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HEPATITIS OUTBREAK IN SAN DIEGO KILLS 17

Posted by L A on Monday, October 2, 2017, In : Pestilences

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HEPATITIS OUTBREAK IN SAN DIEGO KILLS 17

San Diego recently requested emergency services from Homeland Security due to a hepatitis A epidemic that has killed 17 and sickened at least 421 people.

Crews wearing hazmat suits were spraying sidewalks with bleach on Friday to help curb the disease outbreak.

The disease is spread through urine and feces and the epidemic has been blamed on lack of restrooms and sanitation for a large community of homeless living in Sa...

110 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE STDs

Posted by L A on Sunday, October 1, 2017, In : Pestilences

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110 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE STDs

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections are increasing and there are an estimated 110 million people being treated for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States.

Gonorrhea infections increased 22.2 percent from 2015 to 2016 among men, and 13.8 percent among women.

The number of chlamydia cases increased 4.7% from 2015 to 2016. One ...

SUPER MALARIA SPREADING IN ASIA

Posted by L A on Thursday, September 28, 2017, In : Pestilences

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SUPER MALARIA SPREADING IN ASIA

A drug-resistant strain of malaria, dubbed “super malaria,” is spreading quickly in Southeast Asia and scientists are warning it could be a global threat.

A team studying the spread of malaria at the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok said,

“It presents one of the greatest threats to the control and elimination of malaria.”

Professor Nicholas White said,...

REFUGEES BROUGHT 20 DISEASES TO THE US

Posted by L A on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, In : Pestilences

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REFUGEES BROUGHT 20 DISEASES TO THE US

Dr Elizabeth Lee Vliet recently wrote an article for World Net Daily (WND), articulating how refugees brought 20 diseases, as well as fungal and parasitic infections to the United States, which have been ignored by the media.

Dr Vliet said many of these diseases carried into the US have previously been eradicated, or rarely seen here.

According to the July 2017 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Annual Report by the Robert K...

GONORRHEA PANDEMIC IN OREGON

Posted by L A on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, In : Pestilences

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GONORRHEA PANDEMIC IN OREGON

There seems to be a gonorrhea pandemic in Oregon, according to recent headlines, but are we surprised, or shocked?

As I read the story, I couldn’t help think about the fact that it was Oregon that required an employer to refer to their employee as “they,” even though that transgender person was just one person.

It seems the employee decided to become a she/he transvestite, calling herself/himself “transmasculine and gender...

MORE THAN 300 DIE IN 72 HOURS

Posted by L A on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, In : Pestilences

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MORE THAN 300 DIE IN 72 HOURS

On Monday, news sources reported that more than 300 people died of a sweeping cholera epidemic in Ethiopia within a 72-hour period, and thousands more are at a life-threatening stage, with no health support available.

Families in more remote areas reportedly are finding their relatives dead while attending livestock. Some have been found days after succumbing to the disease, having been ...

FLESH EATING PLAGUE AFFLICTING MUSLIM NATIONS

Posted by L A on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, In : Pestilences

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FLESH EATING PLAGUE AFFLICTING MUSLIM NATIONS

A flesh eating disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis, is afflicting hundreds of thousands throughout Muslim nations in the Middle East, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan.

The disease is caused by sand fly bites, which results in disfiguring open sores and lesions.

These Muslim nations are in the same area of the ancient Kingdom of Babylon, against which nation it has already been prophesied,

“Beca...

GONORRHEA SUPER BUG - UNTREATABLE

Posted by L A on Wednesday, December 30, 2015, In : Pestilences

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SCIENTISTS REPORT SUPER GONORRHEA OUTBREAK WHICH IS UNTREATABLE

Scientists say super gonorrhea has been added to the other untreatable sexually transmitted diseases, which are HIV, Herpes and Hepatitis B.

Scientists report that soon there will be no treatment for gonorrhea because it has become resistant to treatment.

Most people reportedly have no symptoms, so many cases go untreated and people are infecting unsuspecting partners.

The New York Daily News ...

AIDS DEATHS AMONG ASIANS DOUBLES IN TEN YEARS

Posted by L A on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, In : Pestilences

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AIDS DEATHS AMONG ASIANS DOUBLES IN TEN YEARS

Deaths due to AIDS among adolescents in the Asia Pacific region have more than doubled since 2005.

