What is going on in the USA?

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Any idea what this is about?*

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What's with all the epidemic hazard** signs in Iowa, Minnesota, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii? Is it just a flu or something more serious? I can't find anything on the news sites.







*I'm bored.

**Epidemic Hazard: Low number infection but potentionally can cause big plague or mass sickness.

El Weirdo

Zombies.

SeaFields

stupidness

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El Weirdo wrote: »

Zombies.

That's a relief. I thought it might be something serious.

NothingMan

Don't worry, Obama will sort it out with his powers of Obamaness...

Wazdakka

Come on the zombie apocalypse.

*Crosses fingers*

4zn76tysfajdxp

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Low number infection but potentionally can cause big plague or mass sickness.

That's what they say about my sperm.


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My sexy sperm.

Wazdakka

El Weirdo wrote: »

Zombies.

Wazdakka wrote: »

Come on the zombie apocalypse.

*Crosses fingers*

Great minds and such...

You beat me while I was trying to figure out how to spell "apocalypse"

thebigbiffo

probably a list of bruger joints that have spread e-coli

My name is URL

Once they don't close the airports in Madagascar it'll be ok

Biggins

Its America, same scite, different day.

maddog

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging healthcare providers to be alert for influenza cases, following the reporting of two small outbreaks of influenza A/H3N2 in Iowa and scattered H3N2 cases in 11 other states. Noting that sporadic cases and localized outbreaks of flu are detected every summer, the CDC said clinicians should consider flu as a possible diagnosis in patients with acute respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia. In an e-mailed health advisory issued last night, the CDC said the number of reported H3N2 viruses in late June and July increased slightly over previous months. In early July, two small outbreaks confirmed by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were confirmed in non-neighboring counties in eastern Iowa, the notice added. The first outbreak included 4 of 13 members of a college sports team who became ill, the CDC said. The second one included 9 of 12 children in a child-care setting and one parent. Two patients in the first outbreak and one in the second have tested positive by PCR, and samples have been sent to the CDC for further analysis. None of the patients had traveled recently, and there were no epidemiologic links between the two outbreaks, the CDC said. However, a Jul 30 epidemiologic update from the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) said several patients in the two outbreaks have "connections to travel outside of Iowa." An earlier IDPH update, dated Jul 16, mentions two H3 flu cases in Johnson County. In addition to the Iowa outbreaks, between Jun 20 and Jul 23 the CDC received H3-positive specimens from 11 other states and a "smaller number of sporadic samples" that tested positive for the 2009 H1N1 and influenza B viruses, the CDC notice said. The CDC did not list the states that have reported cases, other than Iowa. However, the IDPH updates mentioned that H3 cases have been reported recently in Minnesota, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. On the basis of hemagglutinin gene sequencing of four isolates so far, the CDC said, the viruses are expected to be similar to A/Perth/16/2009-like H3N2 viruses, a strain that's included in this year's seasonal flu vaccine. "Perth-like H3N2 viruses were first identified in early 2009, but have not yet circulated widely in the United States," the notice stated. Previous flu vaccines did not include this strain, so last year's vaccine would not be likely to provide much protection against it, it said. The CDC alert advises that treatment decisions should not be based on negative rapid flu test results, since rapid tests have only moderate sensitivity and also can yield false-positives. If laboratory confirmation is wanted, clinicians should order RT-PCR or viral culture. "Clinicians should use empirical treatment with influenza antiviral medications for persons hospitalized with suspected influenza, and for suspected influenza infection of any severity in high-risk individuals, regardless of influenza immunization status," the CDC said. H3N2 viruses have been circulating since they emerged in the pandemic of 1968-69. But last winter they were largely crowded out by the pandemic H1N1 virus in the United States. Flu experts say that flu seasons in which H3N2 viruses predominate tend to be more severe than those in which seasonal H1N1 or type B viruses are dominant.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=27300


Pushing the latest flu jab to all the old people imho.

Biggins

maddog wrote: »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging ...

Paragraphs please, its easier on the eyes.

