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The Black Death Is Back...?!
Not since the Middle Ages has the bubonic plagues taken so many lives in a year. Having wiped out 25 million people in Europe, appearances of the Black Death since have been rare but the Red Cross is reporting a new outbreak has killed more than 20 people on the island of Madagascar. Living standards in the nation have collapsed since 2009 (what else happened in 2009?) and the prevalence of rats has helped spread the disease easily. While China claims to have the bird flu under control (despite some rumors out of Hong Kong), the Red Cross warns there is a risk of a Black Death epidemic.
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.
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Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare.
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The prevalence of rats in Madagascar's prisons means the plague can spread easily.
The Pasteur Institute said there were concerns that the disease could spread to towns and cities where living standards have declined since a coup in 2009 and the ensuing political crisis.
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good. this planet could use a good culling.
we are shocked -- Shocked -- by this news
hugs,
billnmelinda
Maybe we could import a few of the Madagascar rats to come over and do the job our rats won't do.
'do the job our rats won't do' Are you referring to Congress? I think they're doing a good job of killing off the US already...
"No animals were harmed in the production of this Plague"
Least the PETA folks are happy....
Hey, can we get a selfie of the sick and dying?
So...I can't pencil you in for a modest donation of a hundred bucks to the Red Cross in this, charitable, holiday season?
Your kind donation could be the difference in those twenty deaths in Madagascar only being nineteen next year ;-)
(Administrative costs)
I already gave 500 million during the Haiti earthquake which somehow magically disappeared.
Magically disappeared?
"What does it matter now?"
"If we can save just one it will have been worth it!"
"Do it for the children."
All the garbage gets thrown in a pile to compost doesn't it? ;-)
No shit, and it some places it's another tax.
I've seen people run out of Dodge for not contributing enough to United Way or whatever, so the big cheese can look like a player to some old society bag. What a sick joke.
When I was young & dumb, I actually got sucked into the United Way theft ring. Then I discovered only one dime of every dollar got to where it was supposed to go.
A very valuable lesson in charity for one so young ;-)
Not by bullets or bombs but by little creatures we cannot even see.
Sorry, but this is a bullshit story.
Yes, there is a very very real threat of a new superbug epidemic.
Yes, there is a very very real threat of a viral mutation (like bird flu) causing an epidemic.
No, bubonic plague does not pose a contemporary threat.
1) It is *easily* treatable by hundreds of antibiotics from different classes.
2) It is a slow-killer and only in remote areas with zero access to even cheap medicine is it a threat.
3) There is zero evidence of antibiotic resistance representing a threat. Even penicillin is still effective.
Nice try ZH. It's good fear mongering and makes for a good yarn, but Mr. Science seems to be pointing at you and laughing.
no, your ignorant of the situation. Black Plague struck during the Dark Ages killing millions. So what caused the dark ages? You know? You don't know...most people don't. Try cometary bombardment carrying foreign microbes. It is impossible scientifically to spread any disease by rats over that large a geographic area as science claims. Hell, today's mutant MRSA and C Difficile strains cannot be stopped by conventional medicine, let alone the Black Plague. Two thirds of bubonic plague victims die within 4 days and that is not necessarily the Black plague-that is speculation. Things that may help if a widespread Black Plague occurs
Colloidial Silver (ASAP brand preferred), Wild Oregano Oil, Liposomal vitamin C, Liposomal curcummin and Black seed oil to name a few. The rocks are incoming now-research it. Your life may depend. on it.
Way too many smart ass comments from ZH participants while the situation is getting horrendously bad? Live in the USA? Still own a home with a mortgage? Not good...
Wow this:
Try cometary bombardment carrying foreign microbes. It is impossible scientifically to spread any disease by rats over that large a geographic area as science claims.
Sounds kind of nutty actually. I will happily eat my words if you can provide some peer-reviewed refernces on this, I woud love to see the references!
LOL. And you call me ignorant?
First off: " So what caused the dark ages? " ... It was not called "the Dark Ages" specifically because of the plague. The name referred to a period of economic collapse, wars, famine and political instability following the fall of Rome and prior to the Renaissance. Panspermia did not cause the Dark Ages.
Secondly: "your ignorant of the situation" is not a sentence. "Your" (capitalization mine) is a possessive particle.
Thirdly: The black death was spread from India via sailing ships. And spread around Europe by people -- specifically merchants and traders. Only at a local level were rats carriers.
Fourth: Wild oregano oil? Vitamin C? You are a very primitive person. it's an invasive bacteria. It is cured by (and only by) antibiotics. The cure is extremely simple and the reason we don't have plague epidemics in the modern world is due entirely to antibiotics and nothing else. Your home remedies which literally date back to the middle ages can be conclusively proven *not* to work.
