You called for blankets?
Posted on 02/08/2016 3:35:32 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Swine flu to KILL OFF ISIS: Panicked Daesh issues urgent health warning after dozens die
ISLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis have issued an urgent health warning as the killer swine flu epidemic threatens to wipe out fighters across Syria and Iraq.
By Oli Smith
PUBLISHED: 04:58, Sun, Feb 7, 2016 | UPDATED: 13:37, Sun, Feb 7, 2016
Panicking ISIS could be crippled by the deadly virus after residents living under the ISIS reign - also known as Daesh - reported a "mysterious epidemic" sweeping through the region.
A human rights monitor group based in ISIS-ruled territories revealed the outbreak had infected "dozens of civilians in the countryside of Raqqa", where the terror group has set up its headquarters.
The reported death toll, which rose to "around 20 people" this week, has put the panicked terrorists on edge and prompted a desperate health shut down.
According to watchdog Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RIBSS), the epidemic had triggered "panic among civilians" and taken the lives of at least two children so far.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
hee hee... SWINE flu
How poetic.
To be a little realistic about this whole thing (which most times I am not) they have had a large influx of people from outside the region (US, EU,) come in to get their just reward for ISIS.
The pig virus could have been bought in from outside from these people.
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Saudi Arabia has been the epicenter of a deadly middle east respiratory virus linked to camels- perhaps....?
Look out if/when this starts hitting the refugee camps
STOP blaming Russia, they have their own people in this war, as well as hundreds of thousands of Syrian Arab Army and Iranians, and they are NOT deliberately targeting civilians en masse
RDS (Russia Derangement Syndrome - if Syrian islamists get diseased Putin must have done it)
If it is man made then the “moderate” FSA rebels who gassed thousands of Syrian civilians, or islamists linked to al Qaeda or ISIS, are more likely candidates for having opened Pandora’s box. Biowarfare is more to their strategic advantage (western intervention) than to Russia’s
dozens of al Qaeda fighters died several years ago in an Algerian terrorist training camp as a result of a failed biowarfare program, possibly plague
Thanks to Obama’s open borders and non-existent immigration policy, watch the spread of this to Europe first and eventually the US.
If we had a non-muzzie president we would put out world that the CIA is planted the virus and intends to wipe out the entire islamist population.
Then quarantine the affected areas and prepare to exterminate any who try to flee.
It is called MERS(Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.) It can be transmitted in close proximity(coughing, etc.)
Then the lefties in the government, will give them weapons and explosives, with which to arrack us in our homes.
I don’t think Russia ever gave up its weaponized ex chemical warfare program.
When do we start flying them in for medical treatment?
You called for blankets?
Swine Flu?
I agree with you, it may very well be a weaponized variant that got loose. Recall the H1N1 outbreak here had never been previously detected in pigs or birds. I don’t seem to recall if they ever did figure out where the variant came from? They did start vaccinating our military personnel at the time for it though.
and so, I am awaiting the first reports from the refugees in the EU....
Obama will run to their rescue!
New York, Feb 7 (IANS) Patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) often show signs of acute kidney failure but lungs are the main target organs of the new disease in humans, reveals a study of the first reported autopsy of a MERS patient.
The MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first isolated from the sputum of a patient who died of respiratory and renal failure in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
Since 2012, at least 1,500 individuals have developed Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), resulting in more than 500 fatalities.
Only now are results being reported of the first autopsy of a MERS patient, which was performed in 2014, the study said.
Not only do these findings published in the American Journal of Pathology provide unprecedented, clinically-relevant insights about how MERS progresses, they challenge previously accepted ideas about MERS and the relevance of current animal models.
The 45-year-old male patient analysed by autopsy was one of a large patient cluster treated at a hospital in the United Arab Emirates in April 2014.
The autopsy, performed 10 days after his death, showed that the lungs were the main target organs of MERS, with diffuse damage to the air sacs (alveoli) observed.
Using immunohistochemistry, the researchers identified anti-MERS-CoV antibodies in specific cells in the lungs (pneumocytes and epithelial syncytial cells) and bronchial submucosal glands.
“Infection of bronchial submucosal glands is a likely source of viral shedding in respiratory secretions leading to human-to-human transmission,” explained lead investigator Sherif Zaki from US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
Patients with MERS often show signs of acute kidney failure, and MERS-CoV has been found in the urine of MERS patients.
In this case, although certain signs of pathology were seen in this patient’s kidneys, immunohistochemistry showed no evidence of MERS-CoV.
Such new insights suggest that MERS researchers and clinicians treating MERS patients should focus their infectious control strategies on the lungs.
Similarly, no sign of MERS-CoV infection was found in the brain.
In many ways findings from this autopsy differ from observations made using animal models.
“Although these experimental studies were able to suggest the target cells of the virus and histopathology of MERS, only some of the features of the animal models conform to the observations in the human autopsy,” Walker noted.
Killed by pigs!
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