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Post by spindrift on Aug 27, 2009 15:04:51 GMT
Happy! I do find it irritating that there are no rubbish bins around. I'm sure it's because everyone must take responsibility for their own rubbish and pay for each disposal bag that they use....(you'd better start a thread).l...
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Post by happytraveller on Aug 27, 2009 19:56:10 GMT
No rubbish bins where ?? I think there are a lot of rubish bins in this counrty. But I might start a thread anyway, it will need a bit of time for me to get around with the camera though but I'll surely be succesful
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2009 5:11:02 GMT
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Post by bazfaz on Aug 31, 2009 6:45:07 GMT
Is swine flu just the latest in a long line of health scares (bird flu, SARS, etc) that never happened? Ordinary flu kills tens of thousands of people every winter in the USA and UK but there is no media fuss over it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 7:21:04 GMT
I don't think they are worried about the deaths so much as the effect on the economy when 30% of the population is ill.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 10:53:26 GMT
Perhaps a major health scare will get Congress and the House off their asses here in the US.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 5:43:14 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Sept 2, 2009 8:55:54 GMT
;D
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 2, 2009 10:07:26 GMT
I haven't heard a thing about it for ages! I found it much more interesting recently that chikungunya had turned up in south east Asia. There were a couple of cases in Thailand and Malaysia then it disappeared from the news sites. Cambodians are immune to bird flu BTW, the government has said there hasn't been one infection. All proven cases were foreigners.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 12:10:37 GMT
Réunion was absolutely devastated by chikungunya a year or two ago -- almost 30% of the population got it, and it is a very debilitating disease. Takes something like 2 months to recover from it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2009 15:45:12 GMT
What is it -- is it a type of flu?
(my paranoia level is flagging. please boost it)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2009 17:08:55 GMT
It's a mosquito borne disease like malaria -- and the symptoms are not all that different.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 2, 2009 17:37:51 GMT
That's perfect! My paranoia level just went up to dangerous levels. Thanks.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 8, 2009 16:40:31 GMT
Now that colleges are starting up again in the US, there is a lot of fear about swine flu. One campus (Emory in Atlanta) already has enough sick students to fill a quarantine dorm! The vaccine won't be ready for another month or so, so unprotected kids from all over the country - and world - will be gathering on many campuses, sharing their germs in close quarters.
Could get interesting.
One reason this flu is so scary is that the people who are dying from it are young healthy people, unlike other influenzas. Speculation is that older people may have been exposed to a similar germ in the past, providing some immunity to the H1N1 bug...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2009 18:04:07 GMT
They said today that new cases in France are about 20,000 a week, but this is just the beginning. A few schools and creches have been closed, but so far the cases are pretty isolated. The hardest hit area right now is one of the most rural areas in France, the Lot. That is just about where BazFaz is moving , but by the time he gets there, the worst should be finished in that area.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 8, 2009 19:32:45 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Sept 8, 2009 20:52:47 GMT
Tilly - please access a website called 'Info Wars'...and read about the vaccine. Pls don't give it to Lil Star. I'm not having it. Here you go : www.infowars.com/
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Post by cristina on Sept 9, 2009 3:27:13 GMT
I have to confess that I do not get flu shots. Why? Because waaaay back in the late 70's, as a college student, when we had the first (I think) round of Swine flu, I dutifully followed the President and received the vaccine. I proceeded to be sicker than I had ever been (or ever was since), for about 10 days. Although I must confess that I struggle over encouraging college girl to go off for the shot. Even if she no longer lives in dorm-style housing. OTH, I am leaving on a ship to cross the Atlantic next month and I am starting to imagine all of the possibilities that might present themselves by living in close quarters with so many unknown people for 6 nights. I am trying so very hard not turn into my mother. Arghhh...
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Post by spindrift on Sept 9, 2009 7:57:25 GMT
Christina - lucky you...... I'd love to cross the Atlantic on a ship. Don't worry about swine flu, it seems to be the biggest non-event of 2009...media made on behalf of drug companies.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 9, 2009 8:26:12 GMT
And that is scarier than the flu itself!
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Post by spindrift on Sept 9, 2009 15:28:01 GMT
I read that if it comes to being forced (by the government) to accept the vaccine - it might be possible to refuse on the grounds of religion (not sure which though).....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2009 16:43:46 GMT
They're saying the vaccine won't even be ready before December. Probably too late by then anyway.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 10, 2009 11:28:25 GMT
Oh well, we will all be bloody zombies by then.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 10, 2009 11:49:57 GMT
Maybe I'm wrong. Last night I met a friend who told me that someone very close to her recently died of SwineFlu....she was ill for 6 weeks and in intensive care all of that time. She was only 18 yrs old with no underlying health conditions.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 15:45:22 GMT
She hadn't lived long enough for her immune system to have come into contact with anything that could have helped her with this? They are saying we middle-agers may have some protection from past exposures to similar bugs...
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 11, 2009 6:51:50 GMT
That is very sad spindrift.
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Post by Kimby on Sept 11, 2009 15:44:25 GMT
Today they are announcing that US and Australian researchers have concluded that the new vaccine will only require one dose to be effective, not two as previously announced. And the protection begins about 10 days after the shot. Nothing said about safety, though.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2009 10:22:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2009 19:29:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2009 20:45:53 GMT
Seems"the governor" is never available for comment when these things happen. (Living in LA., I know about these things ).
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