UNICEF suggested Asian countries should allow teens to obtain HIV testing without parental consent, alluding to this being a primary cause of the deaths.

No, UNICEF, sexual deviance causes AIDS and death, not lack of testing to find out if one has AIDS!

The report pointed out that the Asian Pacific adult population...

CDC REPORTS ‘ALARMING’ INCREASE IN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

Posted by L A on Wednesday, November 25, 2015, In : Pestilences

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CDC REPORTS ‘ALARMING’ INCREASE IN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

The Center for Disease Control reported more than 1.4 million cases of chlamydia were diagnosed last year, and federal officials reported on Tuesday, “syphilis and gonorrhea have exploded in recent years” (emphasis added).

“Certainly, this is the first time since 2006 that all three of our notifiable sexually transmitted diseases have increased. Some of the increases are quite alarm...

WOMAN ARRIVES IN US FROM INDIA WITH DRUG RESISTANT TB

Posted by L A on Thursday, June 11, 2015, In : Pestilences

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WOMAN ARRIVES IN US FROM INDIA WITH DRUG RESISTANT TB

Excerpts taken from WashingtonPost.com

Health officials in at least three states are attempting to track down people who may have been exposed to a resilient form of drug-resistant TB.

A woman, whose name has not been released, arrived in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport from India in April with a highly contagious drug-resistant TB.

Tuberculosis kills one...

"...and there shall be pestilences..."

Posted by L A on Friday, April 10, 2015, In : Pestilences

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HIGHLY FATAL POWASSAN VIRUS STRIKES

Excerpts taken from CBS New York

Doctors have warned that Powassan virus, contracted from ticks, kills one in three people and there is no cure.

Dr. Daniel Cameron, President of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, said that if you are bitten by an infected tick you can get the virus within a matter of minutes and symptoms are severe.

You can get headaches, vomiting, weakness, confusion, seizure...

DOES BIG PHARMA CONTROL THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY?

Posted by L A on Sunday, April 5, 2015, In : Pestilences

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DOES BIG PHARMA CONTROL THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY?

How much clout does the pharmaceutical industry have among healthcare providers? Let’s put it this way, the same pharmaceutical company trillionaires who manufacture drugs, vaccines and the like, are the same megarich gangsters that through billions of dollars in grants to universities, oversee and train healthcare professionals and fatten the pockets ...

WHO REPORT: WEST AFRICA’S EBOLA DEATH TOLL SURPASSES 10,000

Posted by L A on Thursday, March 12, 2015, In : Pestilences

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WHO REPORT: WEST AFRICA’S EBOLA DEATH TOLL SURPASSES 10,000

West Africa’s known death toll has surpassed 10,000, according to the World Health Organization’s statistical data released on Thursday.

Deaths were reported in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal, Nigeria and Mali; in addition to a small number of deaths reported in the United States, Spain and Britain.

The deadly hemorrhagic fever has reportedly been contained so far in Senega...

EVIDENCE SHOWS OBAMA’S OPEN BORDER POLICY FUELED EV-D68 EPIDEMIC

Posted by L A on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, In : Pestilences

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EVIDENCE SHOWS OBAMA’S OPEN BORDER POLICY FUELED EV-D68 EPIDEMIC

Barack Hussein Obama’s move to allow tens of thousands of illegals to cross the US-Mexico border fueled the deadly enterovirus EV-D68 epidemic, which spiraled out of control across the US, afflicting thousands of children, paralyzing about 50 children with polio-like symptoms and killing nine to date.

Top health officials admitted that a mounting body of genetic and statistical evidence lead...

NEW YORK CITY DOCTOR TESTS POSITIVE FOR EBOLA

Posted by L A on Friday, October 24, 2014, In : Pestilences

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NEW YORK CITY DOCTOR TESTS POSITIVE FOR EBOLA

Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old New York City doctor, who had been treating Ebola patients in Guinea, has tested positive for Ebola since returning to the US 10 days ago.

Craig Spencer, MD, is a "doctor without borders" and he needs our prayers. His fiance has also been quarantined and she needs our prayers as well.

EMS crews retrieved Dr Spencer from his NYC apartment wearing “F Suits,” which cover the entire b...

TODDLER DIES IN MICHIGAN FROM ENTEROVIRUS D-68

Posted by L A on Monday, October 13, 2014, In : Pestilences

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TODDLER DIES IN MICHIGAN FROM ENTEROVIRUS D-68

Another child has died from enterovirus D-68, a respiratory virus that is spreading widely among children throughout the US.

