Plague Hits Miners in Democratic Republic of Congo [NPR... AIRBORNE!]

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4504861
audio story at link

All Things Considered, February 18, 2005 · The World Health Organization says as many 400 miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have a highly contagious form of the plague. Health officials are concerned that the miners will leave the area and spread the disease elsewhere in the Central African country.

[justiceischeap]

1. Is there oil in the Congo? (eom)

[Occulus]

2. Oh, not good.

Odds are it's already spreading.

Airborne? Oh no...... :scared:

[truthisfreedom]

3. Plague may have killed 60 in DRC [Reuters]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5547668

GENEVA (Reuters) - An outbreak of plague in northern Democratic Republic of Congo
may have killed 60 diamond miners and infected nearly 350 others, the World Health
Organisation (WHO) says.
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There are three main forms of plague in humans and the one suspected in the former
Zaire is pneumonic plague, which affects victims' lungs, it says.

"This means a person can cough and spread the disease through aerosol droplets. So
it becomes a person-to-person transmission as opposed to a flea-to-person
transmission," WHO spokeswoman Christine McNab told a news briefing.

[NYC]

6. Thanks for the added details.

:hi:

[truthisfreedom]

4. more! Havoc as plague kills 61 in Congo

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5548626

Bertherat said cases were still occurring at the mine, where conditions are crowded and unsanitary, and 20 workers
were admitted to health facilities in Zobia with symptoms on Wednesday.

Many of the miners appear to have fled to their native villages of Buta and Titule, west of Zobia, he said.

"It seems that many of the miners who ran away from the mine died in the forest or along the trail and it seems there
are fresh tombs along the trail," he said.

[NYC]

5. I didn't listen to the audio.

(dial up) The print didn't say what plague.

[truthisfreedom]

7. check post #3

pneumonic plague.

[TahitiNut]

8. WaPo: "largest outbreak in 80 years ... highly virulent, airborne version"

Pneumonic Plague Seen in Congo Outbreak

By Craig Timberg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, February 19, 2005; Page A19

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Feb. 18 -- At least 61 miners in eastern Congo have died and hundreds have become ill from what appears to be the largest outbreak in 80 years of a highly virulent, airborne version of plague, international health officials reported Friday.

The officials said thousands more workers had fled an open-pit diamond mine that is the epicenter of the outbreak, possibly spreading the disease deep into a rural province with few health facilities.

"It can pop up in many places now," said Marian van der Snoek, a medical official with the Swiss-based aid group Medair, who spoke by telephone from her office in Bunia, in Congo's northeastern corner. "We don't know where these people have fled."

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[truthisfreedom]

9. it can be treated with antibiotics, but there's not much time.

it's sad that the people who fled can't be told.

[CHICKEN CAPITOL USA]

10. This epidemic "weapon" will likely be unleashed on Europe soon-by the U.S.

This is my intuitive pseye-kick guess--- don't ask me why, nothing to back it up---
then I think the U.S. will likely use the smokescreen to make a military move on a country.
Sounds crazy?
maybe.,,