A Guide to Flu Varieties in 2014
January 31, 2014 1:11 AM   Subscribe

Judy Stone writes two thousand words helping to make sense of contemporary influenza varieties for Scientific American. David McCandless's Influ-Venn-za draws a picture for us. via Maggie Koerth-Baker at Boing Boing
posted by cgc373 (12 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
Added to list of illnesses to tell boss I have when off sick: bat flu, seal flu, horse flu.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 3:22 AM on January 31, 2014


Too late for making sense of them now.

Whatever it is, the vitamin c and ibuprofen will kill one of us first.
posted by clarknova at 3:37 AM on January 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


I'm saddened that humans cannot transform into Batman by catching the Batflu.
posted by gohabsgo at 5:37 AM on January 31, 2014 [3 favorites]


I'm excited about the possibility of the H3 "seal flu" pandemic. Glad to see the virus is spicing things up a bit.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 6:09 AM on January 31, 2014


EndsOfInvention: "Added to list of illnesses to tell boss I have when off sick: bat flu, seal flu, horse flu."

In my family, the joke when you've got a nasty and persistent head cold has always been, "Oh, I've just got a touch of Mongolian Death Flu." And people would always laugh that you were overdramatizing a nasty but typical head cold.

Only these days if you say "Oh, I've just got a bit of Mongolian Death Flu," people say, "IS THAT LIKE SARS?" and literally start backing away.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:12 AM on January 31, 2014 [2 favorites]


Bat flu just seems like it's begging for a zombie/vampire/zombie-vampire horror film to be based on it. I mean: virus pandemic, vampire bats, box office gold right there. Horse flu less so.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:24 AM on January 31, 2014


Maybe have the zombies just sneeze on everyone instead of biting.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:25 AM on January 31, 2014


Love that venn diagram.

Also, I'm possibly starting to see the reasoning behind local zoning restrictions keeping livestock (like backyard hens) from denser living quarters. It's a bit different from a bucket of pigs on a moped, but still.
posted by fontophilic at 6:41 AM on January 31, 2014


The 10th Regiment of Foot: "I'm excited about the possibility of the H3 "seal flu" pandemic. Glad to see the virus is spicing things up a bit."

If they do another season/movie for Arrested Development, this would be yet another way for a loose seal to completely ruin Buster's life.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:18 AM on January 31, 2014 [2 favorites]


EndsOfInvention: "Bat flu just seems like it's begging for a zombie/vampire/zombie-vampire horror film to be based on it. I mean: virus pandemic, vampire bats, box office gold right there. Horse flu less so."

Hey, Centaurs are scary, too!
posted by symbioid at 7:31 AM on January 31, 2014


I'm possibly starting to see the reasoning behind local zoning restrictions keeping livestock (like backyard hens) from denser living quarters.

In rural Southern China the people live in elevated houses and keep their chickens and pigs together underneath the house where they eat the garbage dropped down from above, including the remains of (endangered) wild animals the family hunts and consumes and the family's poop. That's a little different than some yuppies with a couple of chickens roaming their backyard.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:40 AM on January 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


MetaFilter: It's a bit different from a bucket of pigs on a moped...
posted by BlueHorse at 7:39 PM on January 31, 2014 [1 favorite]


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