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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Hi all!

My subs perform well...

If my carriers didn't have bad luck, they would have no luck at all.

I like having my subs putting torpedoes into them
Unfortunately, my subs rarely survive meeting one of your ASW ships, while mine seem to be totally useless...

That's only fair, considering my subs are almost completely useless.

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I can't believe that the 'bad rap' (note quote by Oregon epidemiologist ) you Euros put on this innocent little pathogen has lasted for so long...

I'm going to hazard a guess that the origin of the infection was a rat flea? Call it a hunch.


State health officials say a woman in Lake County has been diagnosed with bubonic plague.

It’s the first diagnosis in Oregon in 15 years. The disease terrorized Europe’s population more than 600 years ago, but the plague is treatable when caught early.

The plague is extremely rare these days. It’s a bacterial infection carried by rodents, and is transmitted to humans though fleas.

Dr. Emilio DeBess is the public health veterinarian and an epidemiologist with Oregon Department of Human Services.

He says the disease, once known as the Black Death got somewhat of a bad rap after killing off a third of Europe’s population in the 1300s.

But he says thanks to scientific advances, it’s no longer a death sentence.

Emilio DeBess: “It’s a very treatable condition with antibiotics and so that’s usually not a concern, back then they didn’t have antibiotics. We do have very good antibiotics that treat the infection.”

Health officials have not released the name of the Lake County woman who fell ill at the end of August.

DeBess says authorities are now trying to determine the source of the infection.

Hey, pssst! "Euros" are money. You "Dollars" should finally get that through your thick skulls.

Euro's as in "Europeans".....Perhaps you'd perfer that we call you lot simply "Peans"? Or "peons?"

Well no kidding and duh... That's not the point. I think I'll start calling you "Cans"; then I can be just as lazy as you in my posting.

Europeans have for many years called us "Yanks" (and by that I mean other countries beside the UK). But If the abreviation bothers you, I'll certainly stop using it. I certainly never meant to give offense, and I'm most sorry if I did.

Kirk Lazarus: I know who I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!
Ron Swanson: Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Hi all!

My subs perform well...

If my carriers didn't have bad luck, they would have no luck at all.

I like having my subs putting torpedoes into them
Unfortunately, my subs rarely survive meeting one of your ASW ships, while mine seem to be totally useless...

That's only fair, considering my subs are almost completely useless.

You bastard are still putting dents into the hulls of my ships. One CVL, three or four CAs and a DD all are a little slower as their hull isn't perfectly shaped any more. Some hundred kg hitting them at high speed is no good for the shape

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Hi all!

My subs perform well...

If my carriers didn't have bad luck, they would have no luck at all.

I like having my subs putting torpedoes into them
Unfortunately, my subs rarely survive meeting one of your ASW ships, while mine seem to be totally useless...

That's only fair, considering my subs are almost completely useless.

You bastard are still putting dents into the hulls of my ships. One CVL, three or four CAs and a DD all are a little slower as their hull isn't perfectly shaped any more. Some hundred kg hitting them at high speed is no good for the shape

Maybe a few more dents in the hulls from dud torps will make them faster, like the dimples on a golf ball.

Kirk Lazarus: I know who I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!
Ron Swanson: Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Europeans have for many years called us "Yanks" (and by that I mean other countries beside the UK). But If the abreviation bothers you, I'll certainly stop using it. I certainly never meant to give offense, and I'm most sorry if I did.

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Europeans have for many years called us "Yanks" (and by that I mean other countries beside the UK). But If the abreviation bothers you, I'll certainly stop using it. I certainly never meant to give offense, and I'm most sorry if I did.

Why should anybody be insulted? Its not the words that insult, its the way they are ment...

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

He says the disease, once known as the Black Death got somewhat of a bad rap after killing off a third of Europe’s population in the 1300s.

Whoever said that MUST be British. I love the understatement.

Bigger boys stole my sig

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Europeans have for many years called us "Yanks" (and by that I mean other countries beside the UK). But If the abreviation bothers you, I'll certainly stop using it. I certainly never meant to give offense, and I'm most sorry if I did.

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to AW1Steve)

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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Europeans have for many years called us "Yanks" (and by that I mean other countries beside the UK). But If the abreviation bothers you, I'll certainly stop using it. I certainly never meant to give offense, and I'm most sorry if I did.

Why should anybody be insulted? Its not the words that insult, its the way they are ment...

