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