Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: How many ebola virus can you fit into a droplet in a sneeze or cough??? Does it matter? It takes only one. WHO contradicted CDCP by saying that you can get ebola from a sneeze:

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-09 Thread Craig Haynie
On 10/09/2014 10:40 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: WHO contradicted CDCP by saying that you can get ebola from a sneeze: http://www.naturalnews.com If it's in saliva, then why wouldn't it be in a sneeze? Craig

RE: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-09 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
[mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:40 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: How many ebola virus can you fit into a droplet in a sneeze or cough??? Does it matter

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread John Berry
There is lots of evidence that this can get past biohazard containment procedures: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/07/after-nurse-contracts-ebola-spanish-health-workers-raise-concerns-about-protective-equipment/ If this strain is so infectious that this is so, then

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread James Bowery
The big problem is the virus can live on surfaces that have been in contact with bodily fluids. A would-be suicide bomber could do enormous damage during one day on the NYC subways. Someone has to be offering life insurance policies against death by Ebola but I can't imagine how they could set

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread David Roberson
berry.joh...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Oct 8, 2014 10:26 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season There is lots of evidence that this can get past biohazard containment procedures: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/07/after-nurse-contracts

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread James Bowery
-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Oct 8, 2014 10:26 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season There is lots of evidence that this can get past biohazard containment procedures: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/07/after-nurse-contracts-ebola-spanish-health-workers

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread mixent
In reply to David Roberson's message of Wed, 8 Oct 2014 23:40:42 -0400: Hi, Is it possible that most people have a natural immunity to the virus that prevents them from getting the disease? Those few that are not immune then would be the ones that have a low survival rate. If this were the

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread John Berry
Additionally some people get it but are apparently symptom-less beyond a light touch of the flu. This could very well be a nutrition issue, such that those with insufficient nutrition fail. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:16 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to David Roberson's message of Wed,

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread James Bowery
Hopefully. Or maybe not. If they are ambulatory and have a light touch of the flu they are spreading the virus to people who are not so immune for a lot longer duration than if they started exhibiting unmistakable symptoms of Ebola. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:45 PM, John Berry

RE: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-08 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
. How many ebola virus can you fit into a droplet in a sneeze or cough??? -mi From: James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 9:53 PM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season Hopefully. Or maybe not. If they are ambulatory and have

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-05 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There are two rays of hope here: 1) That the high rate of infection in Africa will allow evolution toward greater ambulatory transmission of the virus. This sounds nonsensical at first but you need to understand

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-03 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: There was this relevant detail in an NYT story about the man with Ebola who flew into Dallas: ... To update the number of people who may have come into contact with the fellow from West Africa with Ebola who flew into Dallas, it appears we're talking about ~ 100 people rather than

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-03 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Apparently the apartment has not yet been disinfected, because Texas is having trouble finding a contractor to do the work. ... Some more interesting details from the article I forgot to link to [1]: - The number of ~ 100 people who may have come into contact with the fellow

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-03 Thread James Bowery
Finally! http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-symptoms-prompt-hospitals-to-brace-for-patients-amid-flu-season/ Hospitals brace for patients with Ebola worries People hear about flu symptoms, they're not paying attention, they haven't been near anybody with Ebola or in an Ebola country, they haven't

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-03 Thread Brad Lowe
Now it turns out this patient #1 knew he was infected.. and just wanted world-class, spare-no-expense treatment in the US. I can't blame him. Time to cancel travel visas and ban non-humanitarian travel from infected countries. Some interesting tips and info at this site.. http://ebolaready.com/

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-03 Thread Axil Axil
The US is susceptible to a Ebola outbreak because a large percentage of the population is health care adverse. This grope of poor people has no health insurance or cannot afford the expense of a long term hospital stay because of sickness. This substantial segment of the population will ignore a

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2014-10-03 Thread hohlr...@gmail.com
In the movie Contagion, large public arenas are converted into triage and containment facilities. - Reply message - From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2014 2:44 PM

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2014-10-03 Thread H Veeder
This was written in august before the current case of Ebola in the United Sates but it compares Ebola to other diseases which spread more easily. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/ebola-worrying-disease quote Far more worrying are diseases that spread exponentially: if one

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-02 Thread John Berry
It seems that Mega doses of Vitamin C are very promising: http://exopolitics.blogs.com/ebolagate/2014/09/combating-ebola-how-to-fight-ebola-with-vitamin-c-ascorbic-acid.html Vitamin C is needed to make collagen that keeps your blood on the inside. Ebola causes Vitamin C to drop to Zero until the

RE: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-02 Thread Charles Francis
Seems the human-infectious form of Ebola was patented back in 2010 by a US government lab (CDC): http://www.google.com/patents/CA2741523A1?cl=en Claims: 1. An isolated hEbola virus comprising a nucleic acid molecule... 2. An isolated hEbola virus having Centers for Disease Control

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-02 Thread Alain Sepeda
I imagine that the hEbola virus is build, and not a natural variant... Just make a similar one and you get around the patent I suspect that some of the claims are not defendable since it is not clear enough for replication ... especially (5) which is not self evident but is a process in itself.

RE: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-02 Thread Jones Beene
Couldn’t resist this, on a balmy day … Looks like Gilead, the big Pharma located not far from here - which conspiracy-theory pundits say is poised to become the IG Farben of the New World Order, seems to have its foot in the ebola door, as expected.