What situation is "getting horrendously bad". The plauge?? Just out of curiosity are you currently stoned out of your mind?
Sorry,
The reason we don't have plague epidemics is primarily due to improving SANITATION not antibiotics. Antibiotics only deal with infected people, not prevention. Antibiotics are rapidly becoming worthless. If you have put your trust only in them your are foolish. You have been warned.
Miffed;-)
LOL. And you call me ignorant?
First off: " So what caused the dark ages? " ... It was not called "the Dark Ages" specifically because of the plague. The name referred to a period of economic collapse, wars, famine and political instability in Europe in the wake of the fall of Rome and prior to the Renaissance. Panspermia did not cause the Dark Ages. Panspermia also didn't bring the plauge to Earth -- as the DNA was sequenced in 1998 and it its evolutionary characteristics carefully studied. The plauge has a long history among human kind dating back thousands of years. It was the rise of the sea-borne trade to the far-East which brought the disease West, to a defenseless population which lacked genetic resistance.
Secondly: "your ignorant of the situation" is not a sentence. "Your" (capitalization mine) is a possessive particle.
Thirdly: The black death was spread from India via sailing ships. And spread around Europe by people -- specifically merchants and traders. Only at a local level were rats carriers.
Fourth: Wild oregano oil? Vitamin C? You are a very primitive person. it's an invasive bacteria. It is cured by (and only by) antibiotics. The cure is extremely simple and the reason we don't have plague epidemics in the modern world is due entirely to antibiotics and nothing else. Your home remedies which literally date back to the middle ages can be conclusively proven *not* to work.
What situation is "getting horrendously bad". The plauge?? Just out of curiosity are you currently stoned out of your mind?
Another WANKER!!
WTF is going on with all these whackos showing up here like BLOTTO and the other psycho-babble-bullshit party members??
Too funny.. But these are average sheeple who believe this shit!
And I so hope the "rocks are incoming" and one of them obliterates you into a pink cloud to spare you the indignity of dying
from the Andromeda Strain you mook!
Antibiotic-resistant strains have been isolated in Madagascar. For the bubonic form of plague the mortatity rate with treatment is still 5% to 15%. Untreated it is 40% to 70%, possibly as high as 90%. The plague can go airborne in its pneumonic form, no longer requiring the insect vector or the rodent reservoir, spreading from person to person through respiratory droplets, much the way a cold is spread and the efficacy of antibiotics is limited unless treatment is started within 20 hours of symptom onset. Even with treatment, the mortality rate for the pneumonic form is 50% (due to the limited window of opportunity for effective treatment). Untreated, the mortality rate for the pneumonic form of plague approaches 100%. These figures are easily obtainable on the internet.
My kind of globalization.
When Hygiene matters most.
SG, wondrous insights into Gates
I keep telling people to find his TED speech on YouTube (it's there) of some years ago dealing with population control, vaccines, etc.
And he and some of his PTB buds have even done some so far in Africa.
Criminal...
Nice to not be alone in the recognition... even here there are deniers.
And, lets not forget Inida where his foundation is funding the sterlization of women.
Yep.
Just real time, right in yer face, undeniable hard factual evidence of the agendas of the PTB....
And so many just ignore iot with "Oh, they wouldn't do that!" comments and look at'cha like you're a fucking Conspiracy Theorist, tin foil hatter who they think voted for Ron Paul.
Yep.
Entity's are actively planning population control on many fronts.
Hey knucks, Bill Gates, his holier than thou wife, and Warren Buffet are gonna cure disease in Africa,
and walk on water and shit.
Got popcorn?
Oh yeah, Kaiser... The actual multiple events to which I am referring each involved an NGO or governmental mass inoculation for something or other that sounded reasonable, holy, good and healthy.
But it turns out that the vaccines (like for polio or somethin') were "tainted" by "mistake" in "error" which nobody can account for or assume any responsibility, by laboratory manufactured chemicals known to render females sterile.
They were doped without their knowledge.
Now, I'll agree with many that population is a problem, but this is just too Orwellian, NWO, etc., for my liking.
Fact, I'd suggest, evil.
Biblically Evil
Well if Gates is trying to control the African population he gets my vote.
What's not to like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
Yes, and 2 of the strains of Y. Pestis on Madigascar are multiple-antibiotic resistant (http://aac.asm.org/content/50/10/3233.full). Makes you wonder.
The mistake they made in the middle ages was killing the rats, which sent the hostless parasite fleas on to people where they bit them and the people got sick from bacterium from the fleas guts.
So be nice to the rats. Feed them, play with them, enjoy their company because those hosts are what stands between you and the black plague.
quarantine the island, don't let anyone in or out!!!
