Users Online Now:
1,317
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
224,236
Pageviews Today:
287,554
Threads Today:
59
Posts Today:
957
02:24 AM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
Black Death / Bubonic Plague outbreak in Madagascar - 20 dead
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:Anonymous Coward 17747660:MV8yNDMyNDYyXzQxNzg1Mjc0XzM3QzFDNUI4] [quote:Page Ala Cearl:MV8yNDMyNDYyXzQxNzg1MDM1XzI3MkVFNDQ0] Yea bad back then doom but now there is Gentamycin and Streptomycin - antibiotics [/quote] Didn't we have some theory that a comet would come every 333 years and there'd be a plague? Just thought it was a funny coincidence [/quote]
Original Message
"A village in Madagascar has been hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, medical experts on the island have confirmed.
Test were carried out after at least 20 people in the village, near the north-western town of Mandritsara, were reported to have died last week.
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned in October that Madagascar was at risk of a plague epidemic.
The disease is transmitted to humans via fleas, usually from rats.
Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare."
[
link to www.bbc.co.uk
]
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>