Pox-Like Outbreak Reported

Washinton Post ^ | 6/8/03 | Rob Stein

[Pro-Bush]

At least 19 people in three Midwestern states have contracted a disease related to smallpox, marking the first outbreak of the life-threatening illness in the United States, federal heath officials said yesterday.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concerned that the illness could spread, issued a nationwide alert to doctors and public health officials to be on the lookout for more cases.

"We have an outbreak," said James Hughes, director of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases in Atlanta. "I'd like to keep it relatively small. I don't want any more cases. We're doing everything we can to try to contain this."

[stlnative]

Single shipment blamed Officials think the source is a shipment of 25 to 30 of the animals that a South Milwaukee distributor obtained from another distributor in Villa Park, Ill., who got them from Texas. The Illinois distributor's shipment also included a Gambian rat that was sick at the time it was in contact with the prairie dogs.

I bet this is the Villa Park, IL dealer...
Phil & Shari Moberley - Phil's Pocket Pets - Villa Park, IL

[stlnative]

Ol' Phil sure gets around the internet selling exotic pets...

ExoticHobbyist.com

[Free Trapper]

The armadillos are past the Southern part of your state.

About four years ago,I saw a roadkill near the 170 milestick on I44,give or take five miles.I noticed the nearest milestick at the time because my wife was sleeping and it was the farthest North I had ever seen one.

[Orlando]

> I have also run across some tinfoil <

lol, I ask about the NASA connection, ie : Columbia becuase
I was reading about and asking questions on Godlikeproductions forum site, topic: "Pox-like out break in 3 midwestern states". It's a site where the left hang out, and the anti-NWO people,mystery seekers,ufo,etc..soho
The language, writing not censored, so put on your tinfoil
and check out , what the left is saying about this monkeypox outbreak, who knows ? you might enjoy it ?



http://66.242.35.139/bbs/message.php?page=4&topic=3&message=53107&mpage=1

[Milwaukee_Guy]

"Also, does anyone know which two pet stores in Milwaukee I should be staying away from?"

One I know of is Hoffer TropicLife Pets located at the NW corner of Good Hope Road and 76th Street in far NW Milwaukee.

The store was never shut down and thousands of people have entered it since the outbreak was first reported on May 16th.

Remember Milwaukee is the town where 400,000 people were sickened by crytosporidiam (sp?) and over 100 immune deficient people died at that time. For two weeks prior, the Milwaukee Water Works was receiving calls complaining of cloudy/sediment ladem water and nothing was done. The very same officials still have their jobs and are presiding over the monkeypox outbreak.

I don't drink the tap water here and I won't go in a pet store here again.

[TaxRelief]

We have a little, domestically-bred African pygmy hedgehog. We wouldn't give her up for the world. Didn't today's dogs and cats descend from wild cats and dogs in Africa?

[pttttt]

While much about monkeypox virus is unclear, it is not believed to be as deadly as smallpox. Monkeypox is believed to have a mortality rate of between 1 percent and 10 percent, compared with a mortality rate of about 30 percent for smallpox.

I guess this is suppose to be good news?

Makes it more like SARS, so it's bad enough. If you were born too late to be vaccinated and want to be, NIH is having clinical trials. See NIH Seeks Subjects For Smallpox Vaccine Trials.

[stlnative]

The subject here is not a domestically-bred Gambian Rat, if it was it would not be carrying monkeypox or infecting other domestically-bred pets. Someone felt a need to take this Rat out Africa and bring it here, why?

I also feel that people need to leave all wild species of animals alone and stop trying to domesticate them. People need to stop breeding these animals that were meant to be wild and if they did then the novelty of having new exotic animal breds to domesticate would end. Hedgehogs, Prairie Dogs, Gambian Rats, and so forth should have never been made into domestic pets to begin with. No animal should be forced to become domesticated because someone thinks it cool to have a pet other than a typical pet as in a cat or dog. Only in the last 25 years or so have these types of exotic animals been domesticated and sold in pet shops. Hedgehogs came pets when the Sonic Hedgehog video game came out. The fad of owning a hedgehog has probably worn out and now people are buying Prairie Dogs. You cannot release these domestically-bred animals back into the wild, but people can stop breeding them and buying them to end the cycle of these animals being kept as pets.

[TaxRelief]

But I will breed hedgehogs and offer them as pets. They are the perfect pet and the risk of a domestically bred hedgehog is minute.

[stlnative]

I think you missed my point - it not the domesticated exotic pets - it's the people who cannot settle on just any domesticated exotic pet that is already out there, it the people who think they have to pull something new out of the wild and domesticate it. As long as people are willing to buy exotic pets, then we will be seeing more and more new and different exotic pets. It is an ugly cycle and people need to stop keeping these new "fad" animals as pets.