Shut. Down. EVERYTHING.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything
I'd ship the Bernak to Madigascar in a NY minute.
Once upon a time, someone considered shipping all of a race of people to Madagascar as a not-quite last solution.
Agreed...humans have exceeded the holding capacity for the planet. Heck technology keep replacing workers...we need far fewer people now than previous.
People do not like reality.....
I've got to call bullshit on the sensational clickbait headline, Tylers.
Yersinia pestis never went away. When I was in Boulder 20 years ago it was well known that the groundhog population there was a resevoir. Don't kiss groundhogs, people!
We should be far more worried about drug resistant tuberculosis.
But hey, anything for a few clicks on a slow news day...
I do miss Marla's pithy articles and evening sets.
Black Death would be an apt description for 'that' look Mrs Obama gave to Obama & the Danish PM for their 'inappropriate & indiscreet' selfie photo op.
Quick. Give the poor dears sanctuary in the West.
Tyler really diggin deep here ...
What happens when all the bad news runs out?
Theres always the Onion
Between Wall Street, the District of Criminals, the Federal Reserve, and Obamacare, we'll all be in stitches for decades.
You gotta admit that it was pretty funny of Tyler to use a picture of Timmah Geithner with this article's entry on the main page.
...meh always good to keep an eye on Ma nature. She can decide to exterminate most life on the planet if she chooses...has done it many times before. The Bubonic plague is rather tame compared to other events.
Switch on over to GLP.
I dunno - global economic financial collapse?
Uh - people chopping down forests to keep warm?
Starvation on an unheard of scale because the fracking bubble will burst because nobody will have money to pay for energy - which will mean exploration ends - which will mean no crops are grown because they require petroleum based fertilizers and pesticides?
Riots?
The end of the world as we know it?
A mass culling of billions of humans?
The mass wiping out of every animal (including dogs) as starving people eat anything that moves?
etc etc etc
Reason #4698 I moved out of the "Big City".
The Black Death will seem like child's play if some of the dire predictions of widespread antibiotic immune bacteria come to pass. There are a lot more of us now and at least back then people were kind of used to the idea of dying young from what are now easily treatable diseases.
No Worries, IBM has an app for that:
IBM Research and Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Convert Recycled Plastics into Disease Fighting Nanofibershttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-research-institute-bioengineering-nano...
Or some kind of bird flu or a SARS like virus pandemic. Could make getting to work easier.
Simple answer - colloidal silver (CS). Bacteria does not become resistant to it!
Black Death? Referring to Barry and the US?
Is he black? Hadn't heard.
One of us is 1/2 right...er, nevermind.
Pot callin' the kettle black there, Krisp?
Obama almost started a war with Syria based on lies. Seymour Hersh reported it but no media would report it in the land of the free:
US media blacks out Seymour Hersh exposé of Washington’s lies on sarin attack in Syria
By Barry Grey11 December 2013
The American media has blacked out an account by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh demonstrating that President Barack Obama and the US government lied when they claimed to have proof that the Syrian government carried out a sarin gas attack last August on areas near Damascus held by US-backed “rebels.”
Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, US ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and other top officials declared categorically that the August 21 attack on Eastern Ghouta, which reportedly killed hundreds of people, had been carried out by the Syrian military. They, along with the leaders of Britain and France, sought to use the gas attack to stampede public opinion behind their plans to attack Syria, cripple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and install a puppet government.
Even more damning, Hersh documents that Obama and other top officials deliberately ignored and concealed a series of military and intelligence reports over the preceding months warning that Al Qaeda-affiliated jihadist groups that formed the backbone of imperialist proxy forces in Syria, including the al-Nusra Front, had access to sarin and the ability to weaponize it.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/11/hers-d11.html
It was actually enjoyable watching Putin pull the rug out from under Obama on that one.
Eirther war, famine, or pestilence will address the world's overpopulation problem which no one will admit to presently. One example: There are simply too many people for the available number of jobs out there. As Malthus pointed out, this situation has occurred repeatedly in human history and Soylent Green remedies notwithstanding, it will continue to do so.
Quick! Send them to America where all the liberals want porous borders, grant them amnesty and have them sign up for Obamacare!
Whammy.
>> all the liberals want porous borders,
Yeah, I long for the days of secure borders under Bush.
What killed more people, the plague or autocratic socialism? Which one is considered the most dangerous?
As a percentage of population, plague. Even Stalin didn't wipe out 33% of his own people.
But the Khmer Rouge did...
Correct. You can also take defensive measures against the plague. It does not come looking for you.
I submit the obvious analogy that autocratic collectivism is a plagu
So even Death is a racist !!!
