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2005-02-23 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-23 9:07:43 AM|| || Front Page|| [16 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Filthy, filthy people. You only get plague from getting bitten by fleas that live on rats. RATS. Yuk.

Posted by gromky 2005-02-23 3:39:50 PM|| 2005-02-23 3:39:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Pneumonic variety is air-borne, that's why it's so dangerous.

Posted by mojo 2005-02-23 3:47:10 PM|| 2005-02-23 3:47:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 A dollars worth of tetracycline cures almost a 100% of cases. Rather than send teams of experts, airdrop 10K packages of tetra with the dosage and a description of the symptoms.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-23 5:09:55 PM|| 2005-02-23 5:09:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 hell if they are too stupid to be ahlf ass clean how would they dosage theirselves

Posted by Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-02-23 8:15:23 PM|| 2005-02-23 8:15:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone'll probably claim that the medicine was some sort of U.S.-contrived potion to sterilize the natives....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-23 8:53:21 PM|| 2005-02-23 8:53:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 In addition, as we've found out with our ~~bums and winos~~ homeless, they take the medicine until they "feel better," then lose it, sell it, or throw it away. Now you have a strain of bugs highly resistant to antibiotics and that gets passed around.

Posted by jackal 2005-02-23 10:08:34 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-02-23 10:08:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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