[MrEdd]

Swine Obama? Everyone knows that.

Oh Ebola.

My bad

[vetvetdoug]

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.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

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.

[Dallas59]

Raise taxes to stop it.

[DvdMom]

Ping to 1

[editor-surveyor]

Be Afraid!

[darth]

The key question is, “How did this virus travel from Africa to the Philipines?” Terrorist plot to kill pig-owning Christians?

[Allegra]

See? There are some good things about living in the Middle East. ;-)

[Costumed Vigilante]

[blam]

Parts Of Britain "Near An H1N1 Epidemic"; 14 Dead

Thu Jul 9, 2009 6:40pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Fourteen Britons who had contracted H1N1 flu have died and the rapid spread of infection in two areas of the country is close to epidemic level, health officials said on Thursday.

The Department of Health said Britain now had 9,718 laboratory-confirmed cases, the third most in the world behind the United States and Mexico.

Britain's Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said the actual number of cases was likely to be higher.

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[PA Engineer]

There is more including the case of swine to human transmission.

" JANUARY 26, 2009

Update: Ebola-Reston Virus Jumped From Pigs to At Least One Human

The Ebola-Reston virus, recently found for the first time in pigs in the Philippines, has now been confirmed to have infected at least one human. Scientists are relieved because the person did not get sick and is unlikely to have passed the virus to others. The virus is related to Ebola strains that have caused fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans in Africa. But Ebola-Reston has not caused serious illness in the two dozen people previously infected through contact with monkeys dying from the viral disease. Officials are concerned about finding the virus in pigs because the farm animals live in close proximity to humans and are thought to be "mixing vessels" where animal viruses mutate into forms dangerous to humans.