Is anyone else concerned.....???

[FishermanTim]

We seem to be having an unual influx of "new" diseases and a resurgence of some particularly nasty old ones.

We have a new respiratory ailment, the enterovirus, that is affecting children at an alarming rate and with potentially deadly affects.

We have our first reported case of ebola, which has never been seen on our soil until this year.

I can only shudder to think what this years flu epidemoc will be like?

Then to add more fuel to the fire, consider the hypothetical possibility of these diseases and viruses mutating / merging with other more commonplace ailments to become a super strain, resistant to (almost) all treatments?

This may be the warning sign that the world is bracing for a major pandemic of biblical proportion.

OK, now I can relax and drink my coffee in peace!

[Liv2Fish]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

with potentially deadly affects

A child died today at Hasbro Childrens in RI today. Suspected to be from a staff infection linked to the virus.

[buckman]

Don't forget polio and TB. Yes I'm concerned
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[buckman]

Forgot hand,foot and mouth disease . Number of cases are exploding
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[Fishpart]

last year Whooping Cough... its the Apocalypse

[Piscator]

This is no joke and nothing to be taken lightly. The recent cases are down right scary. I just went to my Primary yesterday, I've been diagnosed with an incurable case of priapism...i count my blessing that I have such a caring wife...
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[FishermanTim]

The care worker that contracted ebola and was transported to Georgia for treatment, when asked what his plans were after being given a "clean bill of health", did not rule out returning to the same coutry (where he caught it) to resume his care work.

Now while I do commend him for his dedication to his work, I would definitely question his choice of returning to the same environment to risk getting re-infected, and run the added risk of getting infected and (because of the medications that he was treated with already) developing a drug resistant strain or maybe an airborne virus that can be spread by just breathing the same air.

Mock me if you will, but I would hate to be "patient zero" that causes a global medical disaster.

[buckman]

Originally Posted by Piscator

This is no joke and nothing to be taken lightly. The recent cases are down right scary. I just went to my Primary yesterday, I've been diagnosed with an incurable case of priapism...i count my blessing that I have such a caring wife...
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Luckily no one will notice
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[Piscator]

Originally Posted by buckman

Luckily no one will notice
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Ha ha, no handed push-ups have never been so easy
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[Jenn]

Absolutely! I have had a lot of time on my hands and been watching a lot of the news (I usually don't and therefore I am usually blissfully unaware ) But this is getting scary....Ebola, Triple E , Entero virus, etc. I've never considered myself a "germaphobe" but having 2 follow up Doc visits in the last two days I have found that it's getting harder and harder to sit in the waiting rooms or exam rooms and not think about potentially being exposed to something.

On a related topic I find it suspicious that last week I saw the president speak about how we need "act fast" on the Ebola outbreak (has this not been going on for months?) and right after that the MA Doc infected and cured is interviewed. Tell me the president didn't plan that timing! Then a week later we now have the first U.S. diagnosis.

[The Dad Fisherman]

I refuse to let the Media whip me into a panicked frenzy. I'm not going to stay in the house because of mosquitos and I'm not going to worry about getting ebola.

[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by Piscator

Ha ha, no handed push-ups have never been so easy
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Think of all the "hands-free" things you could do, like "Let me ring the doorbell", or "What floor do you want?" (crowded elevator), or "Let me carry that bag for you". The options are endless!

Just make sure that whatever task you offer doesn't get you too "excited" or you'll have some 'splainin to do!!!

[Liv2Fish]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

Think of all the "hands-free" things you could do, like "Let me ring the doorbell", or "What floor do you want?" (crowded elevator), or "Let me carry that bag for you". The options are endless!

Just make sure that whatever task you offer doesn't get you too "excited" or you'll have some 'splainin to do!!!

You could work in a doughnut shop. "Here's you two cups of coffee and your dozen doughnuts ma'am"

[FishermanTim]

Here's one more point to consider, and I told my co-workers this along with my explanation that "I don't want to sound like a doom & gloom kind of guy", but what if someone were to use a person like a viral bomb? Find someone that's sympathetic to their cause and load them with whatever is the most virulent, lethal and untreatable, and send them on a mission to infect as many people as possible.

THAT makes me shudder, as the results would be nothing short of a world wide disaster.
We've already seen that ANYONE can come to the US, from ANY part of the world, as long as they have the right docments.

Add to that the incompetance of just one medical staffer, one TSA agent, one bleeding-heart politician and we would be screwed!

We can't just keep pluggin along, hoping all is rianbows and unicorns (as my boss is fond of saying) when the world continues to collapse all around us and populations could become victims of a medical disaster of epic proportions!

OK, maybe I need to get out and fish a little to balance things out?

Hey, maybe we'll discover that fish slime is a cure of whatever diseases and viruses are waiting to infect us, in which case I think we'll all be OK!!!!

[Jackbass]

It's a matter of when not if someone on this forum is affected by one of these viruses entering the country
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[PaulS]

I ain't afraid of no ebola.
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[Jackbass]

I am definitely afraid of etereno virus (sp) not so much as far as I am concerned but my kids
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[Slipknot]

if the ebola mutates and becomes airborn contagious, we are all in deep doodoo

[Guppy]

How about this rocket scientist

(CNN) -- Days before he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus.

He belongs in jail not the er,,,

[PaulS]

And to make matters worse the hospital sent him home even though he told them he just came from Africa.
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[Raven]

Originally Posted by FishermanTim

Hey, maybe we'll discover that fish slime is a cure of whatever diseases and viruses are waiting to infect us, in which case I think we'll all be OK!!!!

actually this discovery has happened but from a jelly fish.

think of kelp.... it has no roots.... it attaches to a rock
and absorbs all nutrients out of the sea water. I'm even giving it to my dog and the transformation is literally amazing.... from slow and groan
to yippee lets go @ age 9

[Jenn]

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/10...-of-virus.html

[JohnR]

Yep - Good times, good times.

[Raven]

to learn everything you can
about how to maximize your immune system
(at least then you've got a better fighting chance)

Personally, ANY medication that lists a side effect
as one that lowers your Immune SYSTEM's POWER
should be absolutely AVOIDED at all costs.

They can go pound sand.