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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: vansmack on January 15, 2003, 03:03:00 pm

Title: Bubonic Plague
Post by: vansmack on January 15, 2003, 03:03:00 pm: I love it when messages liek this pop up on Instant Messaging. Makes me itchy all over...Bubonic Plague vials missing: <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/859757.asp" TARGET=_blank>http://www.msnbc.com/news/859757.asp[/url] Markie, as the resident medical expert, anything we should know?
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: poorlulu on January 15, 2003, 03:08:00 pm: it doesn't surprise me..............scientists are crap at remembering to tidy up their benches..........i'll bet the vials are shoved under some papers on a pre erta's (sp) desk.............or some post doc wil say no i don't have them..........moose, moose............
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: markie on January 15, 2003, 03:19:00 pm: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by vansmack: Markie, as the resident medical expert, anything we should know?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>ERMM, well it wasnt anything to do with me. think plague, Yersinia Pestis, is readily treatable. It is a simple relative of E.coli and should be sensitive to about any antiobiotic you can find, especially the common ones.But if some crazed scientist engineered in some antibiotic resistance, very easy to do a two day job, it could get messy.But I doubt you could engineer resistance to all antibiotics in one strain in a short time, that could take a few months. As a bonus it is very easy to grow, unlike anthrax. It would be a good choice with the work for a bioterrorist attack, especially against third world targets without access to buckets of antiobiotics.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: vansmack on January 15, 2003, 03:26:00 pm: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by markie: But if some crazed scientist engineered in some antibiotic resistance, very easy to do a two day job, it could get messy...... As a bonus it is very easy to grow, unlike anthrax. It would be a good choice with the work for a bioterrorist attack, especially against third world targets without access to buckets of antiobiotics.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That's reassuring. Thanks, doctor.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: teledano on January 15, 2003, 04:30:00 pm: I don't not know nothing about nothing on this - but the 35 vials the website sold me said I'd get a date for sure.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 15, 2003, 04:32:00 pm: i love how quick the news stations are to report -unverified- information. FBI has recovered all the vials. ho hum.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: poorlulu on January 15, 2003, 05:18:00 pm: do you like being called jittery?i told you some crap lab person had 'filed' them on his desk........ <A HREF="http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1076639,00.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1076639,00.html[/url]
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: Cernunnos on January 16, 2003, 12:59:00 am: I worked with a few people with hi level biocontainment access at Ft. Detrick in Frederick during high school jobs. I'm amazed the East coast hasn't been wiped out by some kind of epidemic, I mean, it scared the hell out of me what idiots some of these people were, and they had access to stuff like hantavirus and ebola...
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: vervelike on January 16, 2003, 12:11:00 pm: I understand that New Mexico is a 'hotbed' for the plague. Good place to catch it.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: markie on January 16, 2003, 12:37:00 pm: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by vervelike: I understand that New Mexico is a 'hotbed' for the plague. Good place to catch it.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>you are correct, I never realised that before. apparently there are a lot of rodents in Santa Fe.Which does not explain it as there are lots of them here to.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: vervelike on January 16, 2003, 01:48:00 pm: Maybe too cold here. Disease/germs like it hot! Or warm and wet. Or warm and dry...
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 05, 2013, 05:59:12 pm: i live in the woods. in the country. next to mountains. mother nature. national forests. creeks. i thought i was protected from this shit. and i feed the squirrels too sometimes. damn you plague. i dont like you anymore.

http://diseasedaily.com/officials-find-plague-california-squirrel-73013
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: atomicfront on August 05, 2013, 06:03:28 pm: Quote from: walkonby on August 05, 2013, 05:59:12 pm
i live in the woods. in the country. next to mountains. mother nature. national forests. creeks. i thought i was protected from this shit. and i feed the squirrels too sometimes. damn you plague. i dont like you anymore.

http://diseasedaily.com/officials-find-plague-california-squirrel-73013

I like how you did a search and added this to a 10 year old thread instead of starting a new thread. Shows great restraint on your part.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 05, 2013, 06:07:57 pm: i like restraints . . . sometimes.

i also like that some people are reading this and not seeing your post, so they have no idea why i just said that.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: atomicfront on August 05, 2013, 06:09:19 pm: Quote from: walkonby on August 05, 2013, 06:07:57 pm
i like restraints . . . sometimes.

i also like that some people are reading this and not seeing your post, so they have no idea why i just said that.

You could have quoted.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 05, 2013, 06:10:48 pm: i could have gone to have sushi instead of a yummy five cheese grilled cheese panni with side of to die for chili, but i did not.

i prefer other people not knowing what we are talking about . . . like those annoying people that talk loud on their cell phones in public.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: atomicfront on August 05, 2013, 06:12:09 pm: Quote from: walkonby on August 05, 2013, 06:10:48 pm
i could have gone to have sushi instead of a yummy five cheese grilled cheese panni with side of to die for chili, but i did not.

I don't like Sushi. Well that isn't true. I did like the Icelandic Sushi Fusion place I went to once.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: vansmack on August 05, 2013, 06:13:24 pm: I miss Markie and Lulu.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 05, 2013, 06:13:34 pm: i post these things every once in a while, so the older people will remember the good times . . . and try to forget this bullshit we have now. if only we had a sea of people posting still.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 05, 2013, 06:15:39 pm: Quote from: atomicfront on August 05, 2013, 06:12:09 pm
Quote from: walkonby on August 05, 2013, 06:10:48 pm
i could have gone to have sushi instead of a yummy five cheese grilled cheese panni with side of to die for chili, but i did not.

I don't like Sushi. Well that isn't true. I did like the Icelandic Sushi Fusion place I went to once.

i hate people that say they hate sushi and hate you for making them remember how much they hate it . . . then they finally try it and they love it. i say fuck them, but that is just me.
Title: Re: Bubonic Plague
Post by: atomicfront on August 05, 2013, 06:17:51 pm: Quote from: walkonby on August 05, 2013, 06:15:39 pm
Quote from: atomicfront on August 05, 2013, 06:12:09 pm
Quote from: walkonby on August 05, 2013, 06:10:48 pm
i could have gone to have sushi instead of a yummy five cheese grilled cheese panni with side of to die for chili, but i did not.

I don't like Sushi. Well that isn't true. I did like the Icelandic Sushi Fusion place I went to once.

i hate people that say they hate sushi and hate you for making them remember how much they hate it . . . then they finally try it and they love it. i say fuck them, but that is just me.

I hate it how females always assume that you will like Sushi if you eat it one more time. I just don't like it. It isn't the raw fish. I have no problem with the raw fish. I hate the seaweed and the cold rice. Rice shouldn't be cold.