Breaking News: World Alert on Mystery Disease (Broke 1 Hour Ago in Australia)

Herald Sun.UK (Australia) / AP ^ | 3/17/2003 | AP Staff

[ex-Texan]

Very Nasty Flu and Pneumonia Out There. May be fatal in over 90% of the cases. World health figures in this report are reduced by AP. The total was nine fatalities as of yesterday.

[ex-Texan]

Report yesterday: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865874/posts

[Movemout]

"May be fatal in over 90% of the cases"

Can you provide a citation for this number? Even the Spanih Flu only had a mortality rate of 2.5% I think the mortality rate from your average flue is something like .01%

[patton]

I wonder if this is related...

[SunnyUsa]

how horrible....that poor family!

[RWG]

Al Qaeda?

[irish guard]

>>>>>>>>>>The Hanoi outbreak started after an American businessman travelling from Shanghai via Hong Kong apparently infected up to 31 hospital workers, four of whom were listed in critical condition, including a French doctor. <<<<<Your 90% figure hardly washes with the text of the article you posted.

[Mamzelle]

We're overdue for a bad bug.

[SauronOfMordor]

I just had a 38 year old girlfriend from Queens, NY, who was 8 months pregnant with her second child, die from pneumonia. They had to do an emergency c-section to save the baby, but the mother's heart gave out with the stress of the pneumonia. I wonder if it is related?

The doc was quaranteened in Germany had caught it in Singapore, CAME BACK to the US, to New York, and then was on his way back to Singapore when he was hospitalized in Germany. It's certainly possible that, while in NY, he might have passed it on to somebody. The disturbing thought is the most likely people he might have passed it on to would be other medical personnel or hospital workers

[RGSpincich]

I don't have this.... right???

If you have to ask, you're toast.

[ex-Texan]

It was just my humble opinion. Think that you will soon see my figures are pretty accurate. No treatment known today seems to have any effect on this disease. As stated in the article: 'People are not responding to antibiotics or antivirals...' Ergo, if the disease matures into pneumonia, the chances of survival are a dead issue. No pun intended.

In other words: "Hospitalized patients given the very best care known to modern medicine are dying."

[runningbear]

don't know... I will just hibernate... ;o)

On second thoughts, wonder if this is any relations to Osama, or Saddam?

[MizSterious]

Can't help but wondering ('scuse me while I adjust the antenna on my tinfoil hat) if it's natural mutation or lab-created...

[ex-Texan]

I am deeply saddened by your tragic loss. My prayers are with you and with her family.

[mystery-ak]

Exactly....I wonder how many people this doctor infected while in NYC?.....be prepared to see cases in NY.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Remember The Decameron:?

”The Decameron” by Italian humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, 40, is a love story full of vivid description of the Black Death that has killed three out of every five Florentines. Boccaccio’s 10 protagonists have fled the city to the seclusion of a villa garden on the slopes of Fiesole.

We should be staking out our own secluded place for when the time comes for us to escape into seclusion/isolationism.