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Epidemic in North Korea spreads despite quarantine efforts: sources (Scarlet fever)
Yonhap News (South Korea) ^ | November 15, 2006

Posted on 11/14/2006 10:59:50 PM PST by HAL9000

SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Yonhap) -- Scarlet fever has been spreading fast in North Korea for nearly a month and is showing signs of becoming a full-blown pandemic despite efforts by North Korean authorities to contain the disease, a source close to the North said Wednesday.

The disease first broke out in the communist state's northern Yanggang Province last month, but is quickly spreading to other parts of the country, the source told Yonhap News Agency on condition of anonymity.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epidemic; korea; northkorea; pandemic; quarantine; scarletfever
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1 posted on 11/14/2006 10:59:54 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Wikipedia - Scarlet fever
2 posted on 11/14/2006 11:01:01 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

Oops.


3 posted on 11/14/2006 11:01:18 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

Uh-hmm. Easily treated with modern antibiotics. Now that it is a pandemic in DPRK, their medical system (if there is any, by any means of the word) was probably overrun in the first week.

God, another several thousand graves for the sake of common good.


4 posted on 11/14/2006 11:04:50 PM PST by farlander (Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
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To: HAL9000
north korean medical technology obviously isn't any better than their military technology. and I am sure the former suffers from the financial burden of the of the latter.
5 posted on 11/14/2006 11:04:52 PM PST by smonk
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To: HAL9000

Another fault of Bush and America?


6 posted on 11/14/2006 11:05:25 PM PST by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: farlander

I was thinking they might be working on a more virulent strain.


7 posted on 11/14/2006 11:06:11 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: HAL9000

And children will be the hardest hit... seriously.

God, the emotional and physical agony there must be massive. I can't imagine being a parent in that hell-hole, seeing my children starving and suffering horribly under a brutal regime and be helpless to stop it...


8 posted on 11/14/2006 11:07:54 PM PST by Tamzee (Thomas Jefferson - "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.")
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To: HAL9000

Forgive me for being suspicious...but this sure would be an easy way for the Pocket Commie (or is it Combie) to get rid of those pesty people who want to eat and not get blamed, but get "sympathy" instead....

I smell a rat....


9 posted on 11/14/2006 11:09:35 PM PST by eeevil conservative (Religious Zealot from the Right Wing Church of Hate...............)
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To: HAL9000

Frankly, I don't give a damn!


10 posted on 11/14/2006 11:10:29 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Karl Rove isn't magnificent.)
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To: kinoxi
"I was thinking they might be working on a more virulent strain."

Probably, if the story'e true.

11 posted on 11/14/2006 11:10:48 PM PST by spunkets
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To: kinoxi

Strep is handled best by the cephalosporins (first cousins to the penicillins). It is one of the few major bugs that has not become resistant to the penicillin family. Some strains of strep produce scarlet fever (these strains come around in the US every 50 years or so) and we're overdue for it here.


12 posted on 11/14/2006 11:11:27 PM PST by Pharmboy (Tagline on vacation)
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To: HAL9000

Tragically, in North Korea many of the living envy the dead.


13 posted on 11/14/2006 11:19:11 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: HAL9000

Nothing more that step throat with a strain that cause a rash. I see it all the time. Cheap Penicillin works like a charm.


14 posted on 11/14/2006 11:20:50 PM PST by therut
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There were a couple of scarlet fever cases here in my vicinity in recent years (northern burb of Chicago). We got a notice about it sent home to parents of the students in the school. And yes, it was strep gone bad.


15 posted on 11/14/2006 11:31:10 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: therut
And you can buy the Penicillin at the pet store. In nations with educated masses like the USA, the population can't buy antibiotics; has to support a doctor to get them. Course, if you live in Mexico, then you can buy all you want. But at least here, we can get them at the pet store.
16 posted on 11/14/2006 11:36:24 PM PST by raftguide
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To: HAL9000

God bless these poor people - Scarlet Fever is beastly. New antibiotic-resistant strains have developed, and the effects are brutal.

It caused misery, debility, and death in centuries past. May God help those it strikes...


17 posted on 11/15/2006 12:00:13 AM PST by dandelion
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Nasty, coupled with general malnutrition of the populace.

The mad munchkin will survive and claim some glorious victory/achievement to compensate....
(anyone who coughs in his presence will be shot for treason, no doubt)
18 posted on 11/15/2006 2:29:26 AM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: raftguide

Where is "here"?


19 posted on 11/15/2006 2:48:49 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: HAL9000

Please send Clinton and Albright.


20 posted on 11/15/2006 3:00:53 AM PST by Misschuck
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