Strange new disease outbreaks

various FR links | 06-09-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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 Influenza Pandemic 'Could Be Avoided'

 The West Nile Virus outbreak of 1999 in New York: the Flushing Hospital experience.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399613/posts?page=1242#1242

 Avian Flu Surveillance Project

 

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China bug - Is it Ebola-like bird flu?

 

 Doctor will stand trial for tainted blood scandal

 

 Experts Alarmed at 'Unheard Of' Human Deaths from PigDisease

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If it works, good news:

 Avian Flu Vaccine Called Effective in Human Testing

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 Unarmed against a flu pandemic -- Actually there is some very encouraging news today to be published in tomorrow's NY Times. Scroll to the end of the thread.  Avian Flu Surveillance Project

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 Lung Cancer Hits Young, Non-Smoking Women [More women die of it than breast/ovarian/uterine cancers] -- spending $111 per death from AIDS, compared to $10 per death from cancer, $3 for heart disease and $2 for stroke --

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 Bird flu vaccine works on people, U.S. tests suggest

[Alas Babylon!]

The Stand, Alas! Babylon!, Fallen Angels... good reads, all.

Yes, I HIGHLY recommend the second in your list.

[Mad Mammoth]

Monkeypox worries CDC

Ah HA!!! ANOTHER sly attempt to sneak a reference to "DC" into the thread!!! Caught ya!!!

(LOL)

Seriously, thanks for the thread, it is a wealth of information, and I will be saving it for future reference. ;)

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Yes, I HIGHLY recommend the second in your list.

Thanks for stopping by- Alas Babylon!, ever the sly one!

[Mad Mammoth]

I always thought it curious that the protagonist in Alas Babylon (Randy Bragg of Ft Repose Florida) would have a usurper of his name (sort of) in Stephen King's "The Stand", speaking of noneother than "Randall Flagg" (whom I believe also happens to be a FReeper, heh!)

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I always thought it curious that the protagonist in Alas Babylon (Randy Bragg of Ft Repose Florida) would have a usurper of his name (sort of) in Stephen King's "The Stand", speaking of noneother than "Randall Flagg" (whom I believe also happens to be a FReeper, heh!)

The last time I looked, I had a copy of AB somewhere around the piles of books that clutter the house-- I'll have to try to dredge it up and read it again.

Man, that was a long time ago- I was a teenager, one telephone in all the house, one B&W TV in the living room, we were about the only family in the neighborhood with two cars- the "good" one, and Dad's "fishing car"- a 1949 Plymouth station wagon named Jarhead. And here today, I'm sitting by a home-made PC that probably is more versatile than the mainframes from that long-ago era, in touch with the whole world.

It's amazing how far we have come.

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WHO says bird flu vaccine good first step, but is no "silver bullet"

 

 Bird Flu Vaccine Requires Huge Doses; Stretching Strategies Critical

 

 County Takes West Nile Fight To The Air - Aerial Spraying Over Sacramento To Begin Monday Night

 

 Handcuffs and stethoscopes

 Bird Flu Vaccine Requires Huge Doses; Stretching Strategies Critical

 County Takes West Nile Fight To The Air - Aerial Spraying Over Sacramento To Begin Monday Night

 Handcuffs and stethoscopes

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Common Dog Tick Found to Spread Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

 

 China reported bird flu cases in Tibet - OIE

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 Deadly bird flu virus is closing in on Europe

 

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 560 infected, 7 dead in Iran cholera outbreak

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  50-80 Million Deaths Blamed On Environmental Extremists’ DDT Ban

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 Dengue fever outbreak in Mexico causing concern in Texas [Hemorrhagic Strain of the Disease]

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Poultry to stay indoors as Dutch fend off bird flu

 

H5N1 is now past the Urals. Next stop: The EU.

Color coded circles for wild bird H5N1:
May = Red June - Orange July = Yellow August = Green

Square = Unconfirmed reports of dead birds

Human outbreaks, etiology unknown
Orange Oval = Sharkin, Udmurtia, Russia (fever, meningitis, gastro-intestinal)
Blue Oval = Tomsk, Tomsk, Russia (fever, meningitis)
Red Oval = Moklakap, Chita, Russia (fever, vomiting)

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H5N1 is now past the Urals. Next stop: The EU.

Color coded circles for wild bird H5N1:
May = Red June - Orange July = Yellow August = Green

Square = Unconfirmed reports of dead birds

Human outbreaks, etiology unknown
Orange Oval = Sharkin, Udmurtia, Russia (fever, meningitis, gastro-intestinal)
Blue Oval = Tomsk, Tomsk, Russia (fever, meningitis)
Red Oval = Moklakap, Chita, Russia (fever, vomiting)

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Bird flu virus: A crisis waiting to explode

 

Muslim nations in poverty see polio resurgence - RICH COUNTERPARTS DO LITTLE TO HELP -- Yes. They are inbred imbeciles...

 Muslims' New Tack on Polio: A Vaccine en Route to Mecca

 

Soviet Germ Factories Pose New Threat