tonado Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_...as_china_plague "A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said." Link to comment
GZBILL Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090803/ap_on_...as_china_plague "A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said." My geography isn't very good, but I just hope this shit is really, really far away from Beijing. Link to comment
Guest Tony n Terrific Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 It is pretty much remote part of China by Mongolia. http://www.maplandia.com/china/qinghai/tongde/ziketan/ Link to comment
Smitty Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) While I don't like to bring up the bad parts of the last century, but... Isn't this one of the things the Imperial Japanese were working on while they were in Manchuria? Edited August 4, 2009 by Smitty (see edit history) Link to comment
Guest Tony n Terrific Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 (edited) Residents of a town in northwest China where three people have died from pneumonic plague said Wednesday scared people were trying to leave despite a strict quarantine to contain the virulent disease.A fourth person was near death in Ziketan, a remote town of 10,000 people in a Tibetan area of Qinghai province, the official Xinhua news agency said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090805/hl_af..._20090805160028 Edited August 5, 2009 by Tony n Terrific (see edit history) Link to comment
Yuanyang Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 I read a few stories the other day that a bunch of people slipped out of town. Guess we'll have to wait and see how much it spreads. This a situation where I would support a 'shoot-on-site' policy. Link to comment
Guest Tony n Terrific Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 This disease is an airborne one. Can you imagine if a few 100 hundred people could infect millions within a week or so with this virus. With the rapid movement of air travel millions more could be affected within a month. Atlanta Disease Control estimated if the Bird Flu became virulent as many as 200 million people could perish or 3% of the world's population. World War 2 killed 55 million. Link to comment
tonado Posted August 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pac...2446955428.html Link to comment
tonado Posted August 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6742371.ece Taxis charge £200 to sneak residents out of Chinese plague town. Link to comment
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