CDC: New Respiratory Bug Has Killed 10

breitbart/AP ^ | 11/15/2007 | MIKE STOBBE

[steve86]

May have been posted already but I couldn't find it.

[steve86]

Mutated cold virus

[massgopguy]

TEN? Run, hide!

[steve86]

ping

[steve86]

Every infectious disease starts with 1, 5, 10 ... does it not?

If you have nothing to contribute and too much time on your hands go volunteer at the hospital or something.

[vetvetdoug]

Some of the Adenovirus vaccines administered to USAF recruits in early 1974 caused tumours in hamsters and lab rats at a rate that was alarming. The USAF discontinued the vaccine after only a 1000 troops were immunized. The Adenovirus is highly contagious and is going to be a bit of a problem.

[steve86]

Thanks. I was trying to remember names to ping — yours is certainly one of them.

[vetvetdoug]

Remember that ten have died...how many have survived and what is the current morbidity and mortality rate of this particular strain of Adenovirus....one doesn’t have to die to be permanently screwed up by the virus.

[InsensitiveConservative]

Antibiotic resistant Staph, brain eating amoeba, bull sharks in the Mississippi, and now a mutant cold virus – boy in the bubble isn’t looking all that silly anymore. ;)

[vetvetdoug]

Articles like this attract me like a moth to a flame....

[Badeye]

I wish the CDC wasn’t politically influenced.

[Radix]

ping

[<1/1,000,000th%]

In the same time 90,000 Americans have died from pneumonia and 54,000 from the flu.

[Sherman Logan]

Beat me to it.

50,000+ people die every year from the “normal” flu, but the MSM and public go into spasms at reports that two or twenty people died of bird flu or some other “new” disease.

[iceskater]

"What really got people's attention is these are healthy young adults landing in the hospital and, in some cases, the ICU," said Dr. John Su, an infectious diseases investigator with the CDC.M

Wasn't this was the hallmark of the pandemic in 1917 (or thereabouts).

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Yeah. I looked up the stats at the CDC’s website when everyone was crying about bird flu.

I don’t think it even killed that many birds.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Steve, if you have a ping list, plz add me. Thx...and this is worth discussion considering the outbreak in such a young, healthy community as Lackland.

[Sherman Logan]

I just finished an excellent book about the 1918/19 epidemic. My hair still hasn’t uncurled.

Interesting factoid: It’s called the “Spanish flu” because Spain was about the only Western country that wasn’t in the war and therefore the only country without military censorship suppressing reporting of the epidemic. So the news media made it sound like a problem mainly in Spain initially. The epidemic appears to have actually started in the US, specifically Kansas.

With modern medicine a lot fewer people would die. But if we ever get a similar epidemic, the medical system will be utterly overwhelmed and the medical care most will get will be little better than flu victims received in 1919.

[Judith Anne]

I thought the common cold was a coronavirus...I could be wrong...I’m just thinking that SARS was a coronavirus. I’m not sure how an adenovirus and a coronavirus differ...

[ari-freedom]

I think natural immunity is much weaker than it used to be.
on the other hand detection is faster and the CDC is beefed up to prepare for bioterrorism.
on the other hand diseases can spread much faster because of easier transportation.
on the other hand I don’t have to go anywhere because I can do so much online...