Posted on 06/29/2013 7:27:20 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A scary virus is sweeping Saudi Arabia. Six million religious pilgrims are about to descend on the country from across the world. The result could be disastrous.
When the Black Death exploded in Arabia in the 14th century, killing an estimated third of the population, it spread across the Islamic world via infected religious pilgrims. Today, the Middle East is threatened with a new plague, one eponymously if not ominously named the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV, or MERS for short). This novel coronavirus was discovered in Jordan in March 2012, and as of June 26, there have been 77 laboratory-confirmed infections, 62 of which have been in Saudi Arabia; 34 of these Saudi patients have died.
Although the numbers -- so far -- are small, the disease is raising anxiety throughout the region. But officials in Saudi Arabia are particularly concerned.
This fall, millions of devout Muslims will descend upon Mecca, Medina, and Saudi Arabia's holy sites in one of the largest annual migrations in human history. In 2012, approximately 6 million pilgrims came through Saudi Arabia to perform the rituals associated with umrah, and this number is predicted to rise in 2013. Umrah literally means "to visit a populated place," and it's the very proximity that has health officials so worried. In Mecca alone, millions of pilgrims will fulfill the religious obligation of circling the Kaaba. And having a large group of people together in a single, fairly confined space threatens to turn the holiest site in Islam into a massive petri dish.
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Not if we don't let those guys back in!!!!
Let them pilgrims stay at their holy site forever.
I thought this article would have been about the spread of violent Islam.
Ask me if I give a s&%t.
It is, all the radicals go to Mecca and kiss the blarney stone. So this virus infestation would be rather targeted, even within Islam.
Wonders who’s making the MERS-CoV ?.
There’s at least one flight a day (a jumbo...747/777/A380) from Dubai (and Jeddah) to JFK.And let’s not forget the flights that go Dubai/Jeddah->Heathrow->JFK.Of course when it hits here..”women and minorities hit hardest”.
“Not really, Coming to an Arab near you too! “
Did you mean a Mini-Mart?
Not really. Each year, thousands of Saudi “college students” arrive in the U.S., and never go home.
“The Middle East Plague” = Islam.
I'd much rather have a plague do the job than let the globalist death-mongers do it.
The good thing about a plague is they have no control over it and are as likely to get wiped out as anyone else.
Don’t forget though, the American muslims will be bringing it back with them.
Really? When they bring it back here after their little trip to Mecca?
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Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Those who get it, stay home sick, and get better without ever seeing a doctor are not on the radar.
Remember when a muzzie “cleric” said “oh blessed Kitrina”?
Problem is this situation can blow back on us big time and, unlike AIDS, we can’t avoid it by not engaging in certain behavior.
Well losing half the muzzie population would not bring me to tears but I’m sure they will manage to spread it to everyone else. Britain is really going to be in for it as will all of those European countries that are infested with Muslims.
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