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U.S. Airlines on Guard for Bird Flu (10/13/05)

By Mark Skertic - Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — The airline industry, which lost billions of dollars after the 2003 outbreak of the SARS virus, is monitoring..

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E.coli Food Bug Hits 42 Schools (UK - 10/13/05)

There were 161 cases compatible with E coli O157 infection identified in the South Wales outbreak up until today, said the outbreak control team. There are a total of 42 schools where exposure to the source has apparently resulted in infection....

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Eastern Equine Encephalitis:

Seventh N.H. Resident Found To Have EEE Two N.H. Residents Have Died Of Virus This Year (NH - 10/12/05)

CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire health officials announced Tuesday morning a seventh human case of Eastern equine encephalitis, this time in a man from Derry.

Health officials also said a llama in Hopkinton, N.H., has tested positive for the mosquito-borne illness.

CONCORD - With the seventh suspected human case of Eastern equine encephalitis now confirmed, state health officials are reminding the public that mosquito season isn’t over. A Derry man hospitalized Sept. 22 has tested positive for the potentially deadly disease, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. His current medical status was not released.

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Eastern Equine Encephalitis Fact Sheet Updated! (CDC Info.)

Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) is a mosquito-borne viral disease. As the name suggests, EEE occurs in the eastern half of the US. Because of the high case fatality rate, it is regarded as one of the more serious mosquito-borne diseases in the United States

INCIDENCE: How many and where have human disease cases occurred?

200 confirmed cases in the US 1964-present Average of 4 cases/year, with a range from 0-14 cases States with largest number of cases are Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.

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[Cindy]

THANK YOU all4one for those links.

[nw_arizona_granny]

First one school in Scotland, and now 42........

Nothing to see here, closing mind.

The poor babies.

[ExSoldier]

Hey everybody, I'm back at work, but my wife is still home in bed under doctors orders. She is recovering but still has vestiges of the original headache. Hopefully her prescription meds will work soon.

Does anybody know what makes the BIRD FLU so deadly? What is the mechanism by which death occurs and how long does it take to kill the average healthy human? What's the incubation period. For only having about 165 deaths worldwide so far, I don't see the imminency of the contagion to move to the USA as a mutated strain able to be easily passed human to human. Yet Bush is talking about reworking the Posse Commitatus acts and that has me worried. Yes I understand that if huge areas must be quaratined, it would require the military....but that need not be in a LEO role and thus not requiring suspension of posse commitatus. I wonder if all this hoopla is a cover for something else (~tinfoil hat beginning to glow--small propeller on top spins madly~) that's on the horizon and heading our way even faster than the flu?