Plague kills 2nd man; China seals off entire town

[tonado]

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."

[GZBILL]

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.

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

It is pretty much remote part of China by Mongolia.

 

http://www.maplandia.com/china/qinghai/tongde/ziketan/

[Smitty]

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)

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

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)

[Yuanyang]

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.

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

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.

[tonado]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pac...2446955428.html

[tonado]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6742371.ece

 

Taxis charge £200 to sneak residents out of Chinese plague town.