[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

Here's a map from the CDC of states where it has been reported:

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

[ponygirl]

There was an awful upper respiratory thing going around where I live this winter and I caught it. It took 6 weeks and two rounds of antibiotics to get rid of it, and the cough still was hanging around as recently as last week. I know several people (2 at my workplace) to be diagnosed with “walking pneumonia.” Don’t know if it was this particular pneumonia, but strange coincidence. They were doing news stories here last month talking about how this thing has really hit little kids very hard... they have to put them in the hospital to monitor them or they will just stop breathing.

[Hoodat]

Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared...
(saying don't be afraid)
Come on baby...
(and she had no fear)
And she ran to him...
(then they started to fly)
They looked backward and said goodbye...
(she had become like they are)
She had taken his hand...
(she had become like they are)
Come on baby...
(Don't fear the reaper)

[PGR88]

why am I not surprised the worst hit area is LA?

[mollynme]

Hmm. It looks like the Japanese people’s habit of wearing face masks might not be a bad one to copy.

[No Socialist]

Wow, my husband’s Grandmother passed away last Friday from Pnuemonia. Wonder if it was this.

[Madam Theophilus]

Influenza, Flu Shots, and Vitamin D
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/influenza-flu-shots-and-vitamin-d.shtml

This is only one of dozens of articles linking Vitamin D deficiency with influenza.

[PENANCE]

mostly among elderly patients at skilled-nursing and long-term care facilities Sounds like Ezekiel Emmanuel's wet dream.

[donozark]

BOOP is a very insidious version of pneumonia as well. Difficult to diagnose, difficult to treat.

[K-Stater]

It was not clear from the study how many of the infections proved fatal, but other studies in the U.S. and Israel have shown that about 40% of patients with the infection die.

If most of the people getting it are elderly in long-term care and nursing homes then how about some statistics on the fatalities among those contracting it who are not 90 years old or on their last leg already.

[Dogbert41]

I was actually afraid my heart would give out in the thick of this sickness. I could not catch my breath. I was so afraid it would spread to my wife as her lungs are weak. Now she is told she has “walking pneumonia” and is taking a strong course of antibiotics and is in misery.

This bug is obviously devastating to the elderly and young. I am shocked this is the first they I have read anything on it...

[TSgt]

[discostu]

Technically it’s killing 40% of those INFECTED, there’s no way to track how many people came in contact but didn’t get infected. And heck there’s even the possibility of people infected but not showing enough symptoms for anybody to know they were infected.

Remember the swine flu, and the bird flu, and SARS. Most of these things aren’t nearly as scary as the CDC wants us to fund.

[Hot Tabasco]

For some reason that map resembles the H1N1 pandemic map that was going to decimate the United States if people didn't get their shots............

[decimon]

Ping

[M Kehoe]

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