Pania
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posted on October 15, 2001 05:14:51 PM new
Hi,
My son lives in Sacramento (the capitol of Calif) and today Govenor Grey Davis received an anthrax letter.
I haven't seen it on the news etc yet. But he said the news came out around 1pm.
This is something, isn't it? My 2cents is that I have 2 options:
1. Worry, fret, live in fear etc.
2. Go on with life..be cautious but not paranoid.
I don't know about any of you, but I choose #2. The risks are equal with BOTH choices..but only #2 is a life worth living.
Pania
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Valleygirl
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posted on October 15, 2001 05:37:25 PM new
For some reason, I'm not fearful of Anthrax. I am however, terrified of smallpox which was erradicated from the earth several years ago. Supposedly, the only smallpox was in laboratories for study purposes. Why then, is our government (and news media) discussing smallpox contamination as a possibility? Even though I am almost 50, I never received a smallpox vacination. And those who did, their immunity is gone by now, since they didn't receive boosters.
Not my name on ebay.
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Microbes
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posted on October 15, 2001 05:52:11 PM new
Supposedly, the only smallpox was in laboratories for study purposes
The USA isn't the only place with laboratories.
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REAMOND
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posted on October 15, 2001 07:29:19 PM new
Russia and the U.S. are SUPPOSED to have the only live Small Pox virus.
However, it has been speculated that Russia gave samples to China and North Korea. Speculation also posits that some of the virus has been stolen from Russia and entered the Black Market.
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Meya
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posted on October 15, 2001 07:39:34 PM new
Small Pox is also a much more valid threat since it is very contagious and can be spread from person to person.
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gravid
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posted on October 15, 2001 07:43:33 PM new
Was there ever a BIG pox?
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bunnicula
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posted on October 15, 2001 10:07:37 PM new
Yes, there was and is: Syphilis.
"In England, the term small pockes (pocke meaning sac) was first used at the end of the 15th century to distinguish the illness from syphilis, which was then known as great pockes"
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plsmith
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posted on October 15, 2001 10:13:39 PM new
More on the Disease Front:
There was an article in either the NY Times or SF Chronicle yesterday that stated Hepatitis C has reached epidemic proportions here in the U.S. (some 4,000,000 infected) and that soon The U.S. Surgeon General will be mailing a letter to every household in America alerting us to the dangers of this dread disease...
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rawbunzel
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posted on October 15, 2001 10:57:08 PM new
Still have heard nothing of anthrax in Sacramento.
You would think if it were more than a rumor they would have had something by now.
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jt-2007
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posted on October 15, 2001 11:33:15 PM new
Hepatitis C has reached epidemic proportions
Our doctor just talked to us about this. There is an immunization and my daughter is taking the series of 3 shots each a month apart. All older kids and teens are encouraged to get the series.
The doctor said the serious danger is that it acts like AIDS, is fatal, no treatment, and it lives outside the body for an EXTENDED period of time. In other words, if you have a tiny cut on your hand and touch a grocery cart then you can catch it...or you scratch a mosquito bite with the hand that touched the grocery cart. You can also catch it from sex, and needles, and razors, and the dentist office like AIDS.
The shots are tiny, nearly painless.
I know of an elderly lady in my community who is dying of it.
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rawbunzel
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posted on October 15, 2001 11:50:44 PM new
It is not completely true that there is no treatment for it. My daughter has a friend that has it and she is getting treatments for it. She has to take the treatments for months.Also they were living at the same house and it is not that contagious.You have to pass body fluids to get it. My daughter never got it and they lived at the same house for several years.Her roommate got it from a blood transfusion.I have not heard of a vaccine for Hep C. I know they have one for B . I'll have to read up on that.
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jt-2007
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posted on October 16, 2001 12:24:08 AM new
I think you must be right. It is Hep B that she is getting the shots for.
About B it says: "Household contacts of chronically infected persons"
"Health care and public safety workers"
Fact Sheet for c:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/c/fact.htm
Fact sheet for B:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/c/fact.htm
Sorry for confusion.
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krs
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posted on October 16, 2001 01:16:40 AM new
http://www.vfw.org/magazine/jun99/30.shtml
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plsmith
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posted on October 16, 2001 01:22:54 AM new
The proposed legislation sounds promising...
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joycel
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posted on October 16, 2001 07:28:29 AM new
Oh great--My ex wants my kids to visit him in Sacramento for Thanksgiving. As if traveling there by plane wasn't enough reason to worry--let alone that they would spend the week in his esteemed company.
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