Posted on 01/25/2022 8:43:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
AN escape of lab monkeys on a Pennsylvania highway has sparked fears of a virus outbreak after a woman who came into contact with them later fell ill.
Michelle Fallon stopped to help after a truck carrying 100 cynomolgus macaques crashed on Interstate 80, spilling animal crates across the tarmac.
State troopers said four of the primates were on the loose and warned the public not to try to catch them on Friday evening.
They have all since been accounted for.
Now it has emerged a passerby who was at the scene is being treated for symptoms of an unknown illness.
Michelle, of nearby Danville, was driving behind the truck when it crashed on the way to a research facility.
She got out to help the driver with the smashed crates, initially believing they were transporting cats.
When she put her hand on a cage, one of the three monkeys inside hissed at her but she was not bitten or scratched.
She said she also stepped in animal feces amid the chaos as four monkeys ran away into woodland.
The next day she developed Covid-like symptoms including a cough and pink eye.
Doctors gave her the first of four rabies injections together with an anti-viral drug.
She said on Facebook she was contacted by the CDC and is being monitored for symptoms of rabies and monkey herpes virus B.
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If I’m not mistaken, Valtrex is simply acyclovir, which is a fairly potent anti-viral, not just for herpes.
They also use it for Shingles. That said, the drug can have many dangers to the body.
I see.
I thought I read where she stuck her finger in the cage or her hand in it.
Whatever that monkey was carrying must be pretty bad. I hope she’s OK.
4) The accident took place 20 miles from where those loose vials of smallpox were discovered in November.
I was watching Jesse Watters this evening and he pissed me off acting like this was all funny. He was laughing at the poor woman who is sick.
I hope Jesse saves his comedy for something that is funny. This is not.
Thanks. That’s another loose end.
What were vials of smallpox doing in Pennsylvania?
According to the article, these monkeys were in transport from a NY airport to Florida (lucky FL), after being imported from Maritius (hope I remembered all this right), for laboratory use. I’m wondering why the rabies shots, Isn’t Fort Detrick where rare diseases are stored including smallpox?
A while ago there was a FR post regarding 3 cities in China being shut down with a hemorrhagic type disease. Any further word on that story? Whatever this monkey disease, it shouldn’t hurt to take zinc, Vitamin D3 and C to maintain general health. especially this winter. Remember, loss of taste and smell area signs of zinc deficiency.If any monkeys are still out there how well would they do with the cold front that is moving in and upcoming snow?
It is going to be interesting to see how our new Republican governer makes out with his no mask mandate. Northern Virginia Counties are mostly sticking with their mask mandates for schools. Parents there are mostly asking/demanding that masks be worn with some exceptions. Since the governor ran on the idea of listening to parents, this will be interesting. Virginia illness and death rates are somwhat lower than those for MD. Two states now with Republican governors. MD gov. wife has now been identified as Covid infected. Last week when I looked at Worldometers, Covid-19, US, Washington DC had lower death rate than MD and VA. Also I counted that 42 states had higher death rates than urban DC, In my travels I have seen that people in DC are pretty serious about their masks and/or social distance.
Regarding personal contacts, while in Chincoteague, PA neighbors on both sides of my cottage had survived Covid without hospitalization. My son in Puerto Rico, wife and 2 boys have had Covid without hospitalizations. My partner’s son, daughter-in-law, her parents, and their toddler have all had Covid, after all adults were vaccinated. My brother in upstate NY thinks he had Covid a year ago, he was subsequently vaccinated, in the fall he had a bad fall while trying to repair his roof, several breaks in upper leg, then could not get contractor to finish roof job, severely stressed and then went to hospital over holidays with severe cough and no sleep. He tested positive for both flu and Covid. They gave him benzonatate, avery effective drug that anesthetizes the respiratory apparatus to stop the cough reflex. He went to sleep immediately and spent 3 days in the hospital. https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/benzonatate-oral-route/precautions/drg-20062223?p=1
After reading several studies of various drugs which included a focus on Vitamin D3, I have concluded that the easiest way to make the population Covid safe is to make sure we all have Vigamin D levels in the optimum range. Almost no Covid hospitalized patients had acceptable D levels and NONE had opitimum range levels. Over 90% were deficient or insufficient. Levels below 20 ng/ml are considered deficient, below 30 ng/ml insufficient, and 50 to 80 ng/ml the optimum range. I was overjoyed when tested in Dec. by Kaiser Permanente to have 66 ng/ml. I have had 2 J & J shots, and so far as I know NO COVID, nor has my partner who usually takes the supplements I give him. Nevertheless, I do worry every time he goes to babysit his grandson, since both parents have exposure to the public a lot.
Correction: Chincoteague is in VA, not PA.
Impersonating Measles?
Gallows humor.
Just wait until she develops a craving for bananas and it is revealed Fauci holds stock in Chaquita.
RE: After reading several studies of various drugs which included a focus on Vitamin D3, I have concluded that the easiest way to make the population Covid safe is to make sure we all have Vitamin D levels in the optimum range.
Ok, what is the optimum intake of Vitamin D one should have daily to fight against Covid?
I take a weekly supplement of 50,000 IU’s once a week. Surely that should be sufficient...
The only legal and publicly revealed repositories of smallpox after the 1976 treaty are Atlanta and Novosibirsk.
The treaty specified these would be destroyed 25 years after the last human case (2001), but then some people did something so we decided to keep them around, just in case.
Valtrex is an acyclovir “prodrug” which has to be broken down in the liver to release acyclovir.
Remember, A, D, E, and K are the fat-soluble vitamins which it is possible to overdose on.
My comment #129, last paragraph, lists the nanogram per mililiter levels (ng/ml) that define optimum and suboptimum Vitamin D levels. Without testing you cannot know for sure what your levels are. However with 50,000 IU weekly, you should certainly be above deficiency unless you have some special matabolic disorder. Did a doctor recommend this amount? Depending on your specific health and living circumstances, you might be above the optimum and into the danger level of above 80. A reasonably large male friend living in West Virginia was prescribed 40,000 IU weekly by his doctor.
Before I was tested without asking by Kaiser Permanente, I was basng my intake on sun exposure, or lack thereof, diet, and age, size and health. I am 83, 140 lbs. and mostly indoors except once a month when I spend a week at Chincoteague, VA, to mow my lawn and spend time outside doing other yard work. My 220 lb. 6’1” son had been prescribed 5,000 IU daily by his doctor, and I figured he probably spent more time outdoors than I do. We both live in mid-Atlantic states. Late spring 2020 I decided to take 2000 or 3000 IU during the late spring and summer grass mowing season, and then 5000 IU from October to May. I was very happy to be informed my D levels were in the ideal range at 66 ng/ml. I wish you luck in determining your optimum intake, since by now you must realize there is no way I can give you this answer with the information you have provided.
For you periodic testing would be ideal, but lacking that you need to callibrate your sun exposure, oil on your skin (you don’t want to wash it off for several hours after sun exposure or it won’t enter your body), and skin color (dark skin does not allow the Vitamin D formed on the skin by the sun to enter the body so easily). Use of SPF sun screens is one cause of low D levels in our population.
Thanks for the info. Very useful indeed.☝👍
If you do get tested, perhaps you could let me know the results, and your relevant information, such as I provided in my various examples. I do get similar requests for advice, and some have little access or money for testing, so I have to give quesstimates.
Why did they vaccinate her for rabies if she wasn’t bitten or scratched?
This doesn’t add up.
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