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Hepatitis C tests urged for all baby boomers
The Philadelphia Inquirer / The Washington Post ^
| May 19, 2012
| David Brown
Posted on 05/19/2012 3:19:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The federal government Friday called for all baby boomers to be tested Don't go. It's a cookbook!
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posted on
05/19/2012 4:47:09 AM PDT
by
Lady Lucky
(Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
To: Lady Lucky
Great Twilight Zone reference, but seriously, what if they were injecting everyone who came in with an Obama mandated tracker?
If they can get everyone programmed to leap at each pronouncement of some possible pandemic, then all they need is to design the right implant, tell everyone they need to be injected, and BAM! Instant population monitoring.
Is that tin-foil enough??? :)
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posted on
05/19/2012 5:04:51 AM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: Lady Lucky
And soooo ...what will they do about it once they find out you have it — mock you and tell you that you WON’T be receiving a new liver because they gave out all the extras to illegal aliens and elderly immigrants from a zillion other nations camping out in our hospitals?
It’ll be good, though, as they will have gleaned some great statistics from it.
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
LOLOLOL! Best laugh of my week! I should have tried that, but I’d probably have gotten slapped silly! I just can’t keep a straight face.
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posted on
05/19/2012 5:13:20 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(All liberals & most demoncraps think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: central_va
He’s talking about contracting merely by handling bills that somebody else may have used in the fashion stated.
I would like to think not, but who knows.
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posted on
05/19/2012 5:18:23 AM PDT
by
Marie Antoinette
(Newt Gingrich 2012 - The Man With a Plan)
To: Sudetenland
My tin foil hat is a lot more simplistic. They’re targeting boomers because boomers are aging and fast becoming the expensive, useless eaters. If they don’t have hep, maybe they’ll get a nice vaccine, some free “vitamins”...or just a complimentary, door-prize dollar bill (laced with hep virus).
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posted on
05/19/2012 5:36:47 AM PDT
by
Lady Lucky
(Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
To: Marie Antoinette
Maybe this is more for gathering information. I went to a walk in clinic the other day for an antibiotic and they asked me as part of the standard new patient questionnaire ‘Are there any guns in your house?’ This happened in NC. When I asked the nurse why that question is asked, she said its an Obama rule that came out about a year ago..
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posted on
05/19/2012 5:42:56 AM PDT
by
bigtoona
To: 2ndDivisionVet
i got it from poorly cleaned tattoo needles...
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posted on
05/19/2012 5:55:48 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Sudetenland; Lady Lucky
...what if they were injecting everyone who came in with an Obama mandated tracker? ...
Or perhaps there is a need to beta test a new three-drug strategy on an "expendable" population while enriching global pharma.
from the article: " The strategy could identify 800,000 new cases in baby boomers ..." "Treatment of hepatitis C infection takes at least six months and consists of pills and a weekly injection. The cure rate used to be less than 30 percent; with a new three-drug strategy, it can be as high as 75 percent."
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:07:13 AM PDT
by
khelus
To: Chode
I have a friend who was an esthetician, she transmitted it probably through work. She worked at a salon and they were not allowed to wear gloves while giving facials, waxings, etc. She said sometimes it would get pretty bloody waxing, popping pimples, etc.
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:16:18 AM PDT
by
riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
To: Dr. Ursus
B-But it’s true it’s true I tell you! Like that time Salma Hayek kidnapped me and made me her sex slave for 3 short years. Sex 50 to 100 even 200 times a day! Oh the humanity! It wouldn’t have been that bad but her friend Megan Fox kept fighting over me that sometimes I would be forced to have sex with them both at the same time!
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:17:03 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just another government-sponsored medical scare.
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:19:13 AM PDT
by
Third Person
( Actions reflect priorities.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just another government-sponsored medical scare.
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:19:13 AM PDT
by
Third Person
( Actions reflect priorities.)
To: Third Person
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:20:27 AM PDT
by
Third Person
( Actions reflect priorities.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The hepatitis C virus is transmitted by blood and unprotected sex is one way of getting it.
Remember the free love thingy of the sixties?
Maybe Woodstock era wasn’t a good thing after all.
Hippie lights joint and tries to remember.
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:26:49 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: Vaduz
I have read quite a few vets came back from Viet Nam to find out they had transmitted it. That’s very unfortunate.
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:28:16 AM PDT
by
riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
To: central_va
worried? I think their point is that the general public, not just those sharing the dollar bill to snort cocaine, could contract hepatitis C virus if they handled that dollar bill, if that's the criteria HHS is using. Another half-baked government idea.
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:33:03 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: Lady Lucky
The federal government Friday called for all baby boomers to be tested Like anyone's gonna really care what the federal government recommends at this point.
Good grief... pour me another gin and tonic.
Cheers~
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:40:04 AM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
05/19/2012 6:40:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anyone who ever did IV drugs or got tattoos from “informal” tattoo artists probably would do well to be tested. I had a relative who passed away a couple of years ago from liver failure due to Hepatitis C. He had been a drug user since we were teenagers. He was in his mid-50’s when he died. By the time he got around to going to the doctor it was way too late.
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