Posted on 11/15/2007 5:08:58 PM PST by djf
ATLANTA (AP) - There's a mutated version of the common cold and it can be deadly. It's killed 10 people in the U.S. in the last 18 months.
And infectious diseases investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new variant of an adenovirus has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas.
It was called boot camp flu when hundreds of Air Force recruits got sick earlier this year at Lackland Air Force base in Texas. One 19-year-old trainee died. The recruits were infected with a variety of cold viruses but at least 100 had been infected by the more virulent mutated virus.
In the CDC report, the earliest case of the mutated virus was found in an infant girl in New York City, who died 12 days after she was born last year.
watch out RINOS
Ten people in 18 months?
I’d be willing to bet this means just about nothing. They don’t test the virus when people have an average cold. Most people don’t even go to the doctor.
I came down with a cold last week and it knocked me on my butt. I’ve never had such a bad cold before, yikes!
Ordinary flu kills 36,000 people a year in the US, so I know what you’re saying.
I just posted it so folks would be aware.
Next thing, we’ll have a cold hysteria just like the MRSA hysteria.
The cold season this year has so far been rougher than normal.
Of course, I wonder how many people die normally from a “bad cold.” It’s almost impossible to say these people died strictly from a mutated cold virus and not for other reasons (such as an otherwise compromised immune system). The sheer number of people that get colds and don’t do anything about it makes it impossible to really know the extent of the mutated virus - and hence whether it’s really dangerous or not.
You think it will reach the level of the SARS and Avian Flu panics?
My aunt sent me a product a couple months ago and it sure came in handy........it’s called the Neil Med Sinus Rinse. What a God-send, I highly recommend it. I feel like it cut my cold in half, although the first half was hell.
I wish I could say probably not, but everytime you turn on the tube or whatever Evening Edition is there with horror stories about some tyke who’s eyeballs fell out because he got the new cold!
Realistically, we should be far more concerned about some of the new strains of TB. My grandmother died of TB.
It killed literally millions.
Where do you find something like that? I had some seriously stuffy ears and I could’ve used some sort of sinus Drano.
And I seem to remember something recently about a new variant of Polio. My other grandmother had polio as a child and struggled walking her whole life from it. And she was one of the lucky ones.
I’ve had 2 doozies within about 2 weeks.
One of the warehouses in our system is currently going though a really nasty bug being passed around.
Symptoms sound very similar.
I’ve heard horror stories about polio from older relatives. You’re probably right about the evening news angle. Polio sounds distant. If you give the headline “A mutated killer cold? Find out at 11.” you’ll have the attention of a few people. It doesn’t matter what the reality is.
It was called boot camp flu
commonly associated with infections of military personnel who share barracks etc.
We all had it and knew it as the “Camp Geiger Crud” during ICT.
Semper Fi.
My husband uses the Neil Med Sinus Rinse. You can get it at most pharmacies...he got his at Walmart...for about $10. It’s really helped him.
I had it. I was on my butt for at least two weeks and another two weeks to recover to somewhat normal function. This is the bug that is the leading cause of ARDS. I’m surprised how long it took the CDC to report this.
Holy cow, it's already surpassed the deaths caused by the bites of the rabid star-nosed mole.......
This is very series.........
I have one of two responses to these types of infections:
1) I get the sniffles for a couple days, drink alot of fluids, aspirin, zinc, vit c, typical stuff or
2) I am SEVERELY ravaged by it for a week or more, stuck in bed with a 102-105 temp but freezing my butt off, unable to eat, in too much pain to move.
In the last 15 years or so event 2) has happened twice. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
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