Comments on: Swine Flu What You Should Know What You Should Do

By: QV

QV — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:30:26 +0000

Carole, I think there is going to be some major shaking up in that case. Someone may have to return some money. All thanks to Nelda. I told everyone long ago they would regret even knowing her name. Look at the trouble she has brought upon them. Old dogs seldom learn new tricks. They just get older and more senile. Doesn’t come in handy when one tries to keep up with all the lies they have spread.

By: Red

Red — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:55:20 +0000

hi guys. I think we have a case here in johnson county now.

waaaaaaaa

By: Carole

Carole — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:24:28 +0000

Good Morning, QV and everyone. I’m still just waiting for them to ban my butt. I guess if I’m there, they’ll go after me and not their own. LOL. But Nelda’s statement truly surprised me. I had no clue what was going on in Florida except that it had to do with her statement to Wood and Babcock. For her to actually state that LW and KB more or less coerced HKS into that settlement to recoop some of their “attorney fees and expenses” just confirmed what I’ve always believed about the “settlement”.

By: QV

QV — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:13:22 +0000

P.S. I thought Teresa was “the only one we needed over the edge”. Hahaaa!

I think someone got “OWNED” and it ain’t by her masta!
LOL!!!!

By: QV

QV — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:08:24 +0000

OT. Sizzles I left you a message in the shout box but it may cycle out. I said that you and Wulfson totally rock! I read what you posted on Topix. I also have a song title to dedicate to Nelda. The title ONLY.

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By: Carole

Carole — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:25:09 +0000

The update in GA is the one in the hospital reported yesterday, and one suspected but not confirmed or hospitalized in GA. You know they were showing on the news that last year the “Flu” killed 36,000 people, and probably an unknown number of unreported cases. I think they said to date, there are 15 deaths, and only 1 in the U.S. What bothers me about a comforting statement like that is remembering history and the bubonic plague…..spread by rats and killed by the hundreds of thousands. Of course back then medicine was almost nonexistent, and cleanliness was just as rare. I think sanitizing everything is the key to prevention.

By: Collegiate

Collegiate — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:32:23 +0000

QV, not a problem. I’m glad the VP of Medical Affairs there keeps us all in the loop with the global emails we get throughout our hospital system. My son said that his school just ordered large bottles of hand sanitizers and placed throughout each classroom too.

By: Mrs Marple

Mrs Marple — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:30 +0000

The Park City schools were closed yesterday and sister Catholic schools closed in SLC. I called the school, school board, and health department and got nothing but canned answers. To me telling our children to cover their mouths when the cough and to wash their hands is not going to protect them in that giant breeding ground of germs in what we call public schools. I have already called the school once this year about my kids coming home with an unusually large amount of bugs this year. I believe last year they stayed healthier because they were allowed to carry personal hand sanitizers to school. They said that they were cleaning the schools and I asked if they cleaned the water fountain between children that took a drink of water. They said that they sent sick kids home and I said that is too late. A child can be a carrier one day before showing any signs of the symptoms of the flu. I think small things like having personal hand sanitizers, carry their own bottled water, and teachers being prepared with home school work packets would at least be a little more than sending home a letter that our children need to wash their hands. Finally, I was told that we do have the option of keeping our children home. I struggled with the idea and then decided what is 5 hours (Friday is short day) when it comes to the health of your children. Also, as of now the median age of victims of this mega-virus is 17. I don’t know if that is because of our children being in close quarters or if the older generation has some kind of immunity. I am thinking it is the first option.

Yesterday the governor of Utah said the Swine Flu is in Utah and Vice President Joe Biden said stay out of confined spaces like planes and schools. Some little health department employee said to ignore them they are not in the medical field (oh the ego of those in the medical field) but I think that the Gov and VP were speaking from the heart.

Am I panicked? No, but if I am going to err; I am going to err on the side of safety when it comes to my children.

By: Mrs Marple

Mrs Marple — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:17:49 +0000

This is an article about how the virus is mechanically altered in a good research environment. But, who is to say that it can’t be manipulated by someone that does not have the good of mankind in their thoughts.

I know it is a little paranoid but it is a possibility.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2004/040211.htm

Progress in Reverse Against New Swine Flu Strain
By Luis Pons
February 11, 2004
Sometimes it’s best to take a step backward in the name of progress. That’s what scientists at the Agricultural Research Service’s National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, did in efforts to combat a strain of swine influenza that is relatively new to the United States.

Veterinary medical officers Juergen Richt and Kelly Lager of the center’s Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock Research Unit used a reverse genetics process to actually create new flu viruses whose individual components could be explored. It is hoped these components can in turn become the targets of vaccines.

The influenza that has spurred this research–a swine flu type that contains gene segments from birds and humans, as well as from pigs–has spread throughout North America since being detected in 1998.

Swine influenza presents a special challenge to genetics researchers because its virus stores its information in RNA, which is more susceptible to mutation and allows viruses to evolve far more rapidly than in DNA. Because of this, it is sometimes hard for an infected host to develop lasting immunity.

Since manipulations commonly done on DNA cannot be performed with RNA, reverse genetics is used to perform a procedure called reverse transcription, in which RNA viruses’ genetic material is turned into a DNA state where modifications can be easily introduced. When the DNA is converted back into RNA, these modifications occur in the genome of the RNA virus as well.

Through this approach, the researchers in collaboration with scientists from Iowa State University, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. used cloned DNA to generate swine influenza viruses.

Read more about this research in the February issue of Agricultural Research magazine.

ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific research agency.

Let us all hope and pray that this illness does not cause havoc and illness throughout the world and it remains a mild strain without a lot of strength.

By: Mrs Marple

Mrs Marple — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:12:05 +0000

I hope this isn’t too long. I may need to break this up some. But, this information may be helpful. It has occurred to me that this could even be a bio-terrorist created strain of flu. What concerns me is that is contains Swine flu and Avian flu that both had not been transferred from person to person that people have no resistance to and a human form of flu that is acting as a host carrier.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090427/hl_time/08599189402900

The H1N1 swine flu virus has already been identified as a new virus, with genes from human and avian flus as well as the swine variety. And since it is apparently causing large-scale outbreaks in Mexico, along with separate confirmed cases in the U.S. and Canada and suspected cases in other countries, it would seem that we’ve already met the criteria for phase 4. But though an emergency committee met on April 25 to evaluate the situation, the WHO hasn’t made the pandemic declaration yet. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s interim assistant director-general for health, security and environment, said on Sunday that its experts “would like a little bit more information and a little bit more time to consider this.” The committee is set to meet again by April 28 at the latest.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518572,00.html

Swine Flu may have originated in California.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2007/071219.htm

New Swine Flu Has Avian Flu Genes
By Ann Perry
December 19, 2007
Researchers have identified a new strain of swine influenza—H2N3—which belongs to the group of H2 influenza viruses that last infected humans during the 1957 pandemic. This new strain has a molecular twist: It is composed of avian and swine influenza genes.

I asked myself why would an engineered virus occur first in Mexico but now it looks like it actually first occurred in California.