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- lava, on 10/11/2007, -3/+52It's clear that we need to put an end to these scientists.
- mac26, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40I never put my away. The world is a dirty, dirty, place.
- brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26Of course they found new possibly deadly bacteria. Bird Flu is losing steam.
- Blisshead, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20@hyperjack
Winner for first tinfoil post on this link. - XStatic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Wipe with your Left, Eat with your Right.
- f4nt0m4s, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18i use paper towel hand protectors when i leave public bathrooms at restaurants, the last thing i want to do is touch a dirty handle and then go grab a big burger
a lot of stuff can be prevented with common sense and good hygiene. don't eat a meal after you put your hand in your ass and don't hang around your friend with a fever that has been coughing and sneezing all day. - geoffg, on 10/11/2007, -19/+30Wow America is evil, but in school they always told me it was great... Thanks Hyper Jack for opening my eyes to something I'd never heard before!
3 posts to bash the US on a topic that has nothing to do with politics...Digg is so overrun with leftist activists it's truly mindblowing. Whatever gives your life meaning I guess. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13AH GEEZ back to leaving bathrooms with a paper towel glove protector like a pussy. i get ripped on for doing that. BUT ***** MAN! you never know whats growing on those door handles.
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Wow, more fear of disease. More reason for panic. Quick everyone start scrubbing every inch of skin to keep the germs off.
- leowatson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8SARS was awesome when I was in high school in Hong Kong. It gave us the easiest way to talk to each other without the teacher knowing. Oh, the good old days of deadly outbreaks & deadlier panics.
- WarpFox, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14@geoff
You assume the people bashing america are leftists.
Liberals love their country just as much as anyone else, *****. We just hate the current administration. You need to stop mushing everything together. Here in reality, *****'s not black and white.
Anyway, go have fun with your zero tolerance policies, *****. - kday, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11"kill all the cats"
Or just masturbate a lot.... - oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8@ geoffg
My comment wasn't directed towards the government. It was to illustrate how afraid we are of something that will never effect us. I lived in Toronto during the SARS out break, and I didn't get sick, didn't even wear a mask. People are afraid for no good reason. - geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"No, it's because everyone was tired of hearing the non-story about the TB guy who tested negative."
The guy has XDR-TB, he tested positive for it. He is not currently contagious, however, meaning that he (probably) won't give it to you if he sneezed on you.
That still doesn't mean I'd want to sit next to him on a plane for a nice 12-hour Atlantic commute, with him coughing and sneezing. - Bhima, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8And I'm just leaving to spend a few months in Peru
- ostracize, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6So... what color is the terror alert at now?
- CletusJones, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I love Peru! Oh, wait, nobody cares.
- LucasVB, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Cheer up, emo kid.
- SailRacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7This post should be called "More ***** that can kill you."
- geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Try about a thousand, which is what it takes to start most infections. One or two bacteria can easily be killed by the hosts defenses, but a few thousand will replicate faster than the hosts defenses can mount their initial attack. Keep in mind that one bacteria is at most a few micrometers long, so you can fit quite a few of them within one drop of blood, or a few drops of mucus from a sneeze.
The problem with immunodeficient/immunocomprimised people, like we're talking about here, is that their defenses are so weak often that a few dozen is all it takes to start an infection, and bacteria that we normally would never see being a problem at all can become quick killers. This is why we need to better control the usage of antibiotics (especially in immunocomprimised patients), so that we can fight these super-bugs.
I'd go on in a rant about the need for everyone with AIDS and HIV to be medicated, and that right now Africa is a genetic breeding ground for the worst bugs known to mankind (like the XDR-TB which modern medicine basically can't kill), but until more events like Andrew Speaker jumping on planes, transiting the Atlantic while in close quarters happen, I fear nobody's really going to stand up and pay attention. - geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Right, the Army's going to play around with little, basically harmless bacteria that are only likely to kill you if you've got AIDS or a weakened immune system, when they've got so many more baddies at their disposal like Anthrax, Glanders, Brucella, Botulism, Cholera, Smallpox, Ebola, Marburg...
- qevlhma93, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5One down, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 left to discover.
- Afreyt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Was this one intelligently designed, too?
- lava, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Thank god I bought those Peter Sarsgaard Sars Guards
- mortigon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4True, the only way to build up you immune system is to let some germs in, but still, I don't want my cheeks touching where someone elses have.
- MissinSoCal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4To quote George Carlin. I live in New York and have been swimming in the hudson. I've been tempered by raw sewage. I'm not worried, bring it all.
- catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6No, it's because everyone was tired of hearing the non-story about the TB guy who tested negative. The media now needs to fill the scary disease slots on the :10, :30, and :50 past the hour.
- mortigon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Do you build a nest too?
I do... - skipsandwichdx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Why don't you open the door with your feet?
- onetimeuse, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Ahh... nothing like waking up to a new way to die. Life is good, even if i ever drive recklessly, i will only spend 3 days in jail. Oh...im not...oh...
- basichuman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Any body who rips on you for using a paper towel to leave a bathroom is an idiot. If you saw a buy come out of a stall and leave without washing his hands would you want to touch the same handle and go back to your dinner. No thanks. Besides, the CDC recommends you do that. http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/pub/Handwashing/HandwashingTips.htm
- TheSabre, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Because we all know the scientists should be fighting crime instead with their time...
- break99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2wrong site: this belongs to fark.com... :-)
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@ waterispoison
George Carlin Style! - funkydopeloven, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3hurray! another deadly virus/bacteria/microbe jsut what the world needs
- DesuKN, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6But HyperJack HAS to be right. Only the US could create a previously unknown virus, travel to Peru, infect a random tourist, and then 'discover' it. It's so simple.. it's MINDBLOWING.
However, a far more fiendish force may be at work. This virus.. may be the product of an.. intelligent designer. This designer must be found and stopped at all costs. - eezzzz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I'm already wearing Kleenex boxes as shoes. FREEMASONS RUN THE COUNTRY! /to the Spruce Goose
- break99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2most definitely, she was chosen to pass it on. Only her can pass it to this much people. :-)
- chaesar, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6kill all the cats
- brianbb98, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Does this have anything to do with Paris getting out early?????
- azAZ09, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Discovery != Invention
- linx0003, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Potentially Deadly." Didn't the article state that the patient recovered?
- tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'll say "a"!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Of course pfizer and merck will provide the vaccine which will be mandatory...
America is defeated. - moxley, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1naw, that stuff from Paris' crotch isn't actually deadly; it just smells so bad it makes you WANT to kill yourself.
- tech42er, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Exactly. This is no big deal. It's interesting they found a new species, but that's it.
- UnstableMind, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3$10 says there will be legislation for funding introduced to congress for this facility that made the announcement within 1 month. Very similar to the TB fear mongering. Also, it is quite coincidental that the dude's (the one with TB) father-in-law worked for the CDC and on research for that very thing. I read that someone introduced a bill on funding the reasearch at a few million after this, preying on people's fears. What some people will do to get funding...
- tehmarko, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2EVERYBODY PANIC!
- weaksnyc, on 08/14/2009, -2/+3@geoffg
"Digg is so overrun with leftist activists it's truly mindblowing. Whatever gives your life meaning I guess."
You just took time out of your life to criticize people for dragging in an unrelated topic, and then you went ahead and did the same damn thing. Refrain from labeling anyone politically left of center as "anti-American" and I won't call you a redneck, a homophobic religious nut bag, or a "bushie."
I will call you ignorant, though. - 0ceanic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2odd.
usually they only find these doomsday threats in the several months before an american election. maybe this one is real. -
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