[Marcella]

The killer disease, MERS, is in the Philippines. Those islands are the only islands affected - other cases are in large countries, not islands. I wouldn’t want to be on an island because space is limited to get away from the disease. Only way, I would think, to get away from it on an island is to leave the island.

There is one case in the US and that was a health worker who had been over there working and he was hospitalized here quickly and no one has been infected by him and he was recovering the last I heard a few days ago.

[gitmo]

There aren’t camels in the Phillipines are there? How is it spread there?

[WVKayaker]

The killer disease, MERS, is in the Philippines. Those islands are the only islands affected - other cases are in large countries, not islands.

Ahhh, ignorance raises it's ugly head again. It amazes me at those so jealous of others keep repeating stories with only a bit of truth to them, but speak as if it is a sensational situation. I see much jealousy from the self-designated "dog pack", as they keep repeating the same old tired complaints.

I love it here in the Philippines. I have a nice house, two housekeepers, and a wife which dotes on me as much as I do her. I left the Armed Forces Retirement Home to come here to live. There, I was surrounded by old people. Here I am surrounded by laughter and joyful people living a good life. Not everyone has money, but even the poor folk here are happy to be a live!!!

From a report in the Examiner Newspaper from April 16 of this year.

...MANILA, Philippines – After a Filipino casualty in the United Arab Emirates, an overseas Filipino worker who recently arrived in Manila was tested positive for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV).

Health Secretary Enrique Ona said Wednesday the OFW, who is a nurse, had contact with the victim who died in UAE.

The male health worker is now on quarantine.

In a television interview, Ona said that four members of the OFW’s family who fetched him at the Ninoy Aquino International Aquino were also quarantined.

He clarified that so far the four have not yet experienced the symptoms of the virus, which include fever, cough, shortness of breath, and diarrhea. ...

...On Twitter, Health Undersecretary Eric Tayag said that with the OFW’s case, the Philippines has become the 12th country and the first in Asia outside the Middle East with laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV. But there were reports that a Malaysian was the first person in Asia to succumb to the virus.*

*Hint Marcella: Malaysia is an Island!

Department of Health Secretary Enrique Ona, shows how the thermal scanner of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminal 3 works by detecting high temperature from a passenger on Wednesday. GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE/PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/594740/ofw-who-returned-home-from-uae-tests-positive-for-mers-cov-doh-chief#ixzz31TkIW0mQ Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook

[NFHale]

It’s amazing how susceptible we are to crap from other parts of the world.

We knocked out most of the horrible viruses and dangerous bacteriological entities here in the States, but since we have administrations that let just anybody in, without quarantine or medical testing (like we USED to do, but I guess that was “racist” or something, we’re told...), we are wide open.

Tuberculosis, cholera, even bubonic plague still occasionally rear their ugly heads.