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Turkeys have been confirmed to have H1N1 (first non-pig/non-human infection)
Reuters ^

Posted on 08/20/2009 8:55:33 PM PDT by IDRATHERNOT

Chile detected the H1N1 swine flu virus in turkeys, authorities said on Thursday, the first time the virus has been found outside humans or pigs.

Chile's farming and livestock agency SAG said the flu outbreak had been controlled at the two farms 75 miles (120 km) west of the capital Santiago.

(Excerpt) Read more at forexyard.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chile; flu; h1n1; influenza; swineflu; turkey; turkeys
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To: IDRATHERNOT

If the virus is infecting turkeys, Obama will probably catch it. For he is the biggest turkey of all.


61 posted on 08/20/2009 10:20:16 PM PDT by antiunion person (PALIN for PRESIDENT 2012)
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To: rintense; ConservativeMan55
"No clue. I was a small kid then."

That's because you are my sons age.

My mother go Gullian-Barre disease from the flu shot in 1976. She was left paralized in her right leg...many died.

62 posted on 08/20/2009 10:20:30 PM PDT by blam
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To: null and void

thanks, bfl


63 posted on 08/20/2009 10:21:29 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: IDRATHERNOT

Im no doctor but wouldn’t logic dictate that once it jumps from Human to “turkey” the strain name would change. Now it effects a human and 2 animals, rather then 1 human and 1 animal. It had to morph in some fashion, thus its no longer H1N1. Perhaps the viri morphed and only attacks turkeys and cant jump from turkey to human, or pig for that matter. Just food for thought...


64 posted on 08/20/2009 10:23:36 PM PDT by cdnerds (Now part of the conservative underground,)
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To: IDRATHERNOT

Wonder if cranberry sauce will give them cancer?


65 posted on 08/20/2009 10:30:34 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: rintense
I recall kids going to the gym in 1963 to get some kind of shots. Many returned with blood running down their arms. I didn't join that circus. My dad was in the Navy and we got all the shots we needed at the Navy dispensary. A few more than most kids do to the associated travel.
66 posted on 08/20/2009 10:49:29 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL!

I was just talking with my son about the turkey drop.


67 posted on 08/20/2009 11:05:50 PM PDT by Califreak (If it's Astroturf, why are you trying to mow it?(sign seen at a town hall meeting))
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To: cdnerds

H1N1 describes the cell interaction characteristics. The ‘H’ helps the virus bind to cells before infection (hemagglutinin). The ‘N’ helps the virus release from the cell (neuraminidase). The species infected makes no difference as these (glycoproteins) remain the same. The H5N1 for instance has a different H configuration which is why it isn’t spread as readily in humans. The initial binding of the virus is less compatible.


68 posted on 08/21/2009 12:20:38 AM PDT by allmost
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To: allmost

I couldn’t do that again to those apostrophes if I tried...


69 posted on 08/21/2009 12:22:33 AM PDT by allmost
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To: HonestConservative; narses; Current Occupant

ping


70 posted on 08/21/2009 12:44:33 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: ElectronVolt

Just call it lab made and forced vaccinations (in sets of three), this fall.

After it was... not so important to close the border, yet a pandemic before.


71 posted on 08/21/2009 12:47:37 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: Carl LaFong

Baldar sez,.....”Mass quantities of Beer”


72 posted on 08/21/2009 3:05:25 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: blam

I believe UK is talking this GB syndrom now in relation to the Swine F


73 posted on 08/21/2009 3:07:47 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Carl LaFong
Will cranberry sauce counteract it?
74 posted on 08/21/2009 3:13:42 AM PDT by roamer_1 (It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
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To: Myrddin

1963 might have been the Schick Test for TB. I got that back in 58/59 in HS and again in 1963 in boot camp.


75 posted on 08/21/2009 4:28:42 AM PDT by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: Roccus

The Schick test is for diphtheria. The Mantoux test is the skin test for TB.


76 posted on 08/21/2009 4:29:41 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (It's a reliable source of information. 50,000 unstoppable watts.)
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To: CholeraJoe

According to this, it was used for TB also. At the time we were told it was for TB. I never realized it was for diphtheria as well. Thanx

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817562,00.html


77 posted on 08/21/2009 4:38:10 AM PDT by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: CholeraJoe

The more I read on this, the more confused I’m getting.
The test I got in HS and again in boot camp might well have been mis-named the Shick test. It consisted of a drop of fluid on the skin followed be a device which produced several (6?) pin pricks that just broke the skin. In HS I got it on the fore arm and in boot camp on the upper arm near my small pox vaccination mark.


78 posted on 08/21/2009 4:46:27 AM PDT by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: CholeraJoe

I also remember in boot camp getting several injections just below the skin as in the Mantoux test.

Like I said, I’m getting confused as to which was which. Perhaps more coffee will help.


79 posted on 08/21/2009 4:50:49 AM PDT by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: Roccus

What you are describing is the classic Tine test for TB, not the Schick test. The Mantoux test, which is a single intradermal injection not a series of pricks, replaced the Tine test in the early 60’s and is still the gold standard for detecting prior or occult TB infection.


80 posted on 08/21/2009 4:56:47 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (It's a reliable source of information. 50,000 unstoppable watts.)
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