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Post by xeo on Dec 22, 2005 9:09:34 GMT -5
i think the disease came from the plane we saw from nigeria.... when the people from the plance crashed and met with the people in the island they somewhat spread the disease which will spread in close quarters and prolonged human contact. also, children are most vulnerable with this kind of disease and in africa they have what they called the african meningitis belt in which the highest meningococcal disease outbreak back in 1996.
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Post by xeo on Dec 22, 2005 9:32:06 GMT -5
meningoccocal diseases was first described in1805 and swept through GENEVA SWITZERLAND..also thhe disease can result in permanent brain damage, hearing loss, learning disability,  [glow=red,2,300]limb amputation[/glow], kidney failure or death |
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Post by xeo on Dec 22, 2005 9:36:20 GMT -5
maybe danielles group stumbled upon the first who carried the disease and got into contact not knowing it was affecting them except danielle then they all died because they didnt have any meds and montan lost his arm due to his sickness.
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Post by xeo on Dec 22, 2005 9:37:58 GMT -5
also..boone nearly lost an arm too.because jack wanted to cut it off so that the infection wouldnt spread...im not sure heheh
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Post by Annie on Dec 22, 2005 10:32:42 GMT -5
To lose an limb from meningococcal disease, someone has to cut it off. What happens is the patient gets septic and then loses blood flow to unnecessary parts of the body (arms and legs). Drugs used to keep blood pressure up in a septic patient make this worse. Tissue dies, dry gangrene sets in, and then the gangrenous part needs to go.
Boone's issue was injury related tissue damage. Danielle said Montand lost his arm in the dark territory on the way to the Black Rock. "This is where Montand lost his arm."
The whole meningococcal thing is weird. Unless they really wanted to get Meningoccemia or Meningococcal meningitis, it is fairly easily prevented. There is a vaccine and if one has known exposure, there are effective preventive antibiotics. In Danielle's case, I could see their not having any of those things available and all contracting the disease. In the case of the Dharma people, I don't get it. One case identified and the rest of the people would take preventive measures.
Unless . . . Hanso is breeding a superbug that is resistant to antibiotics and is different enough that the vaccine doesn't work. That might be a possibility because the producers said they "Basically took Stephen King's The Stand and put it on an island."
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Post by xeo on Dec 22, 2005 15:09:31 GMT -5
i never read the stand..so it might be possible....maybe that was the incident.the outbreak of meningitis on the island..it doesnt affect animals just humans.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 22, 2005 15:32:23 GMT -5
So...I know it is a little away from the Disease line that it is going on, but I wanted to back up my theory more. In Walkabout, Jack asks Kate why she keeps wanting to go into the "Heart of Darkness." once again, refrencing the Book Apocalypse Now is based on.  |
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Post by xeo on Dec 22, 2005 22:14:29 GMT -5
never had the time to read those books...
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 22, 2005 23:18:16 GMT -5
Heart of Darkness is a good book...Disturbing, but good  |
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Post by heyes on Dec 22, 2005 23:34:06 GMT -5
I always get disturbed when I read books with "war-like" connotations. Call me one of those next generation hippies, but I detest war and conflict with a fiery passion. I read Catch-22 this summer and just wept at the chapter concerning Snowden's death and Yossarian's scarring. I found the book so funny right up to that point, when it was all put into perspective. I don't think I could handle something as intense as Heart of Darkness, even if the plot doesn't surround a real war. I suppose it's my loss. It does sound interesting.
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Post by Annie on Dec 23, 2005 10:53:25 GMT -5
Jeremy, do you think there is a demi-god hiding out there in the heart of darkness on the island? Maybe Marvin Candle? Eh? Eh?
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Post by rasalghul on Dec 26, 2005 6:33:35 GMT -5
Hi everybody This is my first post, so I hope I'm not going to be boring ! Well I wanted to say that all the discussion about Lost amputation theme reminds me of The X-Files whe they brought up the Black Oil Alien Disease. There was an episode where Mulder and Krycek, a bad guy, went to Russia or one of the satellite countries and got contaminated with that disease. Mulder has been cured miraculously (of course) but the bad guy got captured by strange people in the woods and cut his left arm (I think?). I don't remember what the whole story was, but in the X-Files mythology the Black Oil was an extraterrestrial disease that everybody wanted to find a cure, even the aliens as they wanted to conquer earth by spreading the disease. I don't know if anybody has made the connection. Of course, I don't think that what's happening in Lost, it would be too obvious ! |
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Post by Annie on Dec 26, 2005 18:02:39 GMT -5
Welcome, and very interesting. Maybe we need to look at the Scottish Alien theory again. See other thread. That would be a tie in for the amputations that we haven't had before for that one.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 26, 2005 18:26:26 GMT -5
Jeremy, do you think there is a demi-god hiding out there in the heart of darkness on the island? Maybe Marvin Candle? Eh? Eh? Maybe Mr. Degroot went mad after his wife died, and set up a little kingdom where "the others" worship him. I do think (possibly) that (it could be) the longer they stay on the Island, the more like "the Others" they become. Kinda Like Willard and Kurtz... hmmm... something to think about  |
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Post by Jay on Dec 27, 2005 7:25:21 GMT -5
Welcome rasalghul, Batman is one of my two favorite comic book series. *hands rasalghul a broken transceiver and a gun with one bullet* Hope you enjoy our crazy boards  |
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