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Post by Alucard on May 30, 2008 23:32:23 GMT -5
*FOR GODS SAKE DO NOT POST PICTURES OF SAID THING IN HERE* Man, that stuff scared the smurf out of me when I was a kid. I remember it being all over the news, made me a total germaphobe. You rarely hear of it anymore but I know it's probably still out there.
I used to literally wash my hands till they bled when I was a young'n.
Then I ended up getting Kawasaki Disease (go ahead and wiki it, it's a real thing despite the sort of humorous name), and that sort of taught me that no matter how hard I washed my hands, I can still get some weird disease or illness that I'm A. Way too old to get, and B. Will nearly kill me. Don't get me wrong, I try to stay clean but not quite as obsessively anymore.
Seeing a 20/20 promo about flesh eating virus made me miss a night of sleep once when I was on vacation with my family when I was really young. Friggin media sensationalism.
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Post by Mac on May 30, 2008 23:43:29 GMT -5
remember it? i STARTED IT!!! <evil laugh>
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Post by Rorschach on May 30, 2008 23:44:49 GMT -5
I agree 100%. My hands are so chapped from constant washing, not just to fear of the staph.....but of other germs as well.
I have a case of OCD that has a lot to do with it too. I STILL cannot bring myself to touch ANYTHING in a public restroom, and I OBSESSIVELY wipe down shopping cart handles with those little wipes, then use one on my hands.
Purell and Jergens make a lot of money off of me, LOL!
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on May 30, 2008 23:46:53 GMT -5
So, don't post pictures? Aww, you just ruined my fun!
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Post by Rube on May 30, 2008 23:59:08 GMT -5
There was a rumor that some kid died from it in my junior high. Turned out he just moved.
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Post by chunkylover53 on May 31, 2008 0:52:41 GMT -5
If John Cena had it, would he be able to overcome it?
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2008 0:54:11 GMT -5
Um...no. When in the 90s was that?
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Post by Phosphor Glow on May 31, 2008 1:12:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember that. It was freaky.
There was also the killer bee scare, where all the killer bees were gonna come up and attack EVERYBODY in swarms and we'd all be dead.
...there was a lot of sensationalism like that in the 90s.
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Post by darthalexander on May 31, 2008 1:14:06 GMT -5
My aunt died of this 3 months ago. It's scary as hell.
One day she had a sore throat, and she didn't think anything about it - neither did my uncle. The sore throat got worse but still there was nothing too "bad". This was on the weekend. Monday morning my uncle went to work and she called him and said she needed to go to the doctor's. My uncle left work, got her and brought her there but she was weak and out of it. She went in and started vomiting blood, and the doctors told my uncle she would probably need a blood transfusion. They sent my uncle to the waiting room just as her heart stopped.
He didn't think anything about it (he hadn't known about the heart stopping part), and the doctor came out and told him she was gone. They tried to revive her a couple of times - her heart stopped a few times but they could do nothing.
She was a shut-in. Never really went anywhere, always stayed in the car when my uncle went into the store, etc and she STILL got it. Apparently it exists in all of us, but something triggers it. We're still waiting for the final autopsy results. They should be out in three more months (takes about 6 months).
It's a really scary disease.
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on May 31, 2008 1:16:02 GMT -5
Wait, you got a disease from a motorcycle?
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on May 31, 2008 1:26:56 GMT -5
I dont think I remember the flesh eating virus scare....in fact, the first time I had heard about it was that crappy Cabin Fever movie.
And to those of you who are defending it, its okay that you can like it....but even you have to admit that there are some really stupid parts in the movie.
Plus in the 90s, I was more worried about my allergic reaction to guinea pigs where I would end up with a red eye and bad reactions from a certain crappy generic brand of lucky charms. Trust me, I had enough crap to worry about on my own.
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Post by Joie De Vivre on May 31, 2008 2:12:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember that. It was freaky. There was also the killer bee scare, where all the killer bees were gonna come up and attack EVERYBODY in swarms and we'd all be dead. ...there was a lot of sensationalism like that in the 90s. I remember when Fox aired a movie about a swarm of killer bee's attacking a city. That didn't make things better for this 9 year old.
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Post by Dick Foley on May 31, 2008 2:42:24 GMT -5
Being that I was 14-16 years old as this was going on I do vaguely remember it but, it's just one of a long line of things that kids blow out of proportion. Here are a few thing other things I remember...
1) Poison Milk. Some had actually inject poison into kid's milk cartons that were destined for school.
2) Tampered Tylenol. Back in the day Tylenol was not packaged as safe as it is today and someone laced random tylenol.
3) D'ffrent Strokes. Never EVER trust a man with a toy store.
4) Alligator: The Movie. The premise was simple, someone flushed a baby gator down a toilet. The gator encounters some nuclear waste and grows to me a big as a house.
5) The kid from Indiana who got Aids. I don't remember his name but, I remembered it scared the shit out of me.
Anyways, I grew up ans topped worrying so much AND I never EVER watch the news.
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Post by Rockhound on May 31, 2008 6:29:25 GMT -5
The official name for the flesh eating disease is necrotizing fasciitis and if not treated right away it could be fatal within 24 hours. Then there's MRSA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to be more precice. It's a medicine resistant staph infection. And it's nasty. This is just one of the many diseases I get to encounter every day being a Corrections Officer.
As for Cabin Fever, probably the worst movie I've ever seen. What the hell was the little boy jumping off of the swing yelling PANCAKES!! Doing a Matrix-esque karate thing then biting the dude all about? Simply put, Eli Roth is a hack.
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Post by DSR on May 31, 2008 6:34:12 GMT -5
I was hoping you were gonna say "It's back! In POG form!"
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Post by strykerdarksilence on May 31, 2008 6:35:00 GMT -5
Didn't Teddy Hart's or Nattie Heidhart's brother die of that?
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Post by Allison Reynolds on May 31, 2008 6:41:34 GMT -5
I hear about flesh eating disease often here, on my local news. Mostly because people tend to fall into the staph infested Ala Wai Canal in downtown Honolulu.
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Post by Alucard on May 31, 2008 7:12:47 GMT -5
I was hoping you were gonna say "It's back! In POG form!" Hah...that'd be...yeah...that'd be pretty awful. PS I too remember killer bees, and also the ebola virus. Later on, SARS.
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Post by Rockhound on May 31, 2008 8:31:59 GMT -5
I was hoping you were gonna say "It's back! In POG form!" Hah...that'd be...yeah...that'd be pretty awful. PS I too remember killer bees, and also the ebola virus. Later on, SARS. Speaking of SARS, I remember that this was a problem in Asia and...Toronto? I thought that was strange. How about that thing killing all of the livestock in England? I'm telling you, this was bio-terrorism. You don't have these freakish things pop-up out of the blue.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on May 31, 2008 9:48:06 GMT -5
Hah...that'd be...yeah...that'd be pretty awful. PS I too remember killer bees, and also the ebola virus. Later on, SARS. Speaking of SARS, I remember that this was a problem in Asia and...Toronto? I thought that was strange. How about that thing killing all of the livestock in England? I'm telling you, this was bio-terrorism. You don't have these freakish things pop-up out of the blue. What foot and mouth? That's an ancient problem.
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