Throwing up for 8 hours...if they tried rehydrating they pretty much purged their system of un-absorbed toxins. Loose bowels would have expelled even more in their digestive track. They weren’t lucky enough to get quick competant medical help.
Long ago I had food poisoning on the Upper West Side in NYC....was vomiting bright red blood. at the end of a 6 hr ordeal. Fortunately my wife was there to try and restore electrolytes and my dear DR. MIL called colleagues at Bellevue to receive me. Was told I flatlined briefly in the ambulance. Took four units of blood. Two days of testing revealed no toxins in blood and stomach samples. Kept under observation for a week...final verdict, Mystery gastroenteritis. Go figure
I think Fiji has a reputation as a tropical paradise, like Tahiti. It ain’t.
Contagion = great film.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
