Chinese Town Sealed Off After Pneumonic Plague Outbreak

Carlow52

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090803/twl-chinese-town-sealed-off-after-plague-3fd0ae9.html

According to the World Health Organisation, pneumonic plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases and can kill within 24 hours of infection.

Forget about H1N1, this will be far more serious.

Teferi

This should be moved to the Zombie Survival forum.

ejmaztec

I thought it was something to do with a mass out-break of tyre stealing.

McGrath5

Time to start stocking up on the Lemsip, max strength I think.

god damnit. a new type of hiv and this in the space of a few days.

Rented Mule

I bet Keanu Reeves is ****ting bricks about now.

Run_to_da_hills

The Vaccine will kill you in 12 hours. :eek:

MagicMarker

It's cureable so long as you get fast treatment (within 24hrs), so I don't think it will be a huge issue tbh.

ejmaztec

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The Vaccine will kill you in 12 hours. :eek:

Strange how the world is in recession with a lot of unemployment, and the odd lethal disease or two pops out of the woodwork.:eek:

Daith

World War Z!

davyjose

Boss: But you were out with Pneumonic plague last week!
Me: That was Swine flu.
Boss: Well what about the week before?
Me: Super-Aids. :cool:

Overheal

Its about time something thinned out the chinese.

/well someone had to say it. Frankly inevitable when you think about it in terms of nature and overpopulation.

Overheal

Overheal wrote: »

Its about time something thinned out the chinese.

/well someone had to say it. Frankly inevitable when you think about it in terms of nature and overpopulation.

i thought setting up take aways around the world was their way of thinning the population?

Schism

ejmaztec wrote: »

Strange how the world is in recession with a lot of unemployment, and the odd lethal disease or two pops out of the woodwork.:eek:

A bit cynical there, but fair enough it's an ill wind and all that.

Biggins

Deleted User wrote: »

god damnit. a new type of hiv and this in the space of a few days.

LOL ...and don't forget that asteroid heading for us! That's if we survive 2012 and the arrival of the mysterious dark planet "X".

We're doomed I tell ya... doomed!

Wagon

Deleted User wrote: »

i thought setting up take aways around the world was their way of thinning the population?

No. i know someone who eats take aways all the time and they're fat as fúck.

wudangclan

large sections of the population have been reported going around repeating
''richard of york gained battles in vain'' in the latest outbreak of the mnemonic
plague.

Biggins

wudangclan wrote: »

large sections of the population have been reported going around repeating
''richard of york gained battles in vain'' in the latest outbreak of the mnemonic
plague.

Seeing rainbows too? Now thats weird! :pac:

Diabhal Beag

Remember when we used to moan about petrol prices? Now we get craic out of the end of humanity. Its all that Shell-to-Sea crowd's fault

Biggins

Biggins wrote: »

LOL ...and don't forget that asteroid heading for us! That's if we survive 2012 and the arrival of the mysterious dark planet "X".

We're doomed I tell ya... doomed!

it is rather fitting that the world is descending into crap just for 2012.. at least give a few believers something to fret about

PirateShampoo

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

My name is URL

I wish it'd hurry up

it's the waiting I can't stand

Corkfeen

Can't help thinking of the stand when I saw this. Towns being quarantined etc..

emeraldstar

How'd they seal it off? I'm imagining a giant glass dome a la The Simpsons Movie. Now that'd be something to see.

Biggins

Corkfeen wrote: »

Can't help thinking of the stand when I saw this. Towns being quarantined etc..

Maybe they are re-enacting the film "Outbreak" (Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman).

Jumpy

The handy thing about diseases that kill that fast is that they are bloody hard to spread. Its the ones that dont show up for weeks but still kill you are the ones you have to worry about.
I dont know why people think the fast ones are the worst ones.

cherryghost

Jumpy wrote: »

The handy thing about diseases that kill that fast is that they are bloody hard to spread. Its the ones that dont show up for weeks but still kill you are the ones you have to worry about.
I dont know why people think the fast ones are the worst ones.

