Wow!

Feb 09, 2009 23:31

Thanks for the heads up cadhla ...
The first confirmed case of Marburg hemorragic fever in the continental USA!  In Colorado near Denver....
this is so neat....Marburg! baby brother to Ebola.. and it was here a YEAR ago..  and it was somepleca ei kind of know.. this is so coool.....i gotta dig out all my books and ....
uh...
i mean "this is a matter for ( Read more... )

marburg, ebola, plague, denver

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graydown February 10 2009, 04:44:27 UTC
Have you tried the infectious disease blog? He also has a podcast. :) I think it's all fascinating.

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fabricdragon February 10 2009, 13:37:10 UTC
Ooooooh!

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greene_man February 10 2009, 04:45:59 UTC
My sister and her family live in Longmont, about an hour north of Denver. Now I have something else to worry about.

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fabricdragon February 10 2009, 05:00:04 UTC
not really... it was all over with about a year ago.. the victim recovered. and no one else caught it.. they got it in Uganda.

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octoberland February 10 2009, 04:49:30 UTC
Hey! Another virus freak! Yay! My copy of The Coming Plague is always next to my desk. Thanks for the link. :)

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fabricdragon February 10 2009, 05:00:33 UTC
heh,
there are more of us out there than you may suspect...

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laura_isaac February 10 2009, 11:05:31 UTC
Chalk me up to the "disease freak". I want my badge, lol!

This is very interesting.

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ladypyrate February 10 2009, 14:53:33 UTC
of course sometimes i worry about the fact that i know what most of them are talking about

I got that when I caught the very beginning of "House of 1000 Corpses" and I was naming the Serial Killers they were shown..

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carneillian February 10 2009, 14:54:49 UTC
in case you don't already know there is also a mailing by promed through the International Society of Infectious Disease. http://www.isid.org/

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