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Snoutbreak Three More Seattle-Area Schools to Close Because of Swine Flu
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM
The King County Health Department has ordered the closure of three more schools in the Seattle area. Stevens elementary, Aki Kurose Middle School in Seattle and Woodmont elementary in Federal Way will close for at least a week after several students came down with apparent cases of swine flu.
Earlier today, the Seattle School District shut down Madrona K-8 over a probable case of swine flu at the school.
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you know honestly I thought that the media might be overhypeing the whole swine flu thing but now that I hear news of it spreading to areas in seattle schools it makes me really worry how bad it will affect seattle as a city
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How did you all get the info on the other two seattle schools being closed? I heard they sent three kids home from Eckstein Middle school today with symptoms.
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We ARE talking about a city that was paralyzed by half a foot of snow for weeks. A handful of kids with sniffles should bring this city to its knees, easily.
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If I were a kid I'd be psyched right now! The only way this is affecting me is that I now have an excuse to be the recluse I'd usually rather be.
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If you're so inclined, if you start feeling run-down or have flu-like symptoms, take a homeopathic medicine called Oscillococcinum (otherwise known as Oscillo). I swear by it. Here's the webiste: http://www.oscillo.com/
You can read the Cochrane review here: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/co…
It's not to prevent the flu. But taking it, once you feel symptoms might shorten the illness.
You can read the Cochrane review here: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/co…
It's not to prevent the flu. But taking it, once you feel symptoms might shorten the illness.
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FEAR MONGERING DESIGNED TO PAVE THE WAY FOR MORE GOVERNMENT INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES. REMEMBER 911? ONLY 4000 PEOPLE DIED. 16000 DIE **EACH YEAR** FROM DRUNK DRIVING ALONE. SOUND FAMILIAR????
EMOTIONAL-BASED NEWS DESIGNED TO DUPE THE MASSES INTO VOTING FOR MORE IDIOTS.
EMOTIONAL-BASED NEWS DESIGNED TO DUPE THE MASSES INTO VOTING FOR MORE IDIOTS.
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@8, homeopathy is total rubbish. By its own standards, it can't possibly work: there are zero molecules of the active ingredient in the remedies.
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Fnarf: Your face is total rubbish! Take that facts!
But really, what happened to good old fashioned placebo? If a pill doesn't make us piss blood, it's probably just a sugar pill. Fill me up doc! More drugs more drugs more drugs!
Besides, homeopathy, has come to mean so much more than it's definition. It's a misnomer, but it's so common that the original usage will be lost, if people like you stop pointing out it's original semi-archaic usage.
But really, what happened to good old fashioned placebo? If a pill doesn't make us piss blood, it's probably just a sugar pill. Fill me up doc! More drugs more drugs more drugs!
Besides, homeopathy, has come to mean so much more than it's definition. It's a misnomer, but it's so common that the original usage will be lost, if people like you stop pointing out it's original semi-archaic usage.
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I have no problem with alternative medicine - but - my heart doctor is from Virginia Mason - and my kids were all born in a hospital ... so, there it is
Use it ALL
Use it ALL
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Oscillococcinum was discovered by Joseph Roy, who, when looking with a microscope at samples of victims of the Spanish Flu, saw oscillating bacteria, and using homeopathy's "like treats like" law, decided that a homeopathic preparation of oscillating bacteria could be used to treat the flu. He found that duck liver contained the same oscillating bacteria, so used to for preparing the homeopathic remedy.
However:
1) He *also* found the same bacteria in cancer patients, in syphilitic ulcers, in the tubercles of tuberculosis patients in the pus of gonorrhea sufferers, people who had eczema, rheumatism, mumps, chickenpox and measles. These different diseases are *not* all caused by the same thing (most of them not caused by bacteria at all), so it's bizarre that he found the same bacteria in all these different samples.
2) Swine flu is caused by a virus (as is mumps, chicken pox and measles), so there's no reason why "treating like with like" would work on a virus when the remedy was prepared from a bacteria.
See http://www.homeowatch.org/history/oscill… for more details.
However:
1) He *also* found the same bacteria in cancer patients, in syphilitic ulcers, in the tubercles of tuberculosis patients in the pus of gonorrhea sufferers, people who had eczema, rheumatism, mumps, chickenpox and measles. These different diseases are *not* all caused by the same thing (most of them not caused by bacteria at all), so it's bizarre that he found the same bacteria in all these different samples.
2) Swine flu is caused by a virus (as is mumps, chicken pox and measles), so there's no reason why "treating like with like" would work on a virus when the remedy was prepared from a bacteria.
See http://www.homeowatch.org/history/oscill… for more details.
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