Outbreak of deadly anthrax claims lives of 13 heroin users

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Daily Record (Scotland)
By Tim Bugler
Oct 25 2010

SCOTLAND'S junkies have been hit by a killer plague - the deadliest outbreak of anthrax in the country for 50 years.

Thirteen people have died and 34 have been infected in cases from Dumfries to Tayside since last December, according to figures published yesterday.

Some of the survivors have needed plastic surgery to repair skin lesions.

Anthrax is so lethal it has been used in the past as a biological weapon.

All the victims of the outbreak are drug users who injected themselves, suggesting the cause is a batch of contaminated heroin - but officials say they have not definitively traced the source.

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Seriously. What else besides legalizing can prevent this?


Thing is, it's an accepted risk by the prohibitionists. :\
 
ain't a thing -plenty more will chase the dragon and flame out . junk comes from asia . asian's have a bone to pick with western cultures and religious superstitions .
you gotta expect this to be a vector of guerrilla warefare offense in the outlook of fundamentalist whack outs over there.
their superstitions suck just as mightily as western superstitions do - fuck a bunch of gods !
 
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A) Over 90% of the worlds heroin now comes from Afghanistan, middle east not asia.
B) While its the middle east that hates westerners and not asia for the most pat, they still aren't the ones responsible. The contaminated dope never would have made it to the west, because contaminated dope is bad for business. and none of the major traffickers would have been happy about it. If it was afghanis out to kill westerners with dope, they would have brought the supply of "killer dope" (har har) to America and not Scotland.

If it was the dope itself that these dope heads got it from, than it would have been contaminated on a much more localized scale. Most likely accidentally - however either way it would have been done by a very small time dealer in comparison so global traffickers.
 
This shit has been going on since the beginning of the year: I've seen February 2010 articles stating six Scottish heroin users had died of anthrax. Yet there has been comparatively little coverage. I don't even remember hearing much about it from BL's enthusiastic British community. Imagine what kind of coverage this would be receiving if it had been thirteen upstanding subjects of the Queen, not just a bunch of junkie scum.

UK health authorities can thank their lucky stars that not many of their users are snorting heroin. If that shit ever made it over here, every prep school in New Jersey would be facing a tidal wave of inhalation anthrax cases.
 
^You're thinking of the Smallpox virus which has supposedly been eradicated but for to two labs one in Russia and the other in the states. Anthrax, a bacteria strain, is still around. Most common fear is when you open up a letter and find it contains a white powder.
 
what the fuck is wrong with people nowadays, selling anthrax as heroin. come on people get it together
 
The speculation is that it's because they bury the gear in the ground, and animals will have died on that ground, the Antrax soaks into the soil and then the gear. Purely accidental, but still shit.
I thought this went away but then again there's always the chance of it happening again n again n again :|
 
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