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Plague is back.


Ken L

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Actually, plague never went away and there have been a trickle of cases every year in the southern US, India and central Asia but there are currently outbreaks in Madagascar and Kenya (as well as Marburg in Kenya) and I've just been reading a jolly little article about the 20 year history of antibiotic resistant plague in Madagascar.

 

This could get out of hand very quickly.

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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Puts the whole brexit debate into perspective, doesn't it?

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

 

 

 

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Yes - but most people are too coddled by decades of vaccines and effective antibiotics to even understand the threat.

Of course, the threat also makes borders a very good idea.......

Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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Unfortunately our open border policy has already put everyone in risk with drug resistant TB so hopefully the plaque will wipe some out before they get here!

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

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Looks like the number of cases is tailing off a little but the WHO report is sobering:

 

Since August 2017, Madagascar is experiencing a large outbreak of plague affecting major cities and other non-endemic areas.

From 1 August through 30 October 2017, a total of 1801 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of plague, including 127 deaths, have been reported by the Ministry of Health of Madagascar to WHO. Of these, 1111 (62%) were clinically classified as pneumonic plague, including 257 (23%) confirmed, 374 (34%) probable and 480 (43%) suspected cases. In addition to the pneumonic cases, 261 (15%) cases of bubonic plague, one case of septicaemic plague and 428 cases (24%) where the type has not yet been specified, have been reported (Figure 1). As of 30 October, 51 of 114 districts of Madagascar have been affected (Figure 2 and 3). Since the beginning of the outbreak, 71 healthcare workers have had illness compatible with plague, none of whom have died.

That's about a 7% mortality rate, even with resources piling in to try to help out the Malagasy government, but a big enough outbreak in the slums of Africa's or Asia's megacities would quickly overwhelm the WHO's ability to respond and the mortality rate would skyrocket. This is after all the disease that wiped out a third of Europe's population and marked our culture forever.

On the positive side, most Europeans now have some degree of resistance.

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Species caught in 2020: Barbel. European Eel. Bleak. Perch. Pike.

Species caught in 2019: Pike. Bream. Tench. Chub. Common Carp. European Eel. Barbel. Bleak. Dace.

Species caught in 2018: Perch. Bream. Rainbow Trout. Brown Trout. Chub. Roach. Carp. European Eel.

Species caught in 2017: Siamese carp. Striped catfish. Rohu. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Black Minnow Shark. Perch. Chub. Brown Trout. Pike. Bream. Roach. Rudd. Bleak. Common Carp.

Species caught in 2016: Siamese carp. Jullien's golden carp. Striped catfish. Mekong catfish. Amazon red tail catfish. Arapaima. Alligator gar. Rohu. Black Minnow Shark. Roach, Bream, Perch, Ballan Wrasse. Rudd. Common Carp. Pike. Zander. Chub. Bleak.

Species caught in 2015: Brown Trout. Roach. Bream. Terrapin. Eel. Barbel. Pike. Chub.

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The idea that we may have squandered the useful lifespan of our antibiotic arsenal by using them to treat livestock which weren't even sick is horrendous - how breathtakingly stupid, short-sighted and selfish.

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All,

 

I don't think we need to get all melodramatic about which disease. It will be the flu. I know the word flu is pretty generic but IMO the pandemic will be flu.

 

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Dont worry that bastard rumsfeld will insist we buy more rubbish tamiflu or he will spill the beans on iraq

 

Are the government putting us at risk by giving flu injections that hardly work? One year i read it only worked in 3% thats an awful lot of money wasted on the other 97%!.The pharmo companies wont give it back i bet!

 

It wont be the virus to blame whats to blame is open borders with no health checks and aviation ,ban aeroplanes if a country really wanted to look after its people it would instantly ,in not doing so it shows the government dont give a crap

Its bad when you can catch avian flu in some far off hell hole and deliver the carrier here in half a day!

At least a hundred years ago you died long before darkening our door! Bloody foreigners why do we let them exist?

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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The trouble with flu jabs is that you have to make a guess based on surveillance of which strains are going to be an issue that year.

 

When I went for my jab the other week, I was told that this year, the single jab covered more strains than in previous years.

 

There's got to be a pandemic at some time. Areas of very high, and increasing, population, combined with ease of travel around the world, and you have almost perfect conditions for any virus to spread quickly.

Natures way of thinning us out a bit, to regain a natural sustainable level.

 

John.

Angling is more than just catching fish, if it wasn't it would just be called 'catching'......... John

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