Wednesday

Four US Navy ships under quarantine order

This can be found at CBS:

Navy Ships Under Swine Flu Quarantine

(AP) A group of Navy ships is under quarantine after several dozen sailors and Marines on board tested positive for swine flu.

Health officials say at least 69 people had been confirmed with the virus, and all of them have since recovered.

Navy officials say they are now quarantining an undetermined number of crew members with flulike symptoms on four ships that are part of the USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, which arrived in Hawaii on Friday. The ships are docked at or near Pearl Harbor.

Thousands of sailors and Marines from the ships are currently on leave in Hawaii, but Cmdr. Dora Lockwood says no one with flulike symptoms has been allowed to go on shore.

A spokeswoman for the state Health Department says it has been notified of the outbreak.

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What the article doesn't mention is that the outbreak of swine flu apparently came as a result of the ship's crew GETTING THE H1N1 VACCINE!

Do a Google search and you'll see this being discussed all over the net. Rumors...and I repeat...RUMORS are:

- that way more than 69 crewmembers were sickened

- two have died, including one ship's Captain

1 comment:

The Other Mike S. said...

I haven't taken a flu vaccine in over 20 years. I stopped taking them because I got the flu about 50% of the time anyways.

Since I stopped getting the shots, I haven't had the flu one single time. In over 20 years.

No way are they jabbing my ass with that mess.