Posted: 4/23/2003 3:44:30 PM EDT
| I guess it has something to do with SARS but I find it a general all around good rule for everyday life... |
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Quoted: If this thing really has a two percent average death rate, and it spreads like the flu, 1918 will look like a day at the fun park. Currently, in Hong Kong it has a 4.6% fatality rate. The US fatality rate for the 1918 Flu Pandemic was 2.2%. The normal yearly flu fatality rate is around 0.1% mostly people with depressed immune systems like the elederly, those with AIDS and those taking immunosuppressent drugs to prevent donated organ rejection. |
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All reports I have read place the mortality rate at somewhere between 5-10%. At first, I had been assuming that this disease was killing those that were already weak...those that were very young, old, or already of poor health. However, this does not seem to be the case. |
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Quoted: Don't worry, this kind of stuff is why antibiotics were invented. [%I] i was going to reply with "it's a virus antibiotics don't work" but i remember reading a news story(posted here by me) saying that some doc discovered that it wasn't the "corona virus" I think I'm going to make sure my food stocks are up to date this weekend, and then go about my business untill people in milwaukee start dropping off |
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1_153_370_371_407: I tried to indicated the humor of my statement with an ill-attemted "freak" face. Yes, as a molecular biology, chemistry, and biochemistry triple-major I am well aware that antibiotics and viruses do not mix. However, someone should tell this to a few doctors, because out of the 40 million upper-respiratory viral infections in the U.S. last year, half were treated with antibiotics. |
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Quoted: 1_153_370_371_407: I tried to indicated the humor of my statement with an ill-attemted "freak" face. Yes, as a molecular biology, chemistry, and biochemistry triple-major I am well aware that antibiotics and viruses do not mix. However, someone should tell this to a few doctors, because out of the 40 million upper-respiratory viral infections in the U.S. last year, half were treated with antibiotics. gotcha. i thought the [%/] was some kind of stupid signature. btw. if antibiotics don't work on viri, then they should mix just fine, right?[BD] |
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If you return from Toronto into the US and are sick you are put into quarantine, I believe for 10 days. Just happened to a college student in Syracuse. I like Toronto, not surprised that they are having problems with the asian population there. pretty cool Chinatown (actually I guess there is more than one, though I have only been to one) |
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Quoted: If you return from Toronto into the US and are sick you are put into quarantine, I believe for 10 days. Just happened to a college student in Syracuse. I like Toronto, not surprised that they are having problems with the asian population there. pretty cool Chinatown (actually I guess there is more than one, though I have only been to one) They have one chinatown a Koreatown and I think one more I used to have a map I threw it out lasttime I cleaned. |