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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 799645 11/2/2009 12:10 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
And so it begins. |
| Moog User ID: 526183 11/2/2009 12:12 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | Apparently its spread to Romania & Poland too.
Hmm......the link has been removed :/ |
| anonymous coward User ID: 808581 11/2/2009 12:15 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AND CATS
The plague started in a rural area, so outdoor cats could be the carriers/transmitters of the disease.
Cat-transmitted fatal pneumonic plague in a person who traveled from Colorado to Arizona.
Doll JM, Zeitz PS, Ettestad P, Bucholtz AL, Davis T, Gage K.
Vector and Zoonotic Control Section, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix.
Plague, primarily a disease of rodents and their infected fleas, is fatal in 50% of infected humans if untreated. In the United States, human cases have been concentrated in the southwest. The most common modes of plague transmission are through flea bites or through contact with infected blood or tissues; however, primary pneumonic plague acquired from cats has become increasingly recognized. We report on the case investigation of a patient, presumably exposed to a plague-infected cat in Colorado, who presented with gastrointestinal symptoms, and subsequently died of primary pneumonic plague. Public health officials should be vigilant for plague activity in rodent populations, veterinarians should suspect feline plague in ill or deceased cats, and physicians should have a high index of suspicion for plague in any person who has traveled to plague enzootic areas.
PMID: 8059908 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Pneumonic Plague -- Arizona, 1992
On August 26, 1992, a 31-year-old male resident of Tucson, Arizona, died of an illness subsequently diagnosed as primary pneumonic plague. This is the 10th case of plague reported in the United States in 1992, the first pneumonic plague case this year, and the first plague fatality reported since 1987 (CDC, unpublished data). This report summarizes the investigation of this case by county, state, and federal public health officials in Arizona and Colorado.
On August 22, the man had onset of abdominal cramps, 2 days after returning home by private automobile from a friend's residence in Chaffee County, Colorado. On August 23, he had onset of fever (103 F [39.6 C]), nausea, vomiting, severe diarrhea, and cough. The next day, he consulted a primary-care physician because of diarrhea and vomiting. On examination, he was febrile (104 F [40 C]) and dehydrated; no abnormal chest sounds were heard, and there was no lymphadenopathy. He was treated for gastroenteritis with intramuscular prochlorperazine and lincomycin and given oral ciprofloxacin to be taken the following day. On August 25, he was hospitalized with cyanosis and septic shock. Chest radiograph revealed a right upper lobar pneumonia. A Gram stain of a sputum sample obtained at hospital admission showed numerous gram-negative rods. Antibiotic therapy with ceftazidime, erythromycin, and one dose each of penicillin and tobramycin was initiated for treatment of overwhelming sepsis and pneumonia. He died 24 hours after admission.
One week postmortem, biochemical tests at the hospital identified as Yersinia pestis an organism that had been isolated from sputum. The organism was also identified as Y. pestis by fluorescent antibody and bacteriophage tests at the state laboratory; this identification was confirmed by CDC. Antemortem blood and urine samples were culture negative. Postmortem cultures of blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and lung tissue were also negative.
After the patient died, a rapid microbiological testing device used at the hospital identified the organism isolated from sputum as Y. pseudotuberculosis. The testing device subsequently was determined not to have been programmed to recognize Y. pestis, thus delaying the initial identification of the organism.
All persons who had contact with the man after he became ill were considered to be at risk for plague, including two friends, the physician and his staff, one patient in the physician's waiting room, and hospital staff contacts. All contacts were traced and were asymptomatic 8 or more days after exposure. Although no contacts required prophylactic treatment (1), two nurses requested and received tetracycline for plague prophylaxis (2).
