Questions about Swine Flu

[CBStew]

If computers get viruses, can we catch swine flu on the Desipio Message Board?
How is it that swine flu has shown up in Israel?
Who here hasn't experienced swine flu symptoms after reading today's news?

[Waco Kid]

I'm not sure computer viruses get this far out on the fringe where Desipio resides.

[flannj]

I don't have swine flu and I'm not worried about getting it.

I have oinkment.

[thehawk]

If computers get viruses, can we catch swine flu on the Desipio Message Board?
How is it that swine flu has shown up in Israel?
Who here hasn't experienced swine flu symptoms after reading today's news?

I don't think that's how it works, Stew, but I would suggest increased surveillance of this  http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=5671.0 just in case

[Chuck to Chuck]

Serious stuff.  It's in Chicago now.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/could-swine-flu-cause-a-n-side-school-to-close.html


Probable swine flu closes Rogers Park school
April 29, 2009 7:11 AM | No Comments

A probable case of swine flu has prompted the closing of a North Side elementary school for at least two days.

The case involves a student at Kilmer Elementary School, 6700 N. Greenview Ave. in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman said at a morning press conference at the school.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner Terry Mason said the student "is recovered at home." Ald. Joe Moore (49th) said the student is 12.

Huberman said tests on the student have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he expects results back in 24 to 36 hours.

The decision to close the school was made Tuesday after the state reported the probable case to CPS and the system noticed an unusually high absentee rate at the school (see map), Huberman said.

Attendance at the school is normally 94 to 96 percent, but it was 87 percent on Tuesday, Huberman said. That was "clearly enough of a differential" to warrant the closing. He said the school would be closed "indefinitely," but at least for two days.

The Kilmer student population of 850 is 60 percent Hispanic. It has a teaching staff of 46. The school is also in a heavily Hispanic populated area of the Rogers Park neighborhood. The swine flu has taken its heaviest toll in Mexico.

[J Rod]

Serious stuff.  It's in Chicago now.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/could-swine-flu-cause-a-n-side-school-to-close.html


Probable swine flu closes Rogers Park school
April 29, 2009 7:11 AM | No Comments

A probable case of swine flu has prompted the closing of a North Side elementary school for at least two days.

The case involves a student at Kilmer Elementary School, 6700 N. Greenview Ave. in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman said at a morning press conference at the school.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner Terry Mason said the student "is recovered at home." Ald. Joe Moore (49th) said the student is 12.

Huberman said tests on the student have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he expects results back in 24 to 36 hours.

The decision to close the school was made Tuesday after the state reported the probable case to CPS and the system noticed an unusually high absentee rate at the school (see map), Huberman said.

Attendance at the school is normally 94 to 96 percent, but it was 87 percent on Tuesday, Huberman said. That was "clearly enough of a differential" to warrant the closing. He said the school would be closed "indefinitely," but at least for two days.

The Kilmer student population of 850 is 60 percent Hispanic. It has a teaching staff of 46. The school is also in a heavily Hispanic populated area of the Rogers Park neighborhood. The swine flu has taken its heaviest toll in Mexico.

Uh oh.  My roommate's girlfriend teaches 5th grade at an elementary school in Rogers Park.  Not sure if this is the same one.

[MAD]

Serious stuff.  It's in Chicago now.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/could-swine-flu-cause-a-n-side-school-to-close.html


Probable swine flu closes Rogers Park school
April 29, 2009 7:11 AM | No Comments

A probable case of swine flu has prompted the closing of a North Side elementary school for at least two days.

The case involves a student at Kilmer Elementary School, 6700 N. Greenview Ave. in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman said at a morning press conference at the school.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner Terry Mason said the student "is recovered at home." Ald. Joe Moore (49th) said the student is 12.

Huberman said tests on the student have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he expects results back in 24 to 36 hours.

The decision to close the school was made Tuesday after the state reported the probable case to CPS and the system noticed an unusually high absentee rate at the school (see map), Huberman said.

Attendance at the school is normally 94 to 96 percent, but it was 87 percent on Tuesday, Huberman said. That was "clearly enough of a differential" to warrant the closing. He said the school would be closed "indefinitely," but at least for two days.

The Kilmer student population of 850 is 60 percent Hispanic. It has a teaching staff of 46. The school is also in a heavily Hispanic populated area of the Rogers Park neighborhood. The swine flu has taken its heaviest toll in Mexico.

That's 12 blocks from me.  We'll try not to breathe.

[Quality Start Machine]

Serious stuff.  It's in Chicago now.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/could-swine-flu-cause-a-n-side-school-to-close.html


Probable swine flu closes Rogers Park school
April 29, 2009 7:11 AM | No Comments

A probable case of swine flu has prompted the closing of a North Side elementary school for at least two days.

