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Hope you have an excellent time golfing AnnieB!
Atlanta Journal Constitution:
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/printededition/2006/11/11/meshbizflu1111a.html
scroll to the bottom
According to this report, Joshua Epstein of the NIH believes if we close our airports in time, “You are buying enough time…to develop and distribute vaccine and do social distancing and all the other intelligent things you could do; you get a huge depression in the number of cases.”
Someone get Epstein a paper hat and drag him away from his computer models. Who is he kidding about time to develop a vaccine? This type of federal leadership and misinformation will doom us.
corrected AJC link:
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/printedition/2006/11/11/meshbizflu1111a.html
Sthrn Tr – at 07:00
Someone needs to show him a map which illustrates the spread of the Spanish Flu in 1918. Across the country in a month. Here is a good map which illustrates this:
China’s first human bird flu patient fully recovered
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006–11–11 16:49
The first person to survive the bird flu in China has been given a clean bill of health following medical checks performed on Saturday at the Hunan Provincial Children’s Hospital.
Ten-year-old He Junyao’s body functions are all normal, said hospital officials, adding that the disease has not affected the boy’s growth.
Doctor Jiang Yaohui said the hospital’s timely and proper treatment of He helped save his life.
The doctor said the hospital will provide free medical exams for He until he is 18.
The boy was hospitalized on October 18 last year after suffering fever and a cough for five days. The Ministry of Health identified him as China’s first human bird flu patient.
Since last October, China has reported 19 human cases of bird flu in Hunan, Anhui and Guangxi, 14 of them died.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/11/content_730657.htm
From the New York Times - fascinating stuff…
Old Viruses Resurrected Through DNA
By CARL ZIMMER Published: November 7, 2006
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses. Last year United States government scientists reconstructed the virus that caused the influenza epidemic of 1918. Now a team of French scientists has rebuilt a virus that infected our apelike ancestors several million years ago.
The scientists did not isolate a virus from a fossil. Instead, they examined vestiges of the virus that survive today within the human genome.
About 100,000 segments of human DNA are remarkably similar to retroviruses, a class of viruses that includes HIV. Retroviruses insert a copy of their genes into the genome of their host cell. Scientists estimate that 8 percent of the human genome is made up of this viral DNA, known as human endogenous retroviruses, or HERVs.
“Our genome is filled with retroviruses,” said Dr. Thierry Heidmann, an expert on HERVs at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Villejuif, France. “It’s a hard idea to understand, but they are part of our genome.”
Many HERVs found in the human genome have counterparts in the genomes of other species. They infected our distant ancestors millions of years ago, and were passed down from generation to generation. They also produced new copies that could reinfect egg or sperm cells, adding more HERVs to the genome. Over time HERVs were crippled by mutations. Until now, scientists have never found a HERV that acts like a fully functional virus.
Dr. Heidmann reasoned that disabled HERVs must descend from working ancestors. He and his colleagues compared the DNA of HERVs from a family found only in humans, deducing the ancestor’s genetic makeup from the differences. They built a corresponding piece of DNA and inserted it into human cells. Some of the cells produced new HERVs that could infect other cells.
The scientists named the reconstructed virus Phoenix. The journal Genome Research published the experiment on its Web site last week.
Dr. Heidmann plans to use Phoenix to study the role of HERVs in cancer.
“The procedure is ingenious,” said Robert Belshaw, an expert on HERV evolution an expert on HERV evolution at Oxford University, who was not involved in the study. He speculates that some people still carry working versions of Phoenix. “It’s possible it’s also still moving between individuals,” he said.
The Refusal banner 1.500 Metre Answer President Bush
Jum’at, on November 10 2006 | 20:32 WIB
The Interactive TIME, Jakarta: Some Bogor citizens added the signature on the banner along 1.500 metre as the form of the refusal of the presence plan of United States President George Walker Bush to the Bogor Palace on November 20.
The signature collection was carried out after the Friday prayer yesterday in two places: in front of the Great Bogor mosque and the Great mosque.
Respectively the banner along 300 metre.
This mass signature collection was coordinated by the Centre of the Development Islam Bogor with the organisation of the Islam mass other in the city.
From observation in the location, the enthusiastic citizen added his signature.
Be enough one half of the hour, two banners were white that has been full contained the signature.
Not only the congregation of the mosque, the citizen who passed by in the Pajajaran Highway then was participating signed.
Several comments accompanied the signature, for example, “Bush the real terrorist”.
A housewife that took part in the signature felt bitter him the arrival President Bush.
This gara-gara the transport route took part in being changed.
“My husband so not narik angkot,” said the woman who did not want to be acknowledged as his name.
According to Asnawi Marzuki, the other citizen, the change in the route the form of forcing so that the citizen yields.
Even so with the closing of several offices of the community’s service, like the bank.
The “school child then was the holiday.”
“Asnawi also took part in the signature in the banner.”
After being full, the cloth was rolled to be kept.
According to the Thunder, the management of the Centre of the Development Islam Bogor, the banner of the refusal signature of Bush not only two that.
