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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room

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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (51403)10/13/2005 8:08:49 PM
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O/T: Whoops! Think I'll change my approach. My thanks to JIM_P for causing me to look for this!

phpsolvent.com

a cytokine storm is when your immune system mounts too strong of an attack against a respiratory virus. In effect, T-cells send out chemical messages to other T-cells saying, “this is the big one boys, kill anything that moves and don’t stop no matter what further orders you get.”

Cytokine storms explain why the Spanish Flu pandemic killed so many young healthy people. Their immune systems were strong enough to unleash a cytokine storm and kill them. This bug in our immune system (perhaps it’s a feature?) seems to be a feature in the deaths of humans in asia from bird flu.

Our favorite shock-epidemiologist, Michael Osterholm, says, “”Everything that we’re seeing in the virus-host interaction in Southeast Asia says cytokine storm.”

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For folks with a strong stomach

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