Oh Dear! Why a "Black Death" article NOW??
Last Updated: Saturday, 22 May, 2004, 23:12 GMT 00:12 UK
Black Death 'is lying in wait'
Plague affects around 1,000 people each year
The Black Death, which killed 23m people in the middle ages, could be lying dormant and could strike again, say researchers.
Their claim is based on the theory that the pandemic was triggered not by bubonic plague but by another virus.
The theory is outlined in a new book by Professor Christopher Duncan and Dr Susan Scott of Liverpool University.
"We believe this virus is merely lying in wait, ready to strike again," said Professor Duncan.
The Black Death is thought to have caused the deaths of up to 200m people worldwide over the past 1,500 years.
The body of evidence suggests that it was bubonic plague
Dr Michael Smith
In the 14th century alone, around 23m people are thought to have died after the disease ravaged much of Asia and Europe.
Globally the disease still affects between 1,000 to 3,000 people a year. However, if caught early it can be cured with antibiotics....(snip....more at link)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3735943.stm
>>>>Black Death 'is lying in wait'
NM_AZ_Granny sent me a notifier from ProMed about Russia Warning of Plague:
"On April 23, 2004, Moscow News reported a warning to their citizens to prepare for an outbreak of plague. The International Society for Infectious Diseases is actively seeking more information."
And this I found from: http://helicop.chat.ru
Translated from a Russian website:
Completion of program the "genome of man" - the triumph of large-scalest and potentially dangerous for humanity program of the "dual purpose" on the creation of biological weapon, including its most inventive variety - so-called. the "genetic weapon", which selectively acts on the carriers of genes, specific for the specific racial or ethnic groups.
Parallel studies of the genome of man in THE USA and Great Britain (states of one military and political bloc, which half a century ago carried out another weapons mega-program - atomic project) they only emphasize the presence in NATO alliance countries of excess potential in the field of molecular genetics, directly applicable for the creation biological weapon of new generation.
The biological weapon of the first generation - agents and toxins of "traditional" acute epidemic diseases with the short incubative period - plague, cholera, anthrax - was tested on the people in the course of World War II the group of the Japanese war criminal of Colonel isii, who is later, similar to Werner von Brown, Gelenu, etc., together with the colleagues and by archive it passed at the disposal of Americans. The Japanese "tests" of biological weapon in China cost life, as a minimum, to millions of people.
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The following biological bomb of the second generation - multistable to the majority of antibiotics tuberculosis, whose epidemic began in the Russian prisons, and soon will begin in the Moscow and St. Petersburg metro, where will arrive consumptive zeki after amnesty.
The completion of program the "genome of man" will make it possible to switch over to the biological weapon of the third generation, which has selective action on one or several "ethnic" genes (or antibodies), and to create "magic tablet" for the protection of biological aggressor.
If we draw analogy with the nuclear program, then the interpretation of genome is compared with obtaining of enriched uranium or launching the reactor: this yet not completely bomb, but the already far from refined science.
Covering their bums mayhaps?