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MIB
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I have only just heard about this. So far loads of prerie dogs have died from it and 1 person. Has anybody heard any more about this?
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Shik
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What's a "plauge?" And are prerie dogs those little Jerry Falwell-shaped cocktail weenies?

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TSN
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According to cnn.com, it's true.
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Sol System
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*shrug*

So take some antibiotics. Plague is so 14th century.


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Da_bang80
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OMG!! if CNN says it's true then we're all DOOMED!!!

seriously, i think that it's possible for the black plague (i prefer "black" to "bubonic" cause it's easaier to type) to reappear. we never did get rid of it like small pox. maybe now that science is a little better than what it was we can find a cure. or a vaccine.

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TSN
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Um... Vaccinations are for viral infections. Bubonic plague is bacterial.
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Siegfried
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As my music theory teacher once told me, "Don't believe you're dead until CNN says it."

Oh well, I'll scratch Colorado off my list places to visit this summer.


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Da_bang80
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hmm. i huess i wasn't listinin to my bio teacher when she talked about virus' and disease. would penicillin work against the little buggers?

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Orion Syndicate
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After seeing the spelling of some forumites in this thread, it would seem that some people amongst us are already infected.
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Nim
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Euh, that was dash cunning of thee, sir!

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MIB
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quote:
Originally posted by Da_bang80:
hmm. i huess i wasn't listinin to my bio teacher when she talked about virus' and disease. would penicillin work against the little buggers?

No. Penicillin is so over used nowadays that it can hardly fight pnumonia anymore. Anyone with a sniffle is getting presciptions for the stuff, even when they don't need it. And doctors don't have the balls to say, "No, you are not getting this. You don't need it." Please don't hassle my about mispelling pnumonia. LOL


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Siegfried
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What a second, Tim. It's been a while since I've taken biology but aren't antibiotics used to fight bacterial infections? If so, then antibiotics would be perfect to fight the bubonic plague. Of course, this raises the question of which antibiotics?

MIB is correct that penicillin is overused. I've often been prescribed amoxicillin, and I know that my dosage amount has to be moderately high and pills taken for a longer duration in order to fight what ails me.

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PsyLiam
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"Often been perscribed"

How often? How many people here manage to go entire years without touching anitbiotics?

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TSN
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"It's been a while since I've taken biology but aren't antibiotics used to fight bacterial infections? If so, then antibiotics would be perfect to fight the bubonic plague."

Yes.


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Fabrux
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quote:
Originally posted by PsyLiam:
How often? How many people here manage to go entire years without touching anitbiotics?

Well, I haven't taken any antibiotics since I was about 9 or 10, and I'm 16 now.

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