[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ick.

[silverleaf]

a bunch of terrorist in an Algerian training camp died last spring and others reportedly fled in terror- dropped in their tracks by supposedly “plague” (pneumonic)

maybe someone was playing with laboratory germs

[fuzzybutt]

Black plague=Obambi?

[blam]

How Is Plague Treated?

"Streptomycin is the most effective antibiotic against Y. pestis and the drug of choice for treatment of plague, particularly the pneumonic form. Therapeutic effect may be expected with 30 mg/kg/day (up to a total of 2 g/day) in divided doses given intramuscularly, to be continued for a full course of 10 days of therapy or until 3 days after the temperature has returned to normal. Gentamicin has been found to be effective in animal studies, and is used to treat human plague patients."

[Neoliberalnot]

Pneumonic plague is a serious thing. Wiped out much of Egypt about 450 BC, 50% of Europe in the 1300s, and a good portion of China in the 1800s.

[JoeProBono]

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[Straight Vermonter]

In the fourteenth century, 75 million people - a third of the European population at the time - perished from bubonic plague, and to date, it has claimed close to 200 million lives.

Nope, not the same disease at all.

[SunkenCiv]

Algeria has documented 50 cases of the plague, some within 15 kilometers (9 miles) of the border with Libya, where two people have died of the disease. As a result, Algiers has tightened medical surveillance on its borders with Libya. Officials there fear that Bedouin are crossing the borders from the Illizi province into Libya and passing the disease back into Algeria...

Oh, yeah, it's gotta be the Bedouin. /sarc

[justiceseeker93]

Something tells me that all the Arab nations' medical science and logistics combined can't deal with this problem alone. The disease my be treatable with antibiotics, but the antibiotics must be available and gotten to those who need them quickly, something that isn't done too well in third world countries as a rule.

Will they invite Israel in to save them from a disastrous epidemic? Interesting.

I wonder what species of rodents is spreading the disease. The guess here is rats, which the MSM doesn't want to mention in connection with Islamic countries.

[Costumed Vigilante]

Too bad, so sad. Try capitalism.