Investigation by Chaffee County public health officials indicated the patient had become infected on August 19 through respiratory exposure to an infected domesticated cat that he had removed from the crawlspace of a house in rural Chaffee County. The cat, reported to have submandibular abscesses and oral lesions consistent with feline plague, died on August 19 before being evaluated by a veterinarian and was cremated without diagnostic studies. A dead chipmunk found in the area where the cat lived was culture-positive for Y. pestis. Rodent die-off in a nearby arroyo was also evident.
On September 10-11, the house and rodent burrows within a 100-yard radius of the house were dusted with the insecticide carbaryl to control flea populations. Cats and dogs living at the house were dusted, and the owners were advised to continue periodic dusting of their pets.
Reported by: A Opulski, MD, E MacNeill, MD, C Rosales, MD, Pima County Health Dept. A Hartsough, MD, Pima County Forensic Science Center, Tucson; J Doll, PhD, C Levy, MS, M Fink, Vector and Zoonotic Disease Control Section, B Erickson, PhD, W Slanta, G Cage, MS, Div of State Laboratory Svcs, L Sands, DO, Acting State Epidemiologist, Arizona Dept of Health Svcs. J Lofgren, G Gentry, Chaffee County Health Dept; T Davis, MS, J Pape, RE Hoffman, MD, State Epidemiologist, Colorado Dept of Health. Bacterial Zoonoses Br, Div of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Div of Field Epidemiology, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: Although plague has enzootic foci among wild rodent populations in North America from the Pacific coast eastward to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas, human cases have been concentrated in two principal regions: 1) a southwestern area that includes New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, southern Colorado, and southern Utah and 2) a Pacific Coast region located in California, Oregon, and western Nevada (3). Pneumonic plague, which is rare in the United States, can spread among humans and can be rapidly fatal unless detected and treated early (1,4). Onset of symptoms for primary plague pneumonia usually occurs within 2-3 days after exposure (1).
Cases of pneumonic plague in the United States have occurred secondary to septicemic plague or as a result of direct exposure (i.e., primary) to respiratory droplets from infected cats (5,6). Health-care providers, especially in areas with enzootic plague, should suspect plague in persons with unexplained fever, suspected sepsis, or pneumonia with or without lymphadenopathy or a classic plague bubo (i.e., an enlarged, inflamed lymph node). Buboes may not be present in persons with septicemic or pneumonic plague (1,4); however, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain may be prominent features (1). Persons suspected to have pneumonic plague should be placed in respiratory isolation and reported immediately to public health authorities so that rapid diagnosis, environmental assessments, and control measures (including flea control, rodent control, health education, and investigation of contacts) can be initiated. Streptomycin is the treatment of choice for persons suspected to have plague; alternates include tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and sulfonamides (1,4).
Veterinarians and veterinary assistants in areas enzootic for plague are at risk for plague infection from infected cats or wild rodents. Cats with unexplained lymphadenopathy and/or oral or submandibular abscesses should be suspected of having plague, and procedures for appropriate laboratory testing should be followed. Reporting of suspected cases by veterinarians to public health officials is essential to identify and monitor animal sources of infection and to minimize the potential for transmission to humans.
This case underscores the need for manufacturers marketing rapid microbiological testing devices to ensure that identification of Y. pestis is possible or to advise users that isolates of Y. pestis will not be identified and alternative tests need to be performed. In addition, this report is a reminder that persons with pneumonic plague may travel during the incubation period or while ill to areas where plague does not occur. In such cases, plague may not be considered in the diagnosis, increasing the potential for death and transmission to other persons.
References
1.
Barnes AM, Quan TJ. Plague. In: Gorbach SL, Bartlett JG, Balacklow NR, eds. Infectious diseases. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1992:1285-91.
2.
CDC. Plague pneumonia -- California. MMWR 1984;33:481-3.
3.
Barnes AM. Surveillance and control of plague in the United States. In: Edwards MA, McDonnel U, eds. Animal disease in relation to conservation. New York: Academy Press, 1982:237-70.
4.