Today, said this co-ordinator of the banner of the people’s solidarity, will be spread out three other banners with the same long measurement, that is 300 metre.
“So the total had five banners in a long manner respectively 300 metre.”
All so 1.500 metre the banner, he said.
http://tinyurl.com/y8ebdy
Nimbus – at 07:33
Notice that he was in the hospital for over a year.
NEWS
Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection
‘The Health Ministry said that new infection was discovered in Luxor, some 680 km south of Cairo. Tests on domestic birds at the city’s Najaa al-Abayda Lab turned up positive for the H5N1 virus, said the ministry’s spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin.
The area has been quarantined and the birds were being culled, he said.
On Oct 30, an Egyptian woman died of bird flu virus and became the country’s seventh fatal human case of the disease…”
link here or http://tinyurl.com/ygnuaw
MaMa- you beat me to the news. Should have known. I’ll post it on the Northern African thread.
lugon – at 04:20, (November 10 News Reports thread)
‘Humble suggestion re “links”.
If this is being created on a wiki-page or a text file that is then copied over to here, then please remember this syntax allows for very long URLs that don’t look long at all. Not depending on tinyurl means people can see where the link goes without having to actually go there.
On a not-too-many-news day, please try it with just one link and see what is least disruptive for your great work.’
I tried out making some of the links as you suggested lugon and it is nice to be able to see where the link is going. Creating the summary using such links isn’t difficult, but it does take a little more time using both or than with just with tinyurl. This is just my opinion of course, but for the sake of daily time-saving one approach or the other needs to be used by the majority relatively consistently when posting in order to keep the summary-making simple. Switching back and forth means your template has to be constantly re-adjusted(your brain too and at the end of the day no less:-) and it doesn’t make for a nice neat summary. Then there is the issue of preference of the person creating the summaries, which is a daily task. I can’t say what AnnieB might or might not prefer and I’m only a ‘temp’.
As I see it, for most people using tinyurl when posting is easier and it seems to be the preferred method.
Thoughts? Opinions?
cottontop, just a lucky search:-)
Thanks for posting on the Northern African thread.
notice that tinyurl has a preview as well. I personally prefer tiny since if you print out part of the thread or information, or email it….. so on, you can still get to the link. With the “mark up” you cannot retrieve the link in the future from a printed copy. Some people email or hand printed news items to others and the tiny allows them to look up the references. Anyone that wants to preview the link before they go to it can do so with tiny preview options.
For example with your MaMa – at 13:12 post, if you print it for someone all they get is “here” and can not trace the link, but with “ http://tinyurl.com/ygnuaw “ they can check the link and get more information from the printed or emailed copy.
By TIM JOHNSON MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
BEIJING - “After more than a year of international pressure, China acquiesced Friday to demands that it share samples of avian influenza virus with global health authorities but rejected a report that a new vaccine-resistant strain of the disease is spreading.
China provided samples from bird flu outbreaks in 2004 and 2005 but didn’t offer samples from outbreaks this year, when the variant reportedly has flourished. The nation’s chief veterinarian, Jia Youling, said 20 samples had been delivered to the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a research partner with the World Health Organization.”
Does anyone here ever visit the ‘Rsoe Havaria” map site ? all week there have been epidemic symbols flashing on the area of N. Carolina and S. Carolina, where those schools are all closed. Last night at around 11 PM, I checked the map and the epidemic symbol disapeared like magic….very strange
Dennis C at 10:00 Where did you get the info that the 10 year old was in the hospital for an entire year?
DennisC – at 10:00 wrote:
Nimbus – at 07:33
Notice that he was in the hospital for over a year.
China’s first human bird flu patient fully recovered (Xinhua) Updated: 2006–11–11
Nice catch Dennis/Nimbus. Same scenario as the SARS victims in Canada, except many that got out after a lengthy hospital stay have long-term sequelae (central Nervous system damage). Canadian nurses have a $40-million class action suit in the courts as a consequence.
The term “fully recovered” is misleading, at best - in my opinion.
I can’t address the 50% of victims that could not be officially diagnosed with SARS by Canada’s leading virus hunter, Dr. Frank Plummer, who operates Canada’s level 4 lab. The WHO have already made oblique references to other additional biological threats, that will need to be addressed.
I don’t read anything in the article that indicates the boy was actually in the hospital all that time. He could easily be an out patient. It’s a unedifying article. The boy could have been ‘better’ after a month or he could have been less than perfect for 11 months.
Mary in Hawaii – at 14:12 wrote:
Dennis C at 10:00 Where did you get the info that the 10 year old was in the hospital for an entire year?
“The boy was hospitalized on October 18 last year after suffering fever and a cough for five days. The Ministry of Health identified him as China’s first human bird flu patient.”
http://www.fluwikie2.com/pmwiki.php?n=Forum.NewsReportsForNovember11
It’s not unusual for suvivors to suffer from chronic health problems after they leave the hospital. In the case of a Vietnamese survivor who left hospital after a year, he continued to be in poor health, as he described and not the government.