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-02 Thread Alain Sepeda
I don't take conspiracy, except the one of stupidity seriously, because the only horrors that are being planned are public and popular. however if you imagine that some conspiracy is using a disease to establish a control of our freedoms and destinies, you should not use the software of WW2, V

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-02 Thread John Berry
You want conspiracy??? http://exopolitics.blogs.com/breaking_news/2014/08/for-ebola-they-built-drive-through-gas-chambers.html Basically the PCR test is 100% effective at registering positive when tested on someone who has Ebola. It has never been tested on someone without Ebola. So does it

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-01 Thread Brad Lowe
The patient in Texas was put in one of the available hospital isolation units and the 3 paramedics have been put into a 21 day isolation at home. But the CDC admits that this patient may have infected others. How long would it take to fill all the isolation units, doctors are infected, and all the

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-01 Thread James Bowery
There are two rays of hope here: 1) That the high rate of infection in Africa will allow evolution toward greater ambulatory transmission of the virus. This sounds nonsensical at first but you need to understand evolutionary medicine and optimal virulence. There is a good chance the virus will

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Brad Lowe ecatbuil...@gmail.com wrote: It was just two weeks ago Obama said it would be unlikely that Ebola would reach the US. Well, cases were already brought here, deliberately, to Atlanta. As they should have been. If you took that to mean, not a single case of Ebola will reach the US

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-spreading-in-west-africa.html There was this relevant detail in an NYT story about the man with Ebola who flew into Dallas: Officials said Wednesday that they believed

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-10-01 Thread James Bowery
They could instill confidence quite simply by issuing the following statement: As President Obama has declared this to be a national security emergency, by executive order $10 billion of the DoD budget has been reallocated to contain the contagion. $5 billion will go to Eiken Chemical Co. for

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread ChemE Stewart
I think humanity is closing in on the realization that all of this pulsed electromagnetic radiation ( 2 billion watts or more in the US) is actually bad for us. The '70s heralded Ebola with the advent of microwave point to point communications in Africa communities. I think they are cooking the

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Early symptoms of Ebola are flu-like and it is contagious during these flu-like symptoms. Well, they are flu-like but far more severe. Once the person comes down with a full blown case, no one would confuse it with ordinary flu. It is more like the 1918

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I think humanity is closing in on the realization that all of this pulsed electromagnetic radiation ( 2 billion watts or more in the US) is actually bad for us. That is not likely to be causing the epidemic in Africa. It did not cause the 1918 pandemic.

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread James Bowery
Africa was not in the midst of a flu epidemic so they were able to screen for flu like symptoms as a trigger for quarantine. Moreover your assertion that there are discernible differences between this season's flu symptoms and those of early stage Ebola is not only reckless, the aforelinked CDC

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: That's is completely wrong! The CDC is within sight of my office and I know people who work there. News from the CDC is in the Metro section of Atlanta newspapers often. I assure

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Moreover your assertion that there are discernible differences between this season's flu symptoms and those of early stage Ebola is not only reckless, the aforelinked CDC guidelines provide nothing in the way of such criteria. I did not say that. I

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: You just tangled with the wrong guy, Jed. I was the one who contacted the authors of Nature's cover story on AIDS epidemiology (May et al) in 1987 to correct their model -- and guess how I knew about the error? Some grad students at the U of IL had

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: ...discernible differences between this season's flu symptoms and those of early stage Ebola is not only reckless, the aforelinked CDC guidelines provide nothing in the way of

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a good article about how ebola would be treated in the U.S.: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/what-would-happen-if-someone-got-ebola-in-america/375928/ This is how it was, in fact, treated recently in Atlanta, when two infected doctors were airlifted in. One of them was

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: ... It is not possible to tell at an early stage without extensive testing And: 1) They are shedding virus during this stage 2) There has been no mention of flu season in CDC documents about Ebola Of course they are concerned about the similarity!

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: ... It is not possible to tell at an early stage without extensive testing And: 1) They are shedding virus during this stage 2) There has been no mention of flu season in

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Why is it that off topic posts like flu season don't get a Vort kicked off the list when other off-topic posts like christianity get a vort kicked off? On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:08 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry but since none of the usual policy experts want to touch this

RE: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Kevin sez: Why is it that off topic posts like flu season don't get a Vort kicked off the list when other off-topic posts like christianity get a vort kicked off? You have eloquently expressed a cross we must all bare: Life is unfair. Get over it. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread James Bowery
Kevin, if you find this objectionable, all you have to do is say so and I'll not post another response on this topic. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Why is it that off topic posts like flu season don't get a Vort kicked off the list when other

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:52:07 -0400: Hi, [snip] Here is a good article about how ebola would be treated in the U.S.: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/what-would-happen-if-someone-got-ebola-in-america/375928/ This is how it was, in fact, treated

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:46 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The problem is not what happens to an infected person once they go to hospital. ... I see two additional potential problems: - A strain eventually develops that becomes airborne. Perhaps not with this outbreak, but in the next

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2014-09-30 Thread hohlr...@gmail.com
Because it has the OT header. Limited OT postings with that header are allowed because they are easy to filter. Without the header and embedded in on topic threads they annoy. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone - Reply message - From: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Flu Season

2014-09-30 Thread James Bowery
And so it begins exactly as I predicted: He went to the emergency room with flu like symptoms and they ... wait for it SENT HIM HOME http://www.nbcdfw.com/video/#!/news/local/Dallas-Hospital-Patient-Fighting-Ebola-Virus/277694491 . On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:08 PM, James Bowery