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If Swine Flu Wasn't Enough, Now There's Swine Ebola
Scientific American ^
| July 9, 2009
| Brendan Borrell
Posted on 07/09/2009 12:15:12 PM PDT by dan_s
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posted on
07/09/2009 12:15:13 PM PDT
by
dan_s
To: dan_s
Swine Obama? Everyone knows that.
Oh Ebola.
My bad
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posted on
07/09/2009 12:17:52 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: dan_s
Reston Strain.....what an honor for a virus...to be named for the US City where the first identified Ebola outbreak occurred right across the street from a McDonalds. I'd loved to be sitting in the McDonalds then watching them carry out dead monkeys into unmarked white vans...with all of the facility's employees dressed in bio protective suits.That would had been real comforting for the McDonald's diners.
To: dan_s
If this new Ebola virus is so potent that it kills the infected within days of catching it, then it won’t be as bad as the other viruses already around. The crucial tool that viruses use to propagate globally, is the ability to be dormant for a while once infected. This will allow the host to cover more geography until the virus takes its final toll.
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posted on
07/09/2009 12:26:16 PM PDT
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: MyTwoCopperCoins
Little comfort to those who harbor said virus.
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posted on
07/09/2009 12:31:53 PM PDT
by
Neoliberalnot
((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
To: dan_s
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posted on
07/09/2009 12:45:30 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: Dallas59
Porkulus to the rescue! oh , the irony.
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:07:51 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: Smokin' Joe; LucyT; Palladin; azishot; metmom; FromLori; MarMema; DannyTN; zek157; OB1kNOb; ...
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:22:03 PM PDT
by
DvdMom
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...
Interesting. The question is one of whether having been infected with this apparently harmless variety of ebola confers immunity to the deadly variety of the virus we are all more familliar with.
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posted on
07/09/2009 2:02:58 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Oh, just kill me now and get it over with! ;)
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posted on
07/09/2009 2:05:50 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Let's help Sarah take back America!)
To: Smokin' Joe
Yea, but who’s going to volunteer to test the hypothesis?
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posted on
07/09/2009 2:06:22 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: dan_s
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posted on
07/09/2009 2:08:15 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: editor-surveyor
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posted on
07/09/2009 2:17:05 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 170 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: dan_s
The key question is, “How did this virus travel from Africa to the Philipines?” Terrorist plot to kill pig-owning Christians?
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:05:08 PM PDT
by
darth
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:15:28 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: DvdMom; All
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:15:41 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: vetvetdoug
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That would had been real comforting for the McDonald's diners." To be a McDiner, one has to have either nerves of steel, or total disregard of self. They are beyond comfort!
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:29:55 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: DvdMom
Isn’t the swine flu also causing vomiting and diarrhea in some patients (as does ebola)?
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:34:34 PM PDT
by
azishot
(Please join the NRA.)
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:37:05 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: LucyT
So pigs can give it to humans and humans can give it to pigs? Is it the same strain? This really boggles my poor little mind.
Then on top of it all, I’m supposed to trust the gov’t to protect me????
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posted on
07/09/2009 3:43:12 PM PDT
by
azishot
(Please join the NRA.)
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