Here is the link for the other site as well, which includes the Summary for Dec 2
why not just post the news summary here too? You say you want to keep both forums open, but then seem to do everything possible to shut this one down.
The rows are too widely apart in the new forum. Difficult to read. That’s why I come here.
377 Ill on Freedom of the Seas norovirus blamed Dec.3 Miami
Royal Caribbean’s Feedom of the Seas returned to Miami this morning with approximately 377 passengers suffering from what is believed to be norovirus.
I think that this is noro,but I believe that we should also keep an eye on outbreaks like this.Please google title for more info.
Page 6 online of a 10 page article:
While the C.I.A. and Fingar’s office set up their wiki, Meyerrose’s office was dabbling in the other half of Andrus’s equation. In July, his staff decided to create a test blog to collect intelligence. It would focus on spotting and predicting possible avian-flu outbreaks and function as part of a larger portal on the subject to collect information from hundreds of sources around the world, inside and outside of the intelligence agencies. Avian flu, Meyerrose reasoned, is a national-security problem uniquely suited to an online-community effort, because information about the danger is found all over the world. An agent in Southeast Asia might be the first to hear news of dangerous farming practices; a medical expert in Chicago could write a crucial paper on transmission that was never noticed by analysts.
In August, one of Meyerrose’s assistants sat me down to show me a very brief glimpse of the results. In the months that it has been operational, the portal has amassed 38,000 “active” participants, though not everyone posts information. In one corner was the active-discussion area — the group blog where the participants could post their latest thoughts about avian flu and others could reply and debate. I noticed a posting, written by a university academic, on whether the H5N1 virus could actually be transmitted to humans, which had provoked a dozen comments. “See, these people would never have been talking before, and we certainly wouldn’t have heard about it if they did,” the assistant said. By September, the site had become so loaded with information and discussion that Rear Adm. Arthur Lawrence, a top official in the health department, told Meyerrose it had become the government’s most crucial resource on avian flu.
Anomalous fever runs rampant in Maldives Dec 3
The Department of Public Health and various doctors have confirmed that a viral fever with anomalous symptoms has been running rampant through the Maldives during the course of the last few days.The fever has proved to spread very quickly and very easily. Doctors have said this viral fever could prove to be vey dangerous.
The public is becoming more and more concerned about the facts and nature of the viral fever.
“Confirmed symptoms of the new virus include high fever headaches aches in joints and muscles dizziness and nausea and weakness.”
The nausea and vomiting spells become so bad that the patients bodies reach a very critical stage.Futhermore if the fever grows too strong,it could harm the brain. Sri Lanka is also currently experiencing an outbreak of viral fever.
Please google title if you would like more info.Thanks in advance.
so Dem?? Which ‘wiki’ would that be?? Us?
MORE MALARIA CASES Airports to be monitored overseas experts coming Jamaica Dec. 3
Emergency health teams have been deployed.
All the nation’s points of entry and exit, including the two main airports, have been searched by health teams and airport officials asked to monitor people traveling from particular countries.
Symptoms of the disease are usually flu like the Ministry of Health says and can arise within six to 14 days of infection. They include fever headaches chills muscle aches and fatigue. Severe cases cand progress rapidly and cause death within hours or days.
By the way,why do our names have ? marks after them?
Well, I think using us as a model, the Feds may have set up their own. The article was a bit vague. But the principles certainly apply.
Well… we would be aware of it, wouldnt we? Unless it was this one? I only found Fluwiki last March when it was well established - what IS the story of its birth?
Pneumonia hits poor area of city Dec 3 Vancouver
An update on the pneumonia in Canada.
Three people have died and nearly 80 have fallen seriously ill as health officials track a spike in Pneumonia cases in the Downtown Eastside.
SKorea culls 771,000 birds over new flu outbreak Dec 3
This was as of Sunday.
gharris, see here and especially here:
Excerpt from article “U.S. To Monitor Airports to Find Any Plague Carriers” in the New York Times.
Dr. Torrigiani said W.H.O. has confidence in statements from the Indian Government that it is taking all necessary steps to control the epidemic. But the agency “does not have exact information of what is going on in India,” he added in an interview.
Plague is caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Last week, Federal health officials sent to India through the World Health Organization the reagents that are needed to detect the bacterium in a laboratory, Dr. Gubler said. The United States is prepared to send experts in diagnosing and controlling plague if India requests such aid, and a team could be readied in a day or two.
Dr. Gubler said his team had also sent materials on the control of plague to doctors in Surat who had requested such information.
He said there was concern about simultaneous epidemics of plague and a mosquito-borne viral infection known as dengue hemorrhagic fever. If both diseases break out at the same time, many cases of one might be erroneously attributed to the other, adding to confusion about the extent of the epidemic, Dr. Gubler said.
Reports from India have described panic as hundreds of thousands of people have fled Surat, a city of 1.6 million.
Dr. Gubler said that in stepping up their monitoring, Federal officials did not want to create more panic. “At this stage, there is probably more danger from the panic than from the plague,” he said.
Search title to find article.
Here is the link to the article referenced by Homesteader at 15:51.
Published Sept 25,1994.
Why oh why do places bring up old news and present it as new ?
OMG! Cactus you are right. I saw todays date at the top and didn’t look further. Mods please delete.
Thanx Dem - interesting reading!
yes that news now website seems to do it all the time. It makes me nuts and it’s stupid for them to do that.
Witness: What are the symptoms of chikungunya? It’s running rampant (along with some malaria) in Indian Ocean countries like Sri Lanka, so perhaps the Maldives is seeing the same thing.
witness, the question mark is because you don’t have a profile written for Fluwiki in the profiles page. There’s a link to it in the column on the left.
Bumping above closed threads
John0–19:03 This is from the article.”Samples were sent abroad for testing. Results have proven the virus is not chikungunya.”They must know by now what this is. Thankyou Jane.