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True that. It's gonna be crazy.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Well, kind of. Honestly, I haven't seen the media freaking out like I thought they would. Most everyone is actually pretty restrained with only the typical survivalists hyping it up and spreading crazy rumors/conspiracies. So far, so good. Kudos to the CDC and WHO for being on top of this. I wouldn't have expected as fast a response, nor updates as quick as they are coming in. It isn't possible to isolate this kind of disease, but the precautions being taken, including readying stocks of antivirals, is pretty impressive in this short amount of time. The avian flu panic was actually good for something! |
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Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Just got an email warning at work:
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RFN my major disease paranoia is about flesh-eating bacteria. Why? Well, a friend of my mom's went to the hospital the other week with flu-like symptoms and the whole damn time she is telling the staff that there is an odd rash on her arm that needs to be checked out. The staff refused to call the doctor in to look at her for a rash (WTH?!) and by the next morning the skin on her whole arm was laid open from the flesh-eating bacteria its turns out that she had.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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As far as I can tell, there is one Ohio boy with a confirmed case, in the Cleveland area, and he and his family had recently been to Mexico.
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Drew Curtis of Fark has a great summary of media panic on this.
My current bet on why no one in the US has died or had a severe reaction, yet: the air quality in Mexico City is bad enough to cause lethal complications with anyone who has a case of the sniffles. Pneumonia is not difficult to develop when you're inhaling air as thick as soup. |
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Join Date: May 2003
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A school in California has closed because a student has mild flu symptoms - until lab results show whether it's swinish or not.
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Gone and done
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...but does it taste like bacon?
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Working in a hospital, I tend to worry about this kind of thing more than most people, especially given that my hospital is a non-medical one.
We were talking about this a little today, and I recalled back when I was in high school, when a bunch of people died from receiving the swine flu vaccine.
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I think it has been said before, but it is worth repeating: just because someone dies with the disease, doesn't mean they died because of the disease. Kitsune's point about complicating factors is a very good one.
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Come on, cat.
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Yeah, from Guillian Barre - which is eerily similar to polio btw....
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Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
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My dad was telling me about that. He said one person died from the swine flu, so legislation was rushed through to force drug companies to make and distribute the vaccine. Then the vaccine killed several people itself and caused neurological damage in others. Thats what he said about it atleast.
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Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
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The family took pictures of the progression the whole night. I do believe a lawsuit is in the works, and deservedly so.
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trying hard to be a better person
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In Australia authorities are executing pandemic procedures at our boarders, which is mainly at international airports. They're quaranteening and then testing anyone coming into the country with flu like symptoms. Apparently the number being tested is quite high.
I ask you, who doesn't look and feel like shit after an international flight to Australia? We're a long way from pretty much anywhere.
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