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Title: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: Chris_ on August 10, 2008, 09:31:36 PM
MSN/CBC
Excerpt:http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon (http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon)
 Canadian Poon has chicken pox

Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon has been quarantined with chicken pox, according to CBC Sports swimming analyst Mark Tewksbury.

Poon, from LaSalle, Que., was taken to a local hospital in Beijing and didn't compete Sunday in the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team that finished eighth.
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: Lord Undies on August 11, 2008, 05:35:27 AM
That is a shame for her.  All that hard work.... 

A chicken pox outbreak at the Olympics in China seems plausible and would be ironically funny.  It would be something the communist government cannot control.
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: miskie on August 11, 2008, 07:29:51 AM
I don't understand why she didn't get vaccinated by the land of free medical care for all.
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 11, 2008, 09:17:16 AM
I don't understand why she didn't get vaccinated by the land of free medical care for all.

She might have had the shot. My son had the chickenpox at the age of a year and a half old. At Two years and something he had the shot or shots for all that stuff. At around nine years of age, he had the chickenpox again. I'd say he's a good candidate for the shingles later on in life.
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: miskie on August 11, 2008, 09:22:57 AM
Thats surprising - the shot protects some 90% of people of any age from getting ill, and most of the remaining 10% have a mild case at worst.

but there are always exceptions to the rule.
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: Lord Undies on August 11, 2008, 09:40:41 AM
Thats surprising - the shot protects some 90% of people of any age from getting ill, and most of the remaining 10% have a mild case at worst.

but there are always exceptions to the rule.

The best innoculation is found by exposing children to chickenpox around the age of three or four. 
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on August 11, 2008, 10:20:36 AM
MSN/CBC
Excerpt:http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon (http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon)
 Canadian Poon has chicken pox

Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon has been quarantined with chicken pox, according to CBC Sports swimming analyst Mark Tewksbury.

Poon, from LaSalle, Que., was taken to a local hospital in Beijing and didn't compete Sunday in the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team that finished eighth.
That's a horrible place to get chicken pox! :-)
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: USA4ME on August 11, 2008, 10:22:30 AM
Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon...

I just hope she marries a guy named Richard Tain and hyphenates her last name.  :-)

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Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on August 11, 2008, 10:34:30 AM
MSN/CBC
Excerpt:http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon (http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon)
 Canadian Poon has chicken pox

Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon has been quarantined with chicken pox, according to CBC Sports swimming analyst Mark Tewksbury.

Poon, from LaSalle, Que., was taken to a local hospital in Beijing and didn't compete Sunday in the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team that finished eighth.
That's a horrible place to get chicken pox! :-)
I knew there was a reason I didn't like Canadian Poon! :-)
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 11, 2008, 04:13:48 PM
MSN/CBC
Excerpt:http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon (http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=olympics-swimming-poon)
 Canadian Poon has chicken pox

Canadian swimmer Victoria Poon has been quarantined with chicken pox, according to CBC Sports swimming analyst Mark Tewksbury.

Poon, from LaSalle, Que., was taken to a local hospital in Beijing and didn't compete Sunday in the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team that finished eighth.
That's a horrible place to get chicken pox! :-)

Ahhhhhh, thank God someone said it at last!!! My faith in humanity is restored!

 :-)
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: DixieBelle on August 11, 2008, 06:46:06 PM
This thread was not what I thought it was about! LOL!
Title: Re: Canadian Poon has chicken pox
Post by: Splashdown on August 11, 2008, 06:47:55 PM
From the title, I was thinking a "short bus" entry.