IS it me, or do I see SARS, seems most of the symptoms are there.
1 posted on
04/21/2003 1:19:41 PM PDT by
Howeln
To: Howeln
Hope this isn't bioterorism at work.
To: Howeln
Is it me or do I see "mass hysteria"? Generally when an entire team, work plac, etc. comes down with this stuff and they send most of them home, it comes down to mass hysteria.
To: Howeln
Here's a novel thought...what if these "flu-like" symptoms are the flu!! Wouldn't that be wierd?
4 posted on
04/21/2003 1:25:53 PM PDT by
aardvark1
To: Howeln
It's the food. Now, since it involves teens, the food inspectors should go past the vegetables and straight to the pizza. Hope they get to the bottom of it quickly.
5 posted on
04/21/2003 1:27:06 PM PDT by
Migraine
(my grain is pretty gnarly today)
To: Howeln
SARS...high fever, aches, persistent cough, ..........not stomach flu or diarrhea. Sounds like bad casserole to me.
To: Howeln
Probably brought on by sand fleas, assuming of course the tournament was outdoors in the sand......
If not then I would just blame it on the water or food. No need for alarm....
7 posted on
04/21/2003 1:30:17 PM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(Nothing worse than an angry herd of hungry finches....)
To: Howeln
This one shouts "food poisoning." Too quick and too universal for SARS. Teenagers on a field trip - naw,
I was never a garbage gut...heh heh...
The most common one with this incubation period is staph food poisoning, followed by strep and enteropathogenic E. coli. Pretty miserable stuff, but not fatal to the young and healthy.
To: Howeln
officials took stool samples Government office holders will take credit for anything.
10 posted on
04/21/2003 1:37:46 PM PDT by
Reeses
To: Howlin
IS it me, or do I see SARS, seems most of the symptoms are there.Well, they don't seem to me the usual symptoms one could expect to contract when visiting Reno.
To: Howeln
IS it me, or do I see SARS, seems most of the symptoms are there. Or Legionaires Disease or the flu or a jillion other things.
So9
16 posted on
04/21/2003 1:56:38 PM PDT by
Servant of the Nine
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: Howeln
Didn't the same thing happen a few days ago in California?
18 posted on
04/21/2003 1:58:39 PM PDT by
Djarum
To: Howeln
According to
Big White Guy in Hong Kong, the death rate in Hong Kong for SARS victims aged 15 to 34 has been only o.4% (i.e., 4 per thousand). So, even if this is SARS (which I doubt,) it's much less serious at that age.
Other death rates, according to the same source: age 0-14 0.0%; age 35-54 3.6%; age 55-64 6.5%; age 65-74 18.9%; age 75+ 28.6%.
To: Howeln
Nah, not SARS. This is gastrointestinal. Dollars to donuts, everyone who got sick ate at the hotel buffet. I've seen it happen at every trade show I've attended in Vegas, and it's always the buffet...usually at breakfast.
They'll be OK in a day or two.
To: Howeln
Well the one commonality in Singapore I think was an apartment or hotel or something like that...I hope this ain't it all the same.
To: Howeln
No way is this SARS. It is a gastro-intestinal illness - sometimes called in the food services industry "ass to mouth disease." Some food worker, probably working salads or other "raw" foods, passed along e. coli, salmonella, or some other bug.
To: Howeln
24 posted on
04/21/2003 3:57:59 PM PDT by
jiggyboy
To: Howeln
Welcome to your third day at FR.
25 posted on
04/21/2003 5:02:23 PM PDT by
MonroeDNA
(Communists & Socialists: They only survive through lies.)
To: Howeln
With a faver that high, it is most likely a gram-negative bacterial infection from something they ate or drank
27 posted on
04/22/2003 2:05:59 PM PDT by
realpatriot71
(legalize freedom!)
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