Posted on 01/18/2009 7:29:17 PM PST by null and void
Maybe that's why they say it's an exclusive?
In general, that’s true, but I could see problems with an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the illegal alien or the less-well-educated sections of cities. Such an outbreak would be contained fairly rapidly, but I could see a couple thousand people dying from it.
The hajj just finished.
Diphtheria, tetanus and anthrax are all bacteria and they have vaccines.
U.N. will fly in medical teams tomorrow.
No date given on this “incident”?
Could this have happened back when that idiot Joe O Biden leaked his warning about Obama facing a manufactured crisis within 6 months?
Writer almost makes it sound like it was used against the terrorists, rather than them misusing something they were playing with.
We haven’t heard much about al Qaeda in Algeria, or British troops operating there.
Once it goes pneumonic, rats and fleas are no longer necessary. It becomes transmitted human to human.
Infected human vectors boarding a number of transatlantic flights would infect thousands of new infected carriers to take it around the globe quickly.
what is the source of that?
A friend of mine visits in South Dakota and while there they shoot prairie dogs. A few years back they called it off due to the plague getting them (the critters) first. These guys in Algeria, living in caves in the desert, would be sitting ducks for exposure. A shot of penicillin will knock it right out, but they’ve probably never seen a doctor in their lives so it’s a moot point.
That doesn't mean THEY developed the aspirin factory. Many 6th century Islamic countries have western technology, and like monkeys, they can be trained to operate it. But should it go into disrepair, they can neither fix it or build a new one.
If I recall correctly, in 1972 there was an epidemic in Yugoslavia (Kosovo) of smallpox. The index case brought it back from the hajj. Disease doesn't necessarily stay put.
God trumps the Evil Ones, with an appropriate biblical punishment.
I guess they were used to it out there as no one panicked. Being new there I thought the world was about to end but the locals said it was common. Not to worry. Just don't try to play with the cute little critters.
Every year about a half-dozen people, mostly hunters, contract plague in the western states. Rabbits are the wildlife reservoir for it here. Originally introduced through the port of San Francisco from China, in the late 19th century. A real shame the National Health Service wasn’t on the ball back then, becuase it could have been erradicated on the SF penninsula before spreading throughout the western states.
It is treatable with antibiotics. No need to panic.
Just be very careful when you go hunting, fishing, backpacking, or camping. Those fools in Algeria got sloppy.
Here is a very interesting article about occurrences in the US.
http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/SW02/80208036
If this started in the cave shelters — where, one guesses, there was a certain lack of hygiene — it sounds to me like this might be a natural occurrence, to be attributed to the rodents (or rather, the fleas thereof) who might have been scurrying around in that environment. Not to be all prejudiced and everything, but if they’d take a bath once in a while ... and keep pets like terriers and cats, who both give rats what-for ... hm, I’m guess I’m really saying that if they were more like us, this wouldn’t be a problem, would it?
They were obviously trying to weaponize it without adequate safeguards. Good riddance, but- there may be others!
We used to get those all the time down range, figured it was just staph, tetracycline knocked it right down. No rats, but fleas everywhere. Shoot, could have been plague for all we knew. Keep rubbing on the DEET.
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