Posted on 08/03/2009 8:34:23 AM PDT by fishhound
BEIJING (Aug. 3)- A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said. The World Health Organization office in China said it was in close contact with Chinese health authorities and that measures taken so far to treat and quarantine sickened people were appropriate. The man who died Sunday was identified only as 37-year-old Danzin from Ziketan, the stricken town in Qinghai province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Danzin was a neighbor of the first person who died, a 32-year-old herdsman whose name was not given. Another 10 people, mostly relatives of the first deceased man, were infected and undergoing isolated treatment in hospital, Xinhua said in a report late Sunday. The town of 10,000 people has been sealed off and a team of experts was sent to the area, the local health bureau said Sunday, warning that anyone with a cough or fever who visited the town since mid-July should seek treatment at a hospital.
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In China if you are a “one in a million” type of guy remeber, there are still a thousand plus more guys just like you ....
Glad it’s not viral. Imagine a concurrent outbreak with H1N1 if it was.
For what it’s worth, the Japanese were creating plague infected insects at the end of the WWII (camp 731) in China.
They’d plotted to send them into America via balloons with breakable clay pots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Unit 731 was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).
More than ten thousand people... were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731. Those were both civilian and military of Chinese, Russian, American and other nationalities as well as some Japanese criminals from the Japanese homeland.
According to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the number of people killed by the Imperial Japanese Army germ warfare and human experiments is around 580,000.[5] According to other sources, the use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731’s bioweapons and chemical weapons programs resulted in possibly as many as 200,000 deaths of military personnel and civilians in China...
Ooohh, the Pnenumonic plague is the ‘bad’ one. The Bubonic Plague is the one carried by fleas (I think?) but if this one is spread through coughing...
Lillian Gish and Gillian Wong,
Got together in old Hong Kong,
Gillian talked of pneumonic plague,
Lillian thought she was somewhat vague,
Gillian said that it spread through the air,
Lillian said ‘thank God it’s not the air down here’
Gillian said ‘don’t hold your breath,
Pneumonic plague’s the cousin of the old Black Death’
Lillian said ‘oh my, I’m feeling dizzy’
Gillian said ‘it’s PLAGUE’ and went into a tizzy,
Lillian said ‘quick call the States, and Doctor Morgan,
and don’t let them harvest me for organs!’
Lillian called long distance for 0bamaCare,
The 0bamunist on duty said ‘we don’t cover you there’
Gillian said ‘oh tell me, what was said?’
And Lillian said ‘looks like you’ll end up DEAD!’
Burma Shave.
They’re CLAIMING it’s Pneumonic Plague. But, it being China, it could well be the opening notes of the Zombie Apocalypse!!!
(evil grin)
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