Officials identify substance found at post office (trypanosomiasis)

El Paso Times ^ | 12/14/06

[LibWhacker]

Not allowed to post articles from the El Paso Times... All I can do is give you the link.

[AppyPappy]

Sleeping sickness

[Sax]

Tsetse fly outbreak ping.

First killer bees, now the tsetse flies!

[Bahbah]

The discovery of the vile

I think they meant "vial." Can nobody spell anymore.

[DBrow]

Trypanosoma brucei is the bacteria, trypanosomiasis is the disease. Great jurnalism, ElP Times! The way it's written, it's like shipping insomnia or "a fever".

The article states that they don't know why it was shipped or who shipped it, but it is likely a culture sample going from lab to lab.

Pays to be cautious, but I see no reason for panic just yet.

[neodad]

I'm in El Paso. Not a lot yet on the local channels.

[RushCrush]

That's nothing. My local post office is infested with maggots, fleas, and some laziness and uselessness-inducing bacteria that seems to have infected the workers.

Ahh gotta love gubmint bureacracy!

[neodad]

Oops. Found something: http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=5815195

Post office reopened.

[Cicero]

A vial of a deadly substance sent through the mail? And police aren't saying who sent it or who it was addressed to?

Well, since the discovery of the vial has been made public, exactly what purpose is served by this veil of secrecy.

(There. Vile, vial, veil, I can spell better than the El Paso Times writers, editors, and fact checkers.)

[PCBMan]

You think that's bad? A few years ago in my hometown, we had a rash of church break-ins. The local fishwrap reported that in one instance, the gold "chalis" was taken from the "alter"!

[sodpoodle]

I can "anymore"

I'm not just anybody, I'm somebody;)

[Bahbah]

LOL. Okay.

[sodpoodle]

Probably meant Chablis!

or wine in the chalice

[ndt]

"Postal officials did not say where the substance was mailed from or where it was destined."

Here is a suggestion. Look at the addresses on the box.

[Uncle Ike]

" A vial of a deadly substance sent through the mail? And police aren't saying who sent it or who it was addressed to? "

Your spelling is, certainly, spiffy, but the dangle of your participle is most unbecoming....

;~)

[duckman]

Also ending a sentence with a preposition is a no no.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

You and I are likely the only ones to notice or care.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. Merry Christmas

[Uncle Ike]

" You and I are likely the only ones to notice or care. "

I refuse to believe that I spent all those years of diagramming sentences (on a par with tsetse flies in effect) for nothing!!

[taxcontrol]

ohhh ohhhhh I can... I can...


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[Vn_survivor_67-68]

I thought that trypanosomiasis was pretty much an African disease until I found this.....
snip:
American trypanasomiasis, also known as Chagas disease, is a potentially fatal, chronic disease that currently affects twelve million people throughout Mexico, Central and South America. The disease is caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi is transmitted to humans and animals by triatomine bugs, commonly referred to as "kissing bugs" (Fig. 1). Additionally, humans can contract the disease from blood transfusions with contaminated blood.

snip:
The main threat of contracting Chagas Disease to Florida residents is from blood transfusions with contaminated blood. More than one million native Latin Americans live in the United States and they are estimated to have infection rates as high as 10%. A vast majority of people infected with the parasite will not develop clinical symptoms for ten to twenty years. This means that blood donors may unknowingly donate Chagas infected blood.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN650

[Texas Songwriter]

Trypanosomiasis - disease charcaterized as sleeping sickness, indigenous to Africa. It requires the Tsetse fly as a vector for transmission of the parasitic organism, which is a protozoal organism, a hemoflagellate.

Trypanosoma cruzi is a hemoflagellate which is extant from Chili to Argentina to Mexico. It causes Chagas disease. It is transmitted by the reduvid bug (Order Hemiptera) often referred to as a 'kissing bug'. The organism is often found is armadillo and oppossum without clinical significance, but does act as a passive reservoir for the flagellate.

[sodpoodle]

More than one million native Latin Americans live in the United States and they are estimated to have infection rates as high as 10%.


That can't be good for anyone.

[Cicero]

Dangling participle or preposition? As Winston Churchill once said, "Ending a sentence with a proposition is something up with which I will not put."

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

my guess is that someone in Texas collaborates with someone elsewhere re research on this disease which is being imported into our country from the south.......if the 10% figure stated by the folks in Florida is correct, we have about 2 million illegals in the country with it, and who knows what the TOTAL number might be?


Chagas Disease in a Domestic Transmission Cycle, Southern Texas, USA

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no1/02-0217.htm

[Continental Soldier]

Why are you not allowed to post articles from the El Paso Times?

[Uncle Ike]

" "Ending a sentence with a proposition is something up with which I will not put." "

I doubt that even so great a master of the English language as the esteemed Winston Churchill ended many of his sentences with propositions.

That is, unless he got his face slapped more often than has been reported.....

;~)

[Gorzaloon]

Here is a suggestion. Look at the addresses on the box.

< UNION >

Not Our Job.

I'm STRESSED and DISGRUNTLED!

Go Ahead...PUSH!

< /UNION >

(Mad at the PO this week! :-)

[taxesareforever]

Isn't this just a simple form of siesta medicine? :)

[LibWhacker]

FR got a copywrite complaint from them. We're not even allowed to excerpt their articles.

[SuziQ]

The discovery of the vile prompted officials to evacuate several dozen workers from the facility.

Discovery of the vile WHAT? *shakes head*

BOTH the author of the piece AND the Editor need their heads whacked for that bit of bad English. Maybe they'll learn NOT to depend on their Spell Check, and actually check the meanings of the words they choose.

[Taffini]

no

[Taffini]

i mean know

[Nathan Zachary]

"The article states that they don't know why it was shipped or who shipped it, but it is likely a culture sample going from lab to lab."

That sort of stuff goes by courier service, not the regular mail, and is shipped in special, marked containers. There's no way they wouldn't know who sent it and what it was should there be an accident.

[mewzilla]

now the tsetse flies!

Help me, help meeeeeee!

[mewzilla]

LOL. I can still remember when it was spelled with a "ph". But I'm probably dating myself....

[Continental Soldier]

I see. Thanks for your response.

[Uncle Ike]

" it was spelled with a "ph". "

P-H-I-T

I-T-P-H

I-P-H-T

I give up -- how did one spell "it" with "ph"?? I'm old, but not even I remember that one....

;~)

[mewzilla]

phi·al (fî'əl, fîl) n. A vial. [Middle English fiole, from Old French, from Late Latin fiola, shallow vessel, alteration of Latin phiala, from Greek phialç.]

[mewzilla]

Phial. Yup, I feel old ;)

[null and void]

We'll put that in the veiled vile vial & phial file

[mewzilla]

As far as sending this stuff through the mail...From this link:

Shipping Requirements: Triple contained in accordance with federal shipping regulations for diagnostic specimens.

Eeeek.

[mewzilla]

If stuff like this is well labeled, what's to keep someone from stealing it?

[TheBattman]

More than one million native Latin Americans live in the United States

Huh? More than that cross the border illegally each year. Raise that number exponentially to get an more accurate number.

[csmusaret]

Yes but English is probably your first language.

[sodpoodle]

Let me guess;)

Science class circa 1950 England Paston Knapton

[vetvetdoug]

Trapanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) is an up and coming new disease threat to humans and animals. Within the last five years the numbers of diagnoses in dogs with Chagas' has been significant, especially in Texas. I am constantly getting updates on how to diagnose or recognize the disease in my Journals.