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.
Oops.
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.
Another fault of Bush and America?
I was thinking they might be working on a more virulent strain.
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...
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....
Frankly, I don't give a damn!
Probably, if the story'e true.
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.
Tragically, in North Korea many of the living envy the dead.
Nothing more that step throat with a strain that cause a rash. I see it all the time. Cheap Penicillin works like a charm.
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.
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...
Where is "here"?
Please send Clinton and Albright.
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