Words have great power in our world (if magic ever did exist , it was in the power of words). Sometimes, like all powerfull things, they get out of control and can be destructive. If I get drunk and hit someone with my car, I didn't mean to hurt them, but I did none the less. And I would still be responsible. And if I inadvertantly offend someone, I'll let them be the judges of if the words are offensive or not. I'll apologize and not use the words again. If you recall, we went around about this ourselves a year or so ago. I still belive that it's up to the offended party to be the judge on wether or not he's offended. NOT the one doing the offending.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
He says the disease, once known as the Black Death got somewhat of a bad rap after killing off a third of Europe’s population in the 1300s.

There's quite a bit of unexplained discrepancies between the descriptions of the Black Death and our knowledge of bubonic plague. Enough that I quite doubt the Black Death was plague. All the arguments against them seem to boil down to 'the medievals were too stupid to describe what they were seeing correctly'.

If not plague, then what? The descriptions of symptoms seem quite consisent to me.

Got me. I'm no pathologist. But the rate of spread is way faster than bubonic plague. It's also possible it was a different form of the plague bacteria with different symptoms. We probably just don't know what it was in the end.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

I can't believe that the 'bad rap' (note quote by Oregon epidemiologist ) you Euros put on this innocent little pathogen has lasted for so long...

I'm going to hazard a guess that the origin of the infection was a rat flea? Call it a hunch.


State health officials say a woman in Lake County has been diagnosed with bubonic plague.

It’s the first diagnosis in Oregon in 15 years. The disease terrorized Europe’s population more than 600 years ago, but the plague is treatable when caught early.

The plague is extremely rare these days. It’s a bacterial infection carried by rodents, and is transmitted to humans though fleas.

Dr. Emilio DeBess is the public health veterinarian and an epidemiologist with Oregon Department of Human Services.

He says the disease, once known as the Black Death got somewhat of a bad rap after killing off a third of Europe’s population in the 1300s.

But he says thanks to scientific advances, it’s no longer a death sentence.

Emilio DeBess: “It’s a very treatable condition with antibiotics and so that’s usually not a concern, back then they didn’t have antibiotics. We do have very good antibiotics that treat the infection.”

Health officials have not released the name of the Lake County woman who fell ill at the end of August.

DeBess says authorities are now trying to determine the source of the infection.

Hey, pssst! "Euros" are money. You "Dollars" should finally get that through your thick skulls.

Euro's as in "Europeans".....Perhaps you'd perfer that we call you lot simply "Peans"? Or "peons?"

Well no kidding and duh... That's not the point. I think I'll start calling you "Cans"; then I can be just as lazy as you in my posting.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Well, pneumonic plague (caused by Yersinia pestis too) is a much nastier form of the disease (and more deadly) than the classic "bubos" that form with bubonic plague. You can have either form manifest in a population. Mercifully, the pneumonic form is less common.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Well, pneumonic plague (caused by Yersinia pestis too) is a much nastier form of the disease (and more deadly) than the classic "bubos" that form with bubonic plague. You can have either form manifest in a population. Mercifully, the pneumonic form is less common.

Yes, this one is a good candidate based on the reports of described symptoms of 'Black Death'. The one catch seems to be the lack of an explanation for the rapidness of contagion.

Don't know why I find this fascinating. Yes I do...I'm Martian.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

Don't know why I find this fascinating. Yes I do...I'm Martian.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


Sure, but we can handle climates bacteria can't.

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Europeans have for many years called us "Yanks" (and by that I mean other countries beside the UK). But If the abreviation bothers you, I'll certainly stop using it. I certainly never meant to give offense, and I'm most sorry if I did.

Why should anybody be insulted? Its not the words that insult, its the way they are ment...

Words have great power in our world (if magic ever did exist , it was in the power of words). Sometimes, like all powerfull things, they get out of control and can be destructive. If I get drunk and hit someone with my car, I didn't mean to hurt them, but I did none the less. And I would still be responsible. And if I inadvertantly offend someone, I'll let them be the judges of if the words are offensive or not. I'll apologize and not use the words again. If you recall, we went around about this ourselves a year or so ago. I still belive that it's up to the offended party to be the judge on wether or not he's offended. NOT the one doing the offending.

I'm European, and I can say I'm not offended, not even slightly.
Neither is the word "Euros" offensive, nore would anyone sane think that you intended to offend...

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


Sure, but we can handle climates bacteria can't.

No, I think it's that you finally found a place to run and hide where the BIG BAD bacteria aren't gonna get ya.

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Being from New York, living in Florida I get called a #$%^ yankee occasionally.