Craven RB, Poland JD. Plague. In: Last JM, Wallace RB, eds. Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health and preventive medicine. 13th ed. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton and Lange, 1992:237-40.
5.
Werner SB, Weidmer CE, Nelson BC, et al. Primary plague pneumonia contracted from a domestic cat at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. JAMA 1984;251:929-31.
6.
Eidson M, Tierney LA, Rollag OJ, et al. Feline plague in New Mexico: risk factors and transmission to humans. Am J Public Health 1988;78:1333-5.
[link to www.cdc.gov]
Histopathology of Experimental Plague in Cats
R. P. Watson, T. W. Blanchard, M. G. Mense and P. W. Gasper
Department of Pathology, Avrum Gudelsky Center for Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (RPW, PWG); The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC (TWB); and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC (MGM)
Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded archival tissues of seven adult cats of both sexes that died after being experimentally infected with Yersinia pestis were examined light microscopically to characterize the lesions. The cats were exposed in two groups using two routes of infection: ingestion of Y. pestis-infected rodent or a subcutaneous injection of Y. pestis to simulate a flea bite. Immunohistochemistry was performed on tissues from all organ systems from a representative cat from each group to determine the distribution of Y. pestis bacilli during infection. In all seven cats, bubonic plague lesions were seen. The lesions of pneumonic plague were present in two cats. Septicemic plague was confirmed in all seven cats by bacteriologic culture. Aggregations of bacteria were seen in lymphoid tissue in all cats and in lung tissues from the two cats with pneumonic plague. The most consistent histologic finding was necrosuppurative inflammation in the lymph nodes. Invariably, Y. pestis bacteria were present in large numbers at affected sites. Orally infected cats had more numerous lesions in the lymph nodes of the head and neck regions. These experimentally induced cases of feline plague document that cats are unique among carnivores in exhibiting bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague following exposure to Y. pestis. The lesions of the orally infected cats were consistent with those previously described for naturally occurring Y. pestis infections in cats and corroborate the contention that cats most commonly contract plague by eating Y. pestis-infected rodents and not via flea bite. The histopathology of Y. pestis disease in these cats is comparable to that described for human plague.
[link to www.vetpathology.org] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 666636 11/2/2009 12:29 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
Agent Yellow. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 509254
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808716 11/2/2009 12:34 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
This is un-real. SPRAYING?!?!
Ukrainians travel and work all over Europe. This will not stay just there.
So why is this not on CNN/FOX or at least the BBc?!?! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 519048
Because they only report what they are ALLOWED to report, bbc as well.
How come "the guy" isn't here to tell us all spraying never happens? Just Ice crystals. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808729 11/2/2009 12:37 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | read up on the moshe story
he said bio weapon
he said released in the urkraine
i do not know what the chem trail crap is going on about- would disapate to quickly- chemtrails frear is a false trail - pun intended
that said- the moshe bioo weapon release seems more plausible since the timing is dead on
the evidence is clear- welcome to screaming babies crawling atop bloody cough dried mom corpses.
welcome to fires burning the dead in the night while people cower in chicken like fear
welcome to DNA5 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808716 11/2/2009 12:39 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
If this is true, it couldn't be vaccine. Not only are they short of it, but it would be so much less wasteful to just mandate that everyone go to the doctor and snort it up their noses. Quoting: The Guy
TRUE unless it is an "unknown antidote" not a standard vaccine. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808120 11/2/2009 12:59 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | I live next to Ukraine, does this mean I am going to die? Oh please not now, not before I have sex with a woman. I am still virgin and too young to die. |
| redshedevil User ID: 641806 11/2/2009 1:08 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
Authorities in Kiev, Ukraine, deny spraying of “aerosolized medication” by aircraft over city.
The office of Emergency Response in the district of Desniansko, Kiev, are tonight (30th Oct.) strongly refuting reports that light aircraft were spraying a substance over the city intended to counter a “swine flu pandemic” in Ukraine.
