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LIVE Influenza Thread 04-26-09
Twitter, and Various Others ^ | 4-26-09 | FReepers

Posted on 04/26/2009 8:41:48 AM PDT by BagCamAddict

Please keep chat and one-liners to a minimum. This thread is intended to be a one-stop-shop for all of todays NEWS and info related to the Mexican Swine Flu.

To make it faster for everyone to catch up on the actual NEWS, PLEASE PLEASE minimize chat, jokes, bashing the administration, soapboxes, and so forth. These live threads can become useless monster threads if everyone throws in their one-liners, and we all have 'em! So let's try to keep this thread useful for the latest NEWS.

Thank you all in advance.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhocdc; first100days; flu; immigration; mexicanflu; mexicanswineflu; mexico; obamasfault; openborders; pandemic; publichealth; swineflu; thanksmexico
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To: polymuser

As far as I am concerned, the “pandemic” is over. CDC on Twitter says all 20 cases in the USA have recovered. We apparently are not seeing more. Or are we?


281 posted on 04/26/2009 5:16:06 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BagCamAddict

I heard last night on the radio that Baxter wants to make a vaccine for the swine flu since they can make it in 13 weeks rather than the 26 weeks it normally takes Baxter is the same company that sent tainted vaccine with an avian strain in it flu vaccine to Europe.


282 posted on 04/26/2009 5:43:14 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: Tarheel
Japan Checking in here to FR:

Now I just caught a mainline Japanese daily newspaper online, smacking the Mexican Government for refusing to quickly seal the border with the USA, stop outgoing airlines, trucks, cars, ships, etc. and from coming and, and sealing up the country in order to get a quick hand on what is going on and avoid its spread to others. It is from the distinguished Japanese daily YOMIURI NEWS.

The headline offers THIS:

メキシコ国境に旅行客往来、豚インフル封じ込め徹底せず

AiT Rough Paraphrase in English: "Travelers Able to Continue to Go Over the Mexican Border Back and Forth; No Effort to Energetically (in Detail) Contain The Hog Influenza."

This, top of the hour, in major Japanese newspaper.

283 posted on 04/26/2009 5:49:08 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
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To: lonestar
See my post #283, tonight reporting Japanese news breaking and their incredulousness that the irresponsible Mexican government is not shutting flights down leaving Mexico, but continuing to send them off, loaded, particularly to the United States, and failing to close off the nation to keep it contained. (Source: Yomiuri)
284 posted on 04/26/2009 5:50:55 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
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To: BunnySlippers

Fox News reported that there are at least 100 young people ill with flu symptoms at St. Francis School in New York.


285 posted on 04/26/2009 5:54:53 PM PDT by k omalley (Caro Enim Mea, Vere est Cibus, et Sanguis Meus, Vere est Potus)
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To: a fool in paradise
Mommy, are we dead yet?


286 posted on 04/26/2009 5:56:53 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: k omalley

Prime Minister Aso of Japan calls emergency meeting of crisis mgt. committee in Tokyo, at 8:30 a.m. local (about one and a half hours ago).

Commits to keeping in close contact with international health agencies to exchange information, and also vows to immediately tighten up all ports of entry into Japan, land-sea-air (immigration process) through screening of all coming into Japan. Commits to keeping Japan isolated from this outbreak as best as possible.(Meanwhile, thousands of Japanese travelers are urgently cancelling all trips to Mexico (and some to US west coast) even before the string of May Japanese holidays known as Golden Week. Many restructuring to instead stay in Japan only, or perhaps visits to local Asian countries also with strict immigration/quarantine policies.

287 posted on 04/26/2009 6:02:30 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (If we say "YES. By your definition I guess I'm a rightwing extremist" en-mass, we can shut them down)
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To: All

I’ve fallen behind on this thread.

I’m in Ohio and have just read the thread about the Ohio boy who has the MEXICAN swine flu.

But, I have not read how he caught it. Thus far, haven’t all who’ve contracted this been to Mexico? If not, I don’t see how a lone child in Ohio contracted it?


288 posted on 04/26/2009 6:04:01 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Add (MEXICAN SWINE FLU) to titles/keywords on new threads!!)
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To: Kimberly GG
The youngster had recently returned from a vacation in Mexico.
289 posted on 04/26/2009 6:08:14 PM PDT by Tarheel (From the Old North State)
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To: k omalley

Ooh, not good.


290 posted on 04/26/2009 6:46:36 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

mainline Japanese daily newspaper online, smacking the Mexican Government for refusing to quickly seal the border

All these countries need to do is to tell Mexico they will refuse to permit landing of planes and everything would be closed off.


291 posted on 04/26/2009 7:03:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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Suspected Swine Flu Case
on Long Island

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/090426_Suspected_Swine_Flu_Case_on_Long_Island


292 posted on 04/26/2009 7:32:56 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: AmericanInTokyo
メキシコ国境に旅行客往来、豚インフル封じ込め徹底せず

I agree with every word of that.

I can't believe our gov't is letting them in! On second thought, I guess it should be expected.

293 posted on 04/26/2009 9:18:28 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: NautiNurse

We’re dealing with that now in my house. Hubby is just getting over it, and I have a sore throat, headache, and a cough. Hubby keeps cracking that he has the Swine Flu. What a dork! ;^)

I was just thinking that a whole bunch of kids and their parents from my child’s elementary school went to Mexico at the end of March for a school project. I wonder when this thing “kicked off” so-to-speak. Doesn’t this kind of thing lay dormant for up to 11-14 days? Or am I thinking of something else? I hope my children’s school is paying attention.


294 posted on 04/26/2009 10:36:15 PM PDT by Shelayne (Lord, come quickly!)
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To: All

Next live Mexican Flu thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2238550/posts


295 posted on 04/26/2009 10:57:58 PM PDT by BagCamAddict ("Wolverines!!")
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To: Shelayne

Typical incubation for influenza is 1-4 days, avg. 2 days.


296 posted on 04/27/2009 4:10:47 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Blagojevich: a mediocre megalomaniac)
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