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2008-05-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Nerves. Canadian Train Quarantined After Death, Flu-Like Symptoms

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-09 11:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Cassandra Crossing.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-05-09 12:37|| 2008-05-09 12:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not liking this one bit. However, credit to the Canadian authorities for locking down tight and fast.

Now some info on what it is please (I know, I am sure they are running the samples now, but don't want to wait).

Posted by bombay">bombay 2008-05-09 13:08|| 2008-05-09 13:08|| Front Page Top

#3 There are a bunch of governments that are hair trigger about "flu-like symptoms" right now.

Coughing and sneezing in an airport is the new "bomb joke", in that an allergy could get you put in an isolation chamber for a week. No sense of humor about these things.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-09 13:55|| 2008-05-09 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Given the woeful, inadequate response to the SARS outbreak in Canada, 'Moose, I'm not surprised by this at all.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-05-09 14:40|| 2008-05-09 14:40|| Front Page Top

#5 No sense of humor about these things.

Well ... I know I don't. Not after the briefings I've heard from DOD medical personnel on expectations if we have a human-human transmittable bird flu.

You know they're taking it seriously when the discussion turns from how to manage the bodies on post due to a 45-50% mortality rate and 75% infection rate in the first 2 weeks to the triage needed to keep military hospitals from being overwhelmed to what happens when hordes of panicked civilians storm the post gates looking for treatment for their kids.

Posted by lotp 2008-05-09 14:45|| 2008-05-09 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Google this pdf file put together by the CDC for a little bit of eye-opening: "Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance:Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States."

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-05-09 14:48|| 2008-05-09 14:48|| Front Page Top

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