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Pandemic?
« on: September 22, 2013, 08:45:24 AM »
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2013, 08:50:26 AM »
Again ?
The last time this was supposed to kill us all there were about 30 deaths nation wide.
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2013, 05:13:09 PM »
Bring it on!  Freeway driving will be easier.
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2013, 05:51:39 PM »
Quote from: kmitch200 on September 22, 2013, 05:13:09 PM
Bring it on!  Freeway driving will be easier.

It's a loosing battle....even if one out of every two were killed, there still would be  half of them left    ;D ;D
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2013, 06:16:36 PM »
At least it's not the zombie apocalypse.
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Re: Pandemic?
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2013, 06:51:22 PM »
One can always hope that it confined to Democrats and Liberals.
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2013, 10:09:33 PM »
Harummph.  I'm keeping an eye on the MERs coronavirus.  http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/index.html

There were a lot of rapidly increasing cases, perhaps mostly from Saudi medical personnel, then it went to zero during the ring around the rock festival.  Afterwards, there started to be cases again.

Seems to somehow be related to camels?  No kiddin',...read it for yourself.  

Coronaviruses can generally be carried by bats....don't anyone let Feinstein, Pelosi or Boxer into the Midde East or if you do then don't let them back.  Seriously, yes bats can carry the corona virus.

The mortality rate is very high with this thing.
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2013, 05:52:03 AM »
Sickle cell for Muslims ?
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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2013, 08:40:03 AM »
SSDD from a science POV here.

I know the science really well on this and a H7 pandemic is VERY unlikely. MERS is interesting from a science POV but also still very local. At this point it appears to be folks being exposed to an animal host (unknown what) could be bats (feces) or bug bites around camels (which seem to carry the virus). Not much human to human transmission.

What has changed is not nature but our ability to see these small scale cross species infections at a much earlier stage than ever before. We ahve no historical record to compare these blips against so the crowd goes crazy.

Standard precautions still apply, just like they have for the last 200 years.

BTW 25% of all mammal species are bats!

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Re: Pandemic?
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2013, 05:50:05 PM »
This might be a stupid question but do you mean 25% by population (i.e. out of every 100 mammals alive on the planet, 25 are bats) or 25% by number of species (i.e. for every 100 different species of mammals, 25 of them are bat species.)  Not sure if my wording makes sense, but I hope you know what I mean.

If it's the latter, to me, that just means more specialization, or more mutation within the... Genus?  I didn't do that well in my high school biology class.  If it's the former, how many bats would that be? What % are humans?
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