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All we can do it’s basically stay away from people who are coughing sneezing etc. Wash our hands, and use the best personal hygiene you possibly can. I wash my hands religiously and I cannot remember the last time I had a cold. The flu can be devastating there was a guy who lived near me. He was only 26 years old and actually died from the flu last fall. I immediately called my son 24 almost 25, and my daughter 20, almost 21 and said you two better get your flu shots right away. I told them the story about the young man. I hope they did get their shots, I can’t force them, but they did not get the flu. I got the flu the first year I lived here and it was awful awful awful. I couldn’t breathe I had to sleep sitting up, it was a week of pure h*ll. It developed into a bacterial infection in my lungs, and I stopped well, my husband stopped, at a doctor on the way home from his mother’s house, that’s where I got sick, in northern Quebec. I guess I just wasn’t used to the cold. Anyway the doctor gave me antibiotics for the bronchitis and I just had to ride the flu out. But as I said I wash my hands constantly and have not had a cold in years so all we can do is take every precaution and Hope oh, perhaps call the White House our senators or congressmen, and make sure that the people who have it now our quarantine and shut the borders from anyone who is coming back from China put them in immediate quarantine. And don’t let any US citizen or Canadian citizen visit China.

I wonder why these things SARS Ebola etc, always come out of China or Africa. India is equally as crowded, they have cow crap all over the place because the cows roam free is it please since they are holy. and yet nothing weird ever comes out of that country which is equally as crowded if not more than China. I honestly believe it’s because India is such a spiritual place. The Ganges River is filthy and yet people still make spiritual journeys there. I don’t think the Chinese or Africans have that same kind of power. Although I can’t judge their religion. I don’t know. But it is an interesting question. Anyone who wants to see the conditions there, rent the movie Salaam Bombay. It is excellent. I hope I got the spelling right. :-)

[I wonder why these things SARS Ebola etc, always come out of China or Africa. India is equally as crowded, they have cow crap all over the place because the cows roam free is it please since they are holy. and yet nothing weird ever comes out of that country which is equally as crowded if not more than China. I honestly believe it’s because India is such a spiritual place. ]

It’s probably because a huge chunk of India is vegetarian. Many of these epidemics come from bacterial or viral loads carried by animals processed for food that cross the species barrier. In Africa, some of the game animals are eaten raw, before rigor mortis sets in. In China, meat processing may lack many of the precautions* taken by meat packers stateside. I’ve yet to hear of an epidemic caused by a plant disease that infected humans.

* Even hunters stateside wear gloves and other protective clothing when dressing game animals to avoid infection by deer ticks and other creepy-crawlies that can inflict a host of maladies that start with Lyme disease and go on from there.

I wonder why these things SARS Ebola etc, always come out of China or Africa. India is equally as crowded, they have cow crap all over the place because the cows roam free is it please since they are holy. and yet nothing weird ever comes out of that country which is equally as crowded if not more than China. I honestly believe it’s because India is such a spiritual place

Food. Chinese and Africans eat a lot of bush meat and pets and so on. Anything they can get their hands in, will go in the pot. Indians are pretty limited in the meats people are willing to eat, and a lot of them are vegetarian - you can get poisoned from plants, but picking up a virus from a plant is highly unlikely. India's not very clean in food standards, but they don't really eat monkeys or rats or bats or cats or dogs. Which is where a lot of these issues come from.