The return of the Bubonic Plague, This is for real! |
 Jan 15 2008, 11:48 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080115/sc_nm/plague_threat_dc
What do you think? Are you afraid? Even a little alarmed? (I am) |
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Jan 15 2008, 12:14 PM
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no. just keep clean.
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Jan 15 2008, 01:47 PM
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Are you sure that "keeping clean" is the answer?
(I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just interested) |
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Jan 15 2008, 02:19 PM
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the bubonic plague spread so quickly becuase of the fact that noone kept themselves clean.
most health experts agree the black death would have never been anywhere that big if early europeans just washed their hands. |
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Jan 15 2008, 02:39 PM
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I don't worry about most things I see on the news. I am pretty sure they try to scare us to get their ratings up so they come out with every possible threat to your life, or your families lives that they can conceive.
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Jan 15 2008, 03:27 PM
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 Resource Center Tyrant Group: Official Member Posts: 2,263 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 593,306 |
QUOTE(MissFits @ Jan 15 2008, 02:39 PM)  I don't worry about most things I see on the news. I am pretty sure they try to scare us to get their ratings up so they come out with every possible threat to your life, or your families lives that they can conceive. That, and people love to have something to worry about and they read the news to bask in their tactics. Journalists/reporters exaggerate everything. Their reports are all biased every time. However, I can stand by one thing: PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE. |
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Jan 15 2008, 03:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,586 Joined: Jun 2007 Member No: 531,256 |
^I concur
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Jan 15 2008, 03:38 PM
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MissHygienic will come to CreateBlog's rescue if any of us are infected!
I'm not worried. |
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Jan 16 2008, 01:46 AM
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Another reason why the bubonic plague spread so quickly was due to extremely tight/cramped slums that were infested with plagued rats. The water got infected also. Today, things are much cleaner and people have (usually) a better sense of hygiene. Diseases don't get completely wiped out. There will always be carriers that are immune to it who spread it to people who aren't. Most epidemics occur in cycles. They emerge in and out of civilization. As medicine/technology and personal hygiene improved, the number that are exposed to it and/or those that actually die from it decrease. I'm not worried. I was only worried when a New Jersey lab lost a rat that was infected with the plague because that is incredibly stupid. |
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Jan 16 2008, 02:25 AM
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 isketchaholic Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 2,977 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 516,154 |
don't worry unless you see a bunch of black rats scurrying around and then moments later a person walking around with buboes on their armpits.
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Jan 16 2008, 11:54 AM
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If it's not the Bubonic Plague, it'll be Nuclear Warfare, AIDS, Superbugs, Cancer, Global Warming, Obesity or whatever else the illustrious "they" decide to frighten us with next.
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Jan 16 2008, 06:22 PM
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I always thought that bacteria and molecular things would be the end of human kind.
So no, not that afraid. |
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Jan 29 2008, 01:52 AM
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look for the stars as the sun goes down Group: Member Posts: 493 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 453,963 |
isn't bubonic plague not aire-born? as in if the person infected with it coughs the bacteria is now flung into the air and people can't get it?
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Jan 29 2008, 01:56 AM
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Sing to Me Group: Member Posts: 1,825 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,808 |
^The Bubonic Plague is spread through contact either by insects transmitting infected blood or someone coughing on other infected droplets (saliva). |
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Feb 5 2008, 08:35 PM
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 That's what she said. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,559 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 130,200 |
Well, maybe if we lived back in the way I'd be panicking. But now that we have more advanced technology and medicine. We don't have to worry so much.
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