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To: muawiyah
The epidemiologists are probably jumping on top of this one since the implication is there is now a very resilient flea that can make it from Afghanistan to North Africa, and then spread the infection to local fleas.

I know that airplane food is pretty bad, but even so I'd expect that your average flea could probably survive a flight, even if there was a stopover or two along the way.

101 posted on 01/19/2009 8:40:20 AM PST by Ancesthntr (An ex-citizen of the Frederation dedicated to stopping the Obamination from becoming President)
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To: Ancesthntr

“The epidemiologists are probably jumping on top of this one since the implication is there is now a very resilient flea that can make it from Afghanistan to North Africa, and then spread the infection to local fleas.”

There’s the reason we need to stop importing those creatures. And I don’t mean the fleas, either.


103 posted on 01/19/2009 8:43:41 AM PST by ScottinVA (All I needed to know about islam I learned on 9-11.)
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To: Ancesthntr; muawiyah; LucyT
...the implication is there is now a very resistant flea that can make it from Afghanistan to North Africa, and then spread the infection to local fleas.

The much more likely explanation is that some al-Quada operative picked up the disease fron a flea bite in Afghanistan, and it eventually went to his lungs. That "martyr" traveled to meet his buddies in North Africa, where he spread the disease around by coughing in close quarters with those comrades. So many in the North African cell got the plague that way. In other words, far more likely that "human" (note the quotation marks) travel spread it between continents than flea travel.

150 posted on 01/19/2009 2:33:42 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Ancesthntr

It’s the insecticides that stop them.


159 posted on 01/19/2009 3:23:38 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Ancesthntr

Being retired from the medical field9 post mil) I’m sure this “plague has something to do withing the family of “cranialrectitis.” If we do not supply more left hands, toilet paper and have,(laves las manos)them quit eating the cr*p their books and Imam’s feed them there WILL be a cure. Ah, but they’re a stubborn lot.


164 posted on 01/19/2009 4:38:27 PM PST by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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To: Ancesthntr

Being retired from the medical field9 post mil) I’m sure this “plague has something to do withing the family of “cranialrectitis.” If we do not supply more left hands, toilet paper and have,(laves las manos)them quit eating the cr*p their books and Imam’s feed them there WILL be a cure. Ah, but they’re a stubborn lot.


165 posted on 01/19/2009 4:38:41 PM PST by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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