BS: New outbreaks (disease)

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks (disease)
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 Oct 18 - 05:05 PM

A new case of BSE has just been reported in Scotland, the first for many years.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks (disease)
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 18 - 05:01 PM

Only 100 people have died in the Congo from an Ebola outbreak so an International response is not required by WHO
I do not know what the magic number woud be.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks (disease)
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 11:03 PM

I have only had one brief reaction to flu vaccine but it was dramatic to be paralyzed for even a few minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 08:55 PM

Pertussis (whooping cough) is also on the rise again, at least in Europe. There is a whole generation of people who did not get immunised against it follwing the "brain damage" scares in the 1970s. An adult friend caught it last year in France, and it has taken her the best part of a year to shake off its lingering effects.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 09:51 PM

So this neuropathology is not always progressive? This could give clues to MS therapy.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 09:23 PM

The CDC on acute flaccid myletis. It's not new; in adults it's onset is associated with envenomation by neurotoxic snake venom and G-B syndrome. The mean adult onset age is 33.7 years old.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 03:56 PM

Polio is not back

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 03:52 PM

Good grief.
Polio was/is a hideous thing.
And it breaks my heart to look back to those days -- not long enough ago --
when people were still entirely in the dark about
what caused polio to begin with,
and all manner of superstition filled their thoughts
and inflamed their emotions.

The people who considered water and swimming pools
were of course on the right track.

Remember, Mia Farrow had polio as a child.
She is now quite militant about the polio vaccine.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Senoufou
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 01:33 PM

Scientists don't seem to have found the cause of this mystery disease. It resembles poliomyelitis, but it's not the same thing. I suppose it could be a virus or a result of environmental toxins, or a mutated form of some other disease (there are apparently several which closely resemble it)
I'm surprised they haven't isolated and identified the virus (if it is one) because Virology is now quite advanced, with all the technology needed to understand this.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 10:10 AM

But get it.

Subject: RE: BS: New outbreaks
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 10:10 AM

The effectiveness of the new flu vaccine is unknown due to mutation and other factors.

Subject: BS: New outbreaks 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 18 - 09:53 AM

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/world/dr-congos-health-ministry-reports-new-ebola-deaths-in-latest-outbreak/index.html

In the USA 6 children have been struck by AFM a polio like disease that has no viral cause or cure. It seems to be environmental.

Perhaps Trump should not have "relaxed" regulations against lead, mercury, toxins and radiation in the air and water.


Last year only 75,000 Americans died of flu. The year before it was 30,000. This year is 0 ...so far.