It was reported that light aircraft were seen over the Forest market area of the city (close to the Forest metro station) and they were spraying an aerosol substance intended to “counter swine flu”, this of course would constitute forced medication of the population.
The editors of local newspapers in Kiev received dozens of phone calls from concerned residents and shop owners in the Forest market area of the city reporting they had observed several light airplanes circling in the sky during the day spraying an unidentified aerosol into the atmosphere.
Retailers and local business people reported they were advised to “stay indoors” during the day by local authorities.
Local newspapers contacted government administrators in Kiev and were told that “no permission had been granted today (30th Oct.) for small aviation aircraft to fly within the city limits”. Also local FM radio stations in Kiev were regularly refuting the reports during broadcasts today, apparently under duress from local authorities.
Reports of helicopters and light airplanes spraying aerosols over Kiev, Lviv, Ternopil, and other cities throughout Ukraine are tonight flooding online forums and websites, hundreds of people have verified the reports with their own eye-witness accounts.
On 30th October President Viktor Yushchenko ordered the Ministry of Defense to establish mobile military hospitals throughout Ukraine, to assist and provide “essential medications” to people with swine-flu. Yushchenko has also ordered medical personnel from the reserve defense forces to report for duty.
An order from President Yushchenko is expected soon that will effectively place Ukraine under “martial law”.
“Due to the complex epidemiological situation in the western regions of Ukraine, where tens of thousands of people have become ill, thousands are in hospital, and dozens have died.”
Nine regions of Ukraine have declared a quarantine around the country and public events have been banned (including the elections).The Clergy have been ordered not to hold any Church or religious services on Sundays or to gather a congregation for any reason whatsoever. Police are also enforcing the compulsory wearing of protective face masks, any driver caught not wearing a mask faces harsh legal penalties.
Earlier, health authorities in western Ukraine reported a “severe outbreak of UNIDENTIFIED Influenza, suspected by doctors to be a form of viral pneumonia”. The disease has already claimed a number of lives in the region. In Lviv, schools have been closed and authorities are conducting emergency meetings to determine how to deal with the outbreak.
[ link to info-wars.org] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 807373
video post on another thread
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]
for the full video showing the "spraying" |
| mr...bojangles User ID: 808736 11/2/2009 1:08 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
I live next to Ukraine, does this mean I am going to die? Oh please not now, not before I have sex with a woman. I am still virgin and too young to die. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 808120
take vitamin c to protect yourself....
if you do you will survive.... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808749 11/2/2009 1:14 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | Bo.... don't feed the trolls...please |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 778993 11/2/2009 1:43 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
whatever they are spraying....
you can be sure of one thing....
it ain`t medication..... Quoting: mr...bojangles |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 778993 11/2/2009 1:43 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
I live next to Ukraine, does this mean I am going to die? Oh please not now, not before I have sex with a woman. I am still virgin and too young to die. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 808120
Go have sex with a woman now then, I'm sure there are plenty |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808567 11/2/2009 1:45 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | Apparentl, the pnemonic plague has been confirmed in tests but the Government is demanding to speak only about swine flu so panic doesn't spread yet. That explains the silence of all the western media about what's going on.
[link to www.fraza.ua] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808771 11/2/2009 1:49 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
Apparentl, the pnemonic plague has been confirmed in tests but the Government is demanding to speak only about swine flu so panic doesn't spread yet. That explains the silence of all the western media about what's going on.
[ link to www.fraza.ua] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 808567
how about a link in english? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808770 11/2/2009 1:49 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
I live next to Ukraine, does this mean I am going to die? Oh please not now, not before I have sex with a woman. I am still virgin and too young to die.
