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TV presenter Charlie Webster in coma with malaria in Rio
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| 18 Aug 2016
Posted on 08/18/2016 7:58:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: wastoute
This was around 1970, my friends mother was a senior nurse.
She and the VA Doc both said, this is very seldom seen in the US.
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:32:36 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Yeah. I have never seen it in the US.
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:41:13 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Jane Long
This is what she just completed——
Setting off on June 27th, the team have six weeks to complete the challenge. Starting from London they will travel to Le Havre in France before pedalling their way to Lisbon, covering 1,231 miles of testing terrain. The team will then fly to Recife for the final stage of the challenge where they will cycle 1,600 miles along the Brazil coast to reach the finish line in Rio de Janeiro.
Amazing-—and now so ill.
.
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:41:56 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: laplata
All I remember was one big pill and two little pills?
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:44:49 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: Enterprise
Dam, why couldn’t it be Bob Costas instead
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:49:22 AM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: DUMBGRUNT
The Ride to Rio left the UK on 27 June, with Ms Webster and her colleagues cycling 90 miles a day with only one rest day each week before arriving at the Maracana stadium on 4 August.Cycling across the Atlantic should have done them all in. Stupid reporter tricks.
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:49:45 AM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: qam1
"Dam, why couldnt it be Bob Costas instead" While I wouldn't wish ill on anyone, (honest) if I were given the option, I would suggest any number of sports presenters who should be traded for her.
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posted on
08/18/2016 8:51:42 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Enterprise
That’s a 9! (or, by British standards, a 68 1/2!)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
The concept of spraying for mosquitoes isn’t a joke. It is pretty straightforward.
You don’t have to eradicate all the mosquitoes in a country or region, only the ones near places of human habitation.
Something DDT was great at with nearly zero effects on non-targeted entities including humans and animal life.
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:00:56 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Ugly stuff (not to quibble, OK, well, to quibble, it isn't bacterial, the organism is a protozoan, a Plasmodium). My late Dad picked up a dose of it in Africa during WW2. Some years later my Mom, a new nurse, finally talked him into donating blood - Dad hated needles - and they didn't ask him the screening questions until the blood was actually flowing. After which he watched them pour it down the drain. During their fifty years of marriage and her subsequent medical career I don't think I heard him mention it more than a few thousand times...
To: Enterprise
Uh, thats the actress not the lady in the hospital.
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:17:12 AM PDT
by
wyowolf
(Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
To: wyowolf
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:22:17 AM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
To: wyowolf
My apologies. I'm not familiar with either one of them. I'll see if I can come up with the correct one.
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:25:11 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: wyowolf
Is this the right Charlie Webster from Sky News?
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:29:37 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Buckeye McFrog
...they pimped the data (choosing birds in areas with calcium deficient diets to study).
***
Really? Do you remember where you saw that information?
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:31:26 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: Enchante
I suspect DDT was banned for the same reason FREON was banned:
1) company makes a product- it is the best known product of its type.
2) company makes a fortune off this product
3) the patent is expiring, and soon anyone can make it.
4) company gets it own product banned, so company can introduce and sell ...
5) ...new company product. Not as good as origianal, but just as profitable.
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:32:58 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
To: Enchante
And it turns out that in Africa the mosquito nets that do-gooders have sent over there are being used to catch fish. And the nets work so well that now the enviroMENTALists are complaining about overfishing in the area.
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:33:08 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: Enterprise
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:34:33 AM PDT
by
wyowolf
(Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
To: bgill
Cycling across the Atlantic should have done them all in.
&&&
LOL!
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:35:26 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: Buckeye McFrog; qam1
The picture I posted may be in error. I think post #34 is the correct woman.
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posted on
08/18/2016 9:36:21 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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