[quote= BBC News]
Anthrax has been found in two heroin users from Glasgow - one of whom has died in hospital.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the man died in the city's Victoria Infirmary on Wednesday. A woman being treated there has also tested positive.
A second man with "serious soft tissue infections" is being tested at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Police believe contaminated heroin or a contaminated cutting agent may be responsible for the infections.
We would like to reassure people that our purpose is to recover this substance in the interests of public safety. It is not about targeting drug users
Strathclyde police spokesman
Dr Syed Ahmed, consultant in public health medicine, said: "I urge all drug injecting heroin users to be extremely alert and to seek urgent medical advice if they experienced an infection.
"While this section of the community need to be on their guard the risk to the rest of the population - including close family members of the infected cases - is negligible.
"It is extremely rare for anthrax to be spread from person to person and there is no significant risk of airborne transmission from one person to another."
The health board said it would investigate cases of drug injecting heroin users who presents with serious soft tissue infections now or during the last four weeks.
Strathclyde police said it was vital that if there was a contaminated batch of heroin on the streets that it was traced and recovered.
A spokesman added: "Our number one priority is the safety and wellbeing of everyone in our communities.
"We would appeal to drug users to come forward if they have any information that may enable us to trace its source.
"We would like to reassure people that our purpose is to recover this substance in the interests of public safety. It is not about targeting drug users."
Anthrax is an acute bacterial infection most commonly found in hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and goats.
It normally infects humans when they inhale or ingest anthrax spores, but cannot be passed from person to person.
The last death from anthrax in Scotland was in 2006 when Christopher Norris died after inhaling the spores.
The 50-year-old craftsman, from Stobs, near Hawick, made drums with materials such as untreated animal hides.
Last November, drum-maker Fernando Gomez, who is thought to have inhaled anthrax spores while handling imported animal skins, died in hospital in London.
The 35-year-old Spanish folk musician had been in the intensive care unit for several days.
Five people died and 17 others were ill in a series of anthrax attacks in the US in 2001.
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That's what you get for being anti-social. (Hidden pun :smugdog:)
Some drugs are OK in my opinion.
But once you inject yourself with something, you basically just fucked up your whole life.
[QUOTE=phill977;19017145]Some drugs are OK in my opinion.
But once you inject yourself with something, you basically just fucked up your whole life.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, especially if you inject yourself with Anthrax - Fucking crazy shit that is.
This just in: Anthrax found on scottish heroin addict's iPods. High fives ensue.
[QUOTE=evilking1;19017003]That's what you get for being anti-social. (Hidden pun :smugdog:)[/QUOTE]
That's an Anthrax song, right?
[QUOTE=LazyBoy;19019306]That's an Anthrax song, right?[/QUOTE]
Just what I thought
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t0affoV5rI[/media]
[QUOTE=lettuce_head;19017333]This just in: Anthrax found on scottish heroin addict's iPods. High fives ensue.[/QUOTE]
I have Anthrax on my iPod and I'm Scottish.
What does this mean?
Us Scots are real men, we take anthrax to get a high cause heroine is for pussies
[QUOTE=Kondor;19019352]Us Scots are real men, we take anthrax to get a high cause heroine is for pussies[/QUOTE]
All drugs are for pussies except weed.
[QUOTE=ZaurZawrZore;19019450]All drugs are for pussies except weed.[/QUOTE]
And alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and endorphins.
Can't stop thinking about Trainspotting.
It's a dick move by the drug producers however, and a strange one too. Anthrax is actually ridiculously difficult to produce, more so than heroin.
[QUOTE=Theater;19019811]It's a dick move by the drug producers however, and a strange one too. Anthrax is actually ridiculously difficult to produce, more so than heroin.[/QUOTE]
Are you kidding, in scotland even flour has anthrax in it to bulk it out
Perhaps it's a time to legalize to end this kind of shit :)
[QUOTE=dcalde78;19019344]I have Anthrax on my iPod and I'm Scottish.
What does this mean?[/QUOTE]
high fives ensue, didn't you read it?
[QUOTE=Theater;19019647]And alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and endorphins.[/QUOTE]
I agree actually, since I never have taken any of them (except caffeine) - I just know they do not kill and much safer then other drugs.
The drugs that do kill are for pussies, who the fuck would want to "shoot up"?
[QUOTE=Kelju;19019923]Perhaps it's a time to legalize to end this kind of shit :)[/QUOTE]
Legalizing heroin? The fuck is wrong with you?
Considering most heroin is farmed in Afghanistan...
[QUOTE=lettuce_head;19019978]high fives ensue, didn't you read it?[/QUOTE]
Oh, I was hoping for something more awesome than a high five, not to say that a high five isn't awesome though.
:hfive:
[QUOTE=gufu;19020032]Legalizing heroin? The fuck is wrong with you?[/QUOTE]
I think he means legalize Anthrax.
[QUOTE=Deadollie;19020309]I think he means legalize Anthrax.[/QUOTE]
But anthrax is already legal, I'm listening to it now. Unless he DOES mean heroin, in which case he needs to go to a madhouse.
Terrorists.
:jihad:
So we should be allowed to fuck up our brain chemistry with alcohol, lung capacity with tobacco, eat as much fat, salt and sugar as we want and totally fuck up our bodies..
But when someone wants to do heroin, he has to buy it from some shady cunt who cuts it with anthrax, instead of being able to buy it from his local pharmacy?
Heroin isn't as bad as media claims it to be, and we use morphine as medicine anyways so what's the problem?
[QUOTE=Kelju;19022647]Heroin isn't as bad as media claims it to be, and we use morphine as medicine anyways so what's the problem?[/QUOTE]
Heroin is bad. Highly addictive. Plus, the way they inject morphine in hospitals is done in a very safe way. Unlike in a torn down house full of disease infected drug addicts shooting up and sharing their needles.. You know, being all dirty anyway. So what's the problem?
If you used that quote as an argument to legalize heroin, well then good luck. Won't happen.
Dumdidam, did you know that most people who actually use heroin for recreational use don't inject =)
[QUOTE=varj;19023139]Heroin is bad. Highly addictive. Plus, the way they inject morphine in hospitals is done in a very safe way. Unlike in a torn down house full of disease infected drug addicts shooting up and sharing their needles.. You know, being all dirty anyway. So what's the problem?
If you used that quote as an argument to legalize heroin, well then good luck. Won't happen.[/QUOTE]
If drugs were sold by the government it wouldn't be a source of income for a criminal industry.
Well, that's it. Half of the population is now fucked beyond belief (as if the drugs weren't already doing them problems now they have THIS to worry about).
Cleary scottish druggies are just [b]REALLY FUCKING HARDCORE[/b]
"Oi, me smacks nay giving high, slide me tha' fookin anthrax mate!"
Meth is worse.
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