Go have sex with a woman now then, I'm sure there are plenty Quoting: Anonymous Coward 778993
But remember, 93, that half the women there have TB, the other half have VD, so make sure you only fuck the ones that cough. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808775 11/2/2009 1:55 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | no your going to die- 14- 40 are the group that will die in blood and vomit
welcome to dna4 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808567 11/2/2009 1:56 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
Apparentl, the pnemonic plague has been confirmed in tests but the Government is demanding to speak only about swine flu so panic doesn't spread yet. That explains the silence of all the western media about what's going on.
[ link to www.fraza.ua]
how about a link in english? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 808771
[link to translate.google.es] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 77497 11/2/2009 2:06 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
Don't you tinfoil hatters know that spraying aerosols from planes is not technologically feasible? It is downright impossible to atomize chemicals and spray them, so please just chill-lax would ya?
Again: Not possible to spray chemicals. What you are seeing is are "contrails", simple water vapor.
Spraying shit from planes is something your nation's scientists are working feverishly towards, and we want to be able to do it for good (like to get chemicals onto crops and such) but we're not there yet, and when we have that technology working, OF COURSE we will let you know, but until then, stop with the crazy conspiracies! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 806733
Yes cropdusting doesn't work. Goober... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808567 11/2/2009 2:28 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | Finally Bloomberg talks of "mystery outbreak", not H1N1:
[link to www.bloomberg.com] |
| ZTE User ID: 779511 11/2/2009 2:29 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
You really believe they are short of the vaccine? They've had the patent for swine flu for about 2 years now. Do you think they were picking their noses all this time?
How could there be a patent for something before it's even discovered? Quoting: The Guy
[link to targetfreedom.typepad.com]
I don't know, maybe that's why we're here on a conspiracy site. |
| anonymous coward User ID: 808581 11/2/2009 2:38 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AND CATS
The plague started in a rural area, so outdoor cats could be the carriers/transmitters of the disease.
Cat-transmitted fatal pneumonic plague in a person who traveled from Colorado to Arizona.
Doll JM, Zeitz PS, Ettestad P, Bucholtz AL, Davis T, Gage K.
Vector and Zoonotic Control Section, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix.
Plague, primarily a disease of rodents and their infected fleas, is fatal in 50% of infected humans if untreated. In the United States, human cases have been concentrated in the southwest. The most common modes of plague transmission are through flea bites or through contact with infected blood or tissues; however, primary pneumonic plague acquired from cats has become increasingly recognized. We report on the case investigation of a patient, presumably exposed to a plague-infected cat in Colorado, who presented with gastrointestinal symptoms, and subsequently died of primary pneumonic plague. Public health officials should be vigilant for plague activity in rodent populations, veterinarians should suspect feline plague in ill or deceased cats, and physicians should have a high index of suspicion for plague in any person who has traveled to plague enzootic areas.
PMID: 8059908 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
[ link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Pneumonic Plague -- Arizona, 1992
On August 26, 1992, a 31-year-old male resident of Tucson, Arizona, died of an illness subsequently diagnosed as primary pneumonic plague. This is the 10th case of plague reported in the United States in 1992, the first pneumonic plague case this year, and the first plague fatality reported since 1987 (CDC, unpublished data). This report summarizes the investigation of this case by county, state, and federal public health officials in Arizona and Colorado.
On August 22, the man had onset of abdominal cramps, 2 days after returning home by private automobile from a friend's residence in Chaffee County, Colorado. On August 23, he had onset of fever (103 F [39.6 C]), nausea, vomiting, severe diarrhea, and cough. The next day, he consulted a primary-care physician because of diarrhea and vomiting. On examination, he was febrile (104 F [40 C]) and dehydrated; no abnormal chest sounds were heard, and there was no lymphadenopathy. He was treated for gastroenteritis with intramuscular prochlorperazine and lincomycin and given oral ciprofloxacin to be taken the following day. On August 25, he was hospitalized with cyanosis and septic shock. Chest radiograph revealed a right upper lobar pneumonia. A Gram stain of a sputum sample obtained at hospital admission showed numerous gram-negative rods. Antibiotic therapy with ceftazidime, erythromycin, and one dose each of penicillin and tobramycin was initiated for treatment of overwhelming sepsis and pneumonia. He died 24 hours after admission.
