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Plague a growing but overlooked threat: study
| Quote From Source: | LONDON (Reuters) - Plague, the disease that devastated medieval Europe, is re-emerging worldwide and poses a growing but overlooked threat, researchers warned on Tuesday.
While it has only killed some 100 to 200 people annually over the past 20 years, plague has appeared in new countries in recent decades and is now shifting into Africa, Michael Begon, an ecologist at the University of Liverpool and colleagues said.
A bacterium known as Yersinia pestis causes bubonic plague, known in medieval times as the Black Death when it was spread by infected fleas, and the more dangerous pneumonic plague, spread from one person to another through coughing or sneezing.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080115/sc_nm/plague_threat_dc
Well, we're still not 100% sure that Y. Pestis is the entire cause of the black plague, but we do not it was at least part of it. This reads more like a scare story than something to be concerned about. I mean, if the plague returns, it returns. We're much, much better prepared for it that we were in the 1300's. I think H5N1 has a muchi higher probability to cause mass casualty than Y. Pestis at this point, since it's a virus, and a potentially nasty one from a global death count perspective. |
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we have a few cases of the plague show up in my county every year...mostly in cats and dogs. the thing that scares me most is the hanta virus which we have. what a horrible death that would be. |
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Me too, I used to spend a lot of time in the mountains, before I hurt myself backpacking a couple years ago, that was a big worry for me. The dirt can be dangerous, especially if it's full of mouse poop. |
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There have been some bug overseas and some strange things going on here.....one would think we will get a super bug one day. I'm all for a population decrease. Its healthy for the stronger species.
The human race needs a good kick in the pants once in a while to knock us down to reality and to focus on what is really important. Its not Britney Spears and that gaggle of stupid girls in Hollywood, its not Sports, nor is it about Rock Stars and popularity. It's not about money and sports cars and other bullshit we focus on.
I love visiting forums with people arguing over trucks, boats, guns, electronics, you name it. Everybody talking shit about what is best and what sucks, who sucks, and why what they have is the best.
The only things that truly matter are love, family, shelter, and food.
Everything else is bullshit and a luxury you can live without. Money, power, greed, and popularity don't mean shit when you have nobody you can count on, no food, and just about everybody you know is dead or dying. We need to get back to that stage to get reality back into our lives and remember what truly matters. Its the only way things will ever change. Nature has a way to correct itself and I've felt something bad is coming for quite some time now. I can't put my finger on it. It may a total global market meltdown, a war, ice age, a superbug, or something. I don't know. All I know is I keep loading ammunition and I'm trying to store food. I don't even know why I'm doing it....I just feel compelled.
The most relilable gun money can buy is an AK/47. I would reccomend getting one. It will fire if its packed full of frozen mud or soaked in zombie blood. Ammo is cheap and plentiful and you can buy it by thousand round packs. You can buy an AK/47 in semi auto mode to be legal and its just as relilable as the full auto version. And get a glock pistol or a Sig Sauer in 9mm or .45 auto...the two most common pistol rounds available.
They should take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity sort itself out.
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ur post makes me think of the tv show lost |
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Never seen it...whats it about?
They should take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity sort itself out.
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its about these people who crash plane wise on a very strange island. lots of plot twists and very entertaining. definately recomend watching it from the very begining though. JJ abrams does it which is the same guy who did cloverfield. |
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