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Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin'
#13428083 - 11/03/10 10:18 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11685984
Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin'
A drug user in Kent is critically ill in hospital after injecting heroin contaminated with anthrax, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has confirmed.
The agency said it was the fifth case of a drug user in England becoming ill with anthrax, which is a severe bacterial infection.
Health chiefs said there was no risk to the general population or even family members of the patient.
Heroin users who display symptoms have been advised to seek medical advice.
Dr Mathi Chandrakumar, the director of Kent Health Protection Unit, said: "It is extremely unlikely that this form of anthrax can spread from person to person.
"We continue to see occasional cases of this serious infection among injecting drug users, following a cluster of cases earlier this year.
"Exposure to anthrax is now one of a number of risks that drug users are exposed to." Anthrax spores
The HPA said it would not release details of the drug user's sex or age due to patient confidentiality.
Anthrax is a rare bacterial infection most commonly found in hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and goats.
The HPA said there have been 47 confirmed cases of anthrax infection among drug users in Scotland since December 2009.
It said the likely cause of infection was a contaminated agent used to cut the heroin.
Symptoms of anthrax infection include a high temperature, chills, a severe headache or breathing difficulties, the HPA said.
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: dwpineal]
#13428160 - 11/03/10 10:34 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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would not have this problem if there was a legal REGULATED market for drugs !!!
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: dwpineal]
#13428534 - 11/03/10 12:04 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yup but that wont happen.
Meh my dream is to one day collectively buy an island with a large group of like minded people. Make it into our own psychedelic country. Probably will never happen
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#13429748 - 11/03/10 04:07 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is no accident.
The people who had this happen to them were systematiccaley exposed because of grudges/unpaid debts/ etc.
A dealer in New york city told me that they would execute junkies by giving them heroin with strichnyne in it.
There is no way a contaminated cut would accidentally have anthrax in it.
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: shroomie_glen]
#13429890 - 11/03/10 04:39 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I am suspicious as well, but doubt many heroin dealers have the means or interest in specifically loading anthrax into a shot. Stricnine, ricin all much simpler to use for that purpose.
Sounds to me like the politics of the source should be examined.... Extremists perhaps, trying to poison the pig junkies of the free world. That, or scare/terror tactics of drug war enthusiasts in the US
I don't know who else would have motive to collect and handle anthrax.
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#13429926 - 11/03/10 04:46 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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tymoteusz3 said:
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Yup but that wont happen.
Meh my dream is to one day collectively buy an island with a large group of like minded people. Make it into our own psychedelic country. Probably will never happen 
I could get in on that... Send me a PM if that ever goes down!
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#13430140 - 11/03/10 05:20 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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tymoteusz3 said:
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Yup but that wont happen.
Meh my dream is to one day collectively buy an island with a large group of like minded people. Make it into our own psychedelic country. Probably will never happen 
im down for the island too, imagine a place where the man didnt/coudnt fuck you from every possible angle. we could blow and export glass, farm, fish and possibly even have a small tourist industry. iv searched buy islands online but i dont know how you would buy and have complete legal control over it. its not completely impossible, we would just have to sell a shit load of mushies before we flee...
also i read somewhere that according to international law shrooms arnt illegal, so we have that going for us as well...
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: Dickhead]
#13431013 - 11/03/10 08:11 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Cultivated anthrax spores are a white powder. Pure heroin is a white powder. A really shady person might end up in possession of both white powders and accidentally mix them.
Hopefully this is an accident. I hope heroin dealers don't have ready access to anthrax
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Re: Kent drug user ill after taking 'anthrax heroin' [Re: AnastomosisJihad]
#13431519 - 11/03/10 10:20 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anyone can have access to anthrax.
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