Considering the fact that it is 'Highly Contagious', I'm led to believe this can indeed spread fast easily.

ejmaztec

Biggins wrote: »

Maybe they are re-enacting the film "Outbreak" (Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman).

It would be badly dubbed and called Outbleak 2.

Jumpy

cherryghost wrote: »

Considering the fact that it is 'Highly Contagious', I'm led to believe this can indeed spread fast easily.

Yes but it kills too fast to go worldwide. All they have to do is seal off an area. If this killed you in 7 days for instance then they would be very hard pressed to stop it as they would be unable to contain it.

Mushy

Jumpy wrote: »

Yes but it kills too fast to go worldwide. All they have to do is seal off an area. If this killed you in 7 days for instance then they would be very hard pressed to stop it as they would be unable to contain it.

During the Black Death, one of the forms was pneumonic(amongst two others). That spread far and fast!

Jesus Juice

So anyone here read World War Z?

China was where the outbreak took place,and was then covered up:eek:
CONSPIRACY:pac:

Riamfada

Mushy wrote: »

During the Black Death, one of the forms was pneumonic(amongst two others). That spread far and fast!

Mother nature keeps trying to level the playing field and we keep kicking her ass! Take that Bitch!

My name is URL

Swine Flu is probably just a Red Herring and a way of preemptively preparing for a plague.

"Without treatment, the mortality rate from pneumonic plague approaches 100%"

oh man

joseph brand

I heard there has also been an outbreak of Kung Flu.

Chow Meiny more outbreaks are the Chinese gonna give us?

ScumLord

Daith wrote: »

World War Z!

Jesus Juice wrote: »

So anyone here read World War Z?

China was where the outbreak took place,and was then covered up:eek:
CONSPIRACY:pac:

Yes it's playing out just as we suspected. I'v already started boarding up windows and turning my furniture into weapons.

Overheal

davyjose wrote: »

Boss: But you were out with Pneumonic plague last week!
Me: That was Swine flu.
Boss: Well what about the week before?
Me: Super-Aids. :cool:

Stupid but true.

Rented Mule

Grimes wrote: »

Mother nature keeps trying to level the playing field and we keep kicking her ass! Take that Bitch!

I can't wait until the kids are back in school and Mother Nature decides to start playing for real.

The_B_Man

Mushy wrote: »

During the Black Death, one of the forms was pneumonic(amongst two others). That spread far and fast!

was the pneumonic or bubonic? pneumatic maybe?

Mrmoe

You goddamn Mongolians pneumonic plague stay away from my ****ty.

Corkfeen

I bet chinas gonna keep everything quite for the next few days. No one can do a media blackout like the chinese.

stovelid

Ring a Ring o' Rosie is finally topical once more.

Time for a dance and ringtone version

TPD

Suprisingly haven't seen this on the news on TV. Only watched headlines, but I'd have thought it would be there.

Prof.Badass

Don't you need to get fleas to get plague?

indough

no

Wertz

That's bubonic...pneumonic is air borne...which begs the question; where did the initial case get infected and how?

indough

i think it crops up in china every now and then, its probably something to do with poor sanitary conditions and overcrowding

My name is URL

Wertz wrote: »

That's bubonic...pneumonic is air borne...which begs the question; where did the initial case get infected and how?

Most likely from eating Marmots

RandolphEsq

Jesus Juice wrote: »

So anyone here read World War Z?

China was where the outbreak took place,and was then covered up:eek:
CONSPIRACY:pac:

My Z Day plan is ready to be brought into action at the drop of a hat. Shotguns, shells, headlights, spare bulbs, barrels of petrol. I've reported a bomb on the HSS so it won't be leaving Dun Laoire port for several days. Can't be too careful. The worst thing to do is to relax

Mr.Pong

Those feckin' commies...

GLaDOS

Everyone to Madagascar

sells

jebus,hopefully it doesnt merge with the swine flu or the bird flu ....or regular flu,.
...the bird flu swine plague. but hopefully it doesnt get serious.