Bubonic Plague

[vansmack]

I love it when messages liek this pop up on Instant Messaging.  Makes me itchy all over...<P>Bubonic Plague vials missing:<BR> <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/859757.asp" TARGET=_blank>http://www.msnbc.com/news/859757.asp[/url] <P>Markie, as the resident medical expert, anything we should know?

[poorlulu]

it doesn't surprise me..............scientists are crap at remembering to tidy up their benches..........<P>i'll bet the vials are shoved under some papers on a pre erta's (sp) desk.............<P>or some post doc wil say no i don't have them..........moose, moose............

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by vansmack:<BR><B><BR>Markie, as the resident medical expert, anything we should know?</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>ERMM, well it wasnt anything to do with me.<P> 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.<P>But if some crazed scientist engineered in some antibiotic resistance, very easy to do a two day job, it could get messy.<P>But I doubt you could engineer resistance to all antibiotics in one strain in a short time, that could take a few months.<P> 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.<P>

[vansmack]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> But if some crazed scientist engineered in some antibiotic resistance, very easy to do a two day job, it could get messy.<P>.....<P> 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.<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That's reassuring.  Thanks, doctor.

[teledano]

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.

[Got Haggis?]

i love how quick the news stations are to report -unverified- information.  FBI has recovered all the vials.  ho hum.

[poorlulu]

do you like being called jittery?<P>i told you some crap lab person had 'filed'<BR>them on his desk........<BR> <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]

[Cernunnos]

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...

[vervelike]

I understand that New Mexico is a 'hotbed' for the plague. Good place to catch it.

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by vervelike:<BR><B>I understand that New Mexico is a 'hotbed' for the plague. Good place to catch it.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>you are correct, I never realised that before. apparently there are a lot of rodents in Santa Fe.<P>Which does not explain it as there are lots of them here to.

[vervelike]

Maybe too cold here. Disease/germs like it hot!<BR>Or warm and wet. <BR>Or warm and dry...<BR>

[i am gay and i like cats]

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

[atomicfront]

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.

[i am gay and i like cats]

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.

[atomicfront]

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.