Posted on 05/01/2009 10:16:31 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
I Agree with you 100% !
The Texas problem is that there are buses constantly driving back and forth to mexico. These people go back and forth all the time to visit relatives etc.
Also, many of them do not heed warning signs. I’ve posted before of a woman blatantly ignoring the closed signs on a park with a water area who said I can’t keep all these kids in the house, there were about 15 of them. She said we will just go to the hospital if we get sick. That’s the mentality that got so many killed in mexico and will spread here eventually if not already.
There was also the news story of 2 kids in IL who went to school with a temp of 103 !
“Swine flu: a Mexican survivor’s tale
http://tinyurl.com/c5cv8j
For Moises Bonilla, watching the life of a feverish fellow patient slip away was the depressing low point of his five days in the quarantine ward.
Tubes had been inserted into her throat in a futile effort to help her breathe and as her body was wheeled away, he feared he too might never leave the hospital alive.
The jobless Mexican maintenance worker has an unprecedented insight on the flu epidemic that has swept the globe, with confirmed cases in 15 countries and a warning of a possible pandemic from the World Health Organisation.
Struck down with presumed swine flu as the outbreak erupted in Mexico, Mr Bonilla is the first adult survivor to describe the terrifying ordeal.
“When you watch someone die in front of you and you don’t know if the same thing might await you, it’s a shocking experience,” he told The Sunday Telegraph from his flat in the working-class Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa.
The 46-year-old was released last week after treatment for flu-induced pneumonia in a local hospital where the outbreak was so bad that even a doctor and nurse ended up as patients.
Although he has not heard the results of the tests, he is being treated with oseltamivir, the generic name for the Tamiflu antiviral tablets that have been successfully deployed against swine flu.
Mr Bonilla started to feel sick on April 22 with a headache, running nose and sore throat.
“By the next day, I felt so bad that I thought my lungs were going to burst and my throat was closing up,” he said.
That evening, he was watching the television news when the first reports emerged that a new mutant flu virus had been identified in Mexico. Mr Bonilla rushed to hospital where he was put straight into the emergency ward.
As other victims arrived, they were placed in seclusion and on the second day, the 39-year-old woman lost her fight for life.
Mr Bonilla was treated at first with antibiotics but improved dramatically when he was given oseltamivir.
Cut off from the outside world, he had no idea that he was at the centre of a flu outbreak that was dominating attention around the globe.
[snip]
He is a healthy strong man in his mid-forties – the classic profile for victims of swine flu which, like the notorious Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, has been striking down people in the prime of life.
And he is in no doubt what brought him so close to death.
“I’m sure it was swine flu,” he said. “And if anybody has any doubt about how serious that it, I can tell you it’s very real, awful and very dangerous.””
(Thanks, LucyT!)
Emerging viruses are one of nature’s feedbacks loops where the planet is trying to control global warming no matter what the cost.
Wow. The AP just had to work in global warming, didn't they?
I wonder when the folks at AP will get the news that the planet doesn't 'make decisions' (It's a dirtball in space and we are part of the stuff on the outside), and the warming already stopped a decade ago...LOL!
Emerging viruses are one of nature’s feedbacks loops where the planet is trying to control global warming no matter what the cost.
Wow. The AP just had to work in global warming, didn't they?
I wonder when the folks at AP will get the news that the planet doesn't 'make decisions' (It's a dirtball in space and we are part of the stuff on the outside), and the warming already stopped a decade ago...LOL!
Sorry about the double-tap!
You are correct ! ( as usual ) :)
ChrisCuomo #swineflu (cdc source) major risk may not be in US, but in asia, where it could combine with bird flu and become more difficult to treat.
From his twitter....
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I thought the avian part was already in this thing??
Thanks, LucyT.
Still keeping my eye on this. Husband has a bad cough and made an appt. with an ENT for Monday. No fever...allergies? That we can live with.
My neighbor wanted to go to the off track betting place this afternoon to watch the derby. I declined, in addition to being worried about this flu the place is full of smoke. Most people are really not heeding the advice of Texas officials about gathering in overly populated places.
It does seem that most are dying from pneumonia and I think that’s why the death toll in mexico has changed......they changed the cause of death. I wonder if the pneumonia vaccine will help older folks get through this?
ping :)
What? No Lakers vs. Rockets NBA playoff?
So now it’s going back to pigs from humans.
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