One week postmortem, biochemical tests at the hospital identified as Yersinia pestis an organism that had been isolated from sputum. The organism was also identified as Y. pestis by fluorescent antibody and bacteriophage tests at the state laboratory; this identification was confirmed by CDC. Antemortem blood and urine samples were culture negative. Postmortem cultures of blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and lung tissue were also negative.
After the patient died, a rapid microbiological testing device used at the hospital identified the organism isolated from sputum as Y. pseudotuberculosis. The testing device subsequently was determined not to have been programmed to recognize Y. pestis, thus delaying the initial identification of the organism.
All persons who had contact with the man after he became ill were considered to be at risk for plague, including two friends, the physician and his staff, one patient in the physician's waiting room, and hospital staff contacts. All contacts were traced and were asymptomatic 8 or more days after exposure. Although no contacts required prophylactic treatment (1), two nurses requested and received tetracycline for plague prophylaxis (2).
Investigation by Chaffee County public health officials indicated the patient had become infected on August 19 through respiratory exposure to an infected domesticated cat that he had removed from the crawlspace of a house in rural Chaffee County. The cat, reported to have submandibular abscesses and oral lesions consistent with feline plague, died on August 19 before being evaluated by a veterinarian and was cremated without diagnostic studies. A dead chipmunk found in the area where the cat lived was culture-positive for Y. pestis. Rodent die-off in a nearby arroyo was also evident.
On September 10-11, the house and rodent burrows within a 100-yard radius of the house were dusted with the insecticide carbaryl to control flea populations. Cats and dogs living at the house were dusted, and the owners were advised to continue periodic dusting of their pets.
Reported by: A Opulski, MD, E MacNeill, MD, C Rosales, MD, Pima County Health Dept. A Hartsough, MD, Pima County Forensic Science Center, Tucson; J Doll, PhD, C Levy, MS, M Fink, Vector and Zoonotic Disease Control Section, B Erickson, PhD, W Slanta, G Cage, MS, Div of State Laboratory Svcs, L Sands, DO, Acting State Epidemiologist, Arizona Dept of Health Svcs. J Lofgren, G Gentry, Chaffee County Health Dept; T Davis, MS, J Pape, RE Hoffman, MD, State Epidemiologist, Colorado Dept of Health. Bacterial Zoonoses Br, Div of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Div of Field Epidemiology, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: Although plague has enzootic foci among wild rodent populations in North America from the Pacific coast eastward to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas, human cases have been concentrated in two principal regions: 1) a southwestern area that includes New Mexico, northeastern Arizona, southern Colorado, and southern Utah and 2) a Pacific Coast region located in California, Oregon, and western Nevada (3). Pneumonic plague, which is rare in the United States, can spread among humans and can be rapidly fatal unless detected and treated early (1,4). Onset of symptoms for primary plague pneumonia usually occurs within 2-3 days after exposure (1).
Cases of pneumonic plague in the United States have occurred secondary to septicemic plague or as a result of direct exposure (i.e., primary) to respiratory droplets from infected cats (5,6). Health-care providers, especially in areas with enzootic plague, should suspect plague in persons with unexplained fever, suspected sepsis, or pneumonia with or without lymphadenopathy or a classic plague bubo (i.e., an enlarged, inflamed lymph node). Buboes may not be present in persons with septicemic or pneumonic plague (1,4); however, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain may be prominent features (1). Persons suspected to have pneumonic plague should be placed in respiratory isolation and reported immediately to public health authorities so that rapid diagnosis, environmental assessments, and control measures (including flea control, rodent control, health education, and investigation of contacts) can be initiated. Streptomycin is the treatment of choice for persons suspected to have plague; alternates include tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and sulfonamides (1,4).
