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| 3 girls dead. bird flu or bird flu panic? |
| 2006-03-12 |
| Two girls have died in Georgia during in the two days and parents of their fellow schoolers suppose the victims had bird flu. 7-year-old girl died after physicians were unable to save her, Interfax news agency reported. The official verdict was acute pneumonia. Two days before, a 12-year-old girl who studied at the same school in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, died of the same disease. Georgian Health Ministry officials refute the reports that the girls could had contracted bird flu saying that no virus of this infection had been found in the victimsÂ’ blood. Earlier, a girl died in Azerbaijan after being hospitalized for bird flu-like symptoms. However, the health ministry declined to reveal official cause of death. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 Masks stop you touching the mucous membranes in the mouth and nose (and hopefully the eyes as well), the main route of flu infection. Pretty much anything over your face will work. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-03-12 22:41 |
| #3 I cry when I think of the suffering of children resulting from ignorant brainwashed adults suffering dimensia. It don't make it right, but the practice has been in place for thousands of years. That don't make it right, that make it DO! Too bad immature immune systems are most susceptible. That comes from never getting out of the village! We should come out with a STD that only works on adults. Oh yeah, there is one. "...let loose the chickens of WAR!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2006-03-12 22:14 |
| #2 Since most pulmonary xmission happens by direct or indirect hand contact, masks like that might actually be more effective than previously believed. That is, most contamination will be caught in the large water droplets containing the virus. Such masks must be accompanied by some kind of eye protection, though. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-12 21:36 |
| #1 I call "panic". Those dust masks they're wearing are about as useful as porch screen for filtering a virus. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-03-12 21:30 |