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2005-02-18 Africa: Subsaharan

Pneumonic Plague Kills Scores in Congo Outbreak

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-18 4:08:09 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 While Pneumonic plague is 90% fatal if untreated. With antibiotics fatality rate is zero. I.e its no risk to the developed world. Africa is a different matter.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-18 4:48:00 PM|| 2005-02-18 4:48:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 You have 1 day to figure out how sick you are and get an appointment. with your doc. Sounds like a risk to me . . . Once the big public health emergency machine got cranked up there'd be antibiotics enough, but that takes time, and we'd lose people in the interim.

Posted by James 2005-02-18 6:28:49 PM|| [http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-02-18 6:28:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 You have 1 day to figure out how sick you are and get an appointment. with your doc

god forbid it hits Canada with their super healthcare system. Wonder what the Mullahs in Nigeria will say? "Nahhhh it's just like Polio. Only infidels get it"

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-18 6:40:09 PM|| 2005-02-18 6:40:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Prophylactic antibiotics would stop an outbreak dead. Worst case is a bunch of people on a plane get infected. Index case dies, can't find some contacts and they spread. Some might die, but it would be stopped within days. This is not like SARS or bird flu where the disease is untreatable.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-18 10:08:59 PM|| 2005-02-18 10:08:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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