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New bird flu strand could be linked to dead pigs in Shanghai river
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| 04/01/13
| Staff
Posted on 04/02/2013 11:51:08 AM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: trisham
Aren't these influenzas that combine bird flu with mammals (I'm not a scientist, clearly) far more dangerous to humans than the typical influenzas? All influenzas are thought to originate in birds. The problem when a new influenza emerges is that our immune systems have never seen it before, so it takes longer to mount an immune response and the disease becomes more severe. Another problem can be that the immune system (the innate system that is always there, not the antibody system) overreacts, causing a "cytokine storm" that kills. The cytokine storms are thought to be the major factor in why so many people died when the H1N1 virus first emerged, back in 1918. Now, almost a century later, H1N1 is not nearly as lethal. Even "typical" influenzas can have a fairly high death rate--but are still pretty mild when compared to the 1918 flu.
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posted on
04/03/2013 5:19:12 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: Smokin' Joe
To: Alamo-Girl
You’re welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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posted on
04/03/2013 10:10:01 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Gaffer
I wonder how involved our CDC is involved. If so, treat information from this like the plague. They are incompetent poltical functionaries.Not my experience.
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posted on
04/04/2013 2:19:35 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
To: null and void
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posted on
04/06/2013 4:14:14 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Lazamataz
AP stands for Assumed Propaganda.
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posted on
04/06/2013 4:14:45 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Boogieman
I think when you live in a country where thousands of dead pigs can be found floating in the river,
I wonder how the fishing is........
China is a toxic waste dump......
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posted on
04/06/2013 4:17:56 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This space for rent)
To: Lazamataz
I guess you never got one of their Swine Flu shots of the mid seventies.
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04/06/2013 10:08:48 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: ex-Texan
Posting infowars content via a blog does not make it any more suitable for FR.
Knock off posting infowars here. You know better, yet you persist.
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