptoms" usually means "death") this new strain makes some pretty weird changes to the structure of the body. My dad sent me some pics and I think you guys (and the press, eventually) will find them interesting. You huys will probably think the pics are interesting in an "oh cool" kind of way... the press will probably find them interesting in an "OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE HYPE HYPE HYPE" kind of way.

Hit the spoiler for the effect of the avian swine flu:
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vlaric

United States412 Posts

May 12 2010 14:36 GMT

Those physical deformities are quite horrorshow, O my brothers!

micronesia

United States24698 Posts

May 12 2010 14:37 GMT

LOL.... so are you half serious or 0% serious?

TheMunkey

Canada470 Posts

May 12 2010 14:39 GMT

Cool thanks for heads up... Just hope the press doesn't blow it out of proportion again. If your for real

motbob

United States12546 Posts

May 12 2010 14:41 GMT

On May 12 2010 23:37 micronesia wrote:
LOL.... so are you half serious or 0% serious?

? I don't understand. I'm 100% serious.

Rampoon

United Kingdom166 Posts

May 12 2010 14:41 GMT

haha that was awesome, pic totally set me off after the build up - people in my office are giving me very weird looks.

KinosJourney2

Sweden1811 Posts

May 12 2010 14:45 GMT

Haha, you are such a troll

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EsX_Raptor

United States2801 Posts

May 12 2010 14:58 GMT

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DreaM)XeRO

Korea (South)4667 Posts

May 12 2010 15:04 GMT

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magnificant troll my good sir

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

May 12 2010 15:31 GMT

#10

Holy Crap, that is indeed serious. Just look at that thing.

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

May 12 2010 15:46 GMT

#11

oh cool.

madnessman

United States1581 Posts

May 12 2010 15:53 GMT

#12

damnit I thought it was serious. that's some pretty badass physical deformities though...

hyst.eric.al

United States2332 Posts

May 12 2010 15:56 GMT

#13

those pigs should fly all over the thread once its opened, flying monkey style

Mortality

United States4790 Posts

May 12 2010 16:16 GMT

#14

This...

...must be the result of drinking too much Red Bull. You see that people? You see what you started? Damn your piss tasting energy drinks!

50bani

Romania480 Posts

May 12 2010 16:32 GMT

#15

Troll flu?

Biochemist

United States1008 Posts

May 12 2010 16:38 GMT

#16

I was drinking it in until the sentence right before the spoiler set off my troll alert.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

May 12 2010 16:42 GMT

#17

hahaha i believed it.
5/5

BlinkNudie

Malaysia49 Posts

May 12 2010 16:43 GMT

#18

nice ass~ :D!

samachking

Bahrain4949 Posts

May 12 2010 16:45 GMT

#19

Are you serious or not?

Anyways, I hope this isn't true because we are all fucked, scientists have been warning us about this recombination and how its going to fuck all of us.

Biochemist

United States1008 Posts

May 12 2010 16:52 GMT

#20

On May 13 2010 01:45 samachking wrote:
Are you serious or not?

Anyways, I hope this isn't true because we are all fucked, scientists have been warning us about this recombination and how its going to fuck all of us.

recombination short version:

Human flu RNA mixes with Avian flu RNA in pig cells and makes new flu strains. This is why virtually all new flu strains come from SE Asia where people live with their chickens and ducks and pigs.

Illustrated: It looked a lot better until I saved it as a jpg and paint decided it wanted to use zero quality.
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