#DeathSickness
Fond memories of pneumonia summer camp.
No, but this reminds me of what I read this morning about the Zika virus. Once a person is bitten, he may not get sick but he is a carrier. The virus is transmitted sexually between humans too. Also, if a person is a carrier and gets bitten by a clean mosquito, the mosquito likely now is carrying the Zika virus. People can infect mosquitoes! This sounds like genetically altered virus created for biological warfare. It also sounds like a Steven King novel.
I had it once and it sure as heck felt like I was dying. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I literally cried when the pain in my rib-cage finally went away, almost a month and a half later. I began to think it would always be there.
I would think it would be similar to "sharing dirty needles" since mosquitos seem to be flying syringes.
I've had that kind of pain before. You forget what feeling normal feels like.
They should not.
Yes, exactly like that.
And the sleep deprivation, oh wow, you underestimate what that can actually do to the body until you can't lie down for unstoppable coughing fits and are forced to sleep for minutes at a time. I suspect that was largely responsible for the emotional aspect of it.
That would have to rank number one for the most miserable I've ever felt and I can't imagine actually dying of it. Makes you thankful for modern medicine.
They should be sent to a Presidential debate to battle it out with Trump!!
By the time you processed the move to the camp, the victim would be recovered or dead - IF they are really suffering from pneumonia and no making up some malady-of-the-day to cover for chronic ill conditions..
Sanitariums were a means of controlling the spread of TB before antibiotics. When the AIDS epidemic was new and frightening, and the HIV/HTLV2 virus first identified, some epidemiologists advocated isolating virus carriers from the general population. Where an illness is deadly but contollable, such as Ebola, there is little choice but to isolate the victims and apply the best protections possible for caregivers.
Visions of TB treatment past?
Yes.
But the bugs can be infected by biting an infected human. Killing the bugs is not going to eradicate this. Humans will continue to carry the virus and spread it through sexual contact. This is scarier than I had thought.
