An outbreak of pneumonic plague has killed two people in China and forced the quarantining of a town of 10,000 to halt the spread of one of the world’s deadliest and most contagious diseases.

The first victim, a 32-year-old herdsman, fell ill a day after burying his dog, which had died suddenly. Two days later the man was dead. Of the friends and relatives who attended his funeral in the ethnically Tibetan region of Ziketan, in western Qinghai province, 11 soon fell ill.

One man, 37-year-old Danzin, a neighbour of the first victim, died on Sunday. Investigating medical authorities soon established that all were infected with pneumonic plague.

Those with the disease are being treated in isolation in a local Tibetan hospital while all 10,000 residents of Ziketan have been quarantined.

Life has become incredibly complicated since mid 2001 when I started writing about a 'predictive linguistics project run by Cliff High at www.halfpasthuman.com - although at the time, there was not HPH and Cliff was much more reclusive. Here lately, the linguistics have - since last spring - been pointing to an October 25/26 turn date which would lead to a period of extremely high building tensions from that 'turn date' until two or three weeks later, by which time we should all be able to look back over our shoulders and say "Damn! That's what a turn date's all about..." The hints are sketchy - but that's the nature of the technology. The event is supposed to be something on the order of 85% economic and 15% other and it arises from the GlobalPop portion of the modelspace, which means whatever it is, it should be more or less planet-wide and not just some series of events that puts the fear of God into some fraudsters and greedsters down on Wall Street (or in Washington, where they also seem drawn in sizeable numbers). today, my bet - subject to change at whim - is that the 'swine' flu story will be "IT" in retrospect. Not only did president Obama issue the national state of emergency right on schedule, but there has been steadily building concern around the topic such the by the end of the week, the shutting down of most of Europe comes into view as a 'nonzero' possibility and with that would come the fulfillment of economic impacts.

Now we go into deep background mode on this with an email I received from a particularly well informed reader who expects this will be one for the history books that should be watched closely: "This story may be the most important of our lifetimes. I'm a retired Ph.D. biochemist FYI. I conjecture that much of the coming troubles the web bot project speaks of may well arise from this new flu variant. I note that the first cases appeared a few days ago, just the length of the incubation period from October 25th. OK, a Mossad microbiologist warned two months ago that a new deadly flu bug was going to be released into Ukraine in two months. He got the place right, the bug right, and the time right.

Originally posted by ChemBreather
I dont know if any of you remember this thread, but check it out.

Entire town in quarantine after two die from pneumonic plague in China

An outbreak of pneumonic plague has killed two people in China and forced the quarantining of a town of 10,000 to halt the spread of one of the world’s deadliest and most contagious diseases.

The first victim, a 32-year-old herdsman, fell ill a day after burying his dog, which had died suddenly. Two days later the man was dead. Of the friends and relatives who attended his funeral in the ethnically Tibetan region of Ziketan, in western Qinghai province, 11 soon fell ill.

One man, 37-year-old Danzin, a neighbour of the first victim, died on Sunday. Investigating medical authorities soon established that all were infected with pneumonic plague.

Those with the disease are being treated in isolation in a local Tibetan hospital while all 10,000 residents of Ziketan have been quarantined.

I noticed in the article that the man was burying his dog, I know I saw some you tubes a few months back where they warned dog owners of giving flu shots to their dogs.. I cant remember who said it, but I will try to find the clip, I bet its gone though !

It is quite old... in fact it is more than five centuries old. But even though it is ancient, the origin of this song can be pinpointed very precisely within a 3 year period: 1347 - 1350. Between these three years, fully one third of Europe's population is estimated to have perished in what was called The Black Plague Children are resilient and ever adaptable. Imagine the children of the day, coping with the horror... and you can imagine the games they would play...