Twenty-one-month-old Madeline Reid succumbed to the virus on Friday at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.

Last week, four-year-old Eli Waller of New Jersey passed on in his sleep after contracting enterovirus D-68.

A 10-year-old girl died in Rhode Island about two weeks ago from en...

TESTS CONFIRM US HEALTH WORKER CONTRACTED EBOLA – WITH HAZMAT SUIT ON!

Posted by L A on Monday, October 13, 2014, In : Pestilences

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TESTS CONFIRM US HEALTH WORKER CONTRACTED EBOLA – WITH HAZMAT SUIT ON!

A nurse who wore protective gear while taking care of Thomas Eric Duncan, who recently died, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has tested positive for Ebola.

Duncan was allowed to fly into the US from Liberia where the disease is rampant.

Another unidentified man who flew into the US from Ebola-stricken Liberia with Ebola symptoms is currently under quarantine in Boston.

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THERE SHALL BE...PESTILENCES

Posted by L A on Sunday, October 5, 2014, In : Pestilences

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THERE SHALL BE...PESTILENCES

The DrudgeReport.com headlines today sums up just a few dreaded pestilences we are dealing with throughout the world and in the United States today:

Child Killed By Enterovirus

Four-year-old Eli Waller died in his sleep and was later diagnosed with Enterovirus D68, or EV-D68, which has spread to 43 states. This virus put hundreds of children in the hospital and has caused paralysis in dozens more throughout the US. Why do you ...

FIRST CASE OF EBOLA HITS USA

Posted by L A on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, In : Pestilences

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FIRST CASE OF EBOLA HITS USA

On Tuesday, the CDC confirmed the first case of Ebola to hit the US has surfaced in Dallas, Texas.

Officials reported at a press conference that the patient diagnosed with Ebola in Texas returned from a visit to Liberia on September 20^th. The patient didn’t immediately display symptoms (which is typical of this deadly disease) and wasn’t admitted to the Presbyterian Hospital until September 28!

Worse yet, the patient went to the...

CDC CONFIRMS RESPIRATORY ILLNESS HAS SPREAD TO 16 STATES

Posted by L A on Thursday, September 18, 2014, In : Pestilences

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CDC CONFIRMS RESPIRATORY ILLNESS HAS SPREAD TO 16 STATES

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Virginia is the latest state to report a respiratory illness, enterovirus 68, among children.

This new pestilence is sweeping the nation and has afflicted children in 16 states, the average age being six.

Why children, no adults? In the event this news hasn’t already raised a red flag in people’s minds, let me suggest that it is children w...

EBOLA EPIDEMIC...TO PANDEMIC?

Posted by L A on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, In : Pestilences

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EBOLA EPIDEMIC...TO PANDEMIC?

The US State Department ordered 160,000 hazmat suits...160,000..., while the CDC is telling healthcare providers to exercise “precaution...and use the ‘buddy system,’” (whatever that means).

Do you suppose the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing? Or, maybe the right hand is telling the left hand to do what they have to do...quietly...“we don’t want to alarm anybody.”

This reminds me of the time when ...

EBOLA DEVOURING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH

Posted by L A on Friday, September 12, 2014, In : Pestilences

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EBOLA DEVOURING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH

Excerpts taken from WashingtonPost.com

The United Nations announced, “The rate of (Ebola) acceleration is now picking up dramatically.”

The defense minister of Liberia said, “Liberia is facing a serious threat to its national existence. The deadly Ebola virus has caused a disruption of the normal functioning of our state. Ebola is now spreading like wildfire, devouring everything in its path. The already weak health inf...

WORST DEADLY EBOLA OUTBREAK IN HISTORY – US ON HIGHEST ALERT FOR POSSIBLE PANDEMIC

Posted by L A on Friday, August 8, 2014, In : Pestilences

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WORST DEADLY EBOLA OUTBREAK IN HISTORY – US ON HIGHEST ALERT FOR POSSIBLE PANDEMIC

Excerpts taken from CBSNews.com

CBSNews.com reported on Wednesday that the World Health Organization announced 887 people have died from the Ebola virus, but a doctor in West Africa said many cases have gone unreported.

