Is that kinda overboard? I mean, there's a playoff game tonight...lot of people there. I guess your company is being "safe than sorry".
Hmm... I wonder what precautions the TC is going to take for tonight's game. They should hand out red surgical masks.
Okay, I am not a doctor or a biologist, and I'm honestly confused. Why is this so much more worrisome than any other flu. Flu has killed thousands in the US this winter. It is very contagious, etc. I think I had a bad one this year and missed a few days of work. Are they worried that, because of the cases in Mexico, that this will be much more deadly? Or is the worry the fact that it comes from another species, and is therefore much more unpredictable and prone to mutation? None of the WHO or CDC sites even try to explain this.
My wife works at one of the HISD schools that they have closed. We got the call at 12 midnight not to go to school this morning.. One of the kids went to Mexico to visit her father who was sick from what turned out to be this flu. He died. The kid has the flu and was sent for testing. My wife is assuming this is the kid who got the school shut down.
I'm fairly certain the concern is that since it comes from another species, no humans have any antibodies built up against this strain of flu, so we are all as vulnerable as we could be to any disease.
According to the chronicle, the girl that got it and shut down Episcopal high school actually got it last week and has since totally recovered from it. She recovered from it without even knowing she had it or going to the hospital. We're all going to die.
Holy Hell.....I swear this is ridiculous. Did you hear that Obama said that we shouldnt shut down the borders for a while because "once the horse is outta the barn there is no need to close the door" Simply r****ded.
Just now feeling better 2 weeks later - still coughing though, not near as bad as early on. I still think I ran into it around the 13th picking my mom up from a Continental flight. Watch out - I may cough on you next!
man, big brother knows now adays, which in this case is good thing. [made up]this kid went to mexico, stopped at a 7-11 in Corpus on their way back. there were three truckers and two families in the 7-11. The truckers went back to two warehouses. two of the warehouse workers got sick. the families went back to victoria, and one to beaumont. one of the family members in baumont showed signs. The kid went to high school in beaumont, and so forth and so on. geesh[/made up]
