rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (02/20/88)
So far of the 4 people I know from the Northern Virginia area who went to the Dallas Usenix meeting, 4 have missed several days of work this week because of soem flu-like malady. Was this effect noticed in other areas or are people from Virginia bigger wimps than the rest of the country... --rick
cal@pyrtech (Craig Alan Levin) (02/22/88)
In article <44246@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: >So far of the 4 people I know from the Northern Virginia area who went >to the Dallas Usenix meeting, 4 have missed several days of work this >week because of soem flu-like malady. I ran a 104 fever for 4 days and still have some one sitting on my lungs.
flaps@csri.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) (02/22/88)
The three people I went with all got fairly sick down there, and two of them came home sick. They are all better now...
randy@ncifcrf.ncifcrf.gov (The Computer Grue) (02/23/88)
I wasn't quite this badly off, just a headache, dizziness, nausea, etc. from Monday till about Wednsday. Still have a cough. What happened? Is there a Biological Warfare site somewhere around Dallas? :-} -- Randy -- Randy Smith @ NCI Supercomputer Facility c/o PRI, Inc. Phone: (301) 698-5660 PO Box B, Bldng. 430 Uucp: ...!uunet!ncifcrf.gov!randy Frederick, MD 21701 Arpa: randy@ncifcrf.gov
bsteve@occrsh.ATT.COM (02/23/88)
The incubation period for the bug appears to be between 3 and 7 days. I and numerous others caught the bug. It is recognizable by cold-like symptoms and fever early and later by mild to not-so-mild pneumonia. Apparently the disease is sweeping the country as my former SO indicated to me yesterday. She works for a group of medical practices and described their business as "very brisk". The agent appears to be *VERY* contagious and viral. The respiratory problems following the infection by the virus appear to be a secondary infection due to "normal" flora and Hemophilus. Choke-Hack. If you have had the pneumonia that follows this for more than a week, go see your doc. Steve Blasingame (ihnp4!gorgo!bsteve) (bsteve@gorgo.att.com) Itasca, IL (312) 250-5376
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (02/23/88)
In article <15273@pyramid.pyramid.com> cal@pyrtech.UUCP (Craig Alan Levin) writes: >In article <44246@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: >>So far of the 4 people I know from the Northern Virginia area who went >>to the Dallas Usenix meeting, 4 have missed several days of work this >>week because of soem flu-like malady. > >I ran a 104 fever for 4 days and still have some one sitting on my >lungs. I had the same thing... so did my wife... Kids... None of us went to Dallas. It is a flu that is going around and has nothing to do with Dallas. (Heck, we don't even *watch* Dallas! :-) ) Fred
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (02/24/88)
Ok, guys, the middle Atlantic seaboard region had at least one flu epidemic in December and January. It's more likely some of the visitors imported it to Dallas than the other way around.
rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (02/24/88)
Actually, according to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Texas has the worst outbreak of influenza of any state in the US. Yes, there's flu "everywhere". It is at its worst in Texas. There seems to be a rather high percentage of people who picked it up at or within a short time after attending Usenix in Dallas. ---rick
rusty@hocpa.UUCP (M.W.HADDOCK) (02/24/88)
In article flaps@csri.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > >The three people I went with all got fairly sick down there, and two of >them came home sick. They are all better now... I was in Dallas from the Sunday before 'til the Sunday after and I haven't felt better. I was usually with a gang of friends (mostly "natives") almost every night and someone would have had something that I could have caught. Maybe it has something to do with the hotel y'all stayed in. Then again, just because you're in Dallas, Texas in February doesn't mean it ain't gonna git cold. Bring some warm clothes next time and watch the weather for a coupla days prior to traveling. It's funny no one's brought up the fact that many of us froze our <censored> off the last time Usenix/Uniforum was in Dallas. So much for going south for the winter! As for this summer in SF.... Mark Twain once wrote (paraphrased): "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Good luck!!! -Rusty- ---- Rusty Haddock {{uunet!likewise!}cbosgd,rutgers!moss}!hocpa!rusty AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories - Human Factors Laboratory Holmdel, New Joyzey 07733 (201) 834-1023 -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C Clark- -- ... or a rigged demo.
spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (02/24/88)
I hate being avant-garde... I had something like this in the last week
of December.. not a whole lot of fun. A LOT of people of NYC that I know have
since or are now battling it. The fever seems t be the worst part of it, as it
is very persistant... mine lasted for 5 days at between 103 and 104.8
In a word -- unpleasant.
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AppleLink: D1161 CompuServe: 71260,1410 (212) 285-6080blair@obdient.UUCP (Doug Blair) (02/25/88)
In article <1988Feb22.133626.11843@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, flaps@csri.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > > The three people I went with all got fairly sick down there, and two of > them came home sick..... Could this be the first, actual, legitimate reported case of a computer virus in the US? Doug Blair
coleman@unisoft.UUCP (Donald Coleman) (02/25/88)
I'm not surprised a number of people came down with it in Dallas. It was written up in the local SF paper here about a week ago(it even has a name, RSV, or RVS, or something like that). I got it from one of my coworkers about 3 weeks before the conference. Both Kirk Mckusick and Eric Allman came down with it, just about 4 days after I went over to their place to watch the new star trek series(I had just finally crept out of bed), so Kirk was in the middle of it(4 days later) the sunday before usenix(for the boardmeeting). I hate to think how many people he infected while doing tutorials and the like. This bug really likes to get around. Give it a chance, and it will leap at you too! Only one nice thing about it. You generally only get each particular bug once in your life(but, alas, there are thousands of them). In good health, till next winter at least, don coleman@berkeley.edu
robert@rabbit1.UUCP (Robert Oliver) (03/02/88)
In article <44246@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>, rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: > So far of the 4 people I know [who went to the]... > to the Dallas Usenix meeting, 4 have missed several days of work this > week because of soem flu-like malady. > > Was this effect noticed in other areas or are people from Virginia bigger > wimps than the rest of the country... > > --rick I wasn't at Usenix, but I WAS at the simultaneous Uniforum. And I was sick for about a week, and missed two or three days of work. 103 degree temperatures make for weird dreams. -- Robert Oliver Rabbit Software Corp. (215) 647-0440 7 Great Valley Parkway East ...!ihnp4!{cbmvax,cuuxb}!hutch!robert Malvern, PA 19355 ...!psuvax!burdvax!hutch!robert
terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry) (03/02/88)
In article <44246@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>, rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes: > So far of the 4 people I know from the Northern Virginia area who went > to the Dallas Usenix meeting, 4 have missed several days of work this > week because of soem flu-like malady. I didn't go to Usenix, but I went to UNIFORUM... and you're right. The three of us who went for our company, as well as two other people (one from Seattle and the other from Tuscon (AZ)) who I am in frequent phone contact with have also reported flu. I think it's an evil communist DOS plot (EGA or VGA... it's a good plot). Has anybody asked CDC (NO, not Control Data Corp :-)? terry@wsccs