Black Plague Cause - Articles
The Black death
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Garth M.
There are some very interesting turns of phrase in this letter which is in the Times today. Prof Morris Brown etal do not mince their words as blame is laid firmly at the door of PMETB, while there are some veiled comments regarding a certain infamous letter that was recently in the Times 'repudiating the democratic opposition': 'Doctors were then ...
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Plagued By Plagues? Part One
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Take Root and Write ..
The bubonic plague was a horrifying disease that swept through fourteenth century Europe killing a large portion of the population. It was dubbed the "Black Death" because its victims were marred with black boils of blood that festered beneath the skin due to internal bleeding. Symptoms of the insidious disease also included swollen lymph ...
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MRSA versus the plague
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Dr. Zagreus Ammon
While we are in the midst of a political and public relations panic, there is a story flying just under the radar that would be worthy of a real run-in-the-streets-screaming panic. A wildlife biologist from Massachusetts working in the Grand Canyon died of the plague. The story from a TV news outlet [for God's sake!] is more thoroughly reported an ...
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Plague in Arizona
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Dr. Erik McLaughlin
Nobody ever likes seeing their home state listed on Promed Mail. The Associated Press ran an article about a wildlife biologist, involved with the cougar tracking program that died near the Grand Canyon, November 2nd, 2007. Apparently, Eric York had performed a necropsy on the cougar, 3 days before his death.All his contacts were placed on prophyla ...
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The Plague
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EthidiumBromide
I thought I was safe. I thought, for once, I had escaped unscathed. Unharmed. Untouched. And then, I woke up yesterday morning, unable to breathe. The [name of PI] Lab Plague had officially struck. This happens, every fall, and then again around February. Someone brings in some unidentifiable flu-like disease. This is no normal cold -- it c ...
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Plagued
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John Gunn
So, I ran that race in April...then sprockets came unchained, springs came unwound and other assorted & sundry maladies befell this once intrepid runner. I made it all the way through my brutally cold winter runs unscathed only to be frustrated by a terrible Spring & Summer, so I've been exepectedly grumpy and "blogshy" as I've ha ...
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Plagued
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John Gunn
So, I ran that race in April...then sprockets came unchained, springs came unwound and other assorted & sundry maladies befell this once intrepid runner. I made it all the way through my brutally cold winter runs unscathed only to be frustrated by a terrible Spring & Summer, so I've been exepectedly grumpy and "blogshy" as I've ha ...
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The Plague the Plague!
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Girl Blue ..
Oh gods I'm plague ridden...no not the piggy, but the common cold (I think) sniffling but not runny nose, more clogged and refusing to allow air to pass, the occasional sneezing and coughing. Gods please misery, me out of now huh? *sniff* I am days behind in my NaNo, I am actually many thousands of words behind and at my present rate will need to ...
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Diabetes Plague?
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Elizabeth S.
In keeping up with my interest in the NY City Department of Health's policy for diabetes survelliance and evaluation for diabetes patients diagnosed and seeking medical care in all the NYC Boroughs, I saw this editorial tonight and thought I would post it. (The original article I posted was on 20 December 2005.) The author of the editorial, Dr. Ger ...
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The Plague? The Friggin' Plague?!?
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Jeremiah D.
I'm posting a link to this article, because, to put it simply, I had no idea. I mean, I knew that rats still carried the plague here and there, but I never knew that the threat of the plague was serious enough to actually merit mention in an article. Let's see, anything else to worry about? Anyone? Maybe tomorrow?
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