Why we should be more careful ...

[Black Orchid]

This is the alarming moment that paramedics in hazmat suits were forced to board a plane in Mongolia amid fears of a bubonic plague outbreak.

Emergency workers intercepted the domestic flight at the airport in the capital Ulaanbaatar, after a husband and wife died of the contagious disease in the region where the flight originated.

According to reports they had eaten contaminated meat from a marmot, a large squirrel.

Eleven passengers from the west of the country were held at the airport and sent immediately for hospital checks while others were examined at the airport.

Paramedics in anti-contamination suits boarded the flight from provincial outposts Bayan, Ulgii and Khovd as soon as it landed.

Some 158 people have been put under intensive medical supervision in Bayan-Ulgii province after coming into contact directly or indirectly with the couple who died.

Some frontier check points with Russia are reported to have been closed leading to foreign tourists being stranded in Mongolia.

A man named Citizen T, aged 38, died on April 27 after hunting and eating marmot meat.

His pregnant wife, 37, died three days later, reported The Siberian Times, leaving their four children orphaned.

according to the World Health Organisation.

It is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is usually found in small mammals and their fleas.

The bacterium was linked to the Black Death which wiped out more than a third of Europe's population in the 14th century and to subsequent plague outbreaks.

The disease is now treatable with antibiotics but hundreds of people have died of it around the world in recent years.

Since the 1990s, most human cases have occurred in Africa, according to world health bosses.

[Black Orchid]

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas and transmitted between animals.

The bubonic plague - the most common form - is caused by the bite of an infected flea and can spread through contact with infectious bodily fluids or contaminated materials.

Patients may show signs of fever and nausea and at an advanced stage may develop open sores filled with pus.

It devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, most notably in the Black Death of the 1340s which killed a third or more of the continent's population.

After the Black Death plague became a common phenomenon in Europe, with outbreaks recurring regularly until the 18th century.

When the Great Plague of 1665 hit, a fifth of people in London died, with victims shut in their homes and red crosses painted on the door.

Bubonic plague has almost completely vanished from the rich world, with 90 per cent of all cases now found in Africa.

It is now treatable with antibiotics, as long as they are administered quickly.

Still, there have been a few non-fatal cases in the U.S., with an average of seven reported a year, according to disease control bosses.

From 2010 to 2015 there were 3,248 cases reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, says the World Health Organisation.

Some plague vaccines have been developed, but none are available to the general public.

The WHO does not recommend vaccination except for high-risk groups such as health care workers.

Without antibiotics, the bubonic strain can spread to the lungs – where it becomes the more virulent pneumonic form.

Pneumonic plague, which can kill within 24 hours, can then be passed on through coughing, sneezing or spitting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... golia.html

With the advent of ease of world travel should we have more stringent tests for those who arrive in our country?

In Sydney we are now seeing outbreaks of Tuberculosis, Measles and Whooping Cough which we haven't seen in decades.

The world is already overpopulated but will disease that we have fought so hard to eradicate be spread worldwide now? This can kill in 24 hours and whilst antibiotics will control it who the heck thinks they would have Bubonic Plague and get treatment/results within 24 hours?

[billy the kid]

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas and transmitted between animals.

The bubonic plague - the most common form - is caused by the bite of an infected flea and can spread through contact with infectious bodily fluids or contaminated materials.

Patients may show signs of fever and nausea and at an advanced stage may develop open sores filled with pus.

It devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, most notably in the Black Death of the 1340s which killed a third or more of the continent's population.

After the Black Death plague became a common phenomenon in Europe, with outbreaks recurring regularly until the 18th century.

When the Great Plague of 1665 hit, a fifth of people in London died, with victims shut in their homes and red crosses painted on the door.

Bubonic plague has almost completely vanished from the rich world, with 90 per cent of all cases now found in Africa.

It is now treatable with antibiotics, as long as they are administered quickly.

Still, there have been a few non-fatal cases in the U.S., with an average of seven reported a year, according to disease control bosses.

From 2010 to 2015 there were 3,248 cases reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, says the World Health Organisation.

Some plague vaccines have been developed, but none are available to the general public.

The WHO does not recommend vaccination except for high-risk groups such as health care workers.

Without antibiotics, the bubonic strain can spread to the lungs – where it becomes the more virulent pneumonic form.

Pneumonic plague, which can kill within 24 hours, can then be passed on through coughing, sneezing or spitting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... golia.html

With the advent of ease of world travel should we have more stringent tests for those who arrive in our country?

In Sydney we are now seeing outbreaks of Tuberculosis, Measles and Whooping Cough which we haven't seen in decades.

The world is already overpopulated but will disease that we have fought so hard to eradicate be spread worldwide now? This can kill in 24 hours and whilst antibiotics will control it who the heck thinks they would have Bubonic Plague and get treatment/results within 24 hours?

This is an excellent thread topic...
My question would be..."how can we trust our politicians to do something about it..."
Which of our politicians would have the brains to handle this......
Of course it would mean reducing immigration quotas from 3rd world countries, wouldnt it....
The outbreaks of diseases in Sydney are obviously occurring due to being contracted overseas...
Our politicians wouldnt have the brains to realise this could be happening, let alone start a vetting process
immediately...

[brian ross]

With the advent of ease of world travel should we have more stringent tests for those who arrive in our country?

Couldn't agree more, Black Orchid. You should not be allowed to travel without a current vaccination certificate, showing that you have been vaccinated against all diseases (where a vaccine is available).

In Sydney we are now seeing outbreaks of Tuberculosis, Measles and Whooping Cough which we haven't seen in decades.

I tend to blame the anti-vaxxers for that predicament, rather than immigrants. Immigrants are required to undergo vaccination before they are allowed to migrate to Australia, Black Orchid.

The world is already overpopulated but will disease that we have fought so hard to eradicate be spread worldwide now? This can kill in 24 hours and whilst antibiotics will control it who the heck thinks they would have Bubonic Plague and get treatment/results within 24 hours?

In Australia, such treatment is readily available around the country, Black Orchid. Bubonic Plague is easily treatable with fairly common antibiotics. The danger is it being spread by contact with a diseased person. Plague was once fairly common in Australia, just as it was elsewhere round the world because of European colonisation. It was caused by fleas biting diseased rats, which were fairly common. The last outbreak I am aware of was in Sydney in ~1900, in the Rocks and similar slum areas. The best answer of course is to not allow rats to become so populous that the cat population cannot deal with them. Prevention is always better than cure.

Who remembers the Plague outbreak in Eastern India/Bangladesh in the early 1990s? It was contained and treated fairly easily.