Bubonic Plague on the rise

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/plague-medieval-scourge-on-the-rise/20080115085909990001

What do you guys think about this O_o....

oh noes!!

lights a fire and starts killing cats and dogs.

First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsHate_Squad

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

[QUOTE="Hate_Squad"]First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsGuiltfeeder566

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

Bird flu is much much worse than the plague. Bird flu is incredibly hard to cure - plague is easily curable, but in the developing world it could get out of hand with the lack of healthcare.

Edit: just thought that cure is probably the wrong word. Treat is probably better.

[QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]

[QUOTE="Hate_Squad"]First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsmattyftm

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

Bird flu is much much worse than the plague. Bird flu is incredibly hard to cure - plague is easily curable, but in the developing world it could get out of hand with the lack of healthcare.

Edit: just thought that cure is probably the wrong word. Treat is probably better.

If it mutates to humans if would ravish africa. They wouden't stand a chance. The resistance over there is about .01%. Same could happen if it got to less devoloped asian countries.

[QUOTE="mattyftm"][QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]

[QUOTE="Hate_Squad"]First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsGuiltfeeder566

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

Bird flu is much much worse than the plague. Bird flu is incredibly hard to cure - plague is easily curable, but in the developing world it could get out of hand with the lack of healthcare.

Edit: just thought that cure is probably the wrong word. Treat is probably better.

If it mutates to humans if would ravish africa. They wouden't stand a chance. The resistance over there is about .01%. Same could happen if it got to less devoloped asian countries.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but wouldn't that take care of the AIDS problem over there...

I'm going to hell.

uh oh i have black bumpssquitsquat

:O i have brown... no wait on moles HOLY **** i have Moles :(

[QUOTE="mattyftm"][QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]

[QUOTE="Hate_Squad"]First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsGuiltfeeder566

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

Bird flu is much much worse than the plague. Bird flu is incredibly hard to cure - plague is easily curable, but in the developing world it could get out of hand with the lack of healthcare.

Edit: just thought that cure is probably the wrong word. Treat is probably better.

If it mutates to humans if would ravish africa. They wouden't stand a chance. The resistance over there is about .01%. Same could happen if it got to less devoloped asian countries.

Bird flu could mutate and ravish the world - but we don't know. I was comparing the treatability. We don't know enough about the abilitys of a mutated bird flu to compare it to the plague, so I was using the only comparable data.

stupid media trying to "scare" everyone.

Who cares if that disease re-emerged? Modern medicine isn't just "oh, you look sick, I guess I'll just drain your blood."

[QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"][QUOTE="mattyftm"][QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]

[QUOTE="Hate_Squad"]First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsRhythmic_

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

Bird flu is much much worse than the plague. Bird flu is incredibly hard to cure - plague is easily curable, but in the developing world it could get out of hand with the lack of healthcare.

Edit: just thought that cure is probably the wrong word. Treat is probably better.

If it mutates to humans if would ravish africa. They wouden't stand a chance. The resistance over there is about .01%. Same could happen if it got to less devoloped asian countries.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but wouldn't that take care of the AIDS problem over there...

I'm going to hell.

[QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]

If it mutates to humans if would ravish africa. They wouden't stand a chance. The resistance over there is about .01%. Same could happen if it got to less devoloped asian countries.

Rhythmic_

Perhaps I'm wrong, but wouldn't that take care of the AIDS problem over there...

I'm going to hell.

yes you are most likely going to hell :P

[QUOTE="Rhythmic_"][QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"][QUOTE="mattyftm"][QUOTE="Guiltfeeder566"]

[QUOTE="Hate_Squad"]First of all I don't give a **** about africa ,there are millions of diseases there,one more won't change anything.Second,it's just scare tactic just like the avian flu ,by which only a few people were killed in some asian countries but the media have a tendency to exaggerate thingsMattUD1

I would think the Plague is a much bigger deal then the avian flu...

Bird flu is much much worse than the plague. Bird flu is incredibly hard to cure - plague is easily curable, but in the developing world it could get out of hand with the lack of healthcare.

Edit: just thought that cure is probably the wrong word. Treat is probably better.

If it mutates to humans if would ravish africa. They wouden't stand a chance. The resistance over there is about .01%. Same could happen if it got to less devoloped asian countries.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but wouldn't that take care of the AIDS problem over there...

I'm going to hell.

He said it would ravage Africa. And I was implying that if the Plague killed everyone there, we would no longer have a serious AIDS problem.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to resort to spelling it out.

I hope it wipes out a third of the population like it did last time. This world could do with 2 billion less people on it.

Bubonic plague...has probably been around forever. It goes way back even before the large plague breakouts("black death") in Europe in 1347. Where I am I don't see it as much of a threat even though it has a great potential to be one. Easily curable if diagnosed early. Problem is, if it's not controlled, then we'll eventually have a real problem on our hands...

It's plagues/diseases like this that probably wiped out early human beings(I mean really early, way before civilization was "established" around 4000BCE), maybe even entire civilizations.

With treatment the outcome is much better than it was back in the day....LJS9502_basic