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Another Polio? Alarming West Nile Risks Emerge
Science News ^
| 9-28-2002
| John Pickrell/JanetRaloff
Posted on 10/05/2002 8:10:22 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:10:22 AM PDT
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blam
To: blam
bump
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:12:32 AM PDT
by
lucyblue
To: blam
THIS JUST IN:
Castro; "We are proud of what we have done. Revenge is ours."
Fawning Rather: "With your viruses' polio, many more crippled Americans
will have towatch CBS and our ratings will improve. We are on frequency."
To: blam
"at least a few of the reported [West Nile fever] cases may be related to transmission by blood and, certainly, in . . . one case, to transmission through organ donation." A case of transmission through mother's milk (nursing) to an infant has now been recorded. There are six cases of this 'polio' paralysis recorded in Mississippi alone.
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:20:54 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Diogenesis
And people still cannot bring themselves to imagine that this West Nile virus could be bioterrorism. Question - in the hundreds of years that the West has been entering and leaving the area of Egypt and other parts of the Middle East where this disease is endemic, why has the disease never spread out of the area before? It has spread to the US because it was introduced as a conscious program with malevolent intent, by people who had the means, the motive, the opportunity.
To: alloysteel
Moreover, just because it was labeled "West Nile Virus" doesn't mean it is the same as any virus found in nature. It was named way before these symptoms emerged. There is no very strong reason to believe it was introduced accidentally, and, as you point out, the introduction and subsequent spread of tropical diseases into the U.S. is a rare event.
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:39:36 AM PDT
by
eno_
To: alloysteel
I don't think this is getting the press it should. Most doctors do not even know about this paralysis angle. I sent a copy of this report (from The Boston Globe) to my local newspaper, Mobile Register. Not a peep!
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:41:14 AM PDT
by
blam
To: alloysteel
And people still cannot bring themselves to imagine that this West Nile virus could be bioterrorism. Actually, I think most people can imagine that it could be. They just aren't assuming, as you are, that it must be.
To: blam
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10/05/2002 8:42:42 AM PDT
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:57:28 AM PDT
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terilyn
To: ffrancone; sarcasm
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:57:28 AM PDT
by
blam
To: alloysteel
"It has spread to the US because it was introduced as a conscious program with malevolent intent, by people who had the means, the motive, the opportunity." Could/would they tell us that it was an attack even if they knew? Panic! You can't defend against panic.
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posted on
10/05/2002 8:19:12 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
OMG, I did not know this. Thanks.
To: blam; All
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posted on
10/06/2002 11:32:31 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: blam
I can certainly believe that WNV has been introduced by an enemy & is bioterrorism but I can NOT believe that Castro introduced it, as some have suggested.
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posted on
10/06/2002 11:43:15 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
"I can NOT believe that Castro introduced it, as some have suggested." Yup. I agree. I thought that was a little silly (but didn't say so) because our birds go there too.
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posted on
10/06/2002 11:52:26 AM PDT
by
blam
To: stndngathwrthistry
Actually, I think most people can imagine that it could be. They just aren't assuming, as you are, that it must be.
I don't understand why any speculation is necessary... Tracking epidemics is a known science and is the provenance of the NCDC. If they aren't already doing DNA analysis of the virus and trying to determine its origin, somebody up there needs to be fired. If it originated in a lab, that should be easily distinguishable from virus found in the wild (presumably in Egypt or whatever other third-world cesspool in which it originated, right?).
But I suppose everyone would rather blither on moronically... What's the problem, is everyone here a Humanities major, or something?
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posted on
10/06/2002 12:16:37 PM PDT
by
fire_eye
To: fire_eye
I will tell you the problem.
Our government for very good reasons would never announce this was a terroist attack. If they were to do so it would cause mass panic far worse than yelling fire in a theater.
They would let it leak little by little. This could very well be step 2 in that process. I would imagine step 3 would be announcing it is a rare strain. It might take years before the public was let known the truth.
Take the bar of enriched uranium first it was 37 pounds then 6 ounces then there was. I see nothing. Followed by the comment recently that Sadam would want three to five nuclear weapons. What is the real truth?
I hardly fall for tin cap type stuff but I also don't wear blinders. The fact is JFK was shot at by more than one man. The congress waited thirty years to tell us that.
To: blam
bump.
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:45:57 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam; Nogbad
I'm operating under the assumption that everything bad that happens in the world right now can be laid at the doorsteps of Islamic Terrorists!
West Nile
Anthrax
Flu
Wellstones plane crash
When a brand new killer illness hits us,I'll be way ahead of the crowd, because I know that the Islamic Terrorists want to destroy all of America!
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posted on
11/02/2002 7:10:50 AM PST
by
Betty Jo
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