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CDC Urged To Investigate Mystery Polio-Like Illness Affecting California Kids
CBS San Francisco ^ | February 27, 2014 | NA

Posted on 03/03/2014 3:07:05 PM PST by neverdem

WASHINGTON (CBS / AP) — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer asked the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to initiate a formal investigation into what has caused polio-like paralysis in about 20 children in California over the past 18 months.

Boxer said “we need answers” in her letter to CDC Director Thomas Frieden. In particular, she wants the agency to look into whether the illness can be traced to a virus or environmental factors. She also wants to know whether the agency is aware of similar reports of paralysis nationwide...

(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: affecting; amnesty; california; cdc; celebratediversity; enterovirus; illegalimmigration; illness; investigate; kids; microbiology; mystery; openborders; polio; poliolike; quarantine; rarevirus; virology
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1 posted on 03/03/2014 3:07:05 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Or they could just spend a bunch more money on “studies” to support their civilian disarmament agenda.


2 posted on 03/03/2014 3:10:11 PM PST by thorvaldr
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To: neverdem

They should investigate how the national debt is going to affect children....


3 posted on 03/03/2014 3:11:12 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: neverdem

Personally, I think there’s a chance it might be a delta-smelt-borne virus.

You could wipe this pest out once and for all by simply diverting all that water back to the Central Valley farmers.

Now I’m not virologist or epidemiologist, but I have a gut feeling on this. Delta-smelt-borne. How can they NOT go with my gut feeling and wipe that stupid fish out? It’s for the children!


4 posted on 03/03/2014 3:12:10 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: neverdem

It’s a miracle that a dread disease hasn’t spread from some third world cesspool already. Between invaders entering the US and global wars for banker domination destroying civilizations, something’s got to give.


5 posted on 03/03/2014 3:12:31 PM PST by grania
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping...(thanks, neverdem!)


6 posted on 03/03/2014 3:14:28 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: neverdem

This is typical liberalism in a nutshell. They create a problem (this is probably the result of illegal immigration or wacko environmental problems), then have the government look into it, call for more money to be thrown at it, and the cycle continues. How in the Hell is Boxer a Senator anyway? One of the Kardashians would be an upgrade.


7 posted on 03/03/2014 3:16:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: neverdem

She’s an idiot, but if I had young children in CA, I’d be concerned.


8 posted on 03/03/2014 3:19:36 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: neverdem

Saw this on the news a few days ago and it is pretty scary. Otherwise healthy kids get an upper respiratory illness and boom... polio like symptoms. The limbs affected don’t regain feeling either. What concerns me is it is starting in California.. will it simply die out or will it start spreading across the states?


9 posted on 03/03/2014 3:21:52 PM PST by momtothree
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CDC Urged To Investigate Mystery Polio-Like Illness Affecting California Kids

Their parents are all vegetarians?

The NEA and environmental liberalism (a prevalent and pernicious toxin in Kalifornistan) have finally dumbed them down to the degree that their brains will no longer control their muscles?

10 posted on 03/03/2014 3:22:43 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: neverdem

Apparently background checks are only for potential gun buyers, not those crossing the border to relocate.


11 posted on 03/03/2014 3:23:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: neverdem

I would begin by investigating how many of these children are illegals, and then how many have associated with illegals, then work backwards.


12 posted on 03/03/2014 3:23:38 PM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Nervous Tick
How can they NOT go with my gut feeling and wipe that stupid fish out? It’s for the children!

I can only conclude that they hate children. Probably grandmas and minorities too. And minority grandmas!

13 posted on 03/03/2014 3:24:08 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: momtothree

For what it’s worth to the research of this problem, polio itself has been making a comeback.


14 posted on 03/03/2014 3:24:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: neverdem
Ten bucks says the road to an answer leads to Mexico...or El Salvador...or Guatemala...or.....
15 posted on 03/03/2014 3:29:26 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: neverdem

source is either illegal aliens or sodomites, bet on it.


16 posted on 03/03/2014 3:34:14 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It took 16 replies ...


17 posted on 03/03/2014 3:38:48 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: grania

It’s a miracle that a dread disease hasn’t spread from some third world cesspool already.


This is what Rotary International has spent the last generation working on_ the worldwide eradication of polio. India was just declared polio-free, and I think there are three nations left where it’s endemic (all Islamist hell-holes).

Bill Gates may not be everyone’s favorite, but hes donated a billion or so to Rotary to get the job done.

I’m interested whether this California outbreak has any patterns. Geographically, ethnically, etc. They have a cute white poster child in the article, but I worry about third world immigrants bringing third world diseases.


18 posted on 03/03/2014 3:40:55 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Ten bucks says the road to an answer leads to Mexico...or El Salvador...or Guatemala...or.....

Started in San Francisco, and carried by seamen.

19 posted on 03/03/2014 3:44:25 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: neverdem

I wonder how many of these children were not vaccinated for polio?


20 posted on 03/03/2014 3:49:29 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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