RETURN OF THE BLACK DEATH

After Richard's bones are found, we now find out about the return of the Black Death.  


Return of the Black Death: Boy, 15, dies after eating groundhog infected with bubonic plague in Kyrgyzstan

Fifteen year-old Temirbek Isakunov died after contracting disease from eating infected groundhog
Three people who had contact with teen have displayed symptoms

More than 800 people have been screened in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

By WILL STEWART IN MOSCOW

PUBLISHED: 10:46 EST, 27 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:54 EST, 27 August 2013

An outbreak of the deadly bubonic plague has tormented the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan after the death of a 15-year-old boy.
Three more people showed symptoms of the 'Black Death', and in total 131 came into contact with the victim.
More than 800 people have been screened in the town of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

More than 800 people were screened in the town of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan in the wake of the boy's death
The disease wiped out tens of millions in 14th century Europe.
It was reported that 15-year-old Temirbek Isakunov died after eating a barbecued groundhog infected with the lethal virus, yet another account suggests he became infected after being bitten by an oriental flea carried by a marmot that he reportedly prepared for food.
Eastern districts of the mountainous country were in 'lockdown' last night as officials sought to prevent the plague spreading.

Neighbouring Kazakhstan has warned residents not to travel to the country for fear of contracting the disease
Neighbouring Kazakhstan urged its people not to travel to the country, and introduced 'special monitoring' of those crossing the border.
Three villagers who were in contact with the dead teenager - a woman with a toddler and a teenager - show symptoms of bubonic plague, admitted a government source.
Symptoms include fever and swollen lymph nodes in their armpit and neck areas.
'They had contact with the deceased 15-year-old,' said the government source.
The outbreak is in the easternmost district of Ak-Suu in the Central Asian country, bordering China, where more than 800 people have been screened.
Emergency officials have gone door to door in the boy's village searching for signs of infection which is more common among animals than humans.
The country's health ministry last night played down the threat, saying there was no evidence the disease had spread beyond the boy who died.
The Ak-Suu district, which borders Kazakhstan and China, lies close to the Issyk-Kul lake and is a popular tourist destination.
Chaos apparently jeoprodised treatment of the boy, leading to a failure to initially diagnose the cause of his illness.
'While fighting for the life of the teenager, doctors gave the boy 17 different drugs which made it difficult to make an accurate diagnosis,' admitted Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry.

The bubonic plague killed tens of millions in the 14th century in Europe. The 15 year-old Temirbek Isakunov reportedly contracted the disease after eating infected groundhog
As many as 19 doctors are among those being monitored for signs of the disease. All have been put in quarantine and are undergoing preventative treatment.
Groundhogs are a natural carrier of the deadly disease and were targeted for extermination in the Soviet Union, but the Kyrgyz authorities stopped poisoning them from 1982 onward due to the costs involved.
'The teenager turned for medical aid in the district hospital with the health complaints for running temperature and bubonic inflammations on August 22,' said the healthy ministry in capital Bishkek.
'He was immediately taken to hospital in the surgery ward.
The bubonic plague was only detected after he died.
Health minister Dinara Saginbayeva said: 'There will not be a bubonic plague epidemic.
'The form of the disease in the teenager is not conducive to a plague epidemic. So there are no grounds for closing the borders.'


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I find the thought of eating barbecue'd groundhog rather nasty at the best of times, never mind one with Black Death...

Health minister Dinara Saginbayeva said: 'There will not be a bubonic plague epidemic.

Statements like that are generally the cue for everyone to panic. An outbreak of Black Death just as anti-biotics start failing would just put the tin lid on everything.

Coming to an NHS hospital near you...

Funnily enough about the illustration Bonny. Have almost finished Dan Brown's new book Inferno. This touches on population control and the......Black Plague.   Spooky.......

Ah well, it may reassure you to know that those outfits did work, mostly. They worked like medieval Hazmat suits...because they were made of leather, and tied in at the neck, etc., plague-bearing fleas couldn't get in so close for a bite.

The long beaks helped too, not because of the herbs, but because the afflicted couldn't actually sneeze on the wearer. And the glasses stopped direct infection, too.

They weren't entirely bugproof, but did help, just not for the reasons the wearers thought.

That is really interesting, Bonny. Sort of beneficial unintended consequences?

Yes, I don't think they actually cured anyone, but by keeping their patients at beak and stick's length, they were protecting themselves, though they didn't know it.

So, if all else fails, you know what to do, Lily! I expect vinyl would be acceptable today, and much lighter than wearing large quantities of cow.

Ye gods! Vinyl.  

As long as the clothes are not like Madonna's or Lady Gaga's?         

PS I do have some Venetian masks available if anyone is interested....... 

Have they got beaks? Beaks stuffed with herbs are essential, to prevent you from fainting at the miasma of smelly dead people.  

Will shove some beaks on them stuffed with nice herbs. Will that do?    

You're good to go! Who needs the CDC when you've got a nice handful of dried parsley?

   

We iz wonderful, Bonny. We can save the world.       

I've got some Lesser Crested Newts if anyone's interested.

Won't it be a bit crowded in the beak with all that parsley, Sabot? Or do you put them on your plague buboes?  

You eat them, Silly.

            

PS. Of course. With garlic, butter and the parsley. Like snails .  

I'm sure you will all be relieved to know we now have a Forum Doctor on standby in case anyone starts developing Black Buboes.



Dr B. Alrick demonstrates a sure cure for the ague.

He is also an Expert on Sweating Sickness, the Spanish fever, leprosy, cankle of the sword-arm, miasmic vomits and the Great Pox.

bb1 wrote:I'm sure you will all be relieved to know we now have a Forum Doctor on standby in case anyone starts developing Black Buboes.



Dr B. Alrick demonstrates a sure cure for the ague.

He is also an Expert on Sweating Sickness, the Spanish fever, leprosy, cankle of the sword-arm, miasmic vomits and the Great Pox.

Wot? He can even protect us against Bennett? Sign him up immediately.

Hallelujah brothers and sisters. We shall be saved........

....... from The Great Pox. I never did much fancy The Great Pox. Not even covered in chocolate.

Just as well Sabot, what with someone else in luuuuurve with him.