The doctor, whose identity was not released due to confidentiality, said the disease is “spinning out of control in Africa.” He believes the number of fatalit...

WHO: EBOLA OUTBREAK WORST EVER

Posted by L A on Friday, July 4, 2014, In : Pestilences

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WHO: EBOLA OUTBREAK WORST EVER

Excerpts taken from WND.

The United Nations has issued a statement reporting that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the current Ebola outbreak is the worst ever.

Eleven Health Ministers from various nations began a two-day emergency meeting in Ghana on Wednesday to discuss their concerns over an uncontrolled pandemic.

The outbreak has been traced to cases having occurred in March 2014, which spread throughout Gu...

EBOLA OUTBREAK IN GUINEA – DEATH TOLL RISES TO 59

Posted by L A on Monday, March 24, 2014, In : Pestilences

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EBOLA OUTBREAK IN GUINEA – DEATH TOLL RISES TO 59

Excerpts taken from MSN News

Experts in West Africa were baffled over the last six weeks, as people began dying with a rash of fatal symptoms in Guinea, with diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding; but scientists studying samples in France identified an outbreak of Ebola on Saturday.

The epidemic is raging in southern Guinea and of 80 cases, 59 patients have already died since Feb...

ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL CLOSED – 230 SICK

Posted by L A on Saturday, March 15, 2014, In : Pestilences

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ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL CLOSED – 230 SICK

Nearly 200 students and 30 staff members became ill with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea at John Adams Elementary School, over a period of two days. The school was closed on Friday, March 14, 2014, after about 200 students and 30 staff called out sick.

The Alexandria (VA) Health Department states the most likely cause is norovirus.

I believe they failed to mention that the mercury, formaldehyde, diseases grown in aborted fet...
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H1N1 PANDEMIC WARNING

Posted by L A on Monday, February 3, 2014, In : Pestilences

URGENT NOTICE!

Government agencies are pushing for vaccines against H1N1 right now, in light of recent deaths caused by the flu.

I received an email today from Assemblyman Tim Donnelly about recent deaths caused by H1N1 and his notice included an advisory on the vaccine.

I promptly responded to his email to inform him of the 23 seniors killed by CVS flu shots, Drs Len Horowitz and Saputo's warnings against vaccinations, along with a link to the International Medical Council on Vaccinatio...

POLIO OUTBREAK FEARS IN WAR-TORN SYRIA

Posted by L A on Tuesday, October 22, 2013, In : Pestilences

What does the Word say about Damascus?

Excerpts taken from BBC News Health

The World Health Organization says it has received reports of the first suspected outbreak of polio in Syria in 14 years.

The Ministry of Public Health in Syria reported the disease will be hard to control amid the civil unrest.

At least one-third of the country’s public hospitals are not in operation and up to 70% of the healthcare workers have fled some areas.

The country suffers overcrowding, poor sanitati...

Say "NO" to Vaccines!

Posted by L A on Monday, March 4, 2013, In : Pestilences

Note: The same Illuminati who want to cull the population of the world by 93 percent, own the pharmaceutical companies.

There are times when they create drugs to heal, but there are also times when their drugs kill. Can you tell the difference?

This is an excerpt taken from an analysis written by Eleanora I. McBean, PhD, ND, which has been widely publicized on the internet (holistic-helper.com, educate-yourself.org, and others):

I was an on-the-spot observer of the 1918 influenza epidemic. All...
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Yellow Fever Kills 107, 500 Million More At Risk

Posted by L A on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, In : Pestilences

PESTILENCE IN AFRICA

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Darfur region, which killed 107 in the past six weeks, and they warned that the disease could spread all over the country, reported Aljazeera.

The number of deaths from the outbreak is steadily rising. Officials reported that 67 people died last week alone. There is no medicinal cure for yellow fever, which is spread by mosquitoes. Doctors treat the symptoms, dehydration, fever, bleeding and ...
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Meningitis Cases Still on the Rise

Posted by L A on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, In : Pestilences

Fungal meningitis
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced yesterday that a recent outbreak of fungal meningitis has infected 285 people, killing 23 in the United States. The health department also announced that there is no end in sight to the outbreak.

The outbreak is thought to have spread from steroids infected with fungal meningitis, which was produced by a Massachusetts pharmacy. The CDC estimates that 14,000 people may have been exposed to the tainted steroids.

