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BREAKING: FLIGHT BEING HELD IN SEA-TAC FOR POSSIBE SMALLPOX!
Fox News
Posted on 12/07/2001 1:46:46 PM PST by Patriot
Developing......
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: smallpoxlist
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To: Endeavor
God bless those people on the plane now.
To: AAABEST
Pretty soon the terrorists won't have to use jets and bombs. They'll just have to make prank phone calls to disrupt our society. Give that man a ceegar!!
This is the soft underbelly of America in the present emergency. The person who took the call dared not to relay it up the chain, and CYA is the operative principle.
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:08:39 PM PST
by
don-o
To: Mia T
incubation period
63
posted on
12/07/2001 2:08:59 PM PST
by
Mia T
To: Ridin' Shotgun
And if it turns out to be the real deal, people will be begging Ashcroft to trash whatever rights we might still have (maybe even if it doesn't). Which should make any reasonable person question the origins of this "anonymous" tip. Especially after the crap they have rammed through already(that was ten years in the making).
To: Penny1
The plane, EVA Flight 32 to Newark, New Jersey
Always comes back to New Jersey.
To: Patriot
In the contagious stage of small pox the infected individual is feeling terrible with extremely high fever and the pox marks could be evident. Although a vaccinated individual could spread it via aerosol. Not trying to spread fear just knowledge
To: Defiant
"You RACIST!That is racial stereotyping. I'll have none of that here!" sarcasm big time
To: SAMWolf
lol
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To: Ridin' Shotgun
>incubation period for small pox is anywhere from 7 to 17 days.
The time window where you are communicable, mobile and without identifiable pustuals is anywhere from 12-48 hours out of the 17 days. Prior to the on-set of the pox, you are racked with debilitating pain making it impossible for you to function well enough to make a flight.
The time when you start having breath can kill without your being detectable or flat on your back is unpredictable as to both when it starts in that 17 day window and what its length is.
To: AAABEST
They'll just have to make prank phone calls to disrupt our society... Hmmmm...high school students have been doing that for decades...
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:12:28 PM PST
by
HiJinx
To: Patriot
I would think that sneaking someone into the country with an actual case of smallpox would be much more effective. Since it is so easily spread, it would be difficult to trace the source of contamination.
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:13:10 PM PST
by
Lois
To: Poohbah
People with the disease develop blisterlike lesions on their bodies. These turn into pustules - they are not hard to miss. Of course, prior to the blister-like lesions, you are infected and no one would know until the blisters form, making detection "by eyeballing it" difficult.
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:13:55 PM PST
by
Endeavor
To: Patriot
allow me to play dumb guy and ask: if there are only 2 smallpox deals left, ours and russia's under lock and key, where might other small pox come from? synthetic smallpox made in a basement?
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:14:02 PM PST
by
isom35
To: HiJinx
Somebody needs to phone in a smallpox cure!
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:15:31 PM PST
by
babygene
To: isom35
How about the way Russia was looted at the fall?
To: isom35
Well, there's two THAT WE KNOW OF. Smallpox outbreaks were fairly common; someone in the Third World may have been cultivating "leftovers" from one of the last epidemics.
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posted on
12/07/2001 2:15:32 PM PST
by
Poohbah
To: AAABEST
They HAVE to with this kind of threat. If this turns out to be real, this is a deadly disease! It would be irresponsible if they didn't take this seriously! I would be furious if they didn't.
To: isom35
There's a lot of speculation about former USSR bio guys that went looking for "work" after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That could be one source of proliferation... money talks.
To: HiJinx
Always comes back to New Jersey. Let's just quarrantine New Jersey. (no offense to Jersey Freepers, I live in CA. not much better)
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