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- pe5t1lence, on 11/30/2008, -2/+27Not if the President of Madagascar has his way!
http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/4 ... - gbudavid, on 11/29/2008, -2/+26It certainly Could there are accounts of Plagues and Viruses as far back as Egypt ..
- gbudavid, on 11/30/2008, -0/+17I guess you could wrap them in Duck Tape first...
- Stevanoski, on 11/30/2008, -7/+20In the Nursing Home business the hospitals constantly send us residents with full blown C-DIFF (a spore not bacteria or viral) and methlypscillan resistant staphlococcus (MERSA). They get it at the hospital and if not very carefully managed spread it to the entire home. Plus the we the staff get it or take it home to our families. So next time you see someone walking around in their scrubs they worked in that day, steer clear.
One nurse took it home and her family of four all got MERSA. The hospital said once it is in a house it stays there forever. - redwolfwalker, on 11/29/2008, -2/+15....and remember avoid hugging Asian ducks
- athomasUF, on 11/30/2008, -1/+14Try it yourself... it's tougher than you'd think.
http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html
***** Madagascar. - inputoutput, on 11/30/2008, -2/+14women.timesonline.co.uk?
- redwolfwalker, on 11/30/2008, -0/+12He didn't say he was an orderly, and even if he is, how can you be so thoughtless to insult health care workers of any sort.
- sparcnut, on 11/30/2008, -1/+11Left 4 Dead anyone?
- habenneas, on 11/30/2008, -1/+10Steven King nods.
- VitaminH, on 11/30/2008, -1/+101) C. Diff, or clostridium difficile is very much a bacteria, not a fungus spore? It is also not contagious in anyway. It's an infection that is caused in your large intestine generally when you've taken powerful antibiotics and they've killed off your normal flora, which will generally keep any C. Diff that are down there at bay, but when you take said antibiotics and your flora die they run wild. I don't remember the exact statistic but you've got about the same chance of winning the lottery as you do getting C. Diff after a course of antibiotics.
2) MRSA. There is no E. Staph is crawling all over everyone's skin all the time. A lot of it is multidrug resistant, but most of the time before you get a true infection your own immune system kills it off. You're much more prone if you are immunosuppressed in some way. I don't deny it happens, as it did you that nurse's family, but it's really not all that common (at least not yet) So relax. - jamangold, on 11/30/2008, -2/+11MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus.
Clostridium difficile - Gram-positive bacteria, not a fungus.
You must be one of those guys that calls me up looking for a nursing home resident's medication that you can't find. You first proceed to completely butcher the pronunciation of the medication name, which I have to tease out of you so I know I'm looking for the right thing. You then tell me that the resident should have started the medication 3 days ago. A little troubleshooting reveals that the doctor's order for the medication was never sent to us, and it takes another hour or so to track down the original order so it can be faxed. Why did it take 3 whole days for someone to realize that the person wasn't receiving the treatment that he or she was supposed to be getting? When I'm at the point where I can no longer take care of myself, I want my daughter to either shoot me or put a bag over my head. There's no way in hell I ever want to end up in a nursing home.
/end rant - egg321, on 11/30/2008, -2/+11When I was in EMT training one of the teachers referred to us as the canaries.
Now everyone gets a mask in the bus, and I am all about Body Substance Isolation.
And of course.....not hugging ducks. Asian ducks to be exact. - DirtyVicar, on 11/30/2008, -1/+9"If you're out and about, wash your hands frequently as the virus is spread mainly by contact with surfaces touched by sufferers. "
It's funny how pundits and health experts just tell us to wash our hands, but never advise the value of NOT turning water off with our fingers, or NOT grabbing the door handle with our fingers on the way out. In an outbreak, stuff like that will matter pretty damn seriously. - SarahC, on 11/30/2008, -0/+8Hmmmm......
It's from the free online game "Pandemic 2" apparently... - fuckingusername, on 11/30/2008, -1/+8and in other news a Asteroid could wipe us out tomorrow
- deadapostle, on 11/30/2008, -1/+7God damned Madagascar.
- LucasVB, on 11/30/2008, -0/+5Step 1: Move to Madagascar BEFORE it happens, and pray it doesn't come from there.
- ledmonkey, on 11/30/2008, -0/+5Clostridium difficile is a bacteria, but it is spore forming, he never said it was a fungus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-diff#Bacteriology - pushmouse, on 11/30/2008, -1/+6...and Egypt is a long time.
- Poseur117, on 11/30/2008, -2/+7I hope that this Survivors show comes out on DVD in America.
- yoderizer, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Malaria kills a million every year and no one seems to give a *****. How's this different?
- IphtashuFitz, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4The 1918 Influenza (flu) pandemic killed more people than died in World War 1. The total was somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. More people also died that one year than in the four years in the middle 1300's when the bubonic plague swept Europe. Granted something like the flu isn't as "sexy" as viruses like Ebola in causing widespread panic, and it likely wouldn't decimate 90% of the world population. But the flu has proven to be deadly and resilient. With the right conditions a strain of the flu could still wreak widespread damage across large portions of the planet. It would take something like the avian/bird flu jumping species which is very unlikely but not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
Personally I'm much more worried about the idiot gabbing away on his cell phone in the car next to me while drinking his coffee and not paying attention to his driving... - voisine, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4The Plague sent on the Egyptians with the boils was smallpox. More recently though the 1918 flu pandemic killed 10's of millions, more than died in WWI which had just ended.
- fungie5, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4Very true.