Veterinarians and veterinary assistants in areas enzootic for plague are at risk for plague infection from infected cats or wild rodents. Cats with unexplained lymphadenopathy and/or oral or submandibular abscesses should be suspected of having plague, and procedures for appropriate laboratory testing should be followed. Reporting of suspected cases by veterinarians to public health officials is essential to identify and monitor animal sources of infection and to minimize the potential for transmission to humans.
This case underscores the need for manufacturers marketing rapid microbiological testing devices to ensure that identification of Y. pestis is possible or to advise users that isolates of Y. pestis will not be identified and alternative tests need to be performed. In addition, this report is a reminder that persons with pneumonic plague may travel during the incubation period or while ill to areas where plague does not occur. In such cases, plague may not be considered in the diagnosis, increasing the potential for death and transmission to other persons.
References
1.
Barnes AM, Quan TJ. Plague. In: Gorbach SL, Bartlett JG, Balacklow NR, eds. Infectious diseases. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1992:1285-91.
2.
CDC. Plague pneumonia -- California. MMWR 1984;33:481-3.
3.
Barnes AM. Surveillance and control of plague in the United States. In: Edwards MA, McDonnel U, eds. Animal disease in relation to conservation. New York: Academy Press, 1982:237-70.
4.
Craven RB, Poland JD. Plague. In: Last JM, Wallace RB, eds. Maxcy-Rosenau-Last public health and preventive medicine. 13th ed. Norwalk, Connecticut: Appleton and Lange, 1992:237-40.
5.
Werner SB, Weidmer CE, Nelson BC, et al. Primary plague pneumonia contracted from a domestic cat at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. JAMA 1984;251:929-31.
6.
Eidson M, Tierney LA, Rollag OJ, et al. Feline plague in New Mexico: risk factors and transmission to humans. Am J Public Health 1988;78:1333-5.
[ link to www.cdc.gov]
Histopathology of Experimental Plague in Cats
R. P. Watson, T. W. Blanchard, M. G. Mense and P. W. Gasper
Department of Pathology, Avrum Gudelsky Center for Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (RPW, PWG); The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC (TWB); and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC (MGM)
Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded archival tissues of seven adult cats of both sexes that died after being experimentally infected with Yersinia pestis were examined light microscopically to characterize the lesions. The cats were exposed in two groups using two routes of infection: ingestion of Y. pestis-infected rodent or a subcutaneous injection of Y. pestis to simulate a flea bite. Immunohistochemistry was performed on tissues from all organ systems from a representative cat from each group to determine the distribution of Y. pestis bacilli during infection. In all seven cats, bubonic plague lesions were seen. The lesions of pneumonic plague were present in two cats. Septicemic plague was confirmed in all seven cats by bacteriologic culture. Aggregations of bacteria were seen in lymphoid tissue in all cats and in lung tissues from the two cats with pneumonic plague. The most consistent histologic finding was necrosuppurative inflammation in the lymph nodes. Invariably, Y. pestis bacteria were present in large numbers at affected sites. Orally infected cats had more numerous lesions in the lymph nodes of the head and neck regions. These experimentally induced cases of feline plague document that cats are unique among carnivores in exhibiting bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague following exposure to Y. pestis. The lesions of the orally infected cats were consistent with those previously described for naturally occurring Y. pestis infections in cats and corroborate the contention that cats most commonly contract plague by eating Y. pestis-infected rodents and not via flea bite. The histopathology of Y. pestis disease in these cats is comparable to that described for human plague.
[ link to www.vetpathology.org] Quoting: anonymous coward 808581 |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 682111 11/2/2009 2:46 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | This Ukraine is a good example of mass hysteria and panic.
Out of the 10's of thousands that have become ill over there...
According to the health ministry, only 22 cases, including one death, have been confirmed as the A(H1N1) virus, widely known as swine flu. The country's National Security Council however puts the number of dead at four.
