In Tennessee and North Carolina, there has been an outbreak of Meningitis in healthy patients. 13 people infected, no known cause, that is until a good doctor did a little investigating. Turns out that a common steroid injected into the spine for back pain contained a strain of fungus. This fungus is what has been causing the Meningitis. Luckily it does not spread person to person, but where are the quality control tests on these injections? What company is providing them? This will lead to more lawsuits, there is no doubt.
Category Archives: Viruses, bacteria, plagues, disease
Saudi Arabian SARS: Day 8
The Saudi government is finally taking action. First they were in denial mode, but something triggered a reversal of policy. Three cases doesn’t seem like much.  The WHO also stated that this strain isn’t easily transferred from one person to another. The question is, why the reversal in policy? If I had to guess, I would say that it is because of the millions of people making the hajj pilgrimage.
Saudi Arabian SARS: Day 5
The WHO has weighed in, and they say that this deadly strain of SARS is NOT easily transferable person to person. This is a relief to the Saudi government, given the thousands of pilgrims that will be packing into their borders over the next few months. I would like to point out 2 things:
1. This SARS strain (and the WHO has confirmed it is within the same family as SARS), while a respiratory infection, it also aggressively attacks the kidneys. This is a strange “mutation” given the primary mode of transference from the original SARS.
2. On that note, the fact that it is NOT easily passed person to person is a complete deviation from the original strain (If the WHO is giving accurate information). To me, this seems to be a step backwards, from an evolutionary stand point.
The Yosemite Files: Contagion in Curry Village: Day 37
Here is the latest on the Yosemite Hantavirus: The park screened 100 workers, all of whom were there voluntarily, but they have been sworn to secrecy. The results will not be published or reported. Why? If the have a low volume of infections amongst those who are there on a daily basis, it seems to me that would help their case that all is well. Why does everything have to seem like a massive cover-up? Can’t they just report the findings?
The first person who successfully files a FOIA request on this matter will relieve a free one year subscription to the Funk Freedom Press.
Saudi Arabian SARS in Denmark
A family of 4 visited Saudi Arabia and flew back to Denmark, only to find out they have a deadly new strain of the SARS virus. Despite what the Saudi government says (see yesterday’s article), this is in fact dangerous, and it is in the same viral family as SARS, even though it also attacks the kidneys. A man who contracted the virus in Qatar was flown to the UK, where they diagnosed his condition as SARS.
That means I have to officially update the outbreak leader board:
1. Pertussis – “Whooping Coughâ€
2. Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3. “Flesh Eating Bacteriaâ€, also a staph infection
4. The Bubonic Plague
5. Ebola
6. Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7. Untreatable Gonorrhea
8. Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9. West Nile Virus
10. Hantavirus
11. Rabies
12. Typhus
13. Legionnaires Disease
14. New Jersey Superbug
15. Popcorn Lung
16. Saudi Arabian SARS