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Meningitis/unknown disease kills 1,000 in south Sudan outbreak last week
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| 01/21/2007
Posted on 01/21/2007 4:45:29 PM PST by DrGunsforHands
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Wow, this is terrible! Hope this is the end of it. Worried that this may be Avian Flu. For 1000 people to die from a disease in just one week is huge! Why no reporting of this? It's being carried by Reuters, so it's not like it isn't out there for people to pick up.
To: DrGunsforHands
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:48:12 PM PST
by
pollywog
(Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,)
To: DrGunsforHands
Dirt poor people in the midst of war and famine, who drink out of the same water they defacate in, are dying of disease. News at 11.
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:48:14 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: DrGunsforHands
To: DrGunsforHands
meetingitis is a terrible disease.
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:50:24 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: DrGunsforHands
In that case the compassionate thing to do would be to rush in 50 thousand US troops to do...um...good works! After all if Jesus were the CIC, HE'D do it! (sarcasm off)
To: DrGunsforHands
It's apparently the word of one man -- the governor. Wait and see if it really is an "unknown disease."
The fact that it's being reported by Reuters means nothing until it's verified by some objective source.
To: DrGunsforHands
He appealed for medical experts to come to diagnose the disease and help stop the spread of the outbreak. Clooney has a thing for Darfur. He also played a doc on TV. I nominate him.
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:54:23 PM PST
by
edpc
(The pen is mightier than the sword......until you fight someone.)
To: DrGunsforHands
Perhaps someone gassed these people.
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:55:07 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
To: DrGunsforHands; Judith Anne; Mother Abigail
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:55:21 PM PST
by
null and void
(Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
To: DrGunsforHands
Dang!!! That's 143 people (average) a day and no-one knows what it is?
Lots of coffins.
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:56:28 PM PST
by
blam
To: edpc
Actually, this is in south Sudan where the civil war has ended, not Darfur where a war is continuing at present.
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posted on
01/21/2007 4:58:21 PM PST
by
Eric_WA
To: Eric_WA
I'm aware of that. Darfur and this area are both in Sudan. My suggestion still stands.
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posted on
01/21/2007 5:07:08 PM PST
by
edpc
(The pen is mightier than the sword......until you fight someone.)
To: DrGunsforHands
Africa's "meningitis belt" stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia
I had no idea that such a place existed. It's got to be pretty bad under 'normal' circumstances to be called that.
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posted on
01/21/2007 5:20:25 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: DrGunsforHands
There is a saying in Africa that "Africans die from diseases that people in other countries survive."
People on that continent are so stressed physiologically from low nutrition, war, lack of access to safe water, no medical care, refugee status, and loss of family members to all of the above that they succumb quickly to whatever disease afflicts them.
This is a spike in what is otherwise a typical week in Africa.
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posted on
01/21/2007 5:24:40 PM PST
by
happygrl
To: DrGunsforHands
This number is greater than the lives lost by acute lead intoxication in Darfur.
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posted on
01/21/2007 5:25:13 PM PST
by
sono
(There are only two exit strategies - One is victory, the other defeat - Joe Lieberman)
To: DrGunsforHands
My God, haven't those people suffered enough. First Darfur now this. Where are all those celebrities when there's a real human disaster that could use their influence, such as it is.
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posted on
01/21/2007 5:56:16 PM PST
by
deputytess
(Men of the West .....stand and FIGHT!)
It may seem cynical, but I think myself more of a realist. The illness will almost certainly be blamed on witchcraft and/or America and the cure will involve slaying infidels and/or child molestation. Sometimes I'm not sure why we bother trying to help such people.
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posted on
01/21/2007 6:10:11 PM PST
by
KarinG1
(Opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not necessarily represent those of sane people.)
To: DrGunsforHands
DDT might have controlled/prevented deseases in these countrys. They should thank Rachel Carlson and the enviros who banned its' use.
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posted on
01/21/2007 6:38:51 PM PST
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
To: GSlob
meetingitis is a terrible disease.It killed my brother.
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posted on
01/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PST
by
processing please hold
(ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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