chrisisasavage
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CDC: New Respiratory Bug Has Killed 10
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Just a few hundred more and it'll surpass SARS.... |
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I was thinking SARS when I read that. New virus, called mutant form of the "common cold", even if SARS was a coronavirus, and this is a adenovirus. Common cold means lots of things.
SARS came eerily close to being a pandemic. The 7+ day incubation period gave us time to make quarantine work.
Evidence from Toronto was SARS was in fact Airborne ( http://www.sciencedaily.com/...ses/2005/03/050325200120.htm )
SARS was killing lots of people before it was even detected, thought it's possible this has been too. The interesting thing with this virus (like SARS, and Bird Flu) is the incidence of ARDS in the patients, suggesting excessive immune response, and thus a novel virus.
Interestingly, doctors in China have said (more or less) that the ARDS caused by H5N1 Bird Flu makes SARS look like a bad cough, and they've seen their share of both.
Even scarier, swine H1N1 genetics have been detected in this years seasonal influenza. That's more or less what the 1918 flu was, human H1N1 that mutated with swine H1N1 to make a strain that was we did not have a immune response for. That's also why I don't like how H5N1 has been compared to 1918 H1N1 so much, it's not the exact same scenario. We don't know what H5N1 would do in a pandemic. Chances are it would be really, really bad, possibly worse than 1918. |
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Emerging disease is a constant threat, and will only get worse as the population gets bigger. There are probably many diseases we don't even know of that currently do not affect us or only cause minor illness that could become bad news with only a few genetic changes. |
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Makes you want to watch the movies 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.
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28 days later !! damn fine flick for a british budget flim...
hmmm - shoulda added that to my Doom poll  |
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I need to watch 28 weeks later. 28 days later was a good zombie flick, and I love zombie movies. |
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28 Weeks Later is great in my opinion. It has sequel written all over it too.
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7% CFR (Case Fatality Rate, 10 out of 140) so far.
[edit: I removed the news links, I posted the wrong one, and can't find it, so until I do, they're removed.] |
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Virus Starts Like a Cold But Can Turn Into a Killer
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Fatal Adenovirus 14 On Prince of Wales Island Alaska
| Quote From Source: | After a physician reported Sept. 22 that an unusual number of people were falling ill, the division sent a team to the island to pore over medical records, Funk said. Scientists at the state virology laboratory in Fairbanks and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta collected specimens and conducted tests to determine the cause of the outbreak, Funk said. The CDC identified adenovirus in six of 13 samples sent to it.
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Source: Recombinomics
Source URL: http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10070801/PoW_Ad14.html |
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