Algeria: Return of Black Death?Recently, there were reports an al-Qaeda affiliate abandoned a training camp in Algeria after 40 men died from being exposed to the plague during a biological weapons test. The report, which first published by the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, claimed members of al-Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb (AQLIM) abandoned their cave hideouts in Tizi Ouzou province Tizi Ouzou (Kabyle : Tizi Wezzu) is a wilaya in Algeria. Its capital is Tizi Ouzou. Other localities include Aghrib, Azazga, Mizrana, Soumaa, and Tadmait. Provinces of Algeria It added they apparently became infected while experimenting with biological weapons. The ordeal started after Algerian security forces discovered the body of a dead man alongside a road near the abandoned hideout. U.S. intelligence officials, speaking to the Washington Times newspaper, confirmed the sudden base closure after an unconventional weapons test went wrong. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. these officials, they intercepted an urgent communication in early January between the AQLIM leadership and al-Qaeda's top leaders in the tribal region of Pakistan. The Algerian side said they were abandoning and sealing off a training area after a leak of a chemical or biological substance. According to the National Post, there are two types of plague. Bubonic plague bubonic plague: see plague. bubonic plague ravages Oran, Algeria, where Dr. Rieux perseveres in his humanitarian endeavors. [Fr. Lit.: The Plague] See : Disease , which is spread by bites from infected rat fleas The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis) is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus, and is primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus. This occurs when the flea has fed on an infected rodent, and then bites a human. , killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century but can now be treated with antibiotics. Pneumonic plague pneumonic plague n. A frequently fatal form of bubonic plague in which the lungs are infected and the disease is transmissible by coughing. is less common but more deadly. It is spread, like the flu, by airborne bacteria, and can be inhaled in·hale v. in·haled, in·hal·ing, in·hales v.tr. 1. To draw (air or smoke, for example) into the lungs by breathing; inspire. 2. and transmitted between humans without the involvement of animals or fleas. 2009 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) 2009 Al Bawaba (Albawaba.com) Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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