Subject: FW: Not a joke - read (Center of Disease Control)]]
> >
>> I'm passing this along because it sounds really scary, and comes
from
a reliable source. Debbie C.
> > >>> Subject:
Not a joke - read (Center of Disease Control)]]
> > >>> Date:
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:19:44 -0500
> > >>>> My husband works
at Merck's research facility and this warning was sent to them
and has been validated by the Center for Disease Control. I thought I should
pass it along to you...
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> >
>>>> Date: 02/15/2000 10:13
AM
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Please forward to
everyone you love!!
> > >>>>> I have checked the source
and it is VALIDATED FROM THE CDC.
> > >>>>> (center for
disease control in atlanta georgia)
> > >>>>>
Warning:
> > >>>>> Several shipments of bananas from
Costa Rica have been infected with necrotizing fasciitis, otherwise known as
flesh
eating bacteria. Recently this disease has decimated
the monkey
> > > population in Costa Rica. We are now just
learning that the disease has been able to graft itself to the skin of fruits in
the region, most notably the Banana which is Costa Rica's largest
export. Until this finding scientist were not sure how the
infection was being transmitted. It is advised not to purchase Bananas for
the next three weeks as this is the period of time for which bananas that have
been shipped to the US with the possibility of carrying this disease. If you
have eaten a banana in the last 2-3 days and come down with a fever followed by
a skin infection seek "Medical Attention"!!! The skin infection from
necrotizing fasciitis is very painful and eats two to three centimeters of flesh
per hour. Amputation is likely,death is possible.
> >
>>>>> If you are more than an hour from a medical center,
burning the flesh ahead of the infected area is advised to help slow the
spread of the infection. The FDA has been reluctant to
issue a country wide warning because of fear nationwide panic. They have
secretly admitted that they feel upwards of 15,000 Americans will be affected by
this but that these are acceptable numbers. Please forward this to
as many people you care about as possible as we do not feel 15,000 people is an
acceptable number.
Manheim Research Institute
Center for
Disease Control
Atlanta
Georgia
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