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2009-05-07 Africa North

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I'm sure it's all you-know-who's fault.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-05-07 03:43|| 2009-05-07 03:43|| Front Page Top

#2 It goes without saying.

Posted by gorb 2009-05-07 04:06|| 2009-05-07 04:06|| Front Page Top

#3 "Tragic irony"? How about at least cleaning the syringes with alcohol and flame sterilizing the needle? Is it me or would this help?

Posted by gromky 2009-05-07 04:53|| 2009-05-07 04:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Sigh... Hep C is a b*tch. At the time of the infections, little was known about it (it was called Non-A Non-B Hepatitis.) The liver transplants won't hold out very long- it doesn't cure the disease. They would probably be better off super-dosing the remaining victims with interferon+ribavirin (much cheaper too) but it often makes the patient very sick (think AIDS cocktail.) A lot of people in Europe got C from improperly screened blood transfusions... that wasn't Bush's fault either.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-05-07 07:04|| 2009-05-07 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 tens of thousands will die each year unless they receive a liver transplant.

Thing about livers is everybody needs one. For tens of thousands to NOT die by getting a transplant other tens of thousands HAD TO die to provide the livers. And the 'donors' have to be at least somewhat healthy. Now, AQ could provide donors through their program of decapitation....

Posted by Glenmore 2009-05-07 13:14|| 2009-05-07 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 "we've come to get your liver donation."
"but i'm still using it!"
"you signed the organ donor card, didn't you?"
"huh? uh, well, yes..."
"right, then, -- may we have your liver?"

Posted by Querent 2009-05-07 14:16|| 2009-05-07 14:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm sure they can cure this if they just kill all the pigs. Oh, I should clarify, by "pigs" I don't mean Jews, but those animals that go "oink".

Posted by AuburnTom 2009-05-07 14:47|| 2009-05-07 14:47|| Front Page Top

#8 If transgenic livers or hearts are ever developed, it will mostly be from pigs. I can imagine the contortions muslims will go through to justify implanting living pig parts inside them, or the hush-hush tones of rich muslims who have had porcine heart valve implants.

Posted by ed 2009-05-07 15:01|| 2009-05-07 15:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps, if the kidney converted before the transplant...

Reaction explored here.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-05-07 17:10|| 2009-05-07 17:10|| Front Page Top

#10 "that wasn't Bush's fault either"

Nonsense, FR - everything bad is Bush's fault.

Get with the program. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-07 19:09|| 2009-05-07 19:09|| Front Page Top

#11
#9 Perhaps, if the kidney converted before the transplant... harhahrhahrha

Posted by Classer 2009-05-07 19:14|| 2009-05-07 19:14|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't suppose it would be good form to mention that there is some good research about using swine livers as a stop gap measure until a suitable donor liver is found.

You don't suppose...........

Oh never mind.

Posted by James Carville 2009-05-07 20:07|| 2009-05-07 20:07|| Front Page Top

#13 "doc says you're gonna die"

/old snakebite joke

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-05-07 20:38|| 2009-05-07 20:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Actually, the liver has a tremendous power of regeneration. Often, a healthy person donates a lobe of his liver to a child recipient, or one cadaver liver is sectioned and transplanted to more than one recipient. More extreme measures are possible, though the surgery is difficult.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-05-07 22:29|| 2009-05-07 22:29|| Front Page Top

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