1 posted on
09/15/2005 8:32:24 AM PDT by
Puppage
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To: Grannyx4
Well isn't that just peachy...
2 posted on
09/15/2005 8:33:07 AM PDT by
LongElegantLegs
(Fines for excess bleeding.)
To: Puppage
The rodents may have been eaten by other laboratory animals...This one has my vote.
3 posted on
09/15/2005 8:34:05 AM PDT by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: Puppage
So are they worried about the mice getting sick from roaming free in new jersey?
4 posted on
09/15/2005 8:34:27 AM PDT by
flashbunny
(Why do I have to defend the free market on a web site called free republic???)
To: Puppage
Just damn!
Anthrax attack, part 2?
5 posted on
09/15/2005 8:34:52 AM PDT by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Puppage
I heard it this morning on the radio, as I was driving in the direction of Newark.
Typical of NJ
7 posted on
09/15/2005 8:35:18 AM PDT by
Jersey Republican Biker Chick
(People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
To: Puppage
Maybe one of those animal-liberation-wacko groups broke in and stole the mice. It would be kinda funny if they all got bitten.
9 posted on
09/15/2005 8:36:10 AM PDT by
varyouga
(Reformed Kerry voter (I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
To: Puppage
"While health experts say the risk to the public is slim to none, the incident highlights ongoing security failures at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey."
I'd like to hear the explanation for this "slim to none" risk assessment. It seems to me that someone who steals mice that have bubonic plague might be perfectly capable of keeping the plague organisms alive after the mice have died. Nor, when I conduct my personal risk assessment, am I optimistic about these hypothetical people's motives. My solution: terminate bioterrorism research in New Jersey.
11 posted on
09/15/2005 8:38:23 AM PDT by
strategofr
(What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
To: Puppage
Infection/transportation
Bubonic plague is primarily a disease of rodents, particularly marmots (in which the most virulent strains of plague are primarily found), but also black rats, prairie dogs, chipmunks, squirrels and other similar large rodents. Human infection most often occurs when a person is bitten by a rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis) that has fed on an infected rodent. The bacillus multiplies in the stomach of the flea, blocking it. When the flea next bites a mammal, blood consumed by the flea is regurgitated along with the bacillus into the bloodstream of the bitten animal. Any serious outbreak of plague is started by other disease outbreaks in the rodent population. During these outbreaks, infected fleas that have lost their normal hosts seek other sources of blood.
In 1894, bacteriologists Alexandre Yersin and Shibasaburo Kitasato independently isolated the responsible bacterium and Yersin further determined that rodents were the likely common mode of transmission. The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Symptoms and treatment
The disease becomes evident 27 days after infection. Initial symptoms are chills, fever, headaches, and the formation of buboes. The buboes are formed by the infection of the lymph nodes, which swell and become prominent. If unchecked, the bacteria infects the bloodstream (septicemic plague), which can progress to the lungs (pneumonic plague).
In septicemic plague there is bleeding into the skin and other organs, which creates black patches on the skin, hence the name Black Death. Untreated septicemic plague is universally fatal, but early treatment with antibiotics (usually streptomycin or gentamicin) is effective, reducing the mortality rate to around 15% (USA 1980s). People who die from this form of plague often die on the same day symptoms first appear.
With pneumonic plague infecting lungs comes the possibility of person-to-person transmission through respiratory droplets. The incubation period for pneumonic plague is usually between two and four days, but can be as little as a few hours. The initial symptoms of headache, weakness, and coughing with hemoptysis are indistinguishable from other respiratory illnesses. Without diagnosis and treatment, the infection can be fatal in one to six days; mortality in untreated cases may be as high as 95%. The disease can be effectively treated with antibiotics.
12 posted on
09/15/2005 8:38:31 AM PDT by
COBOL2Java
(Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
To: Puppage
So they might have died in the wilds of NJ, but how many other critters did they infect before they died? It's probably George Bush and his gang that caused the mice to break free.
To: Puppage
14 posted on
09/15/2005 8:43:15 AM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!)
To: Puppage
Rove!?
This is just too funny! Wasn't there some vials of deadly illness that got mailed out by accident or something a couple months ago? I thought that was hysterical too!
Time to open up the veterinary catalog and order more meds.
15 posted on
09/15/2005 8:44:36 AM PDT by
Mrs. Shawnlaw
(Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks. NRA)
To: Puppage
To: Puppage
Someone should check Richard Gere's butthole.
Not me!
20 posted on
09/15/2005 8:46:56 AM PDT by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: Calpernia
To: Puppage
You just cant keep a demon-rat down...
22 posted on
09/15/2005 8:47:31 AM PDT by
aspiring.hillbilly
(!...The Confederate States of America rises again...!)
To: Puppage
24 posted on
09/15/2005 8:48:15 AM PDT by
Bogie
To: Puppage
While health experts say the risk to the public is slim to none... Wasn't it the mice that spread the thing in the first place back in the bad old days?
Damned Pan-Dimensional beings. Always up to something.
27 posted on
09/15/2005 8:49:25 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!")
To: Puppage
28 posted on
09/15/2005 8:49:34 AM PDT by
txhurl
To: Puppage
If the mice got outside the lab, New Jersey Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said they would have already died from the disease. Uh, Oh. These mice may be more than just outside the lab trying to get by on their own. Someone could have them, in fact, could be breeding and infecting other rodents.
They could release them any and everywhere. This thought of mine does not require a tin foil hat to be believed..I think.
Is there a (preventative) vaccine for bubonic plague?
To: Puppage
33 posted on
09/15/2005 8:54:10 AM PDT by
cyborg
(I finally got a job today. Thank you God. Thank you Our Lady of Lourdes' prayer petition.)
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