Posted on 04/11/2005 1:04:09 PM PDT by Diogenesis
1000's of Children in Ho Chi Minh City with Bird Flu Symptoms
Hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have been filled with thousands of children who have caught respiratory and digestive illnesses due to the hot weather.
Pediatric Hospital I reported that it had examined nearly 4,000 children patients a day with some 85 per cent of them suffering from respiratory problems, said a hospital doctor.
Meanwhile, more than 3,000 children were brought into Pediatric Hospital II on Monday. One-third of the children had respiratory problems and 300 others had digestive problems.
Besides, many children have been hospitalized for brain diseases caused by the entero virus.
The major reason behind the illnesses is that children are sleeping all night with fans on due to the hot weather in recent days.
Recombinomics Commentary: The deafening dearth of data in Vietnam may have ended.
The number of children alone would be cause for concern, but large numbers of patients with respiratory and digestive illness and "brain diseases". in
Vietnam ring alarm bells very loudly.
Serious H5N1 testing is indicated, although results from Quang Binh, Haiphong, and Quang Ninh have not been reported.
Bird flu monitoring in Vietnam is well beyond scandalous.
>>>We are less than two years away from a massive pandemic, my guess is 40% of the worlds population is going to perish soon.>>>
They said that with SARS too. It will probably hit a brick wall here with the country being cleaner and having more options for food.
Like our hermetically-sealed southern border?
The problem is that the virus may already be here by the time we even think of implementing a quarantine. I've read up on the SmallPox wars, when scientists and governments were embarked on a several decade long mission to eradicate smallpox, and even closing the borders of small Eastern European nations was virtually impossible. Hopefully the powers that be are keeping a very careful eye on this Asian development, as well as the Marburg situation in southern Africa.
Do you think something like this would have occurred in a Democratic Vietnam that wasn't ruled by those Commie crackpots?
That's too funny. I always remember Ralph Nader's term for hotdogs. He called them, "Deadly Pink Missiles."
It is more likely to be a pandemic of radiological poisoning.
Cross reference all the migratory bird routes...
NA & SA
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/migratio/routes.htm
Storks in Asia
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/aars/acrs/2000/ts11/glc004.shtml
Migratory Birds and Spread of West Nile Virus in the Western Hemisphere
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no4/rappole.htm
Once it hits the shores, who knows...
Both of these have yet to move out of their regions and they already have killed hundreds. If either one of these goes global, hundreds of thousand if not millions will become ill.
The pale horse is riding....
Sort of like their scramble on SARS...$5 says someones been playing with their "Junior Chemist" bio chemistry set and something went wrong...happened in Russia according to Ken Albeck
If not there, then someplace else. I find it a bit of a stretch to blame the passing a virus from one species to another on communism.
It has been my feeling for the past few years that our next great crisis would be a pandemic of this nature. Sadly, the young will be quite vulnerable. I pray we are wrong.
bump to myself.
Uhhh...oh, uh, what's wrong with that?
More fun to blame Darwin.
The funny thing is folks talk about isolating ourselves and the folks at my company come in as sick as dogs all the time, running fevers with the flew, everything, they never stay home. Believe me, if it breaks, it will just have to run it's course.
I read somewhere computer keyboards and mice are more germy than toilet seats, like computer labs in schools with class after class rotating through.
That sounds interesting. Book/article title(s) to recommend?
>>>Forget the shopping cart handle, what about those serving spoons at Chinese Buffet? Think of all the morons who never wash their hands in the restroom.>>>
Yes, and people wonder why I have turned into Monk. I carry anti-bacterial wipes in my purse to wipe mine and my children's hands off before we eat instead of going to wash our hands with food getting cold on table.
I hear you...I'm in a "chicken coup" with a couple hundred people, all come to work sick as dogs...end result, I had to take shared leave and I was on anti-viral drugs for 10 days...
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