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CDC says mutated cold virus is a killer
WTHITV ^ | 11/15/2007 | AP

Posted on 11/15/2007 5:08:58 PM PST by djf

ATLANTA (AP) - There's a mutated version of the common cold and it can be deadly. It's killed 10 people in the U.S. in the last 18 months.

And infectious diseases investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new variant of an adenovirus has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas.

It was called boot camp flu when hundreds of Air Force recruits got sick earlier this year at Lackland Air Force base in Texas. One 19-year-old trainee died. The recruits were infected with a variety of cold viruses but at least 100 had been infected by the more virulent mutated virus.

In the CDC report, the earliest case of the mutated virus was found in an infant girl in New York City, who died 12 days after she was born last year.


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KEYWORDS: cdc; flu; virus
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To: Hot Tabasco

Hugh as well!

Lol!


21 posted on 11/15/2007 5:38:44 PM PST by djf (Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
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To: kittymyrib

$10? Probably why I didn’t notice it. Thanks, though, I’ll have to try it.


22 posted on 11/15/2007 5:42:59 PM PST by flintsilver7
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To: flintsilver7

My aunt got it for me but I thought I saw it at WalMart. It’s important that you get the Bottle and the solution. For me, it worked even better than the saline spray.


23 posted on 11/15/2007 6:13:20 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: djf

Wash your hands. Wash your hands. Wash your hands some more. Wash them again later. Don’t touch stuff that five thousand other people have touched and then touch your face. Wash your hands.


24 posted on 11/15/2007 6:24:07 PM PST by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: Fairview

Totally agree.

But for alot of folks, the rug rats are the carriers - and washing is probably pretty much a waste of good water.


25 posted on 11/15/2007 6:31:10 PM PST by djf (Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
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To: PA Engineer

I think I had it last winter. I had one cold for about 3 weeks, then got another one before I got over the first one. I was sick for 2 whole months!


26 posted on 11/15/2007 6:36:09 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: diamond6
I think the upper respiratory illnesses are
much worse this year.

When a common cold virus mutates into a deadly
strain this is a cause for alarm. The problem is we can no longer require the infected to be quarantined. The infected are not restricted. It's they're civil right.

27 posted on 11/15/2007 6:43:58 PM PST by ChiMark
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To: diamond6

My whole family is down with a hellacious cold right now — we’ve all been sick for about a week. It seems to just linger, with no one making any real headway against it.


28 posted on 11/15/2007 6:45:10 PM PST by Malacoda (A day without a pi$$ed-off muslim is like a day without sunshine.)
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To: djf

In the last 15 years or so event 2) has happened twice. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I have had that experience once, in ‘68 or’69 whenever the late sixties flu epidemic struck. I had fever up to at least 105, complete with very strange hallucinations and felt as though every bone in my body ached like a toothache. It was altogether quite horrible! Strangely, since then I have not been nearly so susceptible to viruses and have been almost totally immune to viruses for the past thirty years or so.


29 posted on 11/15/2007 7:27:15 PM PST by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer

Funny thing is I usually know when I’m gonna get more-than-mildly sick.

A day or three before it starts showing symptoms, I eat like a horse. I crave eggs and chicken soup, that sort of thing.

Eggs, no matter how much maligned they are these days, are truly one of the super foods on the planet.


30 posted on 11/15/2007 7:39:57 PM PST by djf (Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
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To: djf

Me too. Just before I get sick I get extremely hungry.

It’s always a bad sign when I get hungry. The next day I’m usually flat on my back.


31 posted on 11/15/2007 7:49:00 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Abigail Adams
This bug is very insidious with a low fever but very severe upper respiratory impact. At times I felt as if I was going to drown in my own fluids. My wife (physician) diagnosed it based on a type of facial glandular swelling. The worst part of the infection is that it can lead to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which has a fatality rate of over 50%. This is not a bug to be joking about.

If you get the bug it acts like a super cold over the first eight hours. I used almost two boxes of kleenix the first day. After 24 hours the fluid build up and coughing begins. I found myself coughing (productive) so hard I felt I was going to faint. I found it almost impossible to sleep because of the coughing. If you get the bug do not go out. It is extremely infectious. My wife brought it home from one of her patients at the hospital she works at.

Unless you need emergency medical support stay home and away from love ones until it passes. I read that this bug can take up to almost six (6) months (noninfectious) to fully recover from. I believe it.
32 posted on 11/15/2007 7:54:58 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: ladyjane

Last time I had a bit of a bout with a cold I started something new.

Plain old hot Lipton tea , you know, teabag type tea.
Double strength, with honey, about half a chopped up lemon, and a bit of cinnamon.

Very soothing. You might want to give it a try.


33 posted on 11/15/2007 7:58:28 PM PST by djf (Send Fred some bread! Not a whole loaf, a slice or two will do!)
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To: PA Engineer

Sounds something like the cold I had last year. I was two months getting rid of it.


34 posted on 11/15/2007 8:00:18 PM PST by Windcatcher
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To: djf

Fortunately I haven’t been sick, (or been ravenously hungry) for a long time.

The plain old hot Lipton tea with honey and lemon sounds good.

I am going to remember the remedy. Thank you.


35 posted on 11/15/2007 8:09:18 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: djf; Clarinet_King; cdbear

Clarinet_King (son of NerdDad and CDBear) is one of those Air Force recruits who was laid low by this monster and the numbers reported here are incredulously low.

According to the docs who treated him when he got to Vandenburg AFB in CA, the number of recruits infected was closer to 1500. He was quarantined for nearly 2 weeks with this thing before he was allowed to be exposed to any other person. It set him back in his academic training by more than a month and his physical training suffered for nearly 2 months. Thankfully, he had completed basic before it really took hold. The consequences of an illness like that during basic could have really been much worse.

Because his girlfriend came to his basic training graduation, the virus also went home to Michigan with her. This thing is being badly under reported by the CDC and that is not a good thing.


36 posted on 11/15/2007 8:09:53 PM PST by NerdDad (Aug 7, 1981, I married my soulmate, CDBEAR. 26 years and I'm still teenager-crazy in love with her.)
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To: diamond6

I bought one of those too! I would have never thought it would work like it did. Did wonders for the scratchiness in the back of my throat as well.


37 posted on 11/15/2007 8:38:30 PM PST by 31R1O ("Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."- Immanuel Kant)
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To: NerdDad
I agree with what you are saying. I asked my wife about the CDC numbers and she was not surprised. She was not exaggerating when she said the deaths are probably two orders low as is the diagnosis. The diagnosis and reporting for CDC purposes are mythological.

What I am surprised about is how serious this virus is and how little attention it has been getting. I believe this is definitely a case for home quarantine in all cases. I could not imagine how bad this would be if it was passed in a middle or high school environment. The effects are supposedly much more severe amongst the young.
38 posted on 11/15/2007 8:40:11 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: PA Engineer

I’m glad you made it through! I remember using tons of kleenex too. I’d never been so stuffed up before! It’s pretty scary to think a cold could be so bad and could even be fatal.

A good potion I discovered at the time is, as I recall:

Put about 3 cloves chopped garlic in a saucepan with maybe 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Strain out garlic. Add a couple tablespoons of lemon juice and about a tablespoon of honey. Drink a half a cup, and put the rest in the fridge for later.


39 posted on 11/15/2007 8:53:05 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: djf

10 deaths in 18 months.....

More bath tub deaths than that.


40 posted on 11/15/2007 8:59:20 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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