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| WHO: Plague Outbreak in Congo Kills 42 |
| 2006-10-14 |
| But at least their penises didn't fall off. (AP)— Pneumonic plague is suspected to have broken out in two areas in Congo, causing a reported 42 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday. WHO said it had received reports of 626 cases, mostly in the town of Wamba in northern Oriental province. The reports, which covered July 31 to Oct. 8, were investigated by a team from Congo's provincial health authority, WHO and Doctors Without Borders. The U.N. health body said final laboratory confirmation of the presence of pneumonic plague was pending, but preliminary results from a rapid diagnosis test in the field found three out of eight samples positive. Pneumonic plague is spread mainly by fleas, and causes an infection in the lungs that slowly suffocates its victims. If diagnosed in time, it can be treated with antibiotics. Yeah, but the antibiotics are made by Jooos. |
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| #1 Mortality of pneumonic plague is close to 100% even if treatment is given quickly, and I mean quickly. The lung infection kills rather quickly (where did this "slowly" come from?) Pneumonic plague can be spread from person to person, at distances up to 6 feet. Mortality rate, rapid course of disease, and person to person spread make it one of the most dangerous infectious diseases. Other less severe types of infection are bubonic plague (mortality about 16% with treatment and 40-70% without treatment)and septicemic plague (30-50% mortality with treatment, 100% without. Causative agent is bacillus Yersinia pestis |
| Posted by: Snuns Thromp1484 2006-10-14 05:59 |