I wasn't too concerned about yesterday's 2 isolated cases. But 4 people from the same family says highly infectious. The Haj pandemic could be on its way.
FIVE people have been isolated in a hospital in Denmark with symptoms of a new viral respiratory illness from the same family as the deadly SARS virus, the hospital said on Wednesday.
"We have sent samples from the five for testing and hope to get the results this afternoon," chief physician Svend Stenvang Petersen of Odense University Hospital told AFP.
"The five have a fever, coughing and influenza-like symptoms," he added.
Petersen said those admitted were a family of four where the father had been to Saudi Arabia, and an unrelated person who had been to Qatar. Two of those with symptoms were under the age of five.
Trade unions in Greece have called the first general strike since the conservative-led coalition government came to power in June.
Wednesday's 24-hour walkout is to protest at new planned spending cuts of more than 11.5bn euros ($15bn; £9bn). The savings are a pre-condition to Greece receiving its next tranche of bailout funds, without which the country could face bankruptcy in weeks.
Large anti-austerity demonstrations are also planned.
Greece needs the next 31bn-euro instalment of its international bailout, but with record unemployment and a third of Greeks pushed below the poverty line, there is strong resistance to further cuts.
The government of conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is also proposing to slash pensions and raise the retirement age to 67.
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Fox Business Network has live vid of the Greeks protesting against math and checking account balances
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This is all part of the process of a bloodless coup that is occuring in Europe. The decision of Karlsruhe to allow the EUro bonds, the control of taxes and finances by Brussels just about wraps up the project of the elites to subsume all of Europe into the greater good of the EU sovereign.
Bye, bye France, Italy, Germany et. al. Now fess up and take your ONE seat in all the intn'l orgs.
Protesters clashed with police in Spain's capital on Tuesday as the government prepares a new round of unpopular austerity measures for the 2013 budget that will be announced on Thursday. Thousands gathered in Neptune plaza where they planned to form a human chain around parliament, surrounded by barricades, police trucks and more than 1,500 police in riot gear.
Television images showed the police beating some protesters with truncheons, in a brief, tense stand-off one block from parliament as police trucks tried to divide the crowd in two.
The protest, promoted over the Internet by different activist groups, was younger and more rowdy than recent marches called by labour unions. Protesters said they were fed up with cuts to public salaries and health and education.
"My annual salary has dropped by 8000 euros and if it falls much further I won't be able to make ends meet," said Luis Rodriguez, 36, a firefighter who joined the protest. He said he is considering leaving Spain to find a better quality of life.
With this year's budget deficit target looking untenable, the conservative government is now looking at such things as cuts in inflation-linked pensions, taxes on stock transactions, "green taxes" on emissions or eliminating tax breaks.
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Wow pushing taxes over the laffer maximum will harm the economy and drive wealth creation even further away.
Radical CUTS to the extent of the things the state does.
Eliminate taxes on wealth creation.
Tax on things the state creates (property entitlements)
Eliminate means-testing of benefits as this acts like a tax on work.
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Besoeker---They will order 9mm rounds over there, and a lot more than the normal millions needed, as the 9mm rounds don't quite have the oomph that 40s&w have.
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don't quite have the oomph that 40s&w have
Or .45 ACP. Of which I have a few rounds mfg c. 1918 - wonder if they're still any good?
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