Wat een ongelofelijk onverantwoordelijke stunt! Dat een arts hier achter staat maakt het nog erger. Dit zijn niet-Nederlandse malariamuggen, vermoedelijk niet besmet maar ze komen uit een malaria onderzoeksinstelling dus je weet het nooit echt. Ik vraag me af of zoiets wettelijk wel mag. Is malaria al jaren in Nederland uitgeroeid (sinds 1970 zijn wij volgens WHO officieel malaria-vrij), zal een ondoordachte reclamestunt het weer terugbrengen!
Je krijgt mij dus pertinent niet mee in deze actie. Ik hoop dat dit een enorme mislukking is want voor je het weet krijgen we over een paar maanden een zuil met een paar miljoen tsetsevliegen...
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Showing posts with label Epidemics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epidemics. Show all posts
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
SARS
SARS is back - in Taiwan. One case only.
What is very worrying is that the person who now has it, contracted the virus apparently while working on it in a military laboratory.
What is the military planning with this virus??
I dont like it when the military (of any country) does research on bugs like this one...
SARS is back - in Taiwan. One case only.
What is very worrying is that the person who now has it, contracted the virus apparently while working on it in a military laboratory.
What is the military planning with this virus??
I dont like it when the military (of any country) does research on bugs like this one...
Saturday, May 24, 2003
Sars
Taiwan is a holy mess and I dont trust reports from China. Seems Hong Kong has cleared up but I'm a pessimist, I know how this kind of organism acts... So do the epidemiologists in Canada. Sars has reappeared there: 25 new cases reported.
This is taking too long, at some point someone, somewhere, is going to have a lapse and the bug is going to get out. I suspect we have a permanent new companion for all the other ills that regularly lay the human race low. We will be seeing more of Sars in the future.
Taiwan is a holy mess and I dont trust reports from China. Seems Hong Kong has cleared up but I'm a pessimist, I know how this kind of organism acts... So do the epidemiologists in Canada. Sars has reappeared there: 25 new cases reported.
This is taking too long, at some point someone, somewhere, is going to have a lapse and the bug is going to get out. I suspect we have a permanent new companion for all the other ills that regularly lay the human race low. We will be seeing more of Sars in the future.
Saturday, May 03, 2003
SARS
It's increasing in Taiwan.
In Hong Kong, people who had recovered are sick with SARS again.
It seems the strain in Canada is much more virulent; the death rate there is over 10%.
There is evidence the virus is mutating.
Some people continue to secrete the virus linked to SARS after they become well, which makes me wonder: did they finger the right virus for this disease?? It also makes me wonder how they could ever successfully contain this disease.
Not a clue what's really going on in China... it takes people like Dr Jiang to shed some light!
Alltogether, none of this fills me with confidence. I am deeply concerned.
It's increasing in Taiwan.
In Hong Kong, people who had recovered are sick with SARS again.
It seems the strain in Canada is much more virulent; the death rate there is over 10%.
There is evidence the virus is mutating.
Some people continue to secrete the virus linked to SARS after they become well, which makes me wonder: did they finger the right virus for this disease?? It also makes me wonder how they could ever successfully contain this disease.
Not a clue what's really going on in China... it takes people like Dr Jiang to shed some light!
Alltogether, none of this fills me with confidence. I am deeply concerned.
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
SARS:
SARS now also arrived in the UK. They might be able to isolate this case but looking at what's happening in China, I suspect the genie is out of the bottle. Still, many people believe this only attacks people with a weakened immune system. I cannot see this, in Hong Kong and China it attacks and kills healthy vital people as well as weakened people. 5% mortality is unacceptable to me. That would mean that if an epidemic broke loose in my country it would result in about 800.000 dead! Unacceptable! Yet, it is so.
5% does not sound much until you translate it to absolute numbers: 800.000 dead.
SARS now also arrived in the UK. They might be able to isolate this case but looking at what's happening in China, I suspect the genie is out of the bottle. Still, many people believe this only attacks people with a weakened immune system. I cannot see this, in Hong Kong and China it attacks and kills healthy vital people as well as weakened people. 5% mortality is unacceptable to me. That would mean that if an epidemic broke loose in my country it would result in about 800.000 dead! Unacceptable! Yet, it is so.
5% does not sound much until you translate it to absolute numbers: 800.000 dead.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Sars again:
The three babies in Hong Kong born to SARS moms (of which one has already died and two are very ill) are now ill, they probably have SARS too.
A surge of new cases in China reported.
double shit...
The three babies in Hong Kong born to SARS moms (of which one has already died and two are very ill) are now ill, they probably have SARS too.
A surge of new cases in China reported.
double shit...
