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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:06 am
by Shirley
smh
Some people think of measles as just a little rash and fever that clears up in a few days, but measles can cause serious health complications, especially in children younger than 5 years of age. T
here is no way to tell in advance the severity of the symptoms your child will experience.
About 1 in 5 people in the U.S. who get measles will be hospitalized
1 out of every 1,000 people with measles will develop brain swelling, which could lead to brain damage
1 to 3 out of 1,000 people with measles will die, even with the best care
Measles is very contagious.
Measles spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 9 out of 10 people around him or her will also become infected if they are not protected. Your child can get measles just by being in a room where a person with measles has been, even up to two hours after that person has left. An infected person can spread measles to others even before knowing he/she has the disease—from four days before developing the measles rash through four days afterward.
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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 11:56 am
by Deleted User 89
their parents should be held accountable and billed for the cost of the response...even if they were kiwis
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:22 pm
by CrimsonNBlue
When civil liberties go wrong.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 8:58 am
by Deleted User 89
TDub wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:36 am
TraditionKU wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:27 pm
people shouldn’t buy dogs from pet shops anyway
This is correct. It's not necessarily dogs that are the problem. It is puppy mills, and pet shop puppies. Lots of problems with those dogs. And it's certainly not the dogs fault.
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... ly-lawsuit
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:08 am
by TDub
This goes back to my point on another thread. People suck.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:09 am
by Deleted User 89
yes they do
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 9:16 am
by Shirley
China virus: Surge in new cases raises concerns about human transmission amid holiday travel season
The Spring Festival in China is always a logistical exercise of mind-blowing proportions: hundreds of millions of people traveling via planes, trains, buses and taxis to return to their hometowns to ring in the new lunar year with their families.
It is the biggest human migration on the planet. And that’s without mentioning the bursting bags of gifts, clothing, food and liquor that travel with them.
But this year, authorities are having to deal with a new and potentially deadly challenge: the spread of a mysterious, pneumonialike virus that is confounding diagnosis and treatment, and sparking concerns across the country and beyond.
Officials have confirmed 218 cases, and although they are centered on Wuhan, there are infections from Beijing in the north to Guangdong in the south. Three people have died, the most recent on Saturday, and eight people are in critical condition. Authorities do not know what the virus is, beyond saying that it is a type known as a coronavirus.
The surge in infections — about 150 confirmed since Saturday — has some experts increasingly convinced that, contrary to initial indications, it can be passed from person to person.
“The fact that there have been [so many] new cases indicates that there is human-to-human transmission,” said Guan Yi, an virologist at Hong Kong University who was instrumental in identifying the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), another coronavirus, in 2003.
“The number of new cases has increased suddenly. We should not play word games anymore about whether it’s human-to-human transmission,” he told Caixin, a local news outlet.
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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 5:21 pm
by Deleted User 89
SARS 2.0
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:23 am
by jhawks99
Captain Trips
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:11 pm
by jhawks99
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:05 pm
by Shirley
Wuhan, the central Chinese city of 11 million people where the coronavirus outbreak began last month, has taken the unprecedented action of suspending all outbound travel beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday to contain the escalating epidemic.
The People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, reported that “no people in Wuhan...will be allowed to leave the city.” It said that train stations, ferries, buses and the airport will all be shut temporarily.
The announcement came as the new coronavirus continued to spread across China and nearby countries Wednesday, with authorities in the province where it began reporting that 17 people have now died as a result of infection, almost tripling in a day.
Officials have warned that the virus could mutate, complicating efforts to contain it in the middle of the busiest travel period on the Chinese calendar. Some 400 million people are on the move in China in advance of Lunar New Year’s Day, which falls on Saturday.
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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:19 pm
by jhawks99
Sounds like they're closing the barn door after the horse got out.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:20 pm
by Deleted User 89
good on them...better a little late than not at all
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:28 pm
by Shirley
Suddenly, I ain't worried no more:
President Trump said from Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum, that Americans have nothing to worry about because there was only a single case in the United States so far. “It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control,” he said.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:33 pm
by Shirley
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:36 pm
by Deleted User 89
but the prez assured us there was nothing to worry about
he’s got the southern border covered, so no corona viruses will get in illegally
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:43 pm
by DCHawk1
I usually call in sick to work on May 6th with Corona virus.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:43 pm
by Geezer
If only the wall was completed.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:49 pm
by ChalkRocker
lol! You guys. You still got it.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:49 am
by DCHawk1