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Highly Contagious AIDS-like Disease Spreading in China
http://www.theepochtimes.com ^
| Updated: Apr 2, 2011
| Chen Yilian
Posted on 04/05/2011 1:00:58 PM PDT by B4Ranch
In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Express Daily, dressed in an isolation suit, interviewed a dozen unusual patients from different areas of China. Their symptoms are painful and debilitating, and AIDS-like, but repeated tests for HIV have come up negative.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aids; china; outbreak
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To: B4Ranch
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:34:11 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
To: CanaGuy
When a parasite lives in the host, it can only infect the host.
If, at the optimal time, it can kill the host, it allows it to infect other hosts or lay eggs for further reproduction.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:35:20 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
They certainly ought to be quarantining these people. Which is what the Public Health folks should have done when AIDs started appearing. They let it get away & how many people have suffered as a result?
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:37:26 PM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: null and void
Geneticists, being something of jokers when it comes to naming genes, discovered a gene that prevented programmed cell death (apoptosis) and called it the INDY gene.
INDY = I'm not dead yet
YES, from Monty Python's “Bring out yer dead!” skit.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:40:30 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: B4Ranch
And because of liberal PC, we wont have the balls to stop aircraft laden with sick Chinese....and we are totally overdue for a pandemic...
25
posted on
04/05/2011 1:48:18 PM PDT
by
blasater1960
(Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
To: gaijin
Are we blood testing people returning from China yet? No, of course not. Will we ever do sucha logical thing? No, of course not.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:49:12 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
To: CanaGuy
"Ive never understood why an organism is disposed towards killing its host. Doesnt make sense, does it."
How can you forget the welfare-receiving "entitlement" class?
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:50:13 PM PDT
by
Emperor Palpatine
(Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
To: CanaGuy
Perhaps that is an indicator that it needs a mate to breed with or to lay more eggs.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:53:31 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
To: CanaGuy
Most well evolved pathogens do not kill the host, but allow it to survive and infect its cohorts.
That is one reason why a disease that “crosses over” from preying upon one species to our own species is especially troublesome - they tend to kill at a virulence that is detrimental to its pathogenicity as it kills much too often and too quickly.
Simian Immunodeficiency virus, the most likely ancestor of Human Immunodeficiency virus, isn't nearly as deadly as AIDS to most monkeys.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:54:08 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: Twotone
Quarantining queers? Never happen, not in my lifetime nor yours. Quarantining anyone is a subject that is forbidden. One minority would yell it’s racism and the program would instantly die.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:57:24 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
To: Quix
Yikes. Are we witnessing the end of mankind?
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:00:39 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
To: redgolum
Per the article:
"However, the disease seems to be highly contagious and can spread by contact via any bodily fluidthrough kissing, shared utensils, sweat, and even protected sex." Sweat? Scary stuff! Would sound very difficult to avoid if this disease gets out of control. Human nature being what it is, people are not going to avoid all contact with others.
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:00:59 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: blasater1960
>>And because of liberal PC, we wont have the balls to stop aircraft laden with sick Chinese....and we are totally overdue for a pandemic..<<
So, git straight with Christ and continue payin your taxes.
33
posted on
04/05/2011 2:00:59 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
To: null and void; Slings and Arrows
It seems impossible to join as one is specifically instructed to not ask to join, and Ive repeatedly asked to not join...You mean the This is Not a Ping list?
I have connections. ;-)
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:03:23 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: B4Ranch
Uh-oh. Anyone else read “World War Z”?
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:03:57 PM PDT
by
K-Stater
To: B4Ranch
Are we blood testing people returning from China yet? No, of course not. Will we ever do sucha logical thing? No, of course not.
I would think they would have to identify the type of infection first and then develop the blood test. That is still a couple of steps away.
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:05:35 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: Allegra
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:07:14 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 803 of our national holiday from reality. - That 3 AM phone call? Voicemail...)
To: blasater1960
The PC maggots have allowed so much TB and other diseases to spread from our open border with Mexico, emergency rooms are dealing with things from the 1800’s...but the fat loser Nappy tells me the border is secure.
I’m puzzled.
High 3rd World diseases striking Americans, anchor babies and illegals and the only port of entry is sneaking across...but, we’re safe and secure.
Political correctness with illegals and Islam will end up killing us.
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:10:12 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: K-Stater
Uh-oh. Anyone else read World War Z?Don' worry, everything gonna be aright...
39
posted on
04/05/2011 2:11:05 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 803 of our national holiday from reality. - That 3 AM phone call? Voicemail...)
To: B4Ranch
If this thing spreads, the age of “free sex” will be a long lost memory. It can be exchanged through kissing and contact with any body fluids. This disease will make classrooms, dorm life, public toilets and public transportation a risk.
I hope they are being more careful about the spread of this virus in the US than they were about AIDS. I don’t expect anything proactive from our government and Americans are not paying attention enough to protect themselves until they see disease all around them.
If we had normal borders, this is a disease we would be checking immigrants and travelers for to protect public health.
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