Mary in Hawaii – at 14:12 Where… one year
I got the info here but notice it is in the posted info as well (Oct 18 last year):
China’s first human bird flu patient healthy after one year recovery
“The boy was hospitalized on Oct. 18 last year after suffering fever and a cough for five days. The Ministry of Health identified him as China’s first human bird flu patient. “
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y55f4z Frome the People’s daily
Mary in Hawaii – at 14:12 Where… one year
I guess that may mean he was in the hospital or that he just was cleared by the hospital and they let him out before he was “cleared” and then returned him to be checked.
DennisC - I sent you an e-mail. Can you let me know if you received it?
Off topic, History Lover – at 16:28
I got it and replied, and good luck this Veteran day. And I hope all our Vets out there are well- and thanks.
HUNGARY: This was from the RSOE Havaria Information Service- It was posted briefly Friday night, and then it disappeared. My computer whiz husband help me retrieve what I had viewed on their server. Oddly it was only posted in HUNGARIAN. Can anyone translate this better than the machine translation? It might not be important, but the fact that it was removed so quickly made my antennas go up. Thanks, Kim
Ez a súlyos bélfertőzés a meleg égövi országokban meglehetősen gyakori, Magyarországon szerencsére nem. Lázzal és hasmenéssel járó dysenteria-gyanús betegek kerültek az ajkai és a székesfehérvári kórház fertőző osztályára. A betegséget egy veszprémi csecsemőotthonban, illetve fogyatékosokat ellátó intézményben észlelték és amint Kollaj Ágnes, a Veszprém, Várpalota, Zirci ÁNTSZ tisztifőorvosa elmondta, sikerült a járványt elszigetelni, elkülönitésként tízen kerültek kórházba gyermekek és 18 éven felüli gondozottak. Veszélyben nincs senki, a vérhasgyanús fertőzés okát vizsgálják és a betegek akkor kerülhetnek vissza közösségükbe, ha két, egymást követő székletvizsgálat eredménye negatív lesz.
Machine Translation: This massive bélfertzés the warmth zone countries sizable frequent , In Hungary fortunately not. Lázzal and diarrhea goer dysenteria - suspicious diseased run into the his lips and the székesfehérvári hospital fertz class. THE his illness one veszprémi csecsemotthonban , or fogyatékosokat supplying institution sight and as soon as Kollaj Ágnes , the Veszprém Várpalota Zirci ÁNTSZ tisztiforvosa she told me , succeeded the epidemiology localize elkülönitésként tenner run into to the hospital infants and 18 annually overhead well-groomed. In danger there is not nobody , the vérhasgyanús fertzés okát they are investigating and the diseased then kerülhetnek back közösségükbe , if two , one another track székletvizsgálat results negative will be.
NW Prepper- Geeze, I wish you luck with that one. Some computer translation huh? Just for curosity sake, I looked in my dictionary to see if even one word was in there. No luck. And you know what? I passes up some books at the thrift store today on foreign languages. Now I’m kicking myself!
Thought you folks would like to know a little bit about Dr. Chan’s election.
Dr. Margaret Chan recieved 150 votes in a closed meeting of the 193 nation World Health Assembly, well above the two thirds majority she needed. Chan, who has been with the WHO sisnce 2003, will sit in the role of director-general until June 2012.
NWPrepper-
I have found a hungarian dictionary. Tried to translate the first 5. belfertzes-verminous; lazzal(or a word similar to) therewith; szekesfehervari-could not find; fertz-to comtaminate, to infect; veszpremi-could not find.
If you would like to take over the site is www.dict.sztaki.hu/ If you have trouble accessing that, google “sztaki dictionary”
Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection among poultry
The Egyptian Health Ministry said Saturday that new infection of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus among domestic fowls was discovered in Luxor, some 680 km south of Cairo, the official news agency MENA reported.
Tests on domestic birds at the city’s Najaa al-Abayda Lab turned up positive for the deadly H5N1 virus, said the ministry’s spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin.
The area has been quarantined, the birds are being culled and those suspected to have come in close contact with the fowls have been under examination, said Shahin
Hungary currently has an outbreak of extreme-drug-resistant TB (XRT) and has asked for international assistance in upgrading their TB screening capability. Could this be the prompt for the RSOE-Havarian icon?
The machine translation you provided mentions diarrhea. I recall some mention of gastrointestinal illnesses on ProMed lately but do not recall the details. Not my department.
cottontop: You are amazing! How do you find all these resources… I will give the translation a go.
Death: I’ll see if I can get anymore out of cottontops translation site. Yes, I saw that they mentioned diarrhea. Not sure if that could be part of the TB symptoms, but I’ll do some sleuthing and let you all know what I can come up with…
Unless they have mycobacterium bovis, a cow-carried relative of TB that is acquired by humans drinking contaminated raw milk, they would not be expected to have diarrhea from TB.
Good to be aware of their TB problem so that other partly-translated articles of any respiratory nature do not lead anyone to jump to conclusions. Not that the prospect of an untreatable TB pandemic is any more appealing to people than a catastrophic flu pandemic.