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Woman from NH being treated for anthrax
Union Leader ^ | December 27, 2009 | Gary Rayno

Posted on 12/27/2009 6:15:43 PM PST by Past Your Eyes

A Strafford County woman with gastrointestinal anthrax is in critical condition in an out-of-state hospital. State health officials say the infection may have been caused by naturally occurring spores carried in African instruments used at a monthly drum circle at United Campus Ministry at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

The woman is the state's first confirmed case of anthrax infection in more than 50 years. The last cases occurred in 1957, when nine employees of Arms Textile Mill in Manchester were infected.

(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: africa; anthrax; drum
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Remind me to stay away from those drumming groups.
1 posted on 12/27/2009 6:15:47 PM PST by Past Your Eyes
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Bump


2 posted on 12/27/2009 6:17:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Past Your Eyes

Drum circle hippies. The worst kind of hippie.


3 posted on 12/27/2009 6:18:25 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Wow, I knew drum circles were stupid but I didn’t realize they were also dangerous.


4 posted on 12/27/2009 6:18:48 PM PST by ponygirl ("Actum est de republica." -"It is all over with the republic.")
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To: cripplecreek

Paging Eric Cartman...


5 posted on 12/27/2009 6:19:42 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Only a few days ago I watched an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode about a near epidemic of anthrax caused by a bongo drum a musician brought in from Mexico. Sometimes life is really eerie.


6 posted on 12/27/2009 6:22:00 PM PST by VR-21
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To: cripplecreek

Hehheh. I kinda figured they were harmless but now I have other thoughts.


7 posted on 12/27/2009 6:22:01 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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If they get in your walls or under your floors, arson is the only way to get rid of them.


8 posted on 12/27/2009 6:23:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Drum circle hippies. The worst kind of hippie.

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The most HILARIOUS thing is that they think they are GOOD!!!! LMAO!


9 posted on 12/27/2009 6:23:19 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: ponygirl

It’s no coincidence that this happened in Durham, home of UNH. There used to be a group in Plymouth (nearer me), home of Plymouth State U. but I don’t know if there still is or not. Might be something you’d find at the UCC church there.


10 posted on 12/27/2009 6:24:59 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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If they get in your walls or under your floors, arson is the only way to get rid of them.

Dam Hippies

11 posted on 12/27/2009 6:26:44 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Past Your Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDOhbE39U78&feature=related


12 posted on 12/27/2009 6:26:57 PM PST by tumblindice (The town I was born in was so small we all had to take turns being the town drunk)
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Mama?
13 posted on 12/27/2009 6:27:01 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: ponygirl

It’s happened before.

Second anthrax death in Scotland

Health authorities in Scotland have confirmed that a second heroin user, who tested positive for anthrax, has died.

The man was being treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Last week, another man with the infection died in the city’s Victoria Infirmary. A woman who also tested positive is being treated at the hospital.

A fourth case of anthrax has been confirmed in Lanarkshire. The patient, who is a drug-injecting heroin user, is being treated at Monklands District General Hospital.

Anthrax is a deadly bacterial infection which occurs mostly in animals in Asia and Africa. Humans are seldom infected and it is extremely rare for anthrax to be spread from person to person.

Health specialists across the country have been reviewing recent cases of injecting drug users who have infections but no new cases have been identified.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1223/breaking71.htm


14 posted on 12/27/2009 6:28:40 PM PST by sleddogs
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Sorry, can’t do youtube on dialup.


15 posted on 12/27/2009 6:31:59 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

16 posted on 12/27/2009 6:32:37 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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Remind me to stay away from those drumming groups.

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I don’t need the fear of anthrax to keep me away from these clowns.


17 posted on 12/27/2009 6:34:00 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: The Comedian

Thanks, mate. One of my favourite episodes.


18 posted on 12/27/2009 6:34:24 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Im new here what is dial up?


19 posted on 12/27/2009 6:36:45 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Past Your Eyes

Here comes round three of bullshit panic. Let’s just all live our lives and not freak and we will be ok. Geesh........I can’t live my life in this paranoia.


20 posted on 12/27/2009 6:54:03 PM PST by goseminoles
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