In reply to Post #192
quite worrying when you look back at the great plague of london and to think we arent capable of finding a vaccine for this

In reply to Post #174
then decide to save themselves a fortune & just tell everyone "dont touch rat piss....."
fair point that

In reply to Post #171
although if a vaccine for humans is available now, then i stand corrected.

hey, what do i know? surely with all of our govt experts a vaccine would have been developed a long time ago.......

In reply to Post #169
post 92 from ken reads........
Yes, you are correct, no vaccine exists, contrary to some opinions.

that leaves me a bit confused you see bryan

In reply to Post #167
whats innoculated oldfella read this elsewhere last night but there was only the term and not the meaning

In reply to Post #163
from a journalists point of view ken do you think that the other writers/ editors should stop telling people that washing their hands in lake water before handling their baits should be stopped? from my point of view i used to do this a lot but felt the need wasnt there so stopped doing it, what with working with masonry a lot i usually end up with a good handfull of cuts on my hands between monday and friday

In reply to Post #149
How many of us still put our boilie stops in our mouth when changing bait,?

im guilty as charged, i do it every bloody time
lesson learnt now

brilliant thread this one, what an eye opener and some brilliant tips for those of us who know nothing of this disease

one from about 7 years ago.........
i was fishing with my old mate elmo over harwood hall lake in upminster essex and we decided to turn in for the night so i walked the two swims back to my brolly leaving him in his tent. well as i was dozing off i heard a blood curdling scream of a young female possibly a girl followed a very short while later my phone rang and els was ****ting himself (i wasnt honest ) asking me if i heard it and as soon as i confirmed what i heard the scream happened again only it seemed worse than the last one . we ended up in a row because i refused to leave the brolley and go sit in his swim so i eventually dozed off. i woke up a short while later and as it was light i walked up to his swim to find him missing but his tent was still up which was confusing and as i had no credit i couldnt call to see wtf he was playing at so i went about packing his gear up when my phone rang to say he was on the main road where it was safe
it turns out that he heard the screams again whilst trying to wake me up to sit with me but i would not wake up so he just ran to the nearest streetlights
no idea where those screams came from but they were far from pleasent and i for one would not like to be in that situation ever again