Precognition

[Mother Abigail]

You come see me

[henbane]

If you cannot see Mother Click on Mother.jpg

Yeah--but I can still hardly see her.

Any full frontal shots out in the sunlight?

[jeremiah]

Good series of attachments to this thread, I was sick with similar symptoms a month ago. I live in Bremerton, and had spent a lot of time in the hospital because of a friend and my broken leg. Bad headache, and laryngitis for 3 weeks. Hope your mother gets better, and I loved the "Stand" too. Maybe my favorite book of all time. Be well neighbour.

[Mother Abigail]

Go to post #27

Regards

[cricket]

Even with a whimper, still trying to figure where this info is leading to. . .or from. . .

. . .are these reports indicating whether this cluster syndrome might be genetically combined in a laboratory environment or are they finding a 'natural evolutional' trail. . .

[Maeve]

Mother Abigail, thank you for all of the posts on this thread. Still reading these things all I can think to do is to sing to Jesus and pray.

[jonatron]

speaking ass bump

[Mother Abigail]

So nice of you to notice

[dixiechick2000]

Stay away, old woman - I'm headed for Vegas! Yeeehaaaaaw!

I'll bring the napalm and the nuke.

Dat you, Trashcan Man?

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the link to this thread.

Great posts and interesting reading...

[Mother Abigail]

You are quite welcome

[Mother Abigail]

Meanwhile, housekeeping crews at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in New York City, site of an infectious disease conference attended by the Singapore doctor, have been reminded to use gloves when cleaning rooms and stripping beds.
The doctor left New York City on Friday to fly home to Singapore and was quarantined when he got to Frankfurt, according to news reports.

The general manager of the hotel said she did not feel there were any health dangers, even as the order for gloves was issued.

[Mother Abigail]

See new thread

SARS

[Mother Abigail]

What a friend we have in Jesus...

[Mother Abigail]

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A CHRONOLOGICAL COMPILATION OF THE "SARS" OUTBREAK AS REPORTED ON FREE REPUBLIC

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1. Precognition

2. Hong Kong Health Secretary calls for calm as SARS cases double, (83 up from 42 on Sunday)

3. LATEST SARS UPDATE - DETAILED MEDICAL INFORMATION

4. BREAKING BIG: POSSIBLE PATHOGEN DETECTED IN SARS CASE

5. Killer Virus (SARS) Identified

6. Seven victims of mystery pneumonia stayed on same floor of Hong Kong hotel

7. Guangdong doctor linked to SARS outbreak

[Mother Abigail]

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in the Republic of the Congo - WHO Update 9

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As of Sun 23 Mar 2003, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of the Congo has reported 123 cases, (13 laboratory-confirmed and 110 epidemiologically linked), including 113 deaths in the districts of Mbomo and Kelle in Cuvette Ouest Departement [see: Ebola hemorrhagic fever - Congo Rep. (19)
20030314.0629]. 79 contacts are being followed up.

The new team of 3 physicians and 7 nurses from the Ministry of Health and the Service de Sante des Armees was trained in clinical management and safe burial practices last week. A mobile team is visiting each village on the Entsiami-Kelle road weekly, carrying out control activities and surveillance.

Social mobilization activities involving community leaders are also continuing.
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[Since the WHO Update No.8 released over a week ago, on Fri 14 Mar 2003, the number of cases of Ebola fever has increased by 5 from 118 (13 laboratory-confirmed) to 123 (13 laboratory-confirmed) and the number of deaths by 7 from 106 to 113. - Mod.CP]

[_Jim]

Oh Mother Abigail - where art though?

[Mother Abigail]

Just a quick synopsis of the current state of Ebola research.

GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE OUTBREAKS

Investigations into the outbreaks of Ebola in humans during the late 1990's pointed to a link with great apes.

The origins of many of these epidemics could be traced to direct human contact with dead chimpanzees or gorillas, either through hunting bush meat or from handling carcasses found in the forest.

The index [first] cases were mainly hunters and transmission occurred by direct person-to-person contact.

We have identified at least 10 separate chains of transmission, each originating from one index case occurring between October 2001 and May 2003.

By analyzing the genetic material of the virus to see whether these outbreaks had resulted from multiple introductions of a single viral strain or separate introductions of several strains of Ebola it was discovered that:

(1) There were at least eight different strains of Ebola involved, showing that for this relatively short period under study the mode of transmission of the disease was more complex than previously imagined.

(2) Because Ebola is a genetically stable virus - unlike say influenza, which mutates rapidly - the fact that many strains are involved suggested that there have been multiple independent introductions of the virus from the reservoir species into apes and humans.

Different strains of Ebola virus may be widespread throughout the forests of central Africa, with simultaneous infection of great apes occurring from unknown natural hosts under particular but unknown environmental conditions.

Ebola outbreaks probably do not occur as a single outbreak spreading throughout the Congo basin as others have proposed but are due to multiple episodic infection of great apes.

THE UKNOWN RESERVOIR

The great unknown, of course, is the name of this reservoir species.

We aren't near to identifying the animal but we have some ideas, in particular fruit bats.

We don't have much evidence at all, just observations and ideas.

Both apes and fruit bats eat the same kind of food so it is not unreasonable to assume that they may come into close contact with one another at certain times of the year.

Ebola outbreaks in wild animals seem to occur at the beginning of the dry season. But no one has yet shown that it is possible to find Ebola virus in wild bats.

In South Africa a scientist succeeded in infecting fruit bats experimentally and he observed rapid development of the virus.


So although it is technically possible to infect fruits bats with Ebola, there is still no evidence that this is the mystery reservoir species.

Until this animal is found, the sole measure that we can take in predicting and preventing an Ebola outbreak in humans is to watch what is happening to gorillas and chimpanzees in the wild.

I wish there were better news.

[TaxRelief]

I wonder which biomed stocks Henry Niman will try to pump up now?

[null and void]

I wish there were better news.

There will be.

Good to see you again, BTW...

[Marie]

Thanks for the bump, Mother! Man, this year went fast...