The particular s...
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Gonorrhea Superbug Warning - Antibiotic Resistant and a Global Health Threat

Posted by L A on Friday, October 12, 2012, In : Pestilences

Approximately 106 million people are infected with Gonorrhea every year (700,000 in the US) and it is becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. Fewer of those infected are responding to the treatments which once killed it.

The last resort drug, cephalosporin, has become largely ineffective, so we are about out of options, according to the WHO (World Health Organization). Antibiotic-resistant cases have shown up in Aus...
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California Squirrel Tests Positive for Plague

Posted by L A on Thursday, October 11, 2012, In : Pestilences

A ground squirrel collected in Riverside County by authorities tested positive for plague bacteria.

The squirrel was captured and tested last month at a campground north of Idyllwild, located in the San Jacinto Mountains in Southern California, reported CNN. Routine tests are completed because the plague is endemic to the area.

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. People can become infected with the plague by handling infected animals, or by being bitten by a flea carrying t...
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Nearly 7,000 School Children Sick Throughout Germany!

Posted by L A on Sunday, September 30, 2012, In : Pestilences

Massive numbers of school children throughout Germany are suffering from vomiting and diarrhea. The Robert Koch Institute, the federal agency responsible for disease control and prevention in Germany, said that over 6,700 cases of school children with gastrointestinal illnesses have been reported within the last four days throughout Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia.

All schools where the outbreak occurred have likely received food from the same company, Sodexo, and that the illness...
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West Nile Virus Death Toll Rising

Posted by L A on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, In : Pestilences

87 people have died across the US from the West Nile virus so far this season, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, and there are 1,993 confirmed cases. 54 percent of these cases are neuro-invasive, or resulting in meningitis or encephalitis.

The virus hit 48 states in the US and is most commonly spread through mosquito bites. The illness can take six weeks to incubate before rapid acute respiratory and organ failure. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea, rash, chills, sho...
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West Nile Virus Cases Rise 40 Percent in One Week

Posted by L A on Saturday, September 1, 2012, In : Pestilences

Detroit, MI: In 2011, 34 people were infected with the West Nile virus and there were two fatalities. There have been 80 confirmed cases and five fatalities already this year in Michigan alone.

At least 1,590 people have been infected with WNV in the United States so far this year and 66 have died. We are dealing with a severe outbreak of the disease in the US. It is, in fact, the worst WNV outbreak in the US since it first appeared here 13 years ago. Even so, scientists claim th...
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Texas Declares Public Heath Emergency - West Nile Virus Kills 9

Posted by L A on Sunday, August 12, 2012, In : Pestilences

Dallas, TX: Health officials in Dallas declared a public health emergency after nine people died from the West Nile virus so far this year, stating the virus has become an epidemic.

The West Nile virus is primarily transmitted through mosquito bites. It originates from the West Nile region of the East African nation of Uganda. In 80 percent of cases, the virus is initially asymptomatic. Symptoms later include fever, headache, chills, excessive sweating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weakness, ...
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Ebola Outbreak in Uganda - 14 Deaths

Posted by L A on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, In : Pestilences

Fourteen people have died in western Uganda in the last three weeks, since an Ebola outbreak hit that nation. The president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni urged people to avoid physical contact, after the deadly virus claimed one life in their nation's capital, Kampala.

Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases in the world. It is spread through close personal contact and it kills about 90% of those who become infected. President Museveni said relatives and friends should not bury someone who...
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Shigella Outbreak in New York

Posted by L A on Friday, July 13, 2012, In : Pestilences

The Onondaga County Health Department in Syracuse, New York, said the number of Shigella cases is now 45, up from 25 reported June 22. The number of gastrointestinal diseases, Shigellosis, continues to rise in the central New York area. The source of the outbreak is still unknown.

This month's newsletter (Newsletter page) is about the pestilences Jesus said would be prevalent when He returns, "Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences, a...
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E.Coli Outbreak Across Six States in the US

Posted by L A on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, In : Pestilences

Health officials in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee reported cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli 0157:H7. The illness has been reported in these six US states since April 15 and the most recent was reported on June 4, the Centers for Disease Control reported. Fourteen people have been infected and one 21-month-old girl died in New Orleans. The source of the infections has not been identified.

