If this epidemic / pandemic persits past the summer into autumn, I think the best thing we hunters can do for our society is to qurantine ourselves on high seats for as LONG as possible with provisions of food and ammo ..........

Will anybody second that......

Just a thought

. . . and shoot all of the boars we see! It's a public health imperative, you know.

Pan= all
Demos= people
Pandemonium is more the correct defintion as this is neither scientifically, an epidemic nor a pandemic.

However, lets kill the pigs anyway.

This current H1N1 outbreak is relatively mild and doesn't seem to be spreading too quickly.
The danger is that it will persist in circulation and mutate into a deadlier version in the autumn.
In an ideal world, we contain it and it dies out.
However, a quick check on H5N1 shows that it is still in circulation and killing the occasional person. Again, the danger is in a new mutation and the longer it persists, the more likely that is.

Swine flu preventative advice:

http://www.scientificamerican....demic&sc=WR_20090507

I think it doesn't spread from man to pig.
Thank god for that, even if there will be a massive pandemic, there will still be plenty of piggies in the forest to chase around.

Hi guys there is absolutely NO clinical evidence that this H1N1 strain so far is transmitted via pig species. However it is dam good excuse to go boar shooting more frequent.

That I can see the only place where the H1N1 strain spreads quickly and is dangerous is in the media. In the real world it seems to be much less deadly.

I suspect that there is always a chance that it will mutate into something more dangerous but from what I can see scientists have so few cases to work with that they are not even able to provide reliable information about it as it is, never mind to predict what it might do in future. Again the media seem much more capable in this area than the scientists.