EXPLORING THE NEW MEDIA'S EVOLUTIONARY PATH-THE BIRTH OF THE FLU BLOG - (Free Republic history)

FluWiki ^ | 1-6-07 | James S

[EternalHope]

Looking forward to the next installment.

Please ping me to the thread when you post it.

Thanks!

[Incorrigible]

Active links would definitely be helpful for such an obtuse article.

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

8. President of the American Society of Microbiology on SARS - "Everything says it is airborne."

9. SARS REACHES HONG KONG SCHOOLS - 32 NEW CASES (IS THE BUG OUT OF THE BOX?)

10. CDC increases SARS cases to 22 in U.S.

11. CHINA CONFIRMS CASES AND DEATHS (SARS) - HONG KONG SITUATION DETERIORATING - 22 CASES IN US

12. Causative agent of SARS virus isolated from lung tissue - test is reliably identifying cases

13. SARS cases on the rise in Canada, may be spreading even further, 12 people showing symptoms

14. VIETNAM NEW SARS HOT ZONE, U.S. Warns Citizens in Vietnam To leave

15. SARS cases on the rise in Canada, may be spreading even further, 12 people showing symptoms

16. Singapore - 740 people quarantined, 14 new cases on Monday, Hospitals close, SARS spreads

17. 37 In United States May Have SARS

19. WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF SARS? ONE VIRUS, TWO VIRUSES WORKING IN CONCERT, OR A DETERMINANT UNKNOWN

20. Killer-flu a 'white terror': Expert, "It is the worst medical disaster I have ever seen.

21. Preliminary Clinical Description of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

 

There is no #18.

 

[Cicero]

Mother Abigail. Yes. A remarkable figure in the forum. I remember those posts well.

Here's the list of recent posts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=Mother+Abigail

[James Oscar]

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

8. President of the American Society of Microbiology on SARS - "Everything says it is airborne."

9. SARS REACHES HONG KONG SCHOOLS - 32 NEW CASES (IS THE BUG OUT OF THE BOX?)

10. CDC increases SARS cases to 22 in U.S.

11. CHINA CONFIRMS CASES AND DEATHS (SARS) - HONG KONG SITUATION DETERIORATING - 22 CASES IN US

12. Causative agent of SARS virus isolated from lung tissue - test is reliably identifying cases

13. SARS cases on the rise in Canada, may be spreading even further, 12 people showing symptoms

14. VIETNAM NEW SARS HOT ZONE, U.S. Warns Citizens in Vietnam To leave

15. SARS cases on the rise in Canada, may be spreading even further, 12 people showing symptoms

16. Singapore - 740 people quarantined, 14 new cases on Monday, Hospitals close, SARS spreads

17. 37 In United States May Have SARS

18. SARS epidemic spreads in Taiwan, three other CDC officials have become ill.

19. WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF SARS? ONE VIRUS, TWO VIRUSES WORKING IN CONCERT, OR A DETERMINANT UNKNOWN

20. Killer-flu a 'white terror': Expert, "It is the worst medical disaster I have ever seen.

21. Preliminary Clinical Description of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

[James Oscar]

Will do

[James Oscar]

What!!!!

All the proofreading and time and there is no #18.

Let me go back to the original article and see if it got lost.

Thanks
James

[TalonDJ]

While this post is somewhat interesting it seems kind of overblown.

Why was this different? Because local MD's discovered ProMed, because an army of netizens began searching every corner of our world for information, because citizens of other countries began translating information that would normally be missed - because the whole was larger than the sum of the parts.

That is what the Internet was since the beginning! Forums like this are just an evolution of newsgroups. News groups about science topics have been around since the dawn of the Internet. Threads spawn and die all the time, and some keep going for ages, but that does not make it some new invention when one takes off.

[James Oscar]

I would argue differently.

My research led me back to the old Bionet Virology, where there was a limited exchange between professionals, but the volumn was minimal and the interface with the public nonexistent.

If you can show me any forum (pre-precognition)that mixed lay and professionals in such a dynamic format, I will include it in my history.

You might want to view this site where the issue was put to a bit of peer-review (peer = netizens with a deep history of science posting on the internet).

http://www.curevents.com/vb/showthread.php?t=66595&highlight=blog

The Flu Blog is a new critter, and it began right here.

James

[Mother Abigail]

Cicero, you are very kind.

Judith and Doug - it feels strange to look back. An eternity ago it seems - but it is my great honor to be associated with you and the other freepers who showed such remarkable ability.

Thank you

MA

[Judith Anne]

The honor is all mine.

[Judith Anne]

Haha! I just re-read my post, "The honor is all mine" and had to laugh. It sounds odd. I think I probably mean something else...

Because of the influenza death of a dear nephew of mine, I have (and will always have) a compelling interest in influenza. His death was a dreadful shock to our whole family, it was unforeseen, and miserable, full of suffering, indignities, and unbearable grief. The prospect of this on a worldwide scale is unimaginable and horrible, to me.

Ordinary influenza--a mild case, even. He had it, he got over it, missed a couple of days of school. A straight-A student athlete. Influenza, unknown to any of us, had infected his heart muscle and proceeded to destroy it. He died a year after his original illness, waiting for a heart transplant. He had no pre-existing illness or heart condition.

Influenza is a vicious, sneaking, deadly enemy of mankind. H5N1 has stayed mostly under the mass media radar, but it is still growing, expanding, changing; and we do not know what is just around the corner.

[Mother Abigail]

It seems that you have become stars. It is well deserved.

If there are any of the old posters that I have missed please let them know.

You never know where God is working, and how the little things we do today reflect on tomorrow.

I am so proud of you all and may your work always be this fine.

MA

[Mother Abigail]

Judith I am sorry for your loss. The death of the young is so troubling.

Because of my work I am often in Africa, and it would break your heart to see so much youth and life wasted.

AIDS, H5N1, Ebola - darkness seeks to have us all.

But I serve a risen savior, and death is not the victor.

Love transcends much, and our spirits are as the smile of a child - unfettered and filled with light.

MA

[lucyblue]

Ping

[Judith Anne]

You are a comfort, dear MA. God bless you and all those you love.

[Judith Anne]

To those who work to keep us all informed now, thank you.

[dc-zoo]

With much love and respect for you and Judith Anne, thanks for the ping.

[vetvetdoug]

This has been real educational and informative to say the least. One of my classmates was the dog track veterinarian in Florida that chronicled the jump of an H3N1 Influenza from a horse to greyhounds and the virus is well established in the canine population currently. Jim Guy, a veterinarian that worked with me in a lab in Knoxville, has been quietly working in North Carolina on Avian Influenza for thirty years and has come forward as a noted expert on the H5N1...Dr. Bryan was one of our teachers and he's spent the past 30 years studying coronaviruses and now he's needed for SARS studies...and now I get excellent information up to date (like the very day) on the outbreaks and finds of infectious diseases in the world...thanks to Judith Anne, Mother Abigail, Cicero and the bunch of Freepers...and I am tucked away in remote NE Mississippi...
Ain't it great!!!!!

[EternalHope]

It seems that you have become stars. It is well deserved.

YOU are the star.

Thanks again for all you have done. You have served our risen Savior well.