6th Century Primitives Killed by 14th-Century Disease
Get your forks and plates, folks, because this story is filled with all sorts of tasty irony.
ANTI-TERROR bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror — the BLACK DEATH.
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.
The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaeda group outside the Middle East.
It trains Muslim fighters to kill British and US troops.
Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells — or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
These are, of course, the same men who are trying to destroy the modern world that gives us such things as rat-free houses, flea powder, literacy, the scientific method, and vaccines. You know, the kind of things that have kept us here in the Godless West free from festering buboes for the past few centuries.
The story comes from the UK’s Sun newspaper, which means we should take it with a grain of salt. But man is that grain delicious.
(via The Jawa Report)
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Category: Fighting the Islamists
I'm not really laughing here. The problem is that due to our own primitivists crusading against pharma and poor public health education leading everywhere, we're rapidly reaching the post-antibiotic age. That means that anything microbially nasty we haven't absolutely eradicated is going to make a comeback.
We're creating antibiotic resistance far faster than we're creating new antibiotics.
TMLutas – We still have a much cleaner standard of living. Single family homes, toilet paper, soap & clean water go a long way toward preventing the spread of such nasty bugs. That said, I think the anti-anti-biotic scare is over stated. Yes, the potential for problems was very real in the recent past…as a kid who took tons of anti-biotics, I know the over use has caused problems. But the idea that some super, anti-biotic resistant, deadly bug is going to wipe out a good portion of our population is still just a dooms-day theory that has not panned out; was based on computer models that, much like global warming non-sense, cannot account for all of the variables that keep us from getting sick.
Be sure you also read the first comment.
http://furtheradventuresofindigored.blogspot.com/…
Any updates on this yet? (I did read 1st comment on your post suek….interesting to say the least.)