: Wed May 06, 2009 2:01 pm  

Tony Soprano wrote:

Some medical jurno said at the weekend that the media only do two different medical stories, the miracle cure and the mass killer.

The coverage of the MMR saga revealed how truly useless and utterly reckless the media can be with medical reporting. I stopped buying any newspapers after that.

: Wed May 06, 2009 3:28 pm  

Dave Heron's Moustache wrote:

The coverage of the MMR saga revealed how truly useless and utterly reckless the media can be with medical reporting. I stopped buying any newspapers after that.

TBF they have a job to do and thats to sell papers, it's up to the individual to read between the lines.

[Matt_Horton]

: Wed May 06, 2009 4:07 pm  

Tell you what, you'd be safe stood in the West Indies slip cordon at the moment. The couldn't catch anything.

: Wed May 06, 2009 6:03 pm  

anyone see the japanese women at the castle on sunday morning in the masks.

pmsl

: Thu May 07, 2009 9:24 am  

tad rhino wrote:

anyone see the japanese women at the castle on sunday morning in the masks.

pmsl

In Japan it's very impolite to infect someone with your germs, so if you have a cold you wear a mask to prevent such an insult. They hand them out free at all the railway stations in Tokyo.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

: Thu May 07, 2009 9:27 am  

Oldham Rhino wrote:

Tell you what, you'd be safe stood in the West Indies slip cordon at the moment. The couldn't catch anything.

Bdum-tsh

: Thu May 07, 2009 11:51 am  

Snake Eater wrote:

It's called a cytokine storm.

It's a potentially fatal immune reaction consisting of a positive feedback loop between cytokines and immune cells, with highly elevated levels of various cytokines.

When the immune system is fighting pathogens, cytokines signal immune cells such as T-cells and macrophages to travel to the site of infection. In addition, cytokines activate those cells, stimulating them to produce more cytokines. Normally, this feedback loop is kept in check by the body. However, in some instances, the reaction becomes uncontrolled, and too many immune cells are activated in a single place.

Gnereally a stronger immune system will overreact and too many cells will be activated.

This can be fatal.

Spanish flu in 1918 was most deadly in people aged 20-40 because of this.

You just read that in Wikipedia didn't you ?

I'll believe what the bio-chemist told me and not some newspaper charlie.



Late edit...

Fsk me, you really did copy and paste from Wikipedia didn't you

[Matt_Horton]

: Thu May 07, 2009 11:57 am  

Swarcliffe Rhino wrote:

Bdum-tsh

I'm here all week......... (and beyond)

: Thu May 07, 2009 12:11 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

You just read that in Wikipedia didn't you ?

I'll believe what the bio-chemist told me and not some newspaper charlie.



Late edit...

Fsk me, you really did copy and paste from Wikipedia didn't you

If it's on wikipedia then it must be true.

I'll take wikipedia's version over some ''bio-chemist''.

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

: Thu May 07, 2009 12:13 pm  

Oldham Rhino wrote:

I'm here all week......... (and beyond)

Good on yer.