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.
Hugh as well!
Lol!
$10? Probably why I didn’t notice it. Thanks, though, I’ll have to try it.
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.
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.
Totally agree.
But for alot of folks, the rug rats are the carriers - and washing is probably pretty much a waste of good water.
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!
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.
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.
In the last 15 years or so event 2) has happened twice. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Sounds something like the cold I had last year. I was two months getting rid of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 deaths in 18 months.....
More bath tub deaths than that.
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