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Algeria airliner missing on Sahara route from Burkina Faso
BBC ^ | 24 July 2014 | Staff

Posted on 07/24/2014 3:12:38 AM PDT by csvset

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To: ZinGirl
From the CIA's World Factbook:

Major infectious diseases:

degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: dengue fever, malaria, and yellow fever
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis
animal contact disease: rabies

note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2013)

Honey, cancel the vacation to Burkina Faso!

21 posted on 07/24/2014 4:27:01 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

Good heavens - definitely cancel that vacay. I’ve just been reading a bit about it...and, no thank you for any free trips to this place.


22 posted on 07/24/2014 4:31:15 AM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: csvset

For the record, Burkina Faso has a French owned cigarette factory that uses filter material from Tennessee


23 posted on 07/24/2014 4:31:20 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Little Pig
I’m supposed to take an international flight in about 2 weeks. Between the two Malaysia Air losses, that Taiwan crash, and now this...

I flew Emirates to Hong Kong (via Dubai) just after the Malaysian Airlines disappearance.I must admit that I was sweating bullets mainly because it was an Arab airline connecting through an Arab city.But I survived.

24 posted on 07/24/2014 4:36:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: 9YearLurker

Oh yeah....pretty much due East of the Yucatan Peninsula.


25 posted on 07/24/2014 4:37:40 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: bert

Just out of curiosity, what material are cigarette filters made from anyways?


26 posted on 07/24/2014 4:38:40 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

Cigarette filters are made from any one of very many specific varieties of cigarette filter tow that is a continuous ribbon of extremely fine cellulose acetate fibers ie 35,000 total denier. The tow is bundled into a wrapped pencil shaped strip then cut into the length required.


27 posted on 07/24/2014 4:45:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: csvset

Nobody has blamed Putin yet?


28 posted on 07/24/2014 4:47:30 AM PDT by McGruff (You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink)
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To: csvset

asbestos

just kidding


29 posted on 07/24/2014 4:49:02 AM PDT by SisterK (the great tribulation begins)
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To: csvset
hope this plane does not show up at Border Patrol in El Paso
30 posted on 07/24/2014 4:51:50 AM PDT by SisterK (the great tribulation begins)
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To: 9YearLurker

It was called Upper Volta until the 80s.


31 posted on 07/24/2014 4:54:11 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: FewsOrange

Either I missed the renaming or I’d forgotten it.


32 posted on 07/24/2014 5:06:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: csvset

Who else are the Russkies supplying BUK’s to?


33 posted on 07/24/2014 5:06:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 9YearLurker
I’m embarrassed to type that I didn’t know there was a country named Burkina Faso.

You and me, both.

34 posted on 07/24/2014 5:18:24 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: McGruff
Nobody has blamed Putin yet?

No,Vlad's unlikely to have been involved in this one.Nor is W likely to have been involved.But Vlad's 100% responsible for those 300 people last week regardless of what he...or anyone at FR...might claim.

35 posted on 07/24/2014 5:21:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: 9YearLurker
I’m embarrassed to type that I didn’t know there was a country named Burkina Faso.

A woman I went out with years ago had a joke she'd play on me...if I displeased her in any way she'd smile and threaten to send me packing to Ouagadougou.Swear to God it's true!

36 posted on 07/24/2014 5:24:48 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Wow! That’s pretty evil. Hubby flies out of there. I live in Las Vegas and there’s a reason for that. He refuses to move me there. He must really love me.


37 posted on 07/24/2014 5:29:56 AM PDT by pops88 (Geek chick standing with Breitbart for truth)
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Wow! That’s pretty evil. Hubby flies out of there. I live in Las Vegas and there’s a reason for that. He refuses to move me there. He must really love me.

No,it's probably because he still hasn't learned how to spell it! ;-)

38 posted on 07/24/2014 6:30:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Gay State Conservative

LOL. I know, really, and the poor guy spells about as well as a third grader to begin with. Heck of a pilot though.


39 posted on 07/24/2014 6:34:20 AM PDT by pops88 (Geek chick standing with Breitbart for truth)
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LOL. I know, really, and the poor guy spells about as well as a third grader to begin with. Heck of a pilot though.

Ooops...I should have been more clear.My joke was in connection to how difficult it is to spell Ouagadougou.But knowing now how poor a speller he is I do hope he can spell "north"..."south"...."cleared to land",etc! ;-)

40 posted on 07/24/2014 6:46:00 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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