Posted on 12/18/2013 6:45:25 AM PST by BenLurkin
According to the health department, all of the patients have had flu-like and/or pneumonia like symptoms. However, all of them have tested negative for the flu.
There have been eight confirmed patients ranging in age from 41 to 68. Four of those patients have died.
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Should have pinged you two to my added comments.
Thread on Niman’s site discussing this:
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10839
Thank you for your example.
Too bad Timmy’s name wasn’t Doug...
My daughter take a low dosage of doxy for acne. I guess she’d have a leg up on this. (:
By definition, it is not a pandemic. It is an outbreak. It doesn't become pandemic until it starts traveling around the world and affecting large numbers of people (the movie, Contagion, was a pandemic scenario).
If you are really worried, you can wear surgical masks when you go outside. That will help protect you from a disease that spreads through aerosols. Remember not to touch your face, and wash your hands frequently. The little hand sanitizers will help in a pinch, but should not substitute for hand washing. Some diseases lurk on surfaces, and you can catch them by touching the surface, then your face.
The kidney involvement sounds like hanta virus to me, which is spread through rodent urine, and spreads through aerosol. Bleach surfaces you suspect are contaminated, and if you must pick up a dead rodent, wear a surgical mask and latex or nitrile gloves, and wash exposed skin thoroughly with soap and warm water afterwards. You should lather your hands for about 15 seconds, rinse, and use a paper towel to turn off the faucet.
Hope this helps.
The plague in Madagascar is the bubonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, which is already present in the US. It is treatable with antibiotics.
NCIS is one of them.
Here's a link to the song that played at the end of the most recent episode.
It's called "Nothing More" by The Alternate Routes
I have a box of good masks, not the cheapies, and gloves and even eye shields, and bottles of sanitizer and antibacterial soap, but I don't have to leave my house for anything as long as I want, so I'm not. I can't take the vaccine and I'm 80 so I'll be chillin’ out in my own country where I am President for Life.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
“Montgomery County officials say none of those who died had received a flu shot. Here in Houston, we reported last week that Texas Children’s Hospital is full and many of the children there have the flu or the RSV virus. Public health officials say people who are sick should stay home and everyone should insist their family wash their hands and use hand sanitizers.”
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/health&id=9365327&rss=rss-ktrk-article-9365327
I suppose they’ll play this up to get people to get the shot. Just yesterday, the news was saying hand sanitizers don’t work. And sick people rarely stay home. Our local news just now says there’s been at least 5 deaths from this flu. The other a 30 year old otherwise healthy man: http://www.kvue.com/home/236487611.html
Your best bet against the flu is to receive the flu vaccine (this year, it contains the 2009 pandemic H1N1 strain, seasonal H3N2 strain, and one of the B lineages, Yamagata IIRC). If you start showing symptoms of flu, you should optimally start taking an antiviral within 48 hours.
Anything "homeopathic" is a scam. Those "homeopathic remedies" are so diluted that the chance of finding a molecule of active ingredient is orders of magnitude less than the chance of winning the Mega Millions or Powerball. People buying those are basically paying premium prices for a small bottle of water or buffer.
Ah. Newer vaccines are not made with eggs, so can be an option for some people.
At your age, the chance for complications from flu is high. So it is good to take precautions.
“Flu-like” is usually a bad indicator, because it implies a pulmonary disease, spread by coughing and sneezing. It can include:
Coronaviruses. Four to five different currently known strains of coronaviruses infect humans. They are not only responsible for most common colds, but also SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). There are kinds, some of which can infect people, that are uniquely hard on dogs, cats, chickens, pigs, and a variety that causes a form of multiple sclerosis in mice.
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Human parainfluenza viruses. They are major causes of lower respiratory tract infections and hospital visits during infancy and childhood, as well as juvenile pneumonia. Symptoms among adults are *usually* minor.
Adenoviruses. In humans, 57 distinct adenoviral serotypes have been found to cause a wide range of illnesses, from mild respiratory infections in young children to life-threatening multi-organ disease in people with a weakened immune system.
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV). It may be the second most common cause (after RSV) of lower respiratory infection in young children.
SARS. Still considered rare, but will likely become more common at some point.
The viruses responsible for Measles, Mumps, etc.
I’d second your call to stay put, Marcella. Your food storage can be replenished; if you or your family get sick your options would be limited.
“Ah. Newer vaccines are not made with eggs, so can be an option for some people.”
It isn’t the egg. I am also terribly allergic to iodine, that one can kill me. I was given an iodine test by putting iodine just under my skin and the iodine ate my skin and down into flesh and it had to heal from the bottom up - I have no pigment in that spot. It’s on my medical chart never to put it on me or in me. Whatever carrier or whatever that is in vaccines is very bad for me. I had a tetanus shot some years ago and my arm swelled, turned red, had fever, etc. I was told never to take one again. Same thing for penicillin - whole body broke out in bumps, told never to have it again.
The one with for sure swine flu here also had his kidneys fail and so did this man in Tarrant County.
Maybe you should stay at your house and out of beer halls until this is past. I'm not leaving my house for sure.
A man's gotta die of something.
/johnny
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