Scientists are now saying that earth may be in for some rough times in the future. The fact is that our solar system is located in a stellar arm made of clusters of star systems that's spinning around the center of our galaxy. It takes many millions of years for us to make a complete revolution around the galaxy's center. Scientists have recently realized that our revolution around the milky way's center is associated with a cycle characterized by heightened levels of meteor strikes at certain locations during the revolution. In other words, the likelyhood of earth being hit by a meteor depends on our location, because there are areas of increased space debris in some areas of space within our galaxy. And we're approaching the position where the solar system was during the last heightened level of meteor strikes - the dinosaurs went extinct during that period. Fortunately, we're still a few million years away from it, but it does highlight the fact that our solar system is constantly moving into new areas of space - which translates into constantly changing probabilities for potential hits by giant space rocks. - maroger, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4Ding,ding,ding,ding! You win the prize!
Unfortunately even NPR, Democracy Now and Ralph Nader have all fallen for this crap. Next to the military industrial complex- which guarantees war forever- the medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex is a close second. Too many tentacles into the world's economic system- introduced and indoctrinated by the Rockefellers.
On the eve of World "aids" Day, these kooks are celebrating the biggest hoax ever devised, making way for the next and bigger "scourge" fully supported by a web of grant-financed universities and studies and "doctors". In this age of a lazy population more willing to take a pill than take charge of their own health, this complex will undermine our rights as humans to choose between this obvious propaganda and forced immunization/drugging. - sodade, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4Even more important is that bathrooms have effective handwashing facilities. These damn low flow trickles of tepid water are probably worse than not washing your hands at all and they don't really conserve water because you spend 10X as long trying to wash them with the trickle. Don't even get me started on those damn IR on/off switches.
- craighoxton, on 11/30/2008, -0/+4It is already available if you use the torrentz...
- LucFerris, on 11/30/2008, -1/+5i found this article to be good news all around. It educates on the need for realism when thinking about pandemics and survival altogether. Knowledge is good for you.
- jamesmcm, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3It's alright - not exactly stunning but good to waste an hour.
I wouldn't bother torrenting it though. - DirtyVicar, on 11/30/2008, -4/+7"If you're out and about, wash your hands frequently as the virus is spread mainly by contact with surfaces touched by sufferers. "
It's funny how pundits and health experts just tell us to wash our hands, but never advise the value of NOT turning water off with our fingers, or NOT grabbing the door handle with our fingers on the way out. In an outbreak, stuff like that will matter pretty damn seriously. And don't get me started on all the triclosan-based crap -- it's going to be interesting to see how many people depend on triclosan (bacteriacide) hand wipes and gel when a virus is going around. - dalittle, on 11/30/2008, -1/+4This sounds like Drug Company propaganda.
Geez, let's all pay what ever they want for life saving drugs. Think of the children. /sarcasm - NikoKun, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3The only million-killing-outbreak I want to hear about, is of the Zombie variety.
- dieboldcracy, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3film at 11
- Condottieri, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Shut.
Down.
EVERYTHING. - Stevanoski, on 11/30/2008, -2/+5Your reply reflects well on your intellegence and those who call you friend.
- davidpro83, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2shut.....down.......EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!
- chokeaduck, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I was thinking this and a combination of the T-Virus.
- zumpiez, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3Has Left 4 Dead taught you nothing?
- pixelguru, on 11/30/2008, -2/+4The human population continues to increase on our crowded little planet, international travel has made the chances of isolating anything very slim, our healthcare network is strained as it is, and our emergency services have inspired little confidence when tested with real disasters. It's actually pretty surprising that we haven't had a repeat of 1918 already.
- Spoomeister, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2If it can, I hope it's centered on Utah.
- beauley, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2For many centuries doctors or "medicine men" have treated some individuals with varying diseases of different severeties, some for most of their lives. Many were never cured of their ailment, probably due to improper medicines prescribed for their particular infirmity. There must be a better way.
http://www.healthmad.com/Conditions-and-Diseases/D ...
Disease Prevention Is The Key - zeblith, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3Sounds like Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, which sounds like something else.
- nedergras, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2FTA "They found that in each incident the common theme was the communal spirit between strangers. The researchers report that when a disaster happens, it causes a shared bond among those experiencing it as they become united against adversity.This causes them to act collectively, transcending their own personality differences."
Wouldn't it be great if we could always be like that all the time, then we could finally get some progress going like a death star. - fungie5, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2Good point.
I think if more people understood the mechanisms involved in getting infected by a virus spread by droplets and fluid from our respiratory passages, they would be better able to protect themselves and their families. Most people still don't know that the reason why keeping our fingers free of the infective agent is so important is that it can get from there to our nose by way of our EYES. Our eyes have ducts that drain tears into our nose, so any contact made between fingers and eyes could land us with the infection. I've seen masked individuals get infected while using masks that covered both nose and mouth, thanks to their constantly trying to fix their face masks using their infested fingers. The fingers end up touching around the eyes, as a result. Triclosan-based hand wipes would be totally useless against a flu pandemic. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers would probably be better, but the best defense is as you suggested - avoid touching surfaces of shared contact with our own fingers and keeping our fingers clean by regular handwashing. - dieboldcracy, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2I think the scientists researching this stuff were looking to create one that only wipes out 80% of us.
and now a word from the man who controls us all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-N_HLQMwY - MadOgre, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2Rage virus.
WWZ... it's coming. - dicer999, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3Well, yeah. It only seems logical. There are always gonna be holes on human immune systems that super bugs are going exploit one day. We just have to be ready to control and treat those affected, which we are pretty good at.
- maroger, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2Hello? And maybe an influx of farmers and such into overpopulated unsanitary urban areas without sewage systems or potable water supplies. The cause was obvious but the "scientific" community in the infancy of the medical/industrial complex had its own agenda. Sickness as something to be "caught" is as senseless as considering health to be "caught". And following it the nonsense that taking toxic substances when health is at its weakest could "cure" something. Nonsense. Pure and utter nonsense.
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