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From: asuvax!stjhmc!f81.n129.z1.fidonet.org!Rob.Carr@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Rob Carr)
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Subject: Re: Hiv Antibodies In Lassa/ebola Samples
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Someone asleep at the switch?  You mean like the recurrence of a lethal strep  
that just got published in NEJM that's been going on for at least 2 years here  
in the USA with only a few people noticing?
 
For all you PWAs and PWARCs out there, there's a new (?) strain of strep that  
produces scarlatina toxin.  The outbreak of strep in the '40s produced this  
toxin, with the side effect that anyone alive then is probably immunized  
against this more recent outbreak.  No cases have been found so far in anyone  
over 50 years old.
 
Symptoms include fever, red or otherwise irritated skin, toxic shock, and  
death, with first symptom to death time possibly as little as 24 hours and a  
lethality rate somewhere near 30%  (hey, 20 cases known, that may vary  
significantly).
 
If this is what it does to people with a normally functioning immune system....  
 I'd suggest PWAs and PWARCs remember to wash hands frequently and avoid close  
contact with someone with an infection that produces a fever.  Although you all  
should already probably be doing that.
 
I'll post a better message when I get a look at the NEJM article.

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