Good GOD why does ZH suck so much ass lately? EHRMUGURD, 20 PPL DIED UN UFRICA? OMFG!
Plague is so easily treatable it is less deadly than the fucking common cold. Fuck off with this shit. There are far more important things to talk about.
Clickmongering at its very worst.
I agree.
The increasingly overt sensationalism here is disappointing.
If it is so easily treatable and less deadly than the common cold; why did 20 people die?
Your own statement is refuted by reported facts (which you obviously dislike). The sensational thing about plague is when it jumps phase to pneumonic plague, flea gut bugs that spread to a victim's lungs through their blood or lymph system. Their breath then becomes "deadly flea bites" to anyone nearby who breathes air in the same room, tent or ambulance. Human breath is now deadly. So you might invest in surgical masks if you're in the affected area.
Oh, so you've met John McCain and Barney Frank then?
Bubonic plague is easily treated by tetracyline, or chloraphenicol. Two of the cheapest drugs in the world. It's not the disease that worries me, it's the breakdown in systems to deliver the cures that worries me.
???
HIV trial in Libya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_trial_in_Libya
This blog is gowing down the proverbial sewer, so the activities and dangers therein would undoubtedly be of some concern.
Stick to the economic and finance stuff which you people do best, or use to do best. . . . please
The Black Death - Professor Sir Richard J. Evans FBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ImYgBeBS0 (57:32)
The Mystery of The Black Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5Uh0Fah_k (45:54)
History's Turning Points - AD 1347 The Black Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_qVG8xnjY (25:08)
We've been pushing in one direction much too long, something is bound to push back and harshly....
"Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead!"
What happened to Ebola?
Ebola...Too quick a killer. HIV on the otherhand...masterful. Takes years to die (from something else) allows one to spread to multiple people who they themselves have no idea are infected and thus spread it.
1.6 million die a year from HIV related illness with 2.3 newly infected. Biologically speaking...it is an elegant virus.
Most of them are in the turd world, such as Africa, where it is commonly believed sex with virgins cures the HIV.
«What happened to Ebola?»
- I think she was on Maury the other day...
Longcat is loooooooooooog.
(you either get that or you don't)
sad .... when people THINK they know more than everybody else but what they think they know is incorrect .... the rats were never suspected in the middle ages .... the people killed their cats and dogs, because they were the ones usually brought them the fleas ... so what happened? There were no longer any predators to kill the rats ....
Plague is carried by squirrels in Lake Tahoe !!!
Signs all over. No big deal.
Everybody gives you the finger out there. It is hilarious. Go Plague Yourself!!!
A bunch of aFREAKans dying from their own filth?
Cry me a f'n river.
The Black Death was of Asian origin. Anyone who has seen the prolific rat population that exists in Bangkok or other major shitholes will understand where it will again spring from. Only this time it will spread faster in 3rd world countries because of the filth that stems from poor thinking. Africa is a prime candidate.
from Wikipedia.
The Black Death is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea by 1346.[6] From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population.[7] All in all, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century.
regards
Great. Yet another thing from China we don't need. When does it end?
Those of you on this site who pound the overpopulation meme should take a drive out into the country some time. Within 30 minutes from just about anywhere in the US (many an hour in densely populated area, like the Eastern corridor and SOCAL) you'll discover more raw land than you ever thought existed.
The issue with population is how many are crammed into cities. The economic system causes the cramming, so the solution - on an individual basis - is to get out of the economic model to which so many readily submit.
There's plenty of land; sure, lots of it isn't arable, but lots of it is. Not a difficult solution.
BTW: Uruguay legalized pot yesterday; South Carolina is fast-tracking a law that would ban Obamacare statewide, with lots of support. Why doesn't ZH lead with those stories instead of BS about the Black Death half a word away? Click-bait, I suppose, but judging by how ad-infested (it's worse than my site, and I plaster ads everywhere) this site has become, I'd say they're either getting a bit desperate or greedy. (Can't stand the ads that linger at the page bottoms, BTW, or the pop-overs)
lately i noticed more and more articles that apperead on infowars, magically appears on zh
someone making money out of it? like alex jones is doing with infowars?
Black Death?!
Oh Noes!
What will we do? Is there a cure? How can we stop the march of this terrible disease? I heard the only thing you can do is put flower petals in your pocket and dance in public. If you dance enough, it keeps the miasma that causes the illness far away. it's the miasma of bad gases that knocks your humors out of wack and makes it possible for the posies and the bloody flux to take hold. Thankfully, there's the Church here to help pray the demons away when Death strides the realm...
OH, and Black Death is racist. Can't we call it something else? Perhaps, Hamburger Time, or Soft Kittens?