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Thanks, Sandy.
One thing which happens tomorrow, about 2 weeks after discharge, is that
the surgeon looks to see how healing is taking place and assesses if I can
drive yet or not. It will relieve my husband if I can. But we have only
manual transmission vehicles, so I'm a little doubtful.

>Momentarily off the subject - Lynn, we wish you a
>continued and speedy recovery. Please keep us posted on
>your progress?
>Warmest regards -
>Sandy
>
>On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:01:27 -0400, clhw wrote:
>
>>
>> These sound a lot like the potential for a pandemic
>> from H5N1.
>> They can be caught by humans in close proximity to
>> infected vectors like
>> horses, pigs and bats.
>>
>> The bats part doesn't concern me .... much.... as long
>> as our local bats
>> aren't catching it.
>>
>> However, the swine reservoir is potential bad trouble.
>> Most of you probably
>> know that the genetics between humans and swine is
>> close enought that
>> viruses which mutate to affect hogs can become
>virulent
>> for humans and a
>> new mutation develop through the susceptibility. And
>> humans do have a lot
>> more contact with hogs than with fruit bats. Somehow,
>I
>> didn't consider
>> contact with horses to be very frequent in Malaysia.
>>
>> It would take several years for either of these
>viruses
>> to develop into
>> something which is being spread in humans. The high
>> mortality rate reported
>> in these two articles might fall with, as Lynda
>> indicated, more medical
>> support at an early point, and something like washing
>> hands and disposible
>> tissues and Lysol or clorox might prove fatal to the
>> virus. Nothing
>> mentioned on shelf-life outside the reservoirs, like,
>> if someone sneezes
>> onto the grocery cart I use, is there going to be live
>> virus there 30
>> minutes later?
>>
>> Just like SARS and Ebola, these are viruses to be
>aware
>> of, but not panic.
>> I'd still like to have a better supply of surgical
>> gloves, masks, vitamin C
>> and zinc lozenges, but I'm not running to lock the
>> front gates. The next
>> danger point for my awareness is when cases are
>> reported of human-to-human
>> transmission.
>> Lynn who is recuperating from a mild heart attack on
>> 12/20, followed by
>> by-pass surgery on 12/21.
>>
>> >This was news to me..I had not heard of these two,
>> perhaps you have, but
>> >I thought I would pass it on.  IF there is a
>> bat/pig/horse/human
>> >connection, it would seem that these viruses could
>> easily spread around
>> >the world, and if so, we need to at least know of
>> their existence since
>> >they seem to be pretty deadly.
>> >
>>
>>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/nipah.htm
>> >
>> >  http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs262/en/
>> >
>> >Bev
>> >
>> >--
>> >BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
>>
>>
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