The virus is here folks!

bicycle racer said:

the simplest viruses are the border between chemistry and life. which side there really on is debated by scientists. i always wonder what the evolutionary purpose is of such things. by looking at simple viruses were looking into the evolution of our past. the cause of mad cow disease is also from my understanding in the grey area there a basic protein called prions if i remember correctly.

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Mad Cow was caused by Prions. Prions are protien agents that cause some kinds of brain desieses.

poplars said:

dimensions buddy . . . if we're getting /anywhere/ fast, that's how.

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You seem like the type of person that likes to think. Try looking up quantum physics. You don't have to understand it in detail, just what it implies. I blew a tiny hole in my brain thinking about it yesterday.

i love quantum physics. like you said though it strains the brain. its like a work out for the mind which is a good thing some of those theorists are so intelligent. i have my moments of mental clarity where i can understand most things but some people are on a different level all the time.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682 .... more cases and spreading rapidly, none of the cases in the US have been fatal though. Lol, case in San Antonio not far from me. No need to be worried it seems at least at this point. Could drag on slow and be gone, could come fast and go away. Of course could go away and come back mutated to be more effective and be alot worse lol. Who knows, worth keep an eye one I suppose.

i don't feel so good.

OMFG! you got swine flu, ur gonna die!.... sorry to be the one to inform you and no im not a doctor but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!

....out

the key with serious epidemics to really kill large numbers is a dormant period where you dont know your sick and show no ill effects but can still spread the illness. too deadly too fast with obvious sings of illness and it burns itself out too quickly being trapped in established quarantine's. very scary stuff a powerful virus is a true killer with no discrimination.

hell i'm 47 and i've seen all kinds of incidents like this. i don't think its anything to worry too much about. i've been hearing about different diseases most of my life and these things come and go in the news. in a year or so everyone will have forgotten about swine flu because something else will pop up to take its place. there was a big scare in the last couple of years about west nile and while it can be dangerous its not always fatal. my neice had it and she just thught it was the flu but she recovered with out even being in the hospital. when people start dropping dead then its time to panic but not now.

remember SARS?

Coincidence?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/missing.virus.sample/index.html?iref=newssearch

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.
Fort Detrick is the home of the Army's top biological research facility.

Fort Detrick is the home of the Army's top biological research facility.

The Army's Criminal Investigation Command agents have been visiting Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, to investigate the disappearance of the vials. Christopher Grey, spokesman for the command, said this latest investigation has found "no evidence of criminal activity."

The vials contained samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, a virus that sickens horses and can be spread to humans by mosquitoes. In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. There is an effective vaccine for the disease and there hasn't been an outbreak in the United States since 1971.

does this pose a threat?
only one thing is for sure
we are all going to be killed....

lol watching scary movie

personally i dont think its gonna be as bad in the U.S as it is in Mexico, but you never know, im staying at home anyways...

Stoney McFried said:

These outbreaks don't scare me because I'm not a germophobe.I get dirty. I don't run out and get every new vaccine they put out there. I don't go to the doctor unless I can't fix the problem on my own.I don't use antibiotics unless they are absolutely needed.People are weakening themselves by not allowing their body to fight invaders on its own.

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Hear hear. I've been telling people that for years... yet they go get more hopped up every year. Grabbing antibiotics every time they have a common cold.

You want sick? A few years ago I had the worse case of flu I'd had in my life... biggest fever, literally couldn't stand up, hallucinations,every fiber of muscle and every tendon and ligament ached like they were made of pain wrought from iron and stone, I was in bed unconscious in fever for over 4 days straight... almost 4 weeks to recover.

I survived that without antibiotics - and thats all the better for me this year. Bring it on...

And people wonder why I never get sick from colds and small shit. This is why.

did you know bubonic plague is alive and well in california field mice and other rodents chipmunks etc... it rarely causes problems but occasionally someone gets sick. cats can contract it from killing and eating sick mice. when california or other areas have a solid rainy season and there is plenty of food for rodent populations to explode there are often cases of humans getting sick.

squirrels have passed it by the fleas they carry to humans in Sacramento parks , i remember it when i lived in cal. in the early eighties

bingo.... i raise a bottle of Ruination IPA in your general direction, yet drink it all on my own...lol

scientists are working on a new way to attack the flue virus instead of attacking the body of the bug they are going for a stem that connect the virus parts that stay the same in all forms big strides in a anti body soon

that would be lame getting bubonic plague from a squirrel i would not be pleased with that squirrel or its fleas for that matter.

the 3 that scare me are plagues asteroids and gamma ray bursts the latter 2 in particular.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/?GT1=43001

The US has declared a Public Health Emergency in connection with the swine flu outbreak, the number of confirmed cases in the US is up to 20 and the death toll is now at 86 in Mexico.

Canada also now has 4 confirmed cases and there are suspected cases in nations ranging from New Zealand to France.