Posted on 10/15/2015 4:54:02 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
It's nearly 50 years since the US landed men on the moon, but Americans are still dying from a disease that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. Why hasn't the US eradicated the plague?
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I thought they were talking about leftists.
Never mind. :-)
The approach to eliminating the plague is to find the means to destroy the organism in the animal population using organisms hostile to the disease and safe for humans and the animals.
yes, there is a Hollywood creature feature and mad scientist movie in that approach to eliminating the disease.
Perhaps they have been looking at the whole thing wrong.
The Japanese have been in the forefront of developing treatments based on the body’s immune system.
Basically though we are still using Chemo and Radiation for treatments when we should be at another level.
As I said it’s all Big Business.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6433a6.htm?s_cid=mm6433a6_w
It's easily treatable with antibiotics if caught in time.
If we eradicated it there would be protests from leftist tards complaining that we were violating its right to exist, just like when we eradicated Smallpox. For all intents and purposes it was very rare in the US until the horde of invaders from south of the border increased its incidence in the US.
So many dots over my favorite vacation areas! Even one over the place I was born.
I think you missed the point of my comment - Some reporter in Britain is asking why WE haven’t done something - since when are we responsible for solving the worlds problems?
I have a co-worker/two that said their kids had hoof-mouth disease recently. I was like “Where the F* do you pick up HMD??”, then I remembered the POOR, poor ‘immigrants’ from S. of the border that weren’t turned back/etc.....
But, since nobody seems to care about a ‘little’ HMD, what’s a bit of plague going to do? Whip up the Citizenry to make their capital/D.C. do the right thing? Ha!
My daughters got hand foot and mouth disease (not hoof, that’s an animal disease which can be carried in smuggled meat and hides).
Anyway, it’s an ordinary viral illness of childhood, rarely severe, no vaccine, not attributable to bad habits or poor hygiene, or immigrants.
Sure there are diseases that come with uncontrolled immigration. Chagas, TB, tropical fevers, polio-like D68, etc. Hoof-mouth and anthrax in smuggled bushmeat, yum. HFM disease isn’t one of them.
It's the existence of this "animal reservoir" that makes the plague hard, if not impossible, to eradicate, experts say..."Unless we exterminate rodents, [the plague] is always going to be around," Epstein argues...
There was only one plague reservoir before the 19th century, in Central Asia - that's where the plague that devastated Athens (maybe), Constantinople (maybe), and Europe (almost certainly) originated from. Same sort of thing as it is in the U.S., small rodents. Now that it was imported and got out into the prairie dog population, there are two world reservoirs. It's a little lesson in real world epidemiology and it's hooked in pretty well.
You can vaccinate a portion of that population because a portion is all you'll ever get, and hope that over time the susceptible will die out and the immune will shrink the reservoir to nothing. That's likely to take a fair number of generations. Or you can eradicate the entire population of the host. That turns out to be a little harder than it sounds, as the Australians found out with respect to rabbits.
That's why we haven't eradicated it. Try to imagine the outcry if we were to attempt to wipe the prairie dogs out. We hold up major construction projects for insects, for heaven's sake.
How interesting. I had not heard of “hand, foot, and mouth disease.” What sort of symptoms does it have?
Blisters around the mouth, in the mouth, soreness, reddened hands in my daughters’ cases. Feet not involved. Moderate fever, cranky.
Their brothers didn’t come down with it, nor did the whole preschool. I’m guessing most children fight it off without very visible symptoms.
Because you can’t. Are you going to kill every single rodent in the country? Good luck with that.
There won’t be a new outbreak, this is pure fear mongering at it’s most offensive and disgusting.
Thank you. Who knows when this might be useful information.
“There won’t be a new outbreak,....”
So, you think that you can wave your magic wand and halt the natural processes of genetic mutation which produced the pla which made the previous deadly pneumonic plagues possible.
“this is pure fear mongering at it’s most offensive and disgusting.”
What’s “disgusting” is the monumental and deliberate ignorance that disregards the obvious dangers of a potential pandemic that tends to recur with each deadly mutation of the pathogen.
“No, of course not. No one suggested so. What you can do is to work towards eliminating the disease in those source populations by making them unsuitable hosts for the disease.
Diseases tend to mutate towards LESS lethal not more. They need to host to survive, killing the host is an evolutionary negative.
The only monumental and deliberate ignorance here is people thinking Black Plague is going to come roaring back. It won’t. It was a minor disease that thrived on Europe’s terrible sanitary conditions and man’s complete lack of understanding of viruses and treatment. In the modern world with modern medicine and sanitation it’s a very difficult disease to get and a very easy disease to treat.
Which is as much unobtanium as wiping out all the rodents. You cannot get rid of the Black Plague, your very article points out that it is impossible.
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