Saturday, April 12, 2003
What caught my eye this morning:
SARS This could end up nasty... None where I live yet but only a matter of time, I guess.
Iraq Well, why am I not surprised at this chaos??? I have to qualify that... I am amazed that the Americans are amazed at what is happening. I mean... I know their president does not like to read but surely some of his advisors once in their lives picked up a history book??? Of course there would be lawlesness and chaos after lopping off the top of an extremely suppressive regime. The British could have told them that too, chaos reigns in their "protectorate" too... I have been reading stories with quotes like "we are not policemen" for quite a while now - the Americans are also not planning on lifting a finger here.
I guess they dont read the news in the Pentagon, it might interfere with the truth!
Or... this is exactly what they want in the Pentagon, a legitimate excuse to set up military US rulership for an undetermined time. The Americans are planning on administering the oil fields for now... until they can hand it over (big surprise). I guess that will be when democracy finally descends there. Ten years from now???
Syria: Speaking of truth... drums are beating harder for Syria. It actually may be true that many top Iraqui officials etc made a run for Syria. So... of course the country needs to be invaded.... logical, isnt it???
Food for oil This resumes now, under a new resolution - in part the funds will be used to repair war damages. I have a hard time with this. I thought, according to international law, an occupying army has to pay for reparations to the country they occupied. It certainly is not fair that the Iraquis themselves have to finance the repairs of damages caused by the American invasion.
Light relief Lawmakers allowed companies to dump whatever junk they wanted in the sea for years and to hell with those namby pamby protectors of the spotted owl!!! ... the fish end up with all that mercury and heaven knows what else in their bodies... fishermen catch them, sell them to restaurants who prepare them for the paying customer... who gets ill from all that mercury. How to fix this??? Well, by letting the lawmakers sue the restaurants, of course!
SARS This could end up nasty... None where I live yet but only a matter of time, I guess.
Iraq Well, why am I not surprised at this chaos??? I have to qualify that... I am amazed that the Americans are amazed at what is happening. I mean... I know their president does not like to read but surely some of his advisors once in their lives picked up a history book??? Of course there would be lawlesness and chaos after lopping off the top of an extremely suppressive regime. The British could have told them that too, chaos reigns in their "protectorate" too... I have been reading stories with quotes like "we are not policemen" for quite a while now - the Americans are also not planning on lifting a finger here.
I guess they dont read the news in the Pentagon, it might interfere with the truth!
Or... this is exactly what they want in the Pentagon, a legitimate excuse to set up military US rulership for an undetermined time. The Americans are planning on administering the oil fields for now... until they can hand it over (big surprise). I guess that will be when democracy finally descends there. Ten years from now???
Syria: Speaking of truth... drums are beating harder for Syria. It actually may be true that many top Iraqui officials etc made a run for Syria. So... of course the country needs to be invaded.... logical, isnt it???
Food for oil This resumes now, under a new resolution - in part the funds will be used to repair war damages. I have a hard time with this. I thought, according to international law, an occupying army has to pay for reparations to the country they occupied. It certainly is not fair that the Iraquis themselves have to finance the repairs of damages caused by the American invasion.
Light relief Lawmakers allowed companies to dump whatever junk they wanted in the sea for years and to hell with those namby pamby protectors of the spotted owl!!! ... the fish end up with all that mercury and heaven knows what else in their bodies... fishermen catch them, sell them to restaurants who prepare them for the paying customer... who gets ill from all that mercury. How to fix this??? Well, by letting the lawmakers sue the restaurants, of course!
Monday, March 31, 2003
SARS update The world is still underestimating the danger here, distracted by the US/UK efforts to 'liberate' Iraq. Hong Kong quarantined more than 200 people in a single apartment block by sealing the building on Monday after 92 new cases were reported there. The disease seems to be traveling vertically.... The quarantine is a bit late though, many of the families living there had already fled by the time officials showed up with tape.
Total number of infections in in Hong Kong is now more than 620.
Total number of infections in in Hong Kong is now more than 620.
Saturday, March 29, 2003
SARS update: 1 Nov 2002 to 29 Mar 2003: Number of cases - 1550. Deaths - 53
France 1, Germany 4, Italy 2, Ireland 2, Switzerland 3, United Kingdom 3
It looks like no big deal but considering how easily and fast this bug spreads and how it kills healthy fit adults, this is something that should be taken very seriously. So far, other headlines are pushing this to the background.
France 1, Germany 4, Italy 2, Ireland 2, Switzerland 3, United Kingdom 3
It looks like no big deal but considering how easily and fast this bug spreads and how it kills healthy fit adults, this is something that should be taken very seriously. So far, other headlines are pushing this to the background.
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