Epidemic
The best assessment possible about the coronavirus outbreak [Video]
A new piece on the LiveScience website covers recent developments in the biggest single current newsmaker around the world, the COVID-19 “coronavirus” outbreak. In listening and reading news from many sources, it appears that there is definitely great concern over this virus, but it is not always clear exactly why this is so.
A ‘Perfect Storm’ of Bio-War Agents and Climate Change
There are several military and civilian medical research facilities around the world that either maintain stocks of dangerous pathogenic viruses and bacteria for research, clandestine development of biological warfare weaponry, or both. With early scientific predictions that man-made global climate change would result in the creation of optimum environments for viruses dangerous to both humans and animals, with mutative viruses jumping from species to species, resulting in pandemics, the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China has already had dramatic consequences.
Your Chance of Developing Symptoms or Dying From the Menacing Coronavirus That Now Threatens Global Human Populations Is 0.0000017482% Symptoms/0.0000001137% Death
My email box fills with questions: what about the coronavirus epidemic? Is death on its way from Asia to the West? There is no vaccine for this viral scourge. Will our infants who have no antibodies against this virus die? Will vulnerable and frail senior adults be whisked off in ambulances to hospital intensive care units, never to return home as they drown from fluid in their lungs (pneumonia)?
But coronavirus it is just a common cold virus.
Is Another Black Death on the Way?
Eric S. MARGOLIS
Plagues from the east are nothing new. The Black Death and other epidemics arrived in Europe from China during the 1300’s, killing a large percentage of its population. Much of this pestilence came from rats that stowed away on merchant ships coming from the east.
At the end of World War I, another pandemic, wrongly called the Spanish flu, killed an estimated 18 to 50 million people in Europe and North America.
Swine Flu Now Spreading in Yemen as Health System Crumbles under Saudi Attack
SANA’A, YEMEN — Twenty-eight-year-old Mohammed Nasher al-Rajwai is the typical face of the emerging swine flu pandemic in its more serious stages. In Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, he lay in the critical care unit of al-Azal Hospital on 60th Street.
His family prays and stands vigil. For nearly ten days, Mohammed was fighting for his life. His wife said:
California Declares State of Emergency Over Hepatitis Outbreak that Has Killed 18 People
Hepatitis A is commonly transmitted by eating contaminated food, but California’s outbreak is spreading from person to person, predominantly among the homeless community and drug users. [...]
Yemen Cholera Epidemic Hits More Than 300,000 People
(MEE) — A 10-week cholera epidemic has now infected more than 300,000 people in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday, a health disaster on top of war, economic collapse and near-famine in the impoverished country.
Tennessee Counties Sue Opioid Makers Using Local “Crack Tax” Law
Drugs from a Pharmacy Health Shop (Photo via epSos .de/flickr)
Germany Announces Mandatory Vaccinations For Children
A two component vaccine against swine flu is seen at the pharmacy of the university hospital in Essen, Germany. AP/Martin Meissner)
Fines of up to €2,500 ($2,800) could await parents in Germany who fail to vaccinate their children, as panic and an ongoing outbreak of measles spread like wildfire across the nation.
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