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TUBERCULOSIS CULTURES STOLEN - SPAIN (BARCELONA)
International Society for Infectious Diseases ^ | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:38:00 -0400 (EDT)

Posted on 10/14/2004 1:36:34 PM PDT by Calpernia

On 6 Oct 2004 at the railway station of Sants de Barcelona, a blue paper bag was stolen from the owner of a clinical laboratory. It contained 5 glass tubes, 15cm long x 2cm wide, with black stoppers, containing cultures of _Mycobacterium tuberculosis_.

They were wrapped in absorbent paper inside an opaque white plastic container with a black double cap. This was wrapped in brown parcel paper, with a letter describing the contents, which are highly contagious.

The finder is asked to contact urgently the Cuerpo Nacional de Policia, tel. 091, the local police, tel. 092, and the Servicio de Emergencias de la Generalitat, tel. 112.

-- ProMED-mail promed@promedmail.org

[Perhaps bioterrorists should be the least of our concerns about letting dangerous microbes loose. We have seen how SARS got out of secure labs on more than one occasion by infecting researchers -- see ref. below -- and now we see how carelessly transported disease agents can be stolen, and probably thrown away in the trash as worthless, to possibly infect trash collectors and through them the community. - Mod.JW]

[see also: SARS - worldwide (28): laboratory investigation 20040506.1243] ..............................jw/pg/lm

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barcelona; bioterrorism; disease; spain; stolen; theft; tuberculosis

1 posted on 10/14/2004 1:36:36 PM PDT by Calpernia
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Thanks for the email forward!


2 posted on 10/14/2004 1:37:10 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

What were they doing at a railway station? Shouldn't they have been in a SECURE location?


3 posted on 10/14/2004 1:38:07 PM PDT by twigs
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To: Calpernia

I'm glad the threat of terrorism is exaggerated and is merely a nuisance.

If the threat were real, this might be of concern.


4 posted on 10/14/2004 1:38:23 PM PDT by Samwise (It must be scary to be trapped in John Kerry's mind. No wonder he's nuts.)
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To: Samwise

*Hack* *Cough*

*Choke*


5 posted on 10/14/2004 1:56:40 PM PDT by thag (I'm a Man of Means by No Means.....)
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To: Calpernia

Reminds me of my favorite sign at Wilford Hall Medical Center: the "Induced Sputum Lab". Yeccchh.


6 posted on 10/14/2004 2:19:09 PM PDT by jagusafr (A ribbon here, a medal there - pretty soon you start to look like a hero...)
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To: Calpernia

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.


7 posted on 10/14/2004 2:44:09 PM PDT by Ben Chad
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To: Calpernia

Tuberculosis takes about 9 months to treat. It is quite nasty.


8 posted on 10/14/2004 2:45:51 PM PDT by Feiny (Great minds think alike & fools seldom differ)
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To: feinswinesuksass
Tuberculosis takes about 9 months to treat. It is quite nasty.

Yes, but it's hardly the stuff of bioterror. Most people's bodies will isolate and contain most of it without pharmaceutical treatment. Additional treatment (daily doses of iforgetthename) pretty much neutralizes the threat.

If the Islamofascists were interested in eliminating our elderly and immuno-deficient populations, TB might be the way to go, but I doubt that's the case. You are more likely to be exposed on a city bus or crowded public market.

To be sure, I don't wish to minimize the horrible effects of TB on vulnerable people, or the very real risks associated with treatment for exposure (liver damage is possible).

9 posted on 10/14/2004 3:16:06 PM PDT by Mr. Bird (Ain't the beer cold!)
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To: Calpernia; Alabama MOM
Add the lost TB Culture story to the fact that they have
recreated the 1918 Spanish Flu.

Promed and responsible Doctors have asked that it have the
highest class of security placed on it and it does not have it.

Think of the crazies out there that think the world is over populated and those cursed scientists who would release it,
so the effects could be studied.

Yes, we live in dangerous times.
10 posted on 10/14/2004 6:33:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (On this day your Prayers are needed!!!!!!!)
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To: Mr. Bird
There are also different levels of Islamo fascists they all aren't necessarily connected to well organized financed or trained cells...

Its the Imams who pump these young guys up...and even their loose associations such as groups on campus...can be enough to coalesce them into a group that will plan and pull off an independent Islam motivated terror attack...highly skilled amateurs can make a strike as deadly as professionals especially in nations who are lax in security or afraid to offend Muslims...

Its the Koran and the imams who are responsible for the core fuel of islamo fascism...

And those who enable it by being weak and fearful and accommodating as the Spanish have been as John Kerry will be if ever elected..

imo
11 posted on 10/14/2004 6:39:39 PM PDT by joesnuffy (America needs a 'Big Dog' on her porch not a easily frightened, whining, Surrender Poodle...)
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To: jagusafr

You've been to "Big Willie" too, huh? =)


12 posted on 10/23/2004 8:50:04 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Calpernia

Wonderful!!!

Spain is now a Commie run Country. I wouldn't be surprised if they aided the terrorists.


13 posted on 10/23/2004 8:51:42 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: Calpernia; Velveeta; MamaDearest; DAVEY CROCKETT; WestCoastGal

October 2004 thread.

Is this connected to the outbreak of TB in America?


14 posted on 06/27/2005 12:49:22 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (Wake up call: It is time to fight the "Enemy Within".)
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To: nw_arizona_granny
Thread timewarp alert.

Interesting question, though, granny.

15 posted on 06/27/2005 12:52:33 PM PDT by Semper911 (Real estate is not real anymore.)
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