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warpfeedmod
08-30-2002, 10:13 AM
Anyone going to Shatnerball worried about this? My mom is giving me *** and so is the GF. I'm personally not worried, I'll bring some off or something but still..
cphilip
08-30-2002, 10:20 AM
No need for her or anyone to panic this is a problem only for the real elderly or infirmed and Immulogicaly challenged. Even if you were to contract an active infection it is like a flu and your chances of complications are pretty much nil. Besides it's pretty much everywhere. Just because a few states have not discoved it yet does not mean they do not have it. I bet they all do. Our State only recently confirmed it even though we have beed surrounded by it for several years.
subbeh
08-30-2002, 10:54 AM
If you were to catch it, you wouldn't even know.

We have it bad up here but nobody really even seems to care.
Coaster
08-30-2002, 11:12 AM
just found a dead crow in my neighborhood.. so i am guessing it is here too.
Cliffio
08-30-2002, 11:15 AM
its not as big of a deal as they make it out to be, only 4 people have died and they were all elderly, only 30 some cases have been reported

small children and the elderly are the biggest at risk, so you should be fine

Cliff
Restola
08-30-2002, 11:21 AM
Originally posted by Coaster
just found a dead crow in my neighborhood.. so i am guessing it is here too.
lol. I saw a dead cow a while ago, so I'm betting mad cow desease is here too.
FactsOfLife
08-30-2002, 11:31 AM
I saw a dead possum here last week, I'm thinking Insane Possum disease is rampant here....
Kevmag
08-30-2002, 11:34 AM
Originally posted by FactsOfLife
I saw a dead possum here last week, I'm thinking Insane Possum disease is rampant here....

Funny!
cphilip
08-30-2002, 12:19 PM
Well its a well know fact here that Possums are born dead on the side of the road. Now down further south theres are Armored but it seems to do them little good. :D
jah871
08-30-2002, 02:50 PM
i just found a blown apart squirrel on the side of the road....im guessing armys in town too.
agdemagman69
08-30-2002, 02:52 PM
I've found 6 dead crows on my block (but that was the day after the 4th of july and we shot off like 600000 bottle rockets
j.t.
08-30-2002, 08:31 PM
I have 6 new bug bites from being outside today, and im still fine!

*falls out of chair and passes out*
1stdeadeye
08-30-2002, 09:36 PM
Originally posted by Restola

lol. I saw a dead cow a while ago, so I'm betting mad cow desease is here too.

Uh-oh! I had dead cow for dinner. I guess I am screwed.:p
Xen
08-30-2002, 09:58 PM
I saw on the news that the mosquitos that have this live next to homes mostly. Its such a small risc and no cases by there have come up i think. Im not worried
Automaggin
08-31-2002, 02:09 AM
man, that stuff showed up in jersey before any other state. i had a "mild case" of it. whoopie. i think everyone gets it. the symptoms are the same as a cold, unless ur old or really young.
Wheelman
08-31-2002, 06:45 AM
I saw a dead racoon the other day, from looking at I think the cause of death was.......a truck.
thevilduk
08-31-2002, 12:15 PM
when you said its everywhere, no its not... i guess that chickens apparently make antibodies to the virus and don't get affected by it and chickens i guess are like a big ballon of tasty blood to a hell fly ... :mad: i mean Mosquito. So if they find anti bodies in the chicken then they know if its spread throughout the US. But we can't stop it yet so... whadyagonnado?