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Sleuth5 said:
Three more sleeps? :floorlaugh:
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She's going to a concert, right cubbee?

(I like the way cubbee measures time - innovative!)

[video=youtube;3yQERVphWhY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yQERVphWhY[/video]
 
geevee said:
'Morning all! Eggs, anyone?
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Morning everyone...

Yes please geevee, with oatmeal and bacon too!


O/T

Skip if not interested....it's not EXACTLY Sunday morning cheery stuff, but
I’ve been following the MERS-CoV outbreak and it’s definitely one to watch.

I just posted the following on the dedicated thread on Websleths here: New virus to be called MERS-CoV - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERS-CoV


In addition to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, France, and Tunis, it has now spread to Italy.

The Frenchman who came back from the United Arab Emirates and came down with it gave it to his hospital roommate…

A 45-year-old man returned to Italy from a visit to Jordan and came down with symptoms and has since given it to a coworker and two-year-old child (who is a family member).

Here is today’s World Health Organization MERS-CoV update:

http://www.who.int/csr/don/don_updates/en/index.html

The good news is that it doesn’t seem to be very easy to contract or a lot more people would have it.

The bad news is that:
1) it is obviously spreading person-to-person
2) as of June 2, 2013, of the 53 laboratory confirmed cases, 30 have died.
 
Sleuth5 said:
(Sleuth isn't a gringo. He's Portuguese.) :floorlaugh:
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:seeya: Now that's a new one for the tourism board... Portugal so close but yet soo far away from Latin America...;)

:blushing:after I slept on it I realized that was a silly thing to say... I mean, I'm sure that you have seen lots of hand signs thrown at the book stores and coffee shops there...especially when the lines get long because customers from rival neighborhoods show up...:seeya:

(((Hugs))) sluthy!
 
marlap said:
Morning everyone...

Yes please geevee, with oatmeal and bacon too!


O/T

Skip if not interested....it's not EXACTLY Sunday morning cheery stuff, but
I’ve been following the MERS-CoV outbreak and it’s definitely one to watch.

I just posted the following on the dedicated thread on Websleths here: New virus to be called MERS-CoV - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERS-CoV




In addition to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, France, and Tunis, it has now spread to Italy.

The Frenchman who came back from the United Arab Emirates and came down with it gave it to his hospital roommate…

A 45-year-old man returned to Italy from a visit to Jordan and came down with symptoms and has since given it to a coworker and two-year-old child (who is a family member).

Here is today’s World Health Organization MERS-CoV update:

http://www.who.int/csr/don/don_updates/en/index.html

The good news is that it doesn’t seem to be very easy to contract or a lot more people would have it.

The bad news is that:
1) it is obviously spreading person-to-person
2) as of June 2, 2013, of the 53 laboratory confirmed cases, 30 have died.
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This kind of stuff scares the CRAP out of me. Give me a tornado any day. I swear you get worse sick from being in the hospital than what put you there in the first place.

Yeah. I'm a germaphobe.
 
Shelby1 said:
This kind of stuff scares the CRAP out of me. Give me a tornado any day. I swear you get worse sick from being in the hospital than what put you there in the first place.

Yeah. I'm a germaphobe.
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For good reason! I took my mom to the Dr. a few months ago and the waiting room was very crowded and several people were coughing, obviously very sick

Within a week I had it too.

I agree, Dr. offices and hospitals are great places to catch things...
 
Shelby1 said:
This kind of stuff scares the CRAP out of me. Give me a tornado any day. I swear you get worse sick from being in the hospital than what put you there in the first place.

Yeah. I'm a germaphobe.
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I'm one of those people who gets excited about hurricanes.... And I have to tell the truth about germs, specifically viruses... New viruses are about the MOST exciting thing there is in my world...
I'm a virologist, and since HIV came along and we slammed it, things have gotten pretty slooooow for us virologists...
:seeya:
 
Today< I'm going to worship in the church of T-Rex...


[video=youtube;TVEhDrJzM8E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEhDrJzM8E[/video]
 
Tenaciousdae said:
:seeya: Now that's a new one for the tourism board... Portugal so close but yet soo far away from Latin America...;)

:blushing:after I slept on it I realized that was a silly thing to say... I mean, I'm sure that you have seen lots of hand signs thrown at the book stores and coffee shops there...especially when the lines get long because customers from rival neighborhoods show up...:seeya:

(((Hugs))) sluthy!
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Goodness! There wasn't a single thing silly about it.
 
elmomom said:
I'm one of those people who gets excited about hurricanes.... And I have to tell the truth about germs, specifically viruses... New viruses are about the MOST exciting thing there is in my world...
I'm a virologist, and since HIV came along and we slammed it, things have gotten pretty slooooow for us virologists...
:seeya:
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I'm a huge weather buff, so I get what you're saying....but could you hurry up and cure this one? :seeya: ;)

(that's a very cool job you have, by the way :) )
 
elmomom said:
I'm one of those people who gets excited about hurricanes.... And I have to tell the truth about germs, specifically viruses... New viruses are about the MOST exciting thing there is in my world...
I'm a virologist, and since HIV came along and we slammed it, things have gotten pretty slooooow for us virologists...
:seeya:
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BBM Hopefully MERS-CoV will peter out and you'll stay slow...

Killing 60% of all confirmed patients is really scary. Although probably lots of people have a milder case and are not tested so the mortality rate is probably much lower.
 
Wow saw some français here last night.
These tunes are for you...

pour la France
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA"]Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime,...Moi Non Plus - YouTube[/ame]

pour les français de la Louisianne
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-25uR2sm5ts"]Zachary Richard - Travailler c'est trop dur - YouTube[/ame]

et pour les québécois
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vak8zaa-tLI"]Ayoye Offenbach - YouTube[/ame]

and a real fun blues tune
[video=youtube;KUx0pKuhjJY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUx0pKuhjJY[/video]
 
banzai said:
Wow saw some français here last night.
These tunes are for you...

pour la France
Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime,...Moi Non Plus - YouTube

pour les français de la Louisianne
Zachary Richard - Travailler c'est trop dur - YouTube

et pour les québécois
Ayoye Offenbach - YouTube

and a real fun blues tune
Mes blues passent pu dans' porte / Offenbach - YouTube
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I love Jane Birkin, she's fab!

Did you ever see Evil Under the Sun with Peter Ustinov as Poirot? She was in that.
 
marlap said:
BBM Hopefully MERS-CoV will peter out and you'll stay slow...

Killing 60% of all confirmed patients is really scary. Although probably lots of people have a milder case and are not tested so the mortality rate is probably much lower.
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The actual mortality rate, it if ever becomes epidemic will be much, much lower. First of all, supportive care will be better and administered earlier if the medical professionals are aware of what they are dealing with. Also, in general most viruses evolve to become less pathogenic, relatively quickly.
And of course, as you said, we have no idea of how many actual cases there are, just a few bad ones so far.

Unfortunately, until a virus gets really hot politically, like HIV did, or really pandemic, like flu, drug companies don't spend hardly any effort trying to come up with treatments or cure. The research and development cost of these types of drugs is way more expensive than the amount of profit. So, sorry Shelby, it'll be awhile yet before someone starts a big effort to come up with a novel drug for it. For now, they will keep trying the drugs that work on other things, and hope to find a treatment/supportive care regimen that is effective.

My job was way cool when I worked on HIV, and I really felt useful. I actually had a big part in the team that worked on one of the best, to this day, drug that is out there. Now, I work as a routine molecular biologist cause not many jobs in virology are out there any more :(
 
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