This is what fuels the uncalled for mass hysteria and panic in other countries also.
Be smart and be safe. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 799645 11/2/2009 2:50 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AND CATS Quoting: anonymous coward 808581
Please don't blame cats. Next thing you know crazy people full of fear will be rounding them up and killing them en masse. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808820 11/2/2009 2:56 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
I live next to Ukraine, does this mean I am going to die? Oh please not now, not before I have sex with a woman. I am still virgin and too young to die.
Go have sex with a woman now then, I'm sure there are plenty
But remember, 93, that half the women there have TB, the other half have VD, so make sure you only fuck the ones that cough. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 808770
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| mr...bojangles User ID: 808736 11/2/2009 3:06 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
Bo.... don't feed the trolls...please Quoting: Anonymous Coward 808749
thousands of people read this forum...
everyday....
it`s for them... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 658663 11/2/2009 3:18 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | How ingenius! Hit people with the H1N1 flu virus AND the pneumonic plague at the same time - fucking brilliant! They are guaranteed to die then! |
| mr...bojangles User ID: 808736 11/2/2009 3:25 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
This Ukraine is a good example of mass hysteria and panic.
Out of the 10's of thousands that have become ill over there...
According to the health ministry, only 22 cases, including one death, have been confirmed as the A(H1N1) virus, widely known as swine flu. The country's National Security Council however puts the number of dead at four.
This is what fuels the uncalled for mass hysteria and panic in other countries also.
Be smart and be safe. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 682111
translation: the ministry of misinformation and manipualtion of actual facts....
do you actually beleive they will tell you exactly what is going on there?
the real facts come from people on the ground....
ministries have gag orders... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 658663 11/2/2009 3:32 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote | Here's some interesting information:
After World War II, both the United States and the Soviet Union developed means of weaponising pneumonic plague. Experiments included various delivery methods, vacuum drying, sizing the bacterium, developing strains resistant to antibiotics, combining the bacterium with other diseases (such as diphtheria), and genetic engineering. Scientists who worked in USSR bio-weapons programs have stated that the Soviet effort was formidable and that large stocks of weaponised plague bacteria were produced. Information on many of the Soviet projects is largely unavailable. Aerosolized pneumonic plague remains the most significant threat. The plague can be easily treated with antibiotics, thus a widespread epidemic is highly unlikely in developed countries.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Powdered Plague Vaccine?
Abstract : Single aerosol immunization of people with powder plague vaccine was accompanied by a weak general reaction. Double aerosol vaccination of people, carried out with a short interval between innoculations (5 days), was characterized by a somewhat higher reaction compared with the single vaccination. The reaction was significantly less pronounced than with a subcutaneous vaccination. The epictutaneous method of immunization, with respect to number and intensity of general reactions, corresponded to the single aerosol, but with respect to local reactogenicity it significantly exceeded the aerosol. The most pronounced sero-allergic shifts were noted in those persons who were innoculated twice; in addition the immunological effectiveness of the aerosol method of vaccination corresponded to the immunological effectiveness of the subcutaneous method. The immunological effectiveness of the single and double epicutaneous immunization is lower than the aerosol and subcutaneous. A further and more in-depth comparative study should be made of the ractogenicity and immunological effectiveness of the aerosol, subcutaneous and epicutaneous methods of immunization against plague.
[link to oai.dtic.mil] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 808847 11/2/2009 3:34 PM | | Re: Panic in Ukraine, Authorities deny aircraft are spraying aerosols over cities, Martial Law expected | Quote |
According to the health ministry, only 22 cases, including one death, have been confirmed as the A(H1N1) virus, widely known as swine flu. The country's National Security Council however puts the number of dead at four. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 682111
There are over 70 dead now. But I guess the other 50 don't count as it was not the H1N1 and since it was not the flu, it's ok for 50 people to die as they bleed into their lungs until they die? |
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