Posted on 02/28/2014 9:58:03 PM PST by neverdem
Over a one-year period, five children in California developed a polio-like illness that caused severe weakness or paralysis in their arms and legs, a new case study reports.
In two of the children, their symptoms have now been linked with an extremely rare virus called enterovirus-68.
Like the poliovirus, which has been eradicated in the U.S. since 1979 thanks to the polio vaccine, strains of enterovirus in rare cases can invade and injure the spine.
These are the first reported cases of polio-like symptoms being caused by enterovirus in the United States. During the last decade, outbreaks of polio-like symptoms have been reported in children in Asia and Australia, and these infections have been associated with newly identified strains of enterovirus.
"We think one reason why these cases may have occurred in California is that we are at the western-most part of the United States, so we may have had a higher circulation of the virus that was originally identified in Asia," said Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant, co-author of the case report and a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. [7 Devastating Infectious Diseases]
Although two of the children tested positive for enterovirus-68, the researchers were not able to identify the cause of muscle weakness and paralysis in the other three children.
The researchers saw these children too late in the game to detect the actual virus, Waubant explained. "It could have been enterovirus, or it may have been another virus," she told Live Science.,,
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spell check has failed me again.
Thanks for the ping!
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
That was the wrong video. Monsanto has made the one I wanted to show you hard to find on the web. Either way, I’m not going to side with Monsanto on the patented aspect of seeds but respect your view to the contrary.
Until they know what to do, colloidal silver and iodine might mitigate the symptoms.
You realize that plant patents are only 20 years and then it’s in the public domain, don’t you? Or that Monsanto is not the only seed company and all of them have proprietary plant and seed patents on their latest and greatest whiz bang hybrid varietal.
You ought to be more worried about what the EPA and the FDA are doing to farmers than what seed companies are doing, that’s the real danger to agriculture and food security.
I blame global warming. So there.
Gosh, how did the pollen get to those fields? Did the target farmer do anything to collect it?
Oh, wait, that seed belonging to said offending farmer is private property. You propose that Monsanto's patent precludes their use of their private property, corn that they planted, weeded, and harvested on their soil. What if they don't want Monsanto's damned Bt corn pollen because it renders their product toxic? What if they want to be GMO free. Monsanto has taken that option from them. Can they sue? If Monsanto doesn't want people using their pollen then they should control keep it under their control.
At least you are honest about the "shilling."
What part of “they don’t sue due to drifting pollen” do you not understand? If a farmer signs a seed purchase contract stating they will not save seed and then they save seed, well, they are in fact deliberately violating the contract and patent law. Drifting pollen had nothing to do with it.
You know how Monsanto finds out who is saving seed in violation of their contract? Other farmers report them because they know whose screwing them by not paying the licensing fees thus gaining an unfair market advantage. Too many cheats willing to undercut the non cheaters on price and the market price collapses and the non cheats lose money or go bankrupt.
See what happens when you allow unfettered border access.
Clueless. Try reading the post for what it says.
Please explain it in small words because I seriously don’t get what you’re saying.
Monsanto has not gone after any farmers who replanted saved seed from non GMO fields that may have been cross pollinated from nearby GMO fields.
I’ve looked at the court cases. They involve seed cleaning operations that encouraged farmers to violate their contracts or farmers who deliberately violated purchase contracts in order to avoid licensing costs.
Which isn’t to say that some farmers didn’t try to claim contamination by natural processes. Unfortunately for them the trial juries didn’t believe them due to evidence presented, like the Canadian canola farmer that lost at trial, at the court of appeals and at the CA Supreme Court.
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