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The town of 10,000 people has been placed under quarantine and a team of experts is being sent to the area, it said.
The local health bureau warned that anyone with a cough or fever who has visited the town since mid-July should seek treatment at a hospital.
The local health bureau warned that anyone with a cough or fever who has visited the town since mid-July should seek treatment at a hospital.
great! first swine flu now this 
A good job we no longer live in the Middle Ages.
life can be so depressing!!
but then again we had SARS and Bird Flu that was mean to end the world . . . and didn't
The government working overtime to deflect from the 2 illegal wars.....
Im sure this was a man-made disease as was swine flu, AIDS and bird flu.... When will they realise that innocent lives are being lost in the process?
Im sure this was a man-made disease as was swine flu, AIDS and bird flu.... When will they realise that innocent lives are being lost in the process?
How Malthusian..
Thanks for that renton.....That's really made my day that has!!!.....*goes back into bubble and hides*.... 
quote:Originally posted by tupps:
How Malthusian..
....the crudest, most barbarous theory that ever existed, a system of despair which struck down all those beautiful phrases about love thy neighbour and world citizenship.....
It is almost as if the planet has had enough of us. "Curse this human race for sapping me of my natural resources, and for multiplying in their billions. Well I've had enough! Hubble bubble, toil and trouble"
quote:Originally posted by Mathematics:
It is almost as if the planet has had enough of us. "Curse this human race for sapping me of my natural resources, and for multiplying in their billions. Well I've had enough! Hubble bubble, toil and trouble"
We are quite a demanding specie 
The link isn't loading for me...can anyone give me a synopsis please?
A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China. The outbreak prompted authorities to seal off an entire town where about a dozen people are infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said.
The man who died on Sunday was identified only as 37-year-old Danzin from Ziketan, the stricken town in Qinghai province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Danzin was a neighbour of the first person who died, a 32-year-old herdsman whose name was not given. Another 10 people, mostly relatives of the first deceased man, are infected and undergoing isolated treatment in hospital, Xinhua said.
The town of 10,000 people has been placed under quarantine and a team of experts is being sent to the area, it said.
The local health bureau warned that anyone with a cough or fever who has visited the town since mid-July should seek treatment at a hospital.
Pneumonic plague is spread through the air and can be passed from person to person through coughing, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is caused by the same bacteria that occurs in bubonic plague - the Black Death that killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
While bubonic plague - which is usually transmitted by flea bite - can be treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early, pneumonic plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. According to the WHO, humans can die within 24 hours of infection.
The man who died on Sunday was identified only as 37-year-old Danzin from Ziketan, the stricken town in Qinghai province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Danzin was a neighbour of the first person who died, a 32-year-old herdsman whose name was not given. Another 10 people, mostly relatives of the first deceased man, are infected and undergoing isolated treatment in hospital, Xinhua said.
The town of 10,000 people has been placed under quarantine and a team of experts is being sent to the area, it said.
The local health bureau warned that anyone with a cough or fever who has visited the town since mid-July should seek treatment at a hospital.
Pneumonic plague is spread through the air and can be passed from person to person through coughing, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is caused by the same bacteria that occurs in bubonic plague - the Black Death that killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
While bubonic plague - which is usually transmitted by flea bite - can be treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early, pneumonic plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. According to the WHO, humans can die within 24 hours of infection.
quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:quote:Originally posted by tupps:
How Malthusian..
....the crudest, most barbarous theory that ever existed, a system of despair which struck down all those beautiful phrases about love thy neighbour and world citizenship.....
And yet an intellectual pre-cursor to the idea of natural selection.
Thank you PCE 
that bloody china-always causing trouble
scary stuff 
Wasn't there a film with Dustin Hoffman about a plague and the Merkins carpet-bombed the place with napalm to keep it contained?
quote:Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Wasn't there a film with Dustin Hoffman about a plague and the Merkins carpet-bombed the place with napalm to keep it contained?
outbreak-i think