[Orlando]

It's starting to get more press coverage around the world,except for CNN,MsNBC, and FOX. It's important to get the word out to the general public, so people can be informed.

On google.com, there are 433 news story now,(News section) under the word "Monkeypox".
Freerepublic & Godlikeproductions forums sites were on top of this on Satursday night. The right & left working together. cool :)

[Terridan]

Send the dealer to Guantanamo... we don't need no stinkin' monkey pox!!!

[Pro-Bush]

Asking how are you implies there is a dreaded disease going around...do you have it yet!

Very interesting. Your reply is appreciated. I can't imagine what you went through.

[Cindy]

Camel Pox, Monkey Pox, Small Pox...

LINKS OF INTEREST:

CDC.gov: "MONKEYPOX"

CDC.gov - Press Release: "PUBLIC HEALTH INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS FIRST OUTBREAK OF HUMAN MONKEYPOX INFECTION IN WESTERN HEMISPHERE" (June 7, 2003)

UPI.com: "MONKEYPOX COULD BE USED AS BIOWEAPON" (060902)

YAHOO! News - FULL COVERAGE: "SMALLPOX"

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: "SMALLPOX"

JAMA: "SMALLPOX"

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus: "MEDLINEplus: SMALLPOX"

CDC.gov - CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL - PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE: "INTERIM SMALLPOX RESPONSE PLAN AND GUIDELINES"

CDC.gov: "UPDATE ON SARS AND SMALLPOX VACCINE PROGRAM" (March 27, 2003)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com - OpEd - Editorial: "SMALLPOX STANDOFF" (February 26, 2003)

CDC.gov: "CDC TELEBRIEFING TRANSCRIPT: SMALL POX VACCINE ADVERSE EVENTS MONITORING AND RESPONSE SYSTEM"

IRAQ REPORT: "CZECH MILITARY REPORTS SAY IRAQ HAS SMALLPOX VIRUS IN WEAPONS STOCKPILE." (REPORT SNIPPET: "High-ranking Czech officers cited by dpa on 15 January said President Hussein "very likely" possesses a dangerous strain of the smallpox virus as part of his biological-weapons stockpile. Military health-service chief Jan Petras said Iraq has a strain called Aralsk 1970, originally developed in the former Soviet Union. Petras also said it is "almost certain" that Iraq's stockpile includes a weapon-modified form of an animal disease called camelpox. He also said former Soviet biological scientists might currently be working in Iraq.") (Michael Shafir)

ABC NEWS.go.com: "SMALLPOX IN IRAQ? CIA Investigates Allegations that Soviet Scientist Transferred Virus to Iraq" (120302)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Opinion Editorial: "OUT OF THE VIAL" (OPINION EDITORIAL SNIPPET: "Two recent revelations argue that they also appear to be acting appropriately. The first was a CIA intelligence assessment, which adduced that four nations - Russia, North Korea, Iraq and France - almost certainly possess secret stocks of the smallpox virus. A second, unrelated disclosure revealed that Osama bin Laden dedicated money and personnel resources to procuring stocks of numerous biological and chemical agents, including smallpox.") (111402)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a DAWN.com article: "SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC RAPIDLY SPREADING IN SWABI" (060902)

ARABIA.com (AFP): "SADDAM URGES IRAQI SCIENTISTS TO THWART BAGHDAD'S 'ENEMIES'" (052702)

ISLAM-ONLINE.com: "THE IRAQI BIOWEAPON: THE CAMEL" by Hwaa Irfan (052302)

[backhoe]

I'll use those links, thanks... and I have started adding "reports of strange diseases" here:

-SARS ( atypical pneumonia )- a partial archive --

[Tauzero]

West Nile, Chinese tree-killing beetles, SARS, monkeypox. Globalization is the spice of life.

[Cindy]

Thanks Backhoe.

I'll add your new archive to a web page I have going noting these various diseases cropping up here (in America).

[KneelBeforeZod]

a guy on coast to coast am said that newsmax.com had a story a year ago about monkey pox being a possible terrorist weapon. couldn't find the article on their website.

[Cindy]

re post no. 138:

NewsMax Wires (UPI): "MONKEYPOX LATEST BIOWEAPON LOOKOUT" (June 10, 2002)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/9/163420.shtml

[Orlando]

The latist numbers is 37, and climbing. They say now rabbits can pass on the virus. This is a bio-attack on us, i just feel it.
vet out.