Six die as suspicions of anthrax mount in northern city WMD?

[seruriermarshal]

Six die as suspicions of anthrax mount in northern city (Iraq)

Mosul, Iraq Press, May 11, 2004 –Six people have died and many other are taken ill due to a disease whose symptoms doctors say resemble those caused by anthrax, according to hospital sources.


The sources, refusing to be named, said doctors in the Republican Hospital, the largest medical center in northern Iraq, suspect that the victims were exposed to anthrax.


They said a whole wing of the sprawling hospital has been cordoned off as doctors fear the disease might spread to other patients.


The sources said the doctors suspect that a patient brought to hospital two weeks ago was the cause of the disease.



Anthrax spreads quickly and the six patients were said to have caught the disease as they were being treated for other ailments in the hospital.


The patient who the doctors believe brought the anthrax was a shepherd and had already died, the sources said.


The hospital lacks means to battle the deadly disease.


But the medical staff and support personnel have already been inoculated against anthrax, they said.



There is much confusion in the hospital, the sources said.


Hospital officials have declined comment and would not go into details when asked about the causes of the latest deaths.


Iraq had confirmed that it made anthrax in the 1980s along with other germ warfare agents.


The former regime produced weapons-grade dry anthrax powder which it claimed to have unilaterally destroyed.



UN weapons inspectors failed to get conclusive evidence that Iraq had scrapped its biological warfare program on its own.



US-led weapons experts have so far failed to uncover any germ warfare agents.

[seruriermarshal]

From (http://www.iraqpress.org/english.asp?fname=ipenglish\2004-05-11\2.htm)

Perhaps some Iraqs hide WMD , so danger .

[EvanL]

Thats a crock of ****.
Anthrax isnt transmittable by humans.
Quit posting these retarded stories.
Whats the source of this one?
www.madcomics.com?

[memphiz]

Thats a crock of ****.
Anthrax isnt transmittable by humans.
Quit posting these retarded stories.
Whats the source of this one?
www.madcomics.com?
Word

[seruriermarshal]

Thats a crock of ****.
Anthrax isnt transmittable by humans.
Quit posting these retarded stories.
Whats the source of this one?
www.madcomics.com?

I believe , Perhaps the hospital has infected more patients in the course of treating .from a pdf document (http://www.myanmargeneva.org/NLM2004/Eng04/4Apr/p2/040401n.pdf)

[EvanL]

Thats a crock of ****.
Anthrax isnt transmittable by humans.
Quit posting these retarded stories.
Whats the source of this one?
www.madcomics.com?

I believe , Perhaps the hospital has infected more patients in the course of treating .from a pdf document (http://www.myanmargeneva.org/NLM2004/Eng04/4Apr/p2/040401n.pdf)the article says that he came in with symptons. Not with a bag of anthrax. If this was true, we would have seen something about it on the real news by now.

[seruriermarshal]

I hear that Iraqi have snatched away a lot of things after the war

[EvanL]

I hear that Iraqi have snatched away a lot of things after the war
Of course there was lots of looting.
And if Saddam still had WMD, im sure somebody has managed to get their hands on those as well.
BUt this article you posted has no credebillity.

[usa320]

Yes it does. Not once in the article did they say that Anthrax was transfered from person to person. Whats to say a bunch of insurgents trying to cram anthrax into IED's didnt **** up and come down with the disease?

[seruriermarshal]

Yes it does. Not once in the article did they say that Anthrax was transfered from person to person. Whats to say a bunch of insurgents trying to cram anthrax into IED's didnt f*** up and come down with the disease?

I'm afraid that's true ......

:(

[EvanL]

Anthrax also occurs naturally in the environment. I believe it is caused by rottin animal carcasses.
There is big problems in parts of Africa with elephants dying after drinking anthrax contaminated water.
If it is true due to the situation in Iraq right now, it would seem probable that it was terrorists or saddam hussein supporters. But lets not rule out freak accidents and natural causes.

[seruriermarshal]

Anthrax also occurs naturally in the environment. I believe it is caused by rottin animal carcasses.
There is big problems in parts of Africa with elephants dying after drinking anthrax contaminated water.
If it is true due to the situation in Iraq right now, it would seem probable that it was terrorists or saddam hussein supporters. But lets not rule out freak accidents and natural causes.

I don't know why once have six man .

[EvanL]

Anthrax also occurs naturally in the environment. I believe it is caused by rottin animal carcasses.
There is big problems in parts of Africa with elephants dying after drinking anthrax contaminated water.
If it is true due to the situation in Iraq right now, it would seem probable that it was terrorists or saddam hussein supporters. But lets not rule out freak accidents and natural causes.

I don't know why once have six man .
I dont understand.
Is english your first language?
Se Habla Espanol?

[seruriermarshal]

Anthrax also occurs naturally in the environment. I believe it is caused by rottin animal carcasses.
There is big problems in parts of Africa with elephants dying after drinking anthrax contaminated water.
If it is true due to the situation in Iraq right now, it would seem probable that it was terrorists or saddam hussein supporters. But lets not rule out freak accidents and natural causes.

I don't know why once have six man .
I dont understand.
Is english your first language?
Se Habla Espanol?

Ok , my meaning is if because freak accidents and natural causes , then perhaps only have 1 , 2 , or 3 men ill , but now more men .

[Trigger]

Thats a crock of ****.
Anthrax isnt transmittable by humans.
Quit posting these retarded stories.
Whats the source of this one?
www.madcomics.com?

Easy now Evan. We don't know nearly enough to call BS on this just yet. Yes Anthrax does occur in nature, but I believe the bacteria can be passed by contact or contact with contaminated surfaces.
Who knows...

[EvanL]

Thats a crock of ****.
Anthrax isnt transmittable by humans.
Quit posting these retarded stories.
Whats the source of this one?
www.madcomics.com?

Easy now Evan. We don't know nearly enough to call BS on this just yet. Yes Anthrax does occur in nature, but I believe the bacteria can be passed by contact or contact with contaminated surfaces.
Who knows...
Your probably right man.
i heard midgets can pass it along to one another through their pickled finger injections.......ewwwwwwwwwww

[Trigger]

OPSEC man! OPSEC! :cantbeli:

You're gonna blow the covers of our pickled midget infiltrators...

[EvanL]

Dude its not that big of a problem. They all look the same anyways. Large Forhead, pudgy limbs. you get the drift,

[Trigger]

Racist. p-)

[EvanL]

midgets arent a race.
there a subspecies p-)

[Trigger]

Well...that's different then.

Sub-speciest?? :lol:

[EvanL]

i think they come from a species of homo erectus, which is native to Russia.

[Trigger]

What??
Homos with erections??

Somebody get that thing off of Beowulf's back for Pete's sake!

...and bring a towel!