He: "BBC says it'll fizzle out."
She: "Ping Null and Void."
Posted on 09/03/2022 12:14:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
All of the cases centre around a private medical clinic in northwestern Tucuman province.
Authorities say they have ruled out Covid and common types of flu but are continuing other infection checks.
Tests on the local water supply and air conditioners are also being done in the hunt for the cause.
The third victim was a 70-year-old woman who had been admitted to the clinic for a surgical procedure.
Doctors believe she may have been "patient zero" for the respiratory illness. The others who have fallen ill with the lung condition were medical staff at the centre.
Their close contacts are under follow-up but none have developed symptoms to date.
The mystery disease claimed its first victim among workers at the clinic on Monday and a second two days later. Both, like the 70-year-old woman, had other underlying health conditions.
The first six patients started showing symptoms between August 18 and 23.
Tucuman health minister Luis Medina Ruiz said on Wednesday the patients were struck with "a severe respiratory condition with bilateral pneumonia...very similar to Covid".
Symptoms included a high fever, body aches and difficulty breathing.
Hector Sale, president of the Tucuman provincial medical college, told local reporters: "We are not dealing with a disease that causes person-to-person transmission" as no cases have been identified among close contacts of any of the patients.
The Pan American Health Organization is monitoring the situation along with the Argentina health authorities.
Prof Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, told the BBC that at this stage, it was "pretty much impossible" to say what the impact might be.
"These things happen from time to time. Often they just fizzle out, but not always.
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I wish Matt Damon would have died.
Another day, another pandemic.
“These things happen from time to time. Often they just fizzle out, but not always.”
Especially when they are engineered in Chinese BioLevel 4 labs.
That’s not nice. Play nice.
In the movie from post#2, not real life.
Oh, am unfamiliar with movie i guess. My bad.
Coming over our southern border unimpeded, but on the bright side Djokovic was banned from the US Open because he’s not taken the clot shot.
That’s quite alright. It’s called Contagion.
I just hope Nadal loses.
Yeah, same here. I had made a meme of him back when I was still on Twitter before they banned President Trump, it showed him with tabs sewn onto his crotch and seat of his shorts. I called them “Raffy Tabs, special tennis shorts for Rafael Nadal” and said in the comments “so he doesn’t have to dig so deep and smell his fingers afterwards by going from his rear to his nose.”
Twitter either shadow banned it or nobody else thought it was funny.
He is one nervous OCD tick of a dude.
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.
The false positive rate was 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...
Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.
HAHA! That’s a good one!! Thanks! I needed a laugh!
Not yet confirmed H2H. That’s when the fun begins.
I’ve seen this movie before.
Here we go...
Might be in the Air Conditioning.
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