[Destro]

Is this the ends times or what? (If I was religous that is).

[X-FID]

Is this the ends times or what? (If I was religous that is).

Thank's for the thread, nothing like comic relief to end a stressful day.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Drudge is headlining this now.

Mystery flu?

Terrorisim?

[Porterville]

You read about the carp on Drudge??

[vikingchick]

I know somebody in the Bay Area who, a few months ago, was felled by a terrible pneumonia. They ended up performing surgery on him to drain all the fluid from his lungs, which evidently, was much more than is usual in pneumonia. This is the chilly part: his job is handling containers that arrive from Southeast Asia.

He said that the doctors also found "spores" or a "spore" in his lungs which they sent to Stanford. The university was unable to identify the spores for some reason. This all happened right when the news started coming out about this flu.

This friend almost died from it. I do not know if it's related to this killer flu.

[Neuromancer]

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:24:28 +0800 (CST) From: "Peter Chang, MD, MPH, ScD"
Official report by the CDC of Taiwan: Another Suspected Atypical Pneumonia Case in Taiwan - follow up report on 15 Mar 2003

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Here in Taiwan, we have one more reported case of atypical pneumonia, this
64-year-old woman developed fever on 8 Mar 2003 about one week after traveling to Guandong (China) and Hong Kong. She was hospitalized on 13 Mar 2003 due to subsequent respiratory symptoms. Chest radiogram revealed an atypical pneumonia in the right lower lung. CDC Taiwan has reviewed the regular surveillance system for Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and complicated influenza cases. So far, there was no evidence of community spread except for the couple reported on 14 Mar 2003 [see ProMED-mail Acute respiratory syndrome - East Asia 20030314.0630]

We would appreciate any useful advice and assistance for pathogen investigation.
Peter Chang, MD, MPH, ScD
Advisor and Coordinator for Health Affairs for Tzay-Jinn Chen, M.D., M.P.H. Directer-General,
Center for Disease Control,
Department of Health,
Taiwan

[plusone]

Something seems wrong here. They say they don't know if it is a virus or a bacteria. But you can't catch a bacterial infection from someone, only a virus can be transmitted. But viral pneumonia is almost impossible to treat, antibiotics only work against bacteria. So which is it? You can't catch a bacteria, so it is probably not bacterial pneumonia, yet they say treatments are ineffective...but are there any treatments for viral pneumonia? Strange.

[MigrantOkie]

Some of us have been watching this for days now. My global prediction of under 72 hours was beaten by 24. Watch the West Coast due to traffic from Asia. Aerosol transmission is the real deal this is big and already in the airports. I will be flying in 11 hours and 45 minutes. No choice. If I wear a mask to an airport I will probably be arrested. Statistically a person to person chain of contact has already hit every airport in the world. BTW the origin would indicate natural mutation not terrorism, However this has all the earmarks of the pandemic we are due for. 1918 was 20 million, an equivalent for todays population has to be 100 million+, I'm probably overly pessimistic, but I don't like this one bit. Luckily we are better off than in 1918.

[whadizit]

Not to worry....we have our duct tape and plastic sheeting.