Strange new disease outbreaks

various FR links | 06-09-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[jonathonandjennifer]

The easiest way to not catch monkeypox in the US is not to consort with prairie dogs

I just read in an article posted on the Drudge Report that a rabbit caught Monkeypox from a Prairie Dog.

[Don W]

For those who are concerned about "wild diseases":

I am a maintenance engineer in a hospital laundry where we process about 40,000 pounds of soiled linen daily. In addition, my brother (who lives in the suite downstairs) is a household appliance technician for a major international retailer.

He is exposed daily to people who don't even realize they might be sick, or know it but don't think they're sick enough to see their "Quack" yet.

I just spent over 5 hours cleaning the sorting area (we call it the "poo zone") wearing nothing more than my coveralls, an N95 mask, and examination gloves.

I am only minimally concerned about what I had to deal with today, as is he.

Incidentally, there are 2 known SARS cases in the hospital across the street, and 3 others in our service area.

IF I or my brother become ill in the next 10 days, I will definitely let you know.

Chicken Littles, indeed.

[backhoe]

Here's what has showed up so far this morning:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926167/posts
Monkeypox worries CDC
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | June 9, 2003 | DAVID WAHLBERG


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926094/posts
West Nile Virus Resurfaces in 24 States, CDC Says
Reuters.com ^ | June 9, 2003


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926179/posts
Mad Scientists and Ecology Nuts? (Anthrax investigation related)
BioHazard News ^ | June 7, 2003 | Gene Finneran


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926150/posts
Monkeypox Could Be Used as Bioweapon
stevequayle.com & UPI ^ | June 9, 2002 | Steve Mitchell, UPI Medical Correspondent


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926149/posts
U.S. man who visited Toronto has SARS [N.C.]
Toronto Star ^ | Jun. 9, 2003


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926166/posts
First Response to Terror
Insight Magazine ^ | 1/26/1998 | Timothy W. Maier
a single gram of anthrax, which theoretically contains 10 million lethal doses.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926052/posts
Vaccines fueling autism epidemic?
Insight magazine ^ | June 9, 2003 | Kelly Patricia O'Meara


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925594/posts
Village plagued by killer ghosts (10 died following internal bleeding from unknown causes)
news.com.au ^

[backhoe]

(we call it the "poo zone")

Your sense of humor is appreciated- 30 years ago I ran the Saint Simons Island sewage treatment plant... 5 million gallons a day...

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926225/posts
Ontario officials fear new SARS cluster
Globe & Mail ^ | 2003-06-10 | Gloria Galloway

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926227/posts
Canada fears third wave of SARS
Boston Globe Online ^ | June 10, 2003 | Colin Nickerson

[Catspaw]

I was flipping around channels when Keith Olbermann said they'd be interviewing people with monkeypox from Dorchester WI, so I watched the story (I said, "DORCHESTER? I know where that is"), wondering if my hubby's relatives knew them--and then I realized of course they knew them. Dorchester is not that big. In fact, it's really tiny. Towards the end of the interview (you could hear the kid playing during the interview), I heard this thump, then the kid screaming & wailing. They pulled out to a wide shot & there was the resin lawn chair tipped over into the grass, the kid howling, mom leaping up to comfort the kid....and Olbermann gave periodic reports about the condition of the kid for the next half hour. I mean it's bad enough the kid's got monkeypox, but to total out on a lawn chair on cable news TV....and I can tell you that being on cable tv was the biggest thing to hit Dorchester since...well, EVER.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926167/posts?
page=3#3

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926415/posts

SARS: Growing number of diseases jump from exotic animals to humans
The Canadian Press ^ | Monday, June 09, 2003 | LAURAN NEERGAARD Canadian Press

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926281/posts

U.S. confirms export case of SARS from Toronto
CTV ^ | 06-10-03

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926278/posts

Monkeypox Cases Rise To 40
Associated Press ^ | 06-10-03

[Scenic Sounds]

If you don't breathe the air, you can flush the toilet as many times as you want.

Well, you will still get the droplets on your skin.....

LOL. What would I ever do without you, Amelia? ;-)

[Amelia]

What would I ever do without you, Amelia? ;-)

Live dangerously? ;-)

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926542/posts

Here comes monkeypox
Canada.com ^ | June 10, 2003 | Margaret Munro

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926521/posts

Hong Kong toddler dies from anthrax
Yahoo News ^ | June 10, 2003 | AFP

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/925154/posts?page=142#142

Pox-Like Outbreak Reported
Washinton Post ^ | 6/8/03 | Rob Stein

 

 

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926477/posts

Frederick pond being drained in anthrax case investigation (Scott Shane article)
Baltimore Sun ^ | June 10, 2003 | Scott Shane

[Scenic Sounds]

Live dangerously? ;-)

LOL. Well, you know, I used to get accused of that all the time, but somehow it always made some sort of sense to me.

Most of the time, anyway. ;-)

[backhoe]

Indiana's Number Of Suspected Monkeypox Cases Up To 23: Officials: As Many As 100 Residents May Have Been Exposed.

 

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926225/posts

Ontario officials fear new SARS cluster
Globe & Mail ^ | 2003-06-10 | Gloria Galloway

 

Ontario chief medical officer questions credibility of U.S. SARS statistics.

 

Travis Co. (Texas) Man Recovering From SARS.

 

http://www.geocities.com/johnathanrgalt/Texas_connections.html

 

 

A doctor's diary: Holes in government's quarantine measures. This is the second installment of Dr. Lin Ping-hung's diary. Here's the first: Quarantined at Hoping Hospital for 10 days : Details from the diary of a doctor isolated during the height of the SARS outbreak .

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926606/posts

Monkeypox in Garden State? [New Jersey]
1010 WINS ^ | Jun 10, 2003 | AP

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/926605/posts

15 in Toronto Show Symptoms of SARS; Canada Faces SARS Questions, Link to North Carolina Case
Associated Press ^ | 06-10-03

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/747502/posts?page=10#10

Mousepox and bioweapons
Einstein A Go Go ^ | 2001 | Dangermouse Dave

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926790/posts

D'Cunha wonders why U.S. has such low SARS numbers
The Toronto Star ^
Probably the difference between a free market health system and socialized medicine. We don't have to wait a week or two to get a doctor's appointment.

[SevenDaysInMay]

With your serious first responder aid kit, FReepers must add "N" and "P" 95 or 100 respirators and medical masks AND nitril gloves (much more durable than latex). Include some serious trash bags with "100 mph" tape for sealing and keep a few gallons of bleach around.

"Suit up" and promptly dispose of dead birds, mammals, and people, if it gets to that.

If these poxes "jump" (with or without bioweapons lab/terrorists help) to squirrels, cats, and dogs, we'll get some taget practice.

If anyone is naive enough to think these new diseases are by chance, think of the wierd deaths of 30 some world-class bio-scientists who died the last couple of years.

How can China have a SARS vaccine so soon, IF SARS was not a long researched case study?

[backhoe]

Good points- thanks!