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2003-07-11 Africa: North

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-11 9:01:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My recollection is that the plague can take three forms: bubonic, pneumonic(?) and septicaemic. The last being the worst. With septicaemic, everything just kind of shuts down, all at the same time.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-11 9:28:48 AM|| 2003-7-11 9:28:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "...the Oran region after reports of plague emerged last month."

Somebody notify Monsier Hugo!...

Posted by mojo 2003-7-11 9:32:06 AM|| 2003-7-11 9:32:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 A Journal of the Plague Year
by
Daniel Defoe

Posted by mojo 2003-7-11 9:59:57 AM|| 2003-7-11 9:59:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Plague: spread mainly through rat fleas

Bubonic: fatal around 50% of the time, travels through the lymph system. Black plague responsible for the big extermination just prior to Defoe's era (he was just a little kid too young to remember).

Pneumonic: Most deadly. Attacks pulmonary, lung system. Almost 100% fatal. Spread via aerosol human-human not from rat fleas. Outbreaks burn out quickly as all victims die.

Septicaemic: spread by rat fleas. Symptoms within hours, death within days.

Posted by Anon1 2003-7-11 10:22:41 AM|| 2003-7-11 10:22:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 We have cases in the western U.S. all the time. Good antibiotic treatment available. Rarely have deaths in the U.S.

As anthrax and SARS have proven, medicine in the U.S.A. is pretty good. Zero SARS deaths, and an anthrax death rate well below predictions.

Posted by Chuck 2003-7-11 10:31:29 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-7-11 10:31:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 France, the former colonial power (snicker) which has a large ethnic Algerian community, has tightened sanitary controls at its ports to guard against contaminated rats and insects.

In all seriousness, it's a major concern for the Linchpin in the Axis of Weasels. A lot of the cargo shipments between France and Algeria are done by sea. There are not many air links into Algeria (Air France only resumed flights back into the country a few weeks back).

Posted by Pappy 2003-7-11 1:06:49 PM|| 2003-7-11 1:06:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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