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Tue Dec-30-08 08:18 AM
Response to Reply #73 |
| 81. Yes, I remember reading that too... |
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Exactly as you said--the stronger your immune system, the more the flu fought.
That's just...scary.
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| -Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 08:19 PM |
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This will be the next thing that will be used against us somehow. |
notadmblnd |
Dec-29-08 08:21 PM |
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You nailed it |
debunkthelies |
Dec-29-08 10:32 PM |
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Agree they dug the dead bodies up to get it |
lovuian |
Dec-29-08 11:43 PM |
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They dug up a victim who was buried in permafrost... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-30-08 12:52 AM |
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But the permafrost is melting. |
Javaman |
Dec-30-08 12:01 PM |
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That was my first thought |
dancingAlone |
Dec-30-08 04:38 AM |
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You're becoming severely paranoid. |
TheWraith |
Jan-01-09 02:46 PM |
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If you haven't read about the 1918 Influenza outbreak you should |
MadMaddie |
Dec-29-08 08:23 PM |
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I found a 1920's medical text once and was amazed at the devastation |
Just A Yeller Dawg |
Dec-29-08 08:30 PM |
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It was a mess. |
wolfgangmo |
Dec-29-08 09:04 PM |
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I'm no fan of the pharmacutical companies at all, but your comment is a little short-sighted |
Veganistan |
Dec-29-08 11:53 PM |
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Slight correction:"antibiotics, have absolutely no effect whatsoever on viruses" including influenza |
HamdenRice |
Dec-30-08 09:13 AM |
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Duly noted, but with protest. |
Veganistan |
Dec-31-08 03:11 AM |
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But there was that drug that could help control it, you know |
Alameda |
Dec-30-08 07:22 AM |
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Given city density and wide spread air travel, if this ever happened again... |
Javaman |
Dec-30-08 12:04 PM |
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AS an armature genealogist I have walked through a lot of cemeteries |
jwirr |
Dec-29-08 09:37 PM |
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That's how I discovered the fate of my grand-Uncle... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-30-08 12:41 AM |
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My grandfather died in the 1918 flu epidemic. |
Pokey Anderson |
Dec-30-08 10:22 AM |
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My granny... |
fudge stripe cookays |
Jan-01-09 02:37 PM |
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so did my grandfather, in the prime of his life.... |
olddad56 |
Jan-01-09 07:31 PM |
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My grandmother's grandmother had 14 babies, over a period of 20-some years. |
Rhiannon12866 |
Dec-30-08 01:01 AM |
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My grandmother |
dancingAlone |
Dec-30-08 04:53 AM |
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Absolutely. I have a book that chronicles my grandmother's family from the time they came to this |
Rhiannon12866 |
Jan-01-09 12:11 AM |
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My grandmother had eight children |
whathehell |
Dec-30-08 07:27 AM |
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my grandmother was born in 1910 |
d_r |
Dec-30-08 06:55 PM |
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That's amazing. It sounds like she was amnesiac upon waking up. n/t |
whathehell |
Dec-30-08 06:59 PM |
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That is so sad. I've often wondered what my great-great-grandmother was like. |
Rhiannon12866 |
Jan-01-09 12:31 AM |
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Wrong reason..... |
AnneD |
Dec-30-08 08:23 PM |
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"precautions and teaching" - you mean like |
Ms. Toad |
Dec-31-08 08:16 AM |
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Well, that's what my grandmother told me. And she was born in 1900... :-) |
Rhiannon12866 |
Jan-01-09 12:46 AM |
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It hit the young, old and sick especially hard. They were the |
JeanGrey |
Dec-30-08 06:41 AM |
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The course of WWI was changed because of it. |
Javaman |
Dec-30-08 12:07 PM |
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Actually.... |
AnneD |
Dec-30-08 08:30 PM |
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Not a non-fiction text, but |
pabsungenis |
Dec-30-08 06:35 AM |
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There was no defense at that time and there won't be this time |
JeanGrey |
Dec-30-08 06:39 AM |
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My grandfather died in that flu epidemic |
zidzi |
Dec-30-08 07:02 PM |
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Bunch of shit, like Donald Rumsfeld's Bird Flu which was going to kill all of us. |
Genevieve |
Dec-29-08 08:23 PM |
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Except the 1918 Flu was a deadly pandemic |
LostinVA |
Dec-29-08 08:30 PM |
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Yes, the1918 Flu was - |
Genevieve |
Dec-29-08 08:36 PM |
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My grandfather, who was 6 yo, was orphaned by the 1918 Flu. |
TheDebbieDee |
Dec-29-08 08:56 PM |
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Oddly enough, the Spanish Flu killed younger adults and those with stronger immune systems... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-29-08 09:19 PM |
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Yes, that was, and remains, one of the mysteries of the outbreak... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 09:31 PM |
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And the Parkinsons like disease from some survivors |
AngryAmish |
Dec-29-08 09:34 PM |
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I didn't know there was a connection between influenza and Parkinson's. |
mycritters2 |
Dec-30-08 01:20 AM |
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The Parkinsons was from |
Abq_Sarah |
Dec-30-08 02:16 AM |
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Actually, the 1918 flu devastated small towns, too |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Dec-30-08 04:44 PM |
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Actually, they did figure it out. |
pabsungenis |
Dec-30-08 06:39 AM |
#73 |
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Yes, I remember reading that too... |
TwoSparkles |
Dec-30-08 08:18 AM |
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it was the cytokine storm that killed them, the stronger the immune system the stronger the storm |
bushmeat |
Dec-30-08 06:06 AM |
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What's so interesting... |