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Dengue Fever Kills Dozens in Yemen

Posted by L A on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, In : Pestilences

An epidemic of Dengue fever has infected approximately 1200 people in Hodeidah, Yemen, and 30 people have died. Local residents of Hodeidah are demanding that the Minister of Health be dismissed for his total disregard of the outbreak and his failure to take measures to contain the disease. The disease is spread by mosquito bites.

Medical teams that have been asked to assess the disease outbreak in Hodeidah are threatening to suspend their activities for lack of payment. Officials of t...
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Chagas Disease May Be New HIV/AIDS to the Americas According to Epidemiologists

Posted by L A on Thursday, May 31, 2012, In : Pestilences

Chagas disease, an illness transmitted by biting insects, has been compared to HIV/AIDS in some respects, according to a report published in the journal PLoS. The editorial, authored by specialists in tropical diseases from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, states, "Endemic Chagas disease has emerged as an important health disparity in the Ameri...

Measles Outbreak Kills 9 Children in Rayagada, India

Posted by L A on Monday, May 7, 2012, In : Pestilences

TimesofIndia.IndiaTimes.com (excerpts): Koraput, India - At least nine children have died in the past 15 days in Rayagada, India. The State Health Department collected blood samples of a few affected children on Saturday for laboratory tests.

Kasipur, which often makes news for poverty, malnutrition, diarrhea and cholera related deaths has been witnessing a flurry of measles outbreaks in Salapash, Katraguda, Railighati villages under Kudipari panchayat.

Commentary: It is very sad that mu...
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Swine Flu Pandemic Invades India

Posted by L A on Saturday, May 5, 2012, In : Pestilences

New Delhi - The swine flu clocked 1,000 deaths in India and the numbers are expected to increase as the dry weather continues, reports Bikyamasr.com. The most affected states viz. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka Rajashthan are among thirteen states affected. The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the deaths have come despite government efforts to contain the disease. Swine flu was declared a pandemic three years ago by the World Heath Organizatio...
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Mystery Illness: Vietnam Working to Identify Killer Disease

Posted by L A on Saturday, April 28, 2012, In : Pestilences

HuffingtonPost.com (excerpts): Hanoi, Vietnam - Vietnam has asked international heath experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in an impoverished district in central Vietnam, an official said Friday. The infection has affected mostly children and young people. It begins with a high fever, loss of appetite and a rash that covers the hands and feet. Patients who are not treated early can develop liver problems and eventually face multio...
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Schools Cancel Classes Due to Flu Outbreaks

Posted by L A on Monday, March 12, 2012, In : Pestilences

Kentucky only shows a regional outbreak of flu, but there are six states in the US with widespread outbreaks, according to this US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map.
AP: Henderson, KY - Officials with Henderson County School District told The Gleaner that Bend Gate Elementary School would be closed Thursday and Friday due to an outbreak of flu. District spokeswoman Danielle Crafton said the hope is to stop the spread of the virus. Crafton said the decision to cancel classes came...
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Bird Flu Spreading Throughout Asia - India

Posted by L A on Sunday, March 11, 2012, In : Pestilences

Over 50% of H5N1 patients die: Most H5N1 patients suffer from lung injuries and their lungs will not be able to recover completely, doctors report. This type of flu appeared in Viet Nam for the first time in 2004, and 50% of their patients have died from H5N1 complications.

Viet Nam - Ministry warns of pandemic bird flu outbreak in Viet Nam: Although the ministry of health has continually warned the public not to consume sick, dead or undercooked poultry or water fowl in Viet Nam, people ...
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Crows Dying in Bihar, India from Bird Flu

Posted by L A on Monday, February 20, 2012, In : Pestilences

The Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) revealed that crows are dying in the Gaya district because of bird flu. According to reports, crows are continuing to die across the state. Hundreds of crows have died in Bihar in the last six weeks in Gaya, Banka, Nawada, Jamui, Bhahagalpur, Munger, and Aurangabad. The Animal Husbandry Department in Bihar has asked people not to touch dead crows. They advertised in news ads alerting people to keep away from crows. Last mon...
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More Outbreaks of Bird Flu in Viet Nam

Posted by L A on Thursday, February 16, 2012, In : Pestilences

An additional 3,300 ducks and chickens have been culled since yesterday's report.
ThanhNienNews (excerpts): Bird flu has spread further in nine Vietnamese locations, with new infected flocks reported in Hai Phong and four more provinces, an agricultural official said. Van Dang Ky, Head of the Epidemic Department at the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, said a series of outbreaks have been discovered in Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen and Bac Giang in the Mekong Delta. The virus was pre...
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5,500 Chickens Culled in Itahari, Jhapa, After 3,500 Died From Bird Flu in the Past Week, Nepal

