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User ID: 1008727 United States 06/19/2010 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Underground bioterror threat in Darwin Australia [ link to www.news.com.au] # Soil-dwelling bacteria 'may be next Anthrax' # Ten people already dead from melioidosis A DEADLY terrorist weapon could be buried in the backyards of Darwin's northern suburbs, US scientists fear. US authorities say melioidosis - commonly known as Nightcliff Gardeners Disease - is a potential bioterror threat. The US Government believes the tropical disease, caused by soil-dwelling bacteria, could become the next anthrax-style bioterrorism threat. Australian and American scientists are now on the verge of a breakthrough in the early diagnosis of the disease which killed 10 people in the Northern Territory in the wet season. A fact sheet compiled by the US Department of Homeland Security lists melioidosis - scientifically known as Burkholderia pseudomallei - as a category B potential bioterror threat.Since records began 20 years ago, about 600 people across the Top End have contracted the disease, which causes chest infections, skin ulcers and prostate abscesses, and 85 have died. New research suggests the bacterium did, in fact, originate in northern Australia and spread to Asia during the last Ice Age, 15,000 to 40,000 years. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 647237 New Zealand 06/19/2010 11:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Underground bioterror threat in Darwin Australia Blah blah blah blah........no end to this kind of shit thread. Eh/ |
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User ID: 1008727 United States 06/19/2010 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Underground bioterror threat in Darwin Australia Got something against bio-weapons? |
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User ID: 862859 Australia 06/20/2010 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Underground bioterror threat in Darwin Australia
Natual Bacteria in soil + US DHS = Bioterror threat. They will now cultivate a particularly nasty strain of the stuff and, oops, accidently deplot it on the population. Seen it before too many times. Watch out foriegn leaders. The US will provide you with quantaties of this shit, then at any time they decide to overthrow you they will announce they know you have it and drum up a war. Has anyone else noticed this elephant in the lounge room ?
Another block of writing from Elephant full of supposition and condescension whilst saying pretty much nothing. - EggNigma 2/2/2011 |