The case involves a student at Kilmer Elementary School, 6700 N. Greenview Ave. in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman said at a morning press conference at the school.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner Terry Mason said the student "is recovered at home." Ald. Joe Moore (49th) said the student is 12.

Huberman said tests on the student have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he expects results back in 24 to 36 hours.

The decision to close the school was made Tuesday after the state reported the probable case to CPS and the system noticed an unusually high absentee rate at the school (see map), Huberman said.

Attendance at the school is normally 94 to 96 percent, but it was 87 percent on Tuesday, Huberman said. That was "clearly enough of a differential" to warrant the closing. He said the school would be closed "indefinitely," but at least for two days.

The Kilmer student population of 850 is 60 percent Hispanic. It has a teaching staff of 46. The school is also in a heavily Hispanic populated area of the Rogers Park neighborhood. The swine flu has taken its heaviest toll in Mexico.

That's 12 blocks from me.  We'll try not to breathe.

Look for the warning signs. First symptom is irritability.

[MAD]

Serious stuff.  It's in Chicago now.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/could-swine-flu-cause-a-n-side-school-to-close.html


Probable swine flu closes Rogers Park school
April 29, 2009 7:11 AM | No Comments

A probable case of swine flu has prompted the closing of a North Side elementary school for at least two days.

The case involves a student at Kilmer Elementary School, 6700 N. Greenview Ave. in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman said at a morning press conference at the school.

Chicago Public Health Commissioner Terry Mason said the student "is recovered at home." Ald. Joe Moore (49th) said the student is 12.

Huberman said tests on the student have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he expects results back in 24 to 36 hours.

The decision to close the school was made Tuesday after the state reported the probable case to CPS and the system noticed an unusually high absentee rate at the school (see map), Huberman said.

Attendance at the school is normally 94 to 96 percent, but it was 87 percent on Tuesday, Huberman said. That was "clearly enough of a differential" to warrant the closing. He said the school would be closed "indefinitely," but at least for two days.

The Kilmer student population of 850 is 60 percent Hispanic. It has a teaching staff of 46. The school is also in a heavily Hispanic populated area of the Rogers Park neighborhood. The swine flu has taken its heaviest toll in Mexico.

That's 12 blocks from me.  We'll try not to breathe.

Look for the warning signs. First symptom is irritability.

Fuck.  I've been living 4 blocks from the source for nearly 3 years now?

[fiveouts]

Nothing like organizing a trip for high school students to build houses for the poor in Esenada, Mexico, then spending 3 months trying to convince parents that the kids weren't going to get gunned down by Pablo Escobar Jr., only to get the entire trip cancelled two days before we're supposed to leave because some asshole kissed a pig.  

That was worth a year's work.

[MAD]

Nothing like organizing a trip for high school students to build houses for the poor in Esenada, Mexico, then spending 3 months trying to convince parents that the kids weren't going to get gunned down by Pablo Escobar Jr., only to get the entire trip cancelled two days before we're supposed to leave because some asshole kissed a pig.  

That was worth a year's work.

Intrepid Reader:  Phil Rogers

Why would the Giants' third baseman's be gunning kids down?

[Chuck to Chuck]

Nothing like organizing a trip for high school students to build houses for the poor in Esenada, Mexico, then spending 3 months trying to convince parents that the kids weren't going to get gunned down by Pablo Escobar Jr., only to get the entire trip cancelled two days before we're supposed to leave because some asshole kissed a pig.  

That was worth a year's work.

Intrepid Reader Sarah from Anchorage: I demand an apology.

[Tank]

Nothing like organizing a trip for high school students to build houses for the poor in Esenada, Mexico, then spending 3 months trying to convince parents that the kids weren't going to get gunned down by Pablo Escobar Jr., only to get the entire trip cancelled two days before we're supposed to leave because some asshole kissed a pig. 

That was worth a year's work.

My senior year of high school we had to cancel a trip to Chiapas a few months out.

But that was because some right-wing paramilitaries massacred a bunch of women and children.

Instead, we went and roofed some houses in Brownsville.

Because that was, like, almost Mexico.

[Gil Gunderson]

Nothing like organizing a trip for high school students to build houses for the poor in Esenada, Mexico, then spending 3 months trying to convince parents that the kids weren't going to get gunned down by Pablo Escobar Jr., only to get the entire trip cancelled two days before we're supposed to leave because some asshole kissed a pig.  

That was worth a year's work.

Intrepid Reader Sarah from Anchorage: I demand an apology.

Wasilla'd

[Slaky]

Stay classy, Egypt.