Bad day for celebrities

Since he lives here, I have update from our local paper (on line)
Seems it was heart disease and not neurological (or trauma)--just a coincidence???

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...cle1014168.ece

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Originally Posted by Fredwina

Like hitting your head when the airplane blows a tire? (No more zorbeez);)

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Was he wearing his seatbelt while seated?

That Thriller Video is my all time favorite! I've done that dance with my students many times, and it's still the one that is their favorite. I just flat out copied the steps. (And so did the Philippine prisoners!) Don't tell. But the choreography could not have been better. And oh my, was he a dancer! Something about his music just makes everyone want to dance!

I've heard that there is a fine line between genius and insanity. Michael was so gifted, and we enjoy his genius, but too bad he had to go through so much personal torment.

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Originally Posted by Zen

How can you do that with a virus that mutates?
Aren't immunizations made from a preceding virus?

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The current process of making a flu vaccine is antiquitated - not to mention, the antigens being vaccinated against are predicted a year in advance... which doesn't help when there's a new flu right now this second, and growing a vaccine in chicken eggs, you can't produce it fast enough to treat an ongoing epidemic.

Approve recombinant flu vaccines, and it doesn't take so long to produce a vaccine against a new antigen.

Viruses mutate - but there are usually common antigens - things that are required for infection, etc. that are conserved... target those sorts of antigens as much as possible.

And better drugs in general against an existing flu infection would help.

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Originally Posted by Heifzilla

Yup, this. Flu virus loves to mutate, and this one has a lot of hallmarks of the Spanish flu, which wasn't all that bad until it's 4th or 4th mutation. So this flu virus can still come around and bite us all in the *** something fierce. Of course by that point we will all be so jaded over them "crying wolf" that we might not take it seriously :(

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This is what the medical director where I work was telling me last week. What often happens is that people "let their guard down" and are not as vigilant with handwashing and such and in the meantime the virus as stated above has gone through several mutations which can be very deadly. He went on and on for about 30 minutes of what could happen, and the ramifications including both to the healthy and the comprimised population.

hey guys what do you think of this MJ cover?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9tI2fIWaA

I love it!