Navy cancels ship deployment due to swine flu

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy says it has canceled the deployment of a ship and ordered its entire crew to be treated with anti-viral drugs after a crew member's illness was confirmed as swine flu.

Navy spokesman Lt. Sean Robertson said there are also about 50 suspected cases of the virus from crew members on board the USS Dubuque, which is based in San Diego. He said the crew member with the virus and those suspected of being ill from it have already completed treatment and are recovering.

The ship was scheduled to leave June 1 on a humanitarian mission to the South Pacific. Robertson said the Navy is exploring options to still meet their commitments.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. This happens with measles and periodically a few other diseases also. nt

[troubleinwinter]

2. Makes sense.

No indication what areas of the South Pacific, but many of the people on remote islands have no immunity to any sort of flu or 'bug', similar to early Native Americans against European 'white' diseases. I assume the 'humanitarian mission' means remote islands like Pitcairn, Puka Puka and such. It is often military ships that supply these islands.

[Grinchie]

3. In the Military, they can order your to have unsafe immunizations.

Not many people realize that they have basically sold all rights they have to the sovereignity of their own bodies.

In the past, I would have thought nothing of this, but History has proven that the Military doesn't give a damn about the long term well being of their former soldiers. As long as they get a few prime years out of them before they figure out how royally screwed they are.

Know that Baxter recently admitted to mixing live Avian Flu with human flu vaccines makes me want to take my chances on the good odds that I would survive a bad case of the flu.

Nobody can be forced to take an immunization, even though they will try to convince you by misleading statements, or witholding information. We have seen it in School enrollments, but it is not legal. They work hard to get parent to give up their childrens rights to not have foreign agents introduced into their bloodstream.

There is a lot of crap in immunizations, and nobody thinks twice about what long term effects these contaminants can have on people.

[Captain Hilts]

4. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Yes, you lose individual rights. nt

[nichomachus]

6. Yeah -- but the "need of the many" is not to get unsafe drugs pumped into them

Everyone has that need.

[WriteDown]

7. Yep.....

and no dern gubmint should be able to require you to put seatbelts on your kids either. Pat Buchanon, is that you? :eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. My doctor went to prison during the first Gulf War

She was an army doctor and refused to give vaccinations she knew were dangerous. So they court martialed her and sent her to prison. They tried to take her medical license away too. But she got to keep it. And she is an outstanding doctor.

[nichomachus]

5. Why that bunch of panicky nervous nellies -- don't they read DU?

We have a couple of dozen people here who can tell them that they are idiots for believing all the hype. They will even ridicule them in the process.

[WriteDown]

8. I have some inside info from an agent at Big Pharma...

that has told me that ebola isn't that bad either :).