Scene inside Al-Qaeda training camp.
Posted on 01/18/2009 7:29:17 PM PST by null and void
God works in mysterious ways.
I’ve heard that the main reason why Schiklegruber didn’t use gas against Allied troops was because he suspected that they might have crap that was at least as powerful.
Maybe there were not one, but two or more diseases.
a case of the flea biting the rats. GOOD!
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Plague Good news.Divine intervention?
<<My thots exactly!
That's why I said "develop" - everything the terrorists make, they learned how to from Western Civ.
In those days the plague was transmitted by fleas. One thing I've recently learned is that fleas *hate* horses. So, it's a little ironic that the Mongols were sitting on the solution to the plague the whole time.
Our c.i.a. at work?
1st they invent aids and spread it amongst black folk.
Now passing the plaque around our enemies.
> This could be a terrorist plan to spread the highly infectious disease throughout the Western nations by having these infected people (who are contagious) infect the populations they are in...
> I’ve heard that they were experimenting with that idea...
Not likely. Plague responds to antibiotics very well. I can state from first hand experience that plague is a very painful and nasty thing to experience.
I was hospitalized with plague while in Viet Nam. In 23 days I went from 185# to 115#. The doctors told me that the hardest thing was that none of them had ever see a case of plague and I was being treated for everything but plague. Once they made a proper diagnosis I got better very quickly.
Plague is probably a poor choice as a terror weapon. It isn’t transmitted person-to-person but requires an intermediate host.
> Is there a vaccine?
Yes there is; but since plague is bacterial and not viral, the vaccine is only effective for a short period of time, probably not more than a year ot two.
Don’t worry though, plague responds to common antibiotics.
Not if it’s pneumonic. Pneumonic is airborne and a person can be exposed to it and be dead in hours. Some of our people would die but not many.
Bats can be carriers and they were living in caves, most likely with bats.
Yeah, pneumonic and you can die within hours of exposure but it is treatable with antibiotics, I believe, if caught soon enough. One or two cases of it and everyone around the vectors will be given antibiotics to ward it off, I assume.
Scene inside Al-Qaeda training camp.
Antibiotics.
So how's the 14th century look to you now dolts!
Anyone find corroborating reports?
If true this is a huge problem, where did it come from? There are many stake-holders in this, and each will react differently depending on where they think it came from.
We know here it's Bush's fault (/s), but Pakistan, India, Syria, and the UN as well as others may take action.
I've bee a big fan of the semi-abandoned Bureau of Land Management campsites in the mountains around here, and seeing warning signs about plague is common (don't play with the squirrels!). Only a few get plague here, if it were 40, it would be stunning.
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