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2010-07-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Mysterious plague outbreak among Syrian army

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Plague? Where are they getting the fleas on rats to spread the disease?

Posted by gromky 2010-07-08 00:45|| 2010-07-08 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Fleas on the goat courtesans?

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-08 01:35|| 2010-07-08 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 reeks of "industrial accident".

Posted by Woozle Thraque9030 2010-07-08 01:38|| 2010-07-08 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 We let the BIOWAR BOYZ play too much wid the TARGET/RADAR CONTROLS again, didn't we???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-08 02:16|| 2010-07-08 02:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Children should not play with matches.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-07-08 02:50|| 2010-07-08 02:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Could be a bioagent release.

OTOH during droughts when cattle etc. are dying fleas look for other hosts, and rodents may move closer to human areas bringing the plague with them.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-08 05:28|| 2010-07-08 05:28|| Front Page Top

#7 If this were Israel's fault, they'd all be suffering from hemorrhoids.
1 Samuel 5:6

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-07-08 06:04|| 2010-07-08 06:04|| Front Page Top

#8 It wasn't from Debka, so it must be true...

Posted by logi_cal 2010-07-08 07:40|| 2010-07-08 07:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Plague? Where are they getting the fleas on rats to spread the disease?

While Syria does have a clandestine chem/bio warfare capability, this could be innocent. In the US, bubonic plague is endemic to the dessert areas. During a drought it doesn't take much imagination to think animals migrate to the remaining water - and humans camping out in the dessert are an especially attractive source of liquids.

Posted by ed 2010-07-08 08:45|| 2010-07-08 08:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Watch out for the cheesecake!

Posted by 2sealys 2010-07-08 09:31|| 2010-07-08 09:31|| Front Page Top

#11 The US averages about 9 cases of plague every year, almost exclusively from rodent flea bites.

In Syria, the drought has likely stressed the rodent population, who leave their usual area in search of food, around humans. Then, when the rodents die, their fleas leave their bodies and go hunting for mammals to bite.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-08 09:38|| 2010-07-08 09:38|| Front Page Top

#12 A taste of things to come?

"With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur." (God - Ezekiel 38:22)

Posted by Mullah Lodabullah 2010-07-08 11:04|| 2010-07-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

#13 I understand the FBI has named Bruce Ivins a 'person of interest.'

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-08 12:43|| 2010-07-08 12:43|| Front Page Top

#14 I agree with the already mentioned causes of Plague spikes, but why does this outbreak sound to be contained within the Syrian military community? It could be that either they are handling bio-warfare munitions / systems, or it is a pre-cursor attack on the Syrian military. Who and why are speculation.

Or, more innocently, is the Syrian military involved in agricultural duties - is it harvesting season over there?

Posted by Rob06 2010-07-08 13:19|| 2010-07-08 13:19|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm sticking with fleas on the goat courtesans.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-08 14:39|| 2010-07-08 14:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe some of Hussein's shipped WMD's are leaking in the Syrian warehouses.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-08 14:51|| 2010-07-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

#17 Doesn't say much for their military's hygiene or medical corps.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-07-08 17:03|| 2010-07-08 17:03|| Front Page Top

#18 Obviously the work of zionist spy squirrels.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-07-08 18:02|| 2010-07-08 18:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Originate in the deep part of the Bekaa range, where all those concrete tunnel entrances are?

Posted by OldSpook 2010-07-08 21:56|| 2010-07-08 21:56|| Front Page Top

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