Chief
11-15-2007, 06:29 PM
http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7368309&nav=menu593_2
ATLANTA (AP) - There's a mutated version of the common cold and it can be deadly. It's killed 10 people in the U.S. in the last 18 months.
And infectious diseases investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new variant of an adenovirus has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas.
It was called boot camp flu when hundreds of Air Force recruits got sick earlier this year at Lackland Air Force base in Texas. One 19-year-old trainee died. The recruits were infected with a variety of cold viruses but at least 100 had been infected by the more virulent mutated virus.
In the CDC report, the earliest case of the mutated virus was found in an infant girl in New York City, who died 12 days after she was born last year.
**SCHNIPP**
Can't be too careful these days. I'm actually considering getting my first flu shot in a decade this year, especially after spending four days on my back with pneumonia last week.
ATLANTA (AP) - There's a mutated version of the common cold and it can be deadly. It's killed 10 people in the U.S. in the last 18 months.
And infectious diseases investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new variant of an adenovirus has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas.
It was called boot camp flu when hundreds of Air Force recruits got sick earlier this year at Lackland Air Force base in Texas. One 19-year-old trainee died. The recruits were infected with a variety of cold viruses but at least 100 had been infected by the more virulent mutated virus.
In the CDC report, the earliest case of the mutated virus was found in an infant girl in New York City, who died 12 days after she was born last year.
**SCHNIPP**
Can't be too careful these days. I'm actually considering getting my first flu shot in a decade this year, especially after spending four days on my back with pneumonia last week.