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| 15 Jan 2013 01:07 PM |
| Yes, the historical sickness known as smallpox, and many more, such as pnuemonic plague, are likely to make a comeback when ancient carcasses thaw out. WIth the rapidly changing climate, new types of bacteria are also likely to form, thus forming a deadly sickness that could likely be transported world-wide by jets and planes. Hopefully the new bacteria won't be too harmfull, but small pox and pnuemonic plague sure will, especially if we don't make changes now. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:09 PM |
| sorry, i try to stick up for you but thisi s just silly |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:09 PM |
| Smallpox was eradicated. The only samples to exist are located in laboratories. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:09 PM |
| The only way for smallpox to come back is if the US or Russia decide to attempt biowar, and plague is treated with antibiotics easily. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:10 PM |
| "sorry, i try to stick up for you but thisi s just silly" As fast as the ice is melting, sickness frozen in by the ice will be released; thus reproducing and making a comeback. How is that silly? |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:11 PM |
| Being frozen kills cells, and i dont think most viruses survive long outside their host anyways. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:13 PM |
| "Being frozen kills cells, and i dont think most viruses survive long outside their host anyways." Smallpox lasts a long time, and viruses do last a long time outside there host, they are just inactive. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:18 PM |
| Smallpox only occured in humans and it was eradicated. You don't find frozen humans all that often, especially ones that had smallpox. Even more unlikely that the particles are still able to infect. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:20 PM |
| Pnuemonic plague still exists and it is treatable. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:22 PM |
| And evolution guarantees that new deadly diseases will come and will kill with or without global warming. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:22 PM |
| "Smallpox only occured in humans and it was eradicated. You don't find frozen humans all that often, especially ones that had smallpox. Even more unlikely that the particles are still able to infect." It actually is likely that there are frozen explorers, like in the glaciers of montana. Inside a rotting body, smallpox can last quite a while. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:26 PM |
| Fatalities would still stay under 100 even in the worst case scenario, sad, but not significant. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:26 PM |
| Yeah, ok. I believe you. This is so likely to happen and we must do something to stop frozen human bodies with smallpox from thawing in glaciers which are pretty much almost gone in Montana. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:28 PM |
| Also, when it did exist, smallpox was very easily treated and had a pretty good prognosis. It was eradicated through vaccination. Even if it did exist in frozen human bodies, which it doesn't, then it wouldn't even cause any loss of life. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:29 PM |
| smallpox was a horrible disease |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:29 PM |
| The chances of some terrorist releasing the Small Pox samples is higher than what your saying, worry about that before melting ice. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:34 PM |
| Everyone handling this dead body would survive because they would all be treated. Immediate treatment upon the first signs of infection succeeded 99% of the time. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:39 PM |
| "Yeah, ok. I believe you. This is so likely to happen and we must do something to stop frozen human bodies with smallpox from thawing in glaciers which are pretty much almost gone in Montana." This post was just an example of what global warming is doing to the planet, and its true that the glaciers are almost gone so... |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:40 PM |
| "Also, when it did exist, smallpox was very easily treated and had a pretty good prognosis. It was eradicated through vaccination. Even if it did exist in frozen human bodies, which it doesn't, then it wouldn't even cause any loss of life" Really? If it was so easily treated than why did presidents die from it? BECAUSE IT WAS HARD TO TREAT! |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:49 PM |
| Yeah, hundreds of years ago it was hard to treat, like every other disease. In the 20th century it was easily treated and a mass treatment and vaccination programme resulted in its eradication. Do you even think logically about anything you type out? |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:52 PM |
| We're not in the medieval ages, diseases won't just pop out of nowhere every now and then. We're clean, we use lots of soap, and eat with utensils. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:55 PM |
of course they do not pop out of nowhere. some diseases are created by human or evolve through nature. |
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| 15 Jan 2013 01:56 PM |
| Also, which presidents died from it? |
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| 15 Jan 2013 02:03 PM |
| George washington and such |
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| 15 Jan 2013 02:08 PM |
| George Washington didn't die from smallpox. No USA president has. |
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