Sktchr

Oh....That's not half as exciting as zombies

El Weirdo

maddog wrote: »

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging healthcare providers to be alert for influenza cases, following the reporting of two small outbreaks of influenza A/H3N2 in Iowa and scattered H3N2 cases in 11 other states. Noting that sporadic cases and localized outbreaks of flu are detected every summer, the CDC said clinicians should consider flu as a possible diagnosis in patients with acute respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia. In an e-mailed health advisory issued last night, the CDC said the number of reported H3N2 viruses in late June and July increased slightly over previous months. In early July, two small outbreaks confirmed by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were confirmed in non-neighboring counties in eastern Iowa, the notice added. The first outbreak included 4 of 13 members of a college sports team who became ill, the CDC said. The second one included 9 of 12 children in a child-care setting and one parent. Two patients in the first outbreak and one in the second have tested positive by PCR, and samples have been sent to the CDC for further analysis. None of the patients had traveled recently, and there were no epidemiologic links between the two outbreaks, the CDC said. However, a Jul 30 epidemiologic update from the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) said several patients in the two outbreaks have "connections to travel outside of Iowa." An earlier IDPH update, dated Jul 16, mentions two H3 flu cases in Johnson County. In addition to the Iowa outbreaks, between Jun 20 and Jul 23 the CDC received H3-positive specimens from 11 other states and a "smaller number of sporadic samples" that tested positive for the 2009 H1N1 and influenza B viruses, the CDC notice said. The CDC did not list the states that have reported cases, other than Iowa. However, the IDPH updates mentioned that H3 cases have been reported recently in Minnesota, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. On the basis of hemagglutinin gene sequencing of four isolates so far, the CDC said, the viruses are expected to be similar to A/Perth/16/2009-like H3N2 viruses, a strain that's included in this year's seasonal flu vaccine. "Perth-like H3N2 viruses were first identified in early 2009, but have not yet circulated widely in the United States," the notice stated. Previous flu vaccines did not include this strain, so last year's vaccine would not be likely to provide much protection against it, it said. The CDC alert advises that treatment decisions should not be based on negative rapid flu test results, since rapid tests have only moderate sensitivity and also can yield false-positives. If laboratory confirmation is wanted, clinicians should order RT-PCR or viral culture. "Clinicians should use empirical treatment with influenza antiviral medications for persons hospitalized with suspected influenza, and for suspected influenza infection of any severity in high-risk individuals, regardless of influenza immunization status," the CDC said. H3N2 viruses have been circulating since they emerged in the pandemic of 1968-69. But last winter they were largely crowded out by the pandemic H1N1 virus in the United States. Flu experts say that flu seasons in which H3N2 viruses predominate tend to be more severe than those in which seasonal H1N1 or type B viruses are dominant.

Seriously?

petes

It should be zombies. I'm sitting at work with a hoodie on that says "Sometimes I worry about zombies"!!

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Now I'll have to find something else to get alarmed by.

maddog

El Weirdo wrote: »

Seriously?

Hey it's cut and pasted from the site that was linked.... I've seen all the old folk que up outside costco's to get the flu jab.... and that line was big....100 or so people. Like everything in the states, it's all sold on fear.

It's the start of The Stand

maddog

It would awesome if it was zombies..... I could see the news footage now.... We have reports of some strange attacks happen down town today....

petes

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phill106

Biggins wrote: »

Paragraphs please, its easier on the eyes.

Thats actually how the website has it too! Ouch!

Xios

Aw man, I don't have a gun licence!!!11!!1
Wtf am i sposed to do when zombies come? I can't use my Walter 44

antodeco

Xios wrote: »

Wtf am i sposed to do when zombies come?

Dont let it get in your eyes!

storm2811

It's just the flu?
Feck sake,thought it'd be something interesting..swear it was SARS again or some shite

biko

Don't worry, whatever it is - Jack Bauer will sort it.

ScumLord

Americans have very short attention spans, the government needs to rotate it's lies with new scary lies as they can't keep shouting drugs war and terrorists at them all the time, they will lose interest. Especially now that 24 has ended and it's not relevant to the average American.

NoHornJan

Devil knows! Has it got anything to do with your post No. 666?

Biggins

phill106 wrote: »

Thats actually how the website has it too! Ouch!

Crikey. Someone needs a slap with a grammar book!

R0ot

Come on the T-Virus! :pac:

pickarooney

SeaFields wrote: »

stupidness

Good word. Patent it.

fonecrusher1

Whats this? Theres widespread panic in the states over something or other?

Ah sure theres a potentially lethal threat to the population every few weeks. Keeps the drugs/gun stores in business.

Coming up in a minute....killer bees are back! Should all small towns be evacuated?:eek:

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NoHornJan wrote: »

Devil knows! Has it got anything to do with your post No. 666?

Hadn't noticed the post no. That's it, I'm off to get a tattoo on my right hand or my forehead. Haven't decided yet but may get it done on both to be sure to be sure.