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2007-08-31 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-31 14:34|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 so does this mean that the hospitals and other medical facilities down Texas-way will have to treat the 'undocumented' folks that show up all hurtin? seems to me that if a vaccine can be developed and administered, then anybody that shows signs of this has just earned a free trip south.
couse i am probably over-simplifying the problem a little bit.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-31 14:44|| 2007-08-31 14:44|| Front Page Top

#2 I knew a girl in central AZ who got it. red-haired Irish. She lived in apartments near railroad tracks, and started to get some really odd symptoms.

Doctors in southern AZ had been told to look out for it, but not in central AZ. She saw five, then her boyfriend asked me. After about 10 minutes on the Internet, I was able to match 15 for 15 symptoms. The next doctor she visited confirmed it.

Just one mosquito is all it takes.

Oh, and don't hold your breath for a vaccine. It can be one of four different viruses, none of which are easy to vaccinate against.

Usually, the first time you get it you are miserable for three weeks, and look like heck. But if you get it a second time, it can unpredictably turn into the hemorrhagic form, which behaves somewhat like ebola.

Nasty stuff. Best advise to the red-haired girl: move North of Colorado and never visit South again.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-31 16:32|| 2007-08-31 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 New Bugs, massive Spider webs and Chupacabras. Here on Guam, the only time I've seen such large spider webs is during a heat wave or after a heat wave - some Netters are arguing Earth is overdue for a massive solar flare???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-31 22:18|| 2007-08-31 22:18|| Front Page Top

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