Posted by L A on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, In : Pestilences

MyRepublica.com by Amar Khadka (excerpts): After it was confirmed that more chickens of PK Poultry farm in Itahari were infected with bird flu, 4,853 chickens were culled on Sunday. Eggs and chicken feed have also been destroyed completely. Just a week ago, 3,500 chickens had died of the H5N1 virus at the farm. Similarly, 700 fowls were culled in Jhapa after the virus was detected among chickens at Pathamarei, Arjundhara and Charpane.

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Bird Flu Deaths Pose Serious Threat in Vietnam

Posted by L A on Tuesday, February 14, 2012, In : Pestilences

VietNam News (excerpts): The ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development and Health have warned of a possible large scale outbreak of bird flu in the near future. Viet Nam News reporters Thu Hien and Thanh Hai talked to experts about the main causes of the disease's resurgence and prompt measures to prevent its spread.

Dr. Santanu K. Bandyopadhyay, Team Leader Avian Influenza Program, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Viet Nam: In northern Viet Nam and p...
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Mexico Reports 3,000 Cases of Swine Flu and 58 People Have Died

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Sunday, February 5, 2012, In : Pestilences

The Ministry of Health reports 3,000 cases of swine flu (H1N1) in Mexico since the beginning of the year and the number of people infected is expected to increase, reports News.am.

Jesus said that before His return these signs would begin, "Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences (illnesses) and earthquakes in various places" Matthew 24:7. There are many reports of epidemics, swine and bird flu, too many to report on this site. As we...
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Haiti: Worse Off Two Years After the Quake

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, In : Pestilences

Sanitation problems are critical in Haiti. Many of these make-shift treatment centers are full of cholera victims.
crofsblogs.typepad.com: Two years after Haiti's devastating earthquake, the dire conditions in which a majority of Haitians live have failed to improve and in many cases have deteriorated, due to a consistent lack of progress in the relief and reconstruction efforts and the ongoing cholera epidemic, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said today. "It is hard to see how the situation...
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2,000 Birds Die in Meghalaya, India

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Wednesday, January 11, 2012, In : Pestilences

2,000 poultry birds die of unnatural causes in India.
ZeeNews.India.com (excerpts): Shillong, India - Another 40 birds died Tuesday on a government-run farm in western Meghalaya, even as the state government awaited the test reports on earlier deaths to know whether they were due to bird flu, officials said. In the past two weeks around 2,000 poultry birds have died on the farm at Williamnagar, the district headquarter of East Garo Hills, 312 km west of Shillong. "We have not decided to im...
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Study Shows 25% of Ground Meat Has Potentially Fatal Bacteria

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Friday, December 30, 2011, In : Pestilences

Study shows ~25% ground meats has fatal, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
HuffingtonPost (excerpts): Mark Bittman has yet another fascinating column in the New York Times, this time on the prevalence of bacteria in meat. He discusses a study that analyzed 80 brands of beef, pork, chicken and turkey from five cities. The study found that 47% of the meat contained bacteria staphylococcus aureus and that 52% were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics. One particular line struck u...
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Whooping Cough Outbreak on Long Island

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Monday, December 5, 2011, In : Pestilences

NewYork.cbslocal.com (exerpts): Lindenhurst, NY - An alarming rise in a potentially fatal bacterial infection known as whooping cough has prompted a warning from the Suffolk County Health Department. It's a chronic cough, almost a barking sound, that can last more than three months and it is spread easily through droplets. The whooping cough outbreak started with 13 cases in Smithtown on Long Island in June. Since then, it has spread to more than a dozen districts in Suffolk County. Wha...
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Center for Disease Control: 240,000 Americans have HIV and Don't Know It

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, In : Pestilences

CBSNews.com by Ryan Jaslow (excerpts): (CBS/AP) Once a death sentence, AIDS can now be managed so effectively that people that live with the disease can live almost as long as those without it - but that's true only for those who get good medical care. Unfortunately only one in four Americans with AIDS has the virus under control, according to a new CDC report. "The big picture is, we could do a lot better than we're doing today," said Dr. Tomas Friedan, the CDC's director. Why is the tr...
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Measles and Malnutrition: Number One Killer in Somalia

