Texas couple on holiday in Fiji die from unidentified illness
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/04/asia/us-citizens-dead-illness-fiji/index.html
Let’s combine it with ebola./s
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...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
We go out, not with a bang...but with a whimper
Watch the water
Get your Tamiflu before supplies run out
“particularly affecting young adults” doesn’t sound good. The 1918 flu had a worse effect on the young, those with a healthier immune system, in one of nature’s ironic twists, called a cytokine storm.
Of course it could be because they hang around in groups sometimes kiss each other.
Let’s hope it’s the latter.
“Fiji Flu” has a nice ring.
BTW, it has been reported that the people who worked in the cinnamon factory in 1918 didn't get the 'Spanish Flu.'