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UN: Spread of polio now a world health emergency
Associated Press ^
| May 5, 2014 10:45 AM EDT
| Maria Cheng
Posted on 05/05/2014 8:34:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
05/05/2014 8:34:18 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Open borders mean that viruses “got rights” too!
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posted on
05/05/2014 8:36:13 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: Olog-hai
I really, really hope our Arab and Islamic friends aren’t planning to partake of any innoculation against Polio; whether by needle or by sugar cube. Because those medications were invented by Jews.
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posted on
05/05/2014 8:40:29 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Correct: both Salk and Sabin.
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posted on
05/05/2014 8:51:04 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Bush's Fault
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:06:50 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Olog-hai
Such a terrible disease. We had a girl at my grammar school with it and she wore the leg braces.
We worked as hard as we could for the March of Dimes, selling salt and filling those little cards with dimes.
A few years later, I remember us all lined up in the hall of the school..waiting for our dose of the vaccine.
To: Sacajaweau
A few years later, I remember us all lined up in the hall of the school..waiting for our dose of the vaccine.
I was part of the Salk vaccine trials back in 1954.
They announced who received what shot (vaccine/placebo) over the radio and I remember sitting there all excited ...
... and how disappointed my mom was when we found out I had been given the placebo.
I was even more disappointed - I had to get another shot.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:19:36 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Olog-hai
Let's all sing along....”south of the border,down Mexico way”
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:27:47 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
To: Olog-hai
It’s a miracle that with all of the wars and natural disasters, people living in refugee camps, invaders crossing national borders with minimal restriction and mercenary soldiers always on the move that there hasn’t been a really horrific outspread of diseasy by now.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:31:17 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Sacajaweau
You must be my age group. We had several girls in my high school with braces too.
I’ve often wondered if the girls( as opposed to boys) have something in their systems that makes them survive instead of dying of the disease.
Of course some famous men, like FDR and Alan Alda, have had polio so maybe it’s a coincidence.
To: Gay State Conservative
“Man you know you’re in trouble plenty.”
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:35:58 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: oh8eleven
I was teaching 1st grade in Boston in the 1954-55 school year and the entire class got the Salk vaccine.
It was also the school year that “under God” was introduced in the pledge.
An unusual school year.
.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:37:31 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: crazycatlady
A few years back, I had a client with a walker. How the conversation started, I don't know, but he said he missed the vaccine by 6 months.
I'm 70. I'm sure there are all kinds of stats around.
To: oh8eleven; Sacajaweau
I was teaching 1st grade in Boston in the 1954-55 school year and the entire class got the Salk vaccine.
It was also the school year that “under God” was introduced in the pledge.
An unusual school year.
.
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:40:13 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: Mears
I was teaching 1st grade in Boston in the 1954-55 school year and the entire class got the Salk vaccine.
Yes - I was given the shot along with all my classmates.
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posted on
05/05/2014 12:28:47 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
05/05/2014 9:43:35 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Olog-hai
My late mother in law had to wear a leg brace because of polio.
I remember my mother taking us to a big room (probably a school gym) when I was 4, to get the sugar cube vaccine back in the early 1960s.
Polio is a nasty disease. I pray that it does not get reintroduced into the U.S. Idiots like Jenny McCarthy with their anti-vaccination campaigns are directly responsible for the fact that 5-10% of our kids are not protected, and could easily become reservoirs for this horrible disease.
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posted on
05/06/2014 3:32:12 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Olog-hai; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
"Final" ping...
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
05/06/2014 7:08:55 AM PDT
by
null and void
( They don't think think they are above the law. They think they are the law.)
To: Smokin' Joe
I was one of the test subjects for the original polio vaccine.
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posted on
05/06/2014 7:59:32 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( Are we finally going to get a smidgen of truth? - - Freeper Veto!)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/06/2014 3:47:57 PM PDT
by
OwenKellogg
(Fundamental transformation leads to ... you don't want to go there, buddy.)
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