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Human flu pandemic 'inevitable' in Britain
AFP via Yahoo ^
| Sunday October 16, 2005
Posted on 10/16/2005 6:44:31 AM PDT by cloud8
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Take your vitamin C, and button up your overcoat. AND DON'T PANIC!!!
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:44:32 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: cloud8
This is really getting tiresome. The boy who cried wolf will one day be eaten.
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:50:59 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: cloud8
Inevitable. What unadulterated baloney.
Just like the MSM reported there were 10,000 dead in New Orleans, this is being over hyped too.
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:54:40 AM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
To: cloud8; Conspiracy Guy
ONZ, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
(Oh, only the British. Never mind :-).
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:56:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(When bad things happen, conservatives get over it!)
To: cloud8
I am sure that somehow, Bush's Global Warming that HE ALONE caused is the culprit behind all this
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:57:25 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: cripplecreek
> The boy who cried wolf will one day be eaten.
More like Chicken Little. The sky is falling!
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:57:30 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: cloud8
Take your vitamin C, and button up your overcoat. AND DON'T PANIC!!!
And don't visit chicken farms.
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:58:35 AM PDT
by
i_dont_chat
(Houston, TX)
To: Peach
Sadly Ive seen FReepers say the the "human strain" of the virus is emerging in Europe. The problem I have with that is the fact that there is no "human strain".
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:58:48 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: bitt
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:00:28 AM PDT
by
Iowa Granny
(I am not the sharpest pin in the cushion but I can draw blood.)
To: cripplecreek
This is really getting tiresome. The boy who cried wolf will one day be eaten. A pandemic is inevitable one day. If not this one, another one. Same with an asteroid strike. They happen.
But I agree with you regarding the "cry wolf." TOugh issue for the public.
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:02:03 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: cloud8
Does anyone know what the point is stockpiling existing vaccines if they do not address the as yet nonexistent pandemic flu strain? Do these things reduce the effects of all flu's or is this just more government doublespeak.
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:03:38 AM PDT
by
cdrw
(Freedom and responsibility are inseparable)
To: Peach
> ...this is being over hyped too.
NPR, November 2004...
America Grapples with Flu Vaccine Shortage
A shortage of flu shots means tens of millions of Americans -- even those considered high-risk patients -- will go unvaccinated this year. How are public health officials handling the shortage? Is America facing a possible flu health crisis? Follow NPR coverage.
...we're all going to die!
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:06:57 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: cdrw
The article mentions vaccine but Tamiflu is not a vaccine. It's an anti-viral drug that doesn't even work well against the H5N1 virus since the virus has built up a resistance to it.
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:09:53 AM PDT
by
dc-zoo
To: cripplecreek
Personally, I'm looking forward to having an excuse to claim that "bird flu" caused me to poop on peoples' windshields, especially the Volvos with the lefty bumperstickers!
To: i_dont_chat
***And don't visit chicken farms.***
What! NO chicken soup?
And I live in Chicken country!
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:29:10 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: cloud8
"Take your vitamin C"
My brother, a doctor, is taking cinnamon.
He cites information from the big flue epidemic of
1918 that showed that in a large Cinnamon
processing plant, not one person came down with the flu.
I did a search and there is considerable information on
cinnamon as a flu drug.
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:29:28 AM PDT
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava)
To: cloud8
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:31:30 AM PDT
by
Panic in the Streets
("Mayor, I've confirmed the data, the hippies ARE planning a massive jam band concert!"- Eric Cartman)
To: cloud8
A pandemic is a global epidemic. The article uses the term as if described the diseases virulence instead. Britain cannot on its own have a "pandemic".
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:37:15 AM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: AlexW
> I did a search and there is considerable information on
cinnamon as a flu drug.
Wow, that's really interesting. Good thing it didn't turn out to be something like brocolli :-)
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:39:14 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: Iowa Granny
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:49:23 AM PDT
by
bitt
(THE PRESIDENT: "Ask the pollsters. My job is to lead and to solve problems. ")
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