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09 June 2010

The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army When the H1N1 swine flu virus boiled up out of Mexico last year, the CDC became the epicenter of a worldwide struggle to stop its deadly march. Twenty miles north, at a brick house in Johns Creek, the virus found a perfect host.

post by: NucleophilicAttack at: 14:25 | 4 comments

What crazy brimming-with-death blog are you reading that gets you all this great stuff? I want to subscribe.

posted by jessamyn 09 June | 14:54

My heart hurts after reading that - so sad and so well written. I've never had a flu vaccine in my adult life, but maybe I'll start now.

posted by youngergirl44 09 June | 15:17

This is heartbreaking. And scary, to see someone crash that bad. A good friend's partner died, quickly, from acute respiratory syndrome, which I did not know about prior. His lungs basically shut down and if you do not have air through there, it does not go well for your vital organs.

posted by danf 09 June | 17:50

jessamyn, thanks! No one centralized source: sometimes reddit and sometimes YCombinator news.

posted by NucleophilicAttack 10 June | 08:36

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