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?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
What's a "plauge?" And are prerie dogs those little Jerry Falwell-shaped cocktail weenies?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
According to cnn.com, it's true.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
*shrug*
So take some antibiotics. Plague is so 14th century.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
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.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Um... Vaccinations are for viral infections. Bubonic plague is bacterial.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
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.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
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?
Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :
After seeing the spelling of some forumites in this thread, it would seem that some people amongst us are already infected.
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
Euh, that was dash cunning of thee, sir! Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
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
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
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.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"Often been perscribed"
How often? How many people here manage to go entire years without touching anitbiotics?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"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.
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
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.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
I haven't taken any antibiotics since 9th grade (I had a KILLER inner ear infection-- truly thought I was going to die, it hurt so bad!)... I'm 20 now..... HOWEVER, I've been prescribed just about every OTHER type of drug there is since then... that's why I've stopped going in when I'm sick... Drs. overprescribe, and I'm tired of side effects
~LOA
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Well, I won't give out my medical history, but I average getting prescribed amoxicilin about once or twice a year. The last four years, it's been closer to two or three, but that's mainly from my living in the campus residence halls. The dorm plague is something else.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I have never taken any antibiotic, unless we're counting the strange smelling hand soaps they've got at public schools these days.
When I was four or so I had this bizarre glandular swelling, sort of like mumps, only it wasn't mumps, it was...well, no one knew what the heck it was. It felt very odd, and then the doctors said I should eat a lot of chicken soup. (Ooh, thank you for that, modern medicine.) Anyway, I got better, and it wasn't really very serious, just mysterious.
I've also never broken a limb, or otherwise been ill or injured to an extent requiring medical attention. When I was very young I tripped in the kitchen and split my lower lip open from the fleshy kissy bit to the pale bit below that, and apparently spilled a great deal of blood, and my parents thought I might need stitches, but no, heaven forbid. So.
My point? I'm probably going to die very soon. Karma, you know.
[ June 26, 2001: Message edited by: Sol System ]
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I used to get a lot of antibiotics, mostly for infections in the sinuses, and tonsilitis, but a change in diet, about the time I turned 15, changed everything. I haven't had tonsilis since then, and I've learned to start taking Ibuprophen when the first symtoms show up, and I haven't had to see a Doctor in two years.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Er, if you got tonsilites every year, wouldn't a crazy, mad idea have been to, y'know, have them removed?
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
They were supposed to come out, but somehow, we never got around to making the appointment, then with a change in diet (more vegtables, less suger and salt) the tonsilitis never returned. A doctor has since told me to get them removed, but I'm not having anything removed unless it's trying to kill me. Except for the circumcision at birth, I plan on leaveing the planet with everthing that I had when I arrived.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
No teeth and a complete lack of bowel control then?
Posted by Tec (Member # 136) on :
Actually vaccines are used to prevent both viral and bacterial diseases.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And so the reason that there isn't a vaccine for Bacterial Menengitis is...?
[ July 01, 2001: Message edited by: PsyLiam ]
Posted by Tec (Member # 136) on :
That has to be one of the most pointless questions I have ever read. But going along with your question here is one of mine.
Then why don't we have a vaccine for AIDS?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Because AIDS directly attacks the immune system, in a way no other virus does, would be my guess.
No, seriously, why don't we have a vaccine for bacterial menengitis? We have one for the virul (viral?) form.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I thought there was a vaccine for bacterial menigitis? The Houston area suffered a pretty outbreak of menigitis earlier this year, and the state approved massive vaccinations for the heaviest hit areas.
Or were they taking about the viral form?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
i heard somewhere's that they were developing an AIDS vaccine. i don't remember where. but it had something to do with the protien coat protecting the core of the virus.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I thought the vaccine was only for the viral form.
Meningitis (B and C is it?) tends to be most common over here at universities, and they only offer one vaccination, for the one that doesn't usually kill you.
The one that does kill you can only be killed by pumping the infected person full on antibiotics, right? If so, that would be the bacterial version, wouldn't it?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I didn't even know that there was one that didn't usually kill...
Posted by Tec (Member # 136) on :
I don't honestly know if there is a vaccine for bacterial meningites. As for AIDS we are having trouble making a vaccine cause the damn thing mutates at an incrediable rate and cause it attacks the helper T cells. I'm actually more worried about the Pneumonic plauge cause it also attacks the immune system but it is airborne.
