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2007-05-31 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-31 19:08|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 84% mortality in 16 days? Jeesh! Ebola virus has 90% mortality. Even smallpox had only 30% mortality during its heyday. XDR-TB is up there with the biggies.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-05-31 19:36|| 2007-05-31 19:36|| Front Page Top

#2 what's bad is that it took a dumbass too fly over much of the western hemispehere fo anyone too realize it

Posted by sinse 2007-05-31 20:45|| 2007-05-31 20:45|| Front Page Top

#3 what's bad is that it took a dumbass too fly over much of the western hemispehere for anyone too realize it

Posted by sinse 2007-05-31 20:45|| 2007-05-31 20:45|| Front Page Top

#4 what's bad is that it took a dumbass too fly over much of the western hemispehere for anyone too realize it

Posted by sinse 2007-05-31 20:45|| 2007-05-31 20:45|| Front Page Top

#5 what's bad is that it took a dumbass too fly over much of the western hemispehere for anyone too realize it

Posted by sinse 2007-05-31 20:46|| 2007-05-31 20:46|| Front Page Top

#6 what's bad is that it took a dumbass too fly over much of the western hemispehere for anyone too realize it

Posted by sinse 2007-05-31 20:46|| 2007-05-31 20:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Years ago, I was in restaurant in Belfast, incidentally I'm pretty sure it was the Abercorn which got blown up a short while later, and the Irish girl with me told me that man with the soft persistent cough at the next table had TB.

"That cough, you can hardly hear. That's why the Irish call it the polite disease."

Posted by phil_b 2007-05-31 21:04|| 2007-05-31 21:04|| Front Page Top

#8 And it's sinse by a full two lengths with a rare quadruple post!
Still, I'm confident that most of us who look at the following picture would want to drive a fist into his grinning mug.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-31 21:17|| 2007-05-31 21:17|| Front Page Top

#9 How comforting that border guys feel they know more than the intel given them about said travelers.

The unidentified inspector explained that he was no doctor but that the infected man seemed perfectly healthy and that he thought the warning was merely "discretionary," officials briefed on the case told The Associated Press.

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So he knew he was sick and should have been detained but allowed him free entry?! What a stupid a**.
And yes let me straighten his tie it's not tight enough.

Posted by Jan 2007-05-31 21:30|| 2007-05-31 21:30|| Front Page Top

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