Smallpox

[Prep Girl]

Smallpox claims 300 lives in Karachi

Search for smallpox contacts
LONDON: A worldwide search was under way yesterday for some 70 smallpox contacts who flew across the world on Christmas Day in the same aircraft as a smallpox victim. The victim, 24-year-old Ismat Khan of Pakistan, had flown from Karachi to London. His plane had a stopover in Rome, and he changed planes in Paris.




http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/31/smallpox-...rachi.html

[mikebratcher69]

Does the madness never end? Incompetant sob's

[grumpy old man]

smallpox is really bad to be flying around could be the pandemic to start the ball rolling travels fast among people ?

[Prep Girl]

Really bad! and as far as I know there's no cure.

[NorthernRaider]

(6 January 2012, 20:23)Prep Girl Wrote: Really bad! and as far as I know there's no cure.

Treatment: Medical treatment for smallpox eases its symptoms. This includes replacing fluid lost from fever and skin breakdown. Antibiotics may be needed for secondary skin infections. The infected personiskept in isolation for 17 days or until the scabs fall off.

Experiments testing new antiviral medications are in progress, but it will be some time before they produce results. Vaccinations and postexposure interventions are the mainstays of treatment.

[Tortoise]

the picture at the top says 50 years ago

[NorthernRaider]

I respectfully suggest to you folks you may want to look closer to home than Karachi, I recently read Londonistan was one of the worst places on earth to pick up untreatable TB, apparently yet another of the benefits of multi culturalism is that many hundreds of immigrants from Asia minor are carriers or infected with a strain of TB that originated up Chechnia way and its does not respond to any of the normal treatments. The only option is a cocktail of drugs that have to be taken for over a year, problem is some of the migrants are dropping off the radar whilst still infected. As a chap from KCL commented only an absolute fool would use public transport in London.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2539707.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11688632

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...itain.html

http://www.wnd.com/2007/06/42238/

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IIRC Terry from LSG is a Medical whizz, so when he drops in he can enlighten us.

[grumpy old man]

never use public transport it's c**p
i live in the middle of nowhere and people don't do much traveling in the country ?
tractors to slow take too long to get there lol

[Prep Girl]

(6 January 2012, 20:41)Tortoise Wrote: the picture at the top says 50 years ago

It does say that not sure but found it here the other day and I check this every day.
http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

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(6 January 2012, 21:19)NorthernRaider Wrote: I respectfully suggest to you folks you may want to look closer to home than Karachi, I recently read Londonistan was one of the worst places on earth to pick up untreatable TB, apparently yet another of the benefits of multi culturalism is that many hundreds of immigrants from Asia minor are carriers or infected with a strain of TB that originated up Chechnia way and its does not respond to any of the normal treatments. The only option is a cocktail of drugs that have to be taken for over a year, problem is some of the migrants are dropping off the radar whilst still infected. As a chap from KCL commented only an absolute fool would use public transport in London.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2539707.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11688632

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...itain.html

http://www.wnd.com/2007/06/42238/

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IIRC Terry from LSG is a Medical whizz, so when he drops in he can enlighten us.

Your right NR a friend who's a nurse told me about it 10 years ago, mainly Islington for some reason.

[bigpaul]

well, if the terrorists bomb the Olympics maybe that will solve the problem for us? very few people around here use public transport, most people in rural areas own a car, you have to, the buses arent reliable and usually DONT go where you want to go, using public transport is a city thing.