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Six die as suspicions of anthrax mount in northern city (Iraq)
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| 5/12/04
Posted on 05/12/2004 6:01:55 PM PDT by knak
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To: Shermy
A similar story-probably the same one-surfaced a few months ago,and turned out NOT to be anthrax. I think they even claimed the disease was contagious. Anthrax isn't-in the ordinary sense. You can get it from the spores,or from eating the meat of an infected animal,but you can't pass it on to someone else.
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posted on
05/13/2004 8:47:20 AM PDT
by
genefromjersey
(So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
To: genefromjersey
bflr
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posted on
05/13/2004 9:01:04 AM PDT
by
cgk
(Leftist spin: Baghdad Fell? Clinton's Army! Saddam Nabbed? Clinton's Army! Naked Iraqis? Bush's Army)
To: genefromjersey
I don't know about the others, but it's interesting the first victim was a shepherd.
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posted on
05/13/2004 9:16:13 AM PDT
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
That would make sense. Anthrax is quite often associated with wool-and with sheepherders.
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posted on
05/13/2004 9:41:26 AM PDT
by
genefromjersey
(So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
To: genefromjersey
Shermy said: "A similar story-probably the same one-surfaced a few months ago,and turned out NOT to be anthrax." Shermy is correct - 'Bacillus anthracis disinformationus' is the real bug.
To: knak
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posted on
05/15/2004 7:41:54 PM PDT
by
pttttt
To: pttttt
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posted on
05/15/2004 7:45:14 PM PDT
by
pttttt
To: knak
"Six Iraqis died last week of a serious skin disease, which workers at the Republican hospital in Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, said looks like the anthrax, " OK, so a shepherd could get anthrax from a sheep. What accounts for the other 5 deaths? It can't spread person-to-person and yet 6 are dead (since MOST of the time it doesn't kill, probably dozens of others sick). What could account for so many catching it simultaneously?
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posted on
05/15/2004 8:14:06 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(LBJ sent him to VN. Nixon expressed him home. And JfK's too dumb to tell them apart!)
To: knak
Another waste of time. Story coming from the pajama patrol, leaked to the keystone cops and to the liberal media. Garbage, just like all their other crap.
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posted on
05/15/2004 10:11:28 PM PDT
by
Iberian
To: knak
Iraqpress.org is hardly "liberal". The registry of iraqpress.org ie "faten muheadeen" of
Uxbridge, England. "Faten muheadeen" rhymes with mujahideen so, iraqpress.org may be an Al Qaeda Cult disinformation outlet.
To: knak
How long befor DUers and their media lackeys cry that Bush is the cause of this?
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posted on
05/16/2004 7:13:54 AM PDT
by
twntaipan
(demoncRATS are a threat to security of the USA.)
To: knak; Peach; Dog; freeperfromnj; oceanview; cajungirl; opinionator; Ditter; netmilsmom; ...
It turns out that this report had already been discredited back on April 1, 2004. See
http://www.promedmail.org, Archive number 20040401.0884.
The claim should never have appeared in a news article dated May 11, 2004. It was a recycled news story, already known to be false. (And the supposed contagiousness was a giveaway that it was bogus anyway.)
In the interest of putting false rumors to rest, I've pinged everybody who had posted to this thread.
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posted on
05/16/2004 9:54:03 PM PDT
by
Mitchell
To: Mitchell
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posted on
05/16/2004 10:02:37 PM PDT
by
alnick
(Mrs. Heinz-Kerry's husband wants teh-rayz-ah your taxes.)
To: Mitchell
Well, I'd normally complain quite profusely about a paper confusing actinomycosis with anthrax and 0 deaths with 6. But then again, unlike, the Boston Globe and Daily Mirror, at least they didn't purposely run a false story.
To: twntaipan
I am the registered Democrat and liberal who found the registry info re: iraqpress.org ie this info suggests that the story is purposeful disinformation by the Al Qaeda Cult which possibly answers the question at the end of the PROMed post cited by Mitchell.
To: Mitchell
Thank you for the update.
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posted on
05/17/2004 6:08:19 PM PDT
by
bwteim
("Begin With The End In Mind")
To: PhilipRick
I am the registered Democrat and liberal who found the registry info re: iraqpress.org ie this info suggests that the story is purposeful disinformation by the Al Qaeda Cult which possibly answers the question at the end of the PROMed post cited by Mitchell. Thanks for pointing out the registry info.
I don't know if this article was simply very poor journalism or if it was intentional disinformation.
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posted on
05/17/2004 6:46:32 PM PDT
by
Mitchell
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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posted on
05/17/2004 7:45:37 PM PDT
by
cgk
(Leftist spin: Baghdad Fell? Clinton's Army! Saddam Nabbed? Clinton's Army! Naked Iraqis? Bush's Army)
A year before this report, in the same general area of Iraq [MOSUL]... might be why the press there is a bit edgy about anthrax:
MAY 12, 2003 : (REPORT: MOBILE LABS FOUND IN NORTHERN IRAQ NEAR MOSUL ) MOSUL DISCOVERY : Meanwhile, U.S. officials said the mobile laboratories were found at a bombed-out rocket and missile factory near Mosul in northern Iraq. One of the trailers was missing its canvas cover, wheels and plumbing most likely taken by looters but the essential parts, including a compressor and dryer needed to produce weapons grade anthrax, were intact. ---- "REPORT: "Dr. Germ" now in U.S. custody - U.S. says Dr. Germ surrendered in Baghdad; Iraqi scientist conducted research that led to bioweapons, U.S. says ," by Miklaszewski, Tammy Kupperman, Robert Windrem, AP & Reuters staff, MSNBC NewsAlert, May 12, 2003
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posted on
06/08/2008 10:14:01 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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