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To: Islaminaction
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) kills 4500 Americans per year.

Where is the hysteria?

6 posted on 04/29/2009 11:58:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s too hard to spell and pronounce. It’s a not ready for prime time disease.


9 posted on 04/29/2009 12:00:12 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Private First Class - 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
RSV is primarily a disease of infants. Most adults are immune.

Look, they're not trying to look like hysterics, they are trying to hold off a mutation for a flu bug that has a rapid spread rate. The measures being taken are to slow the spread. It's a good thing.

13 posted on 04/29/2009 12:06:35 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My twin daughters almost died of RSV when they were babies, and that is why I am taking this swine flu seriously.

One of my daughters has a brain injury with epilepsy as one of the complications from RSV, and the other one has severe asthma. The one with asthma was on a ventilator for a whole month, and she almost had to be put on a heart and lung machine.

This was 12 years ago, and they now have a treatment at least for preemies, but only preemies get the treatment.


18 posted on 04/29/2009 12:11:20 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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