Bubonic Plague

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</A>; <P>Markie, as the resident medical expert, anything we should know?

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…………

<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>

<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.

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.

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

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</A>;

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…

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

<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.

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

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

walkonby wrote:
i live in the woods.&nbsp; in the country.&nbsp; next to mountains.&nbsp; mother nature.&nbsp; national forests.&nbsp; creeks.&nbsp; i thought i was protected from this shit.&nbsp; and i feed the squirrels too sometimes.&nbsp; damn you plague.&nbsp; 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 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.

walkonby wrote:
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. 

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.

walkonby wrote:
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 miss Markie and Lulu.

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.

atomicfront wrote:

walkonby wrote:
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&#039;t like Sushi.&nbsp; Well that isn&#039;t true.&nbsp; I did like the Icelandic Sushi Fusion place I went to once.&nbsp;

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.