TwoSparkles |
Dec-29-08 08:49 PM |
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That's what I said, post #3. |
Genevieve |
Dec-29-08 08:59 PM |
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Yes, my post was in response to... |
TwoSparkles |
Dec-29-08 09:49 PM |
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........ |
Genevieve |
Dec-30-08 12:20 AM |
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With BushCo? Every single time. |
aquart |
Dec-29-08 09:00 PM |
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It's hard to know how to assay the information... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 09:14 PM |
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No, it is still percolating |
Mojorabbit |
Dec-29-08 11:14 PM |
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I posted above... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 11:19 PM |
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Thanks for that info, Mojorabbit... |
TwoSparkles |
Dec-29-08 11:55 PM |
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Why thank you! |
Mojorabbit |
Dec-30-08 12:25 AM |
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The "switch" was described. |
igil |
Dec-30-08 04:27 PM |
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I remember people crowding the malls to get their Swine Flu shots of 1976. |
chucktaylor |
Dec-29-08 08:55 PM |
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The fake flu scare: just like their damn fake terror alerts every week. |
Genevieve |
Dec-29-08 09:03 PM |
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Influenza is tangible. I can look at it under a microscope and count the bodies every year. |
Veganistan |
Dec-30-08 02:51 AM |
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This reminds me of |
Tangerine LaBamba |
Dec-29-08 08:24 PM |
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"I had a little birdie, his name was enza..." |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-29-08 08:26 PM |
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I've read that it arrived here |
elleng |
Dec-29-08 08:30 PM |
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The original thought was that it started here in the US at Fort Riley, Kansas... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-29-08 08:36 PM |
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Scary Stuff... My Nana had it too, but she obviously recovered. |
Rhiannon12866 |
Dec-29-08 08:49 PM |
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My Nana went to abNormal School... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-29-08 08:52 PM |
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That's what they called it back then. |
Rhiannon12866 |
Dec-29-08 09:29 PM |
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Yes - you watched it... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-30-08 12:49 AM |
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I think I do remember it. |
Rhiannon12866 |
Dec-30-08 01:02 AM |
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Well, it was about a bunch of people dying of the flu... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-30-08 05:34 AM |
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Oh! Now I remember!!! |
Rhiannon12866 |
Dec-31-08 05:23 PM |
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Actually, that particular virus may not be much of a danger today. |
drm604 |
Dec-29-08 09:20 PM |
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I think the empty lot on Hampton Blvd. in Norfolk is a mass grave from this outbreak. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-29-08 08:33 PM |
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That is a mass grave from the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1855. |
chucktaylor |
Dec-29-08 09:12 PM |
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I was wondering which. I think Quarantine Rd. on the ODU campus might be... |
MookieWilson |
Dec-29-08 09:13 PM |
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Hi Mookie. FDR was a survivor of the Spanish Flu... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-29-08 09:21 PM |
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The rest is history....!!!! |
MookieWilson |
Dec-29-08 09:38 PM |
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IIRC, he was too ill to unpack after getting home, so Eleanor did it for him... |
Dennis Donovan |
Dec-30-08 12:46 AM |
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Yep. nt |
MookieWilson |
Dec-30-08 07:33 AM |
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... i also thought part of the problem was ... |
Myrina |
Dec-29-08 08:55 PM |
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That's what they did for the Black Death. |
aquart |
Dec-29-08 09:06 PM |
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I know they tried doing it with smallpox outbreaks in Revolutionary America... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 09:20 PM |
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More died during WW I with the flu than any other cause.... |
Historic NY |
Dec-29-08 09:03 PM |
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I thought I remembered that statistic, but wasn't sure... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 09:16 PM |
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My mother recited that rhyme on occasion, when recounting how she nearly |
blowtorchwilke |
Dec-29-08 10:09 PM |
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My mom survived aged 6. Spanish-American war in asia a cause? |
Festivito |
Dec-30-08 04:33 AM |
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There are a lot of different theories |
clspector |
Dec-29-08 09:04 PM |
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I can recommend the book and the author. |
dixiegrrrrl |
Dec-29-08 10:21 PM |
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Ahhh, a new generation of bio weapons |
IndianaGreen |
Dec-29-08 09:21 PM |
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I don't know about that, but.... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 09:34 PM |
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I disagree |
AngryAmish |
Dec-29-08 09:39 PM |
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That makes sense... |
adsosletter |
Dec-29-08 09:46 PM |
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many burial sites were studied. |
Historic NY |
Dec-29-08 09:59 PM |
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my 7 year old cousin |
NEOhiodemocrat |
Dec-29-08 09:38 PM |
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Your seven year old cousin died from the flu? |
TwoSparkles |
Dec-29-08 09:51 PM |
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scary |
dreamnightwind |
Dec-30-08 05:19 AM |
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My grandmother lived through this. They called it the |
JeanGrey |
Dec-30-08 06:38 AM |
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My paternal grandmother died from it. |
Perragrande |
Dec-30-08 06:56 AM |
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Bird-Flu Info |
macllyr |
Dec-30-08 07:38 AM |
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oh no, this will inevitably be the topic for my tai-chi teacher to pontificate |
tigereye |
Dec-30-08 09:52 AM |
#83 |
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