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Saturday, October 29, 2011, In : Pestilences

Obama doesn't care... Imagine, this could be your child.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (excerpts): After heavy fighting on October 20th in Dayniile, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to suspend its measles vaccination campaign in the area. "Combined with malnutrition, measles is now the main killer of children in Somalia," says Duncan McLean, head of MSF programs in Somalia. During the first five days of the campaign, 4,831 children aged 6 months to 15 ye...
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Hundreds Die In India

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Tuesday, October 18, 2011, In : Pestilences

CNN.com (excerpts): New Delhi, India - At least 435 patients, mostly children, have died this year from encephalitis in one of India's most impoverished regions, health officials said. Most of the deaths happened between August and September, according to K P Kushwaha, Chief Pediatrician at BRD Medical College and Nehru Hospital in Uttar Pradesh state's Gorakhpur district. Some 30 - 35 people are being diagnosed daily with the infection in Gorakhpur, he said. The outbreaks are commo...
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3 Die of Rare Brain Infection From Amoeba In Water

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Thursday, August 18, 2011, In : Pestilences

Associated Press: Atlanta, GA - Two children and a young man have died this summer from a brain-eating amoeba that lives in water, health officials say. This month, the rare infection killed a 16-year-old Florida girl, who fell ill after swimming, and a nine-year-old Virginia boy, who died a week after he went to a fishing day camp. The boy had been dunked the first day of camp, his mother told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Those cases are consistent with past cases, which are usually kid...
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Unstoppable Sexually Transmitted Disease: New Strain of Gonorrhea Resists All Antibiotics and Could Spread Quickly

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, In : Pestilences

DailyMail.co.uk (excerpts): A sexually transmitted disease that is resistant to all drugs has been discovered by scientists. They warn the strain of super-gonorrhea could spread very quickly unless better treatments are developed. Although only one case has been confirmed, experts fear many more may have gone unreported. Until now, gonorrhea has been very easy to treat with antibiotics called cephalosporins. Patients usually need only a single pill or jab. Swedish scientists who have a...
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Killer Horse Virus Spreads in Australia

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Monday, July 4, 2011, In : Pestilences

The Korea Harold: Sydney (AFP) - Australian officials were on Saturday looking to isolate potential victims after uncovering two more cases of the deadly horse-borne Hendra virus, which has erupted in a second state. Spread to humans from horses, Hendra can lead to fatal respiratory illness and has killed four of the seven people who have contracted it in Australia since it was first documented in 1994. A fresh outbreak was detected in northern Queensland state in June, with nine people u...
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Two More E. coli Cases in Northeast Tennessee

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Sunday, June 19, 2011, In : Pestilences

TriCities.com (excerpts): Bristol, TN - A potential Escherichia coli outbreak that's plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people - bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the eight-county Northeast Tennessee region so far this year to 15. On Friday, the Northeast Regional Health Office announced that it confirmed the presence of the potentially fatal bacteria in two people who started showing symptoms of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infection on June 7 a...
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E. coli Found in Pierce Spring, Leicester, Massachusetts

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Sunday, June 19, 2011, In : Pestilences

NewsTelegram.com (excerpts), 6/18/11: Residents drawing water from Leicester and Hillcrest Water Districts have been instructed to boil tap water before drinking it, and to take additional precautions until the source of the contamination has been identified and corrected and the water disinfected. Those precautions include discarding all ice, beverages, uncooked foods, and formula made with tap water collected on or before June 14, 2011. Water district officials learned Wednesday night ...
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Officials Find E. coli At Thurmond Lake, Lincoln County, Georgia

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Saturday, June 18, 2011, In : Pestilences

The Coming Crisis: Officials found E. coli in the drinking water at Thermond Lake's West Dam Recreation area, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers. Billy Birdwell, as spokesman for the corps' Savannah District said the contamination was discovered in a routine check before Memorial Day at the one-day use area, a mile from the Visitors Center in Columbia County. Drinking water was immediately shut off and signs were posted warning visitors. The corps notified the Georgia Department...
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E. Coli Outbreak in France

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Friday, June 17, 2011, In : Pestilences

The Coming Crisis: E. coli breaks out in France, 5 children are in the hospital. Five children admitted to a hospital in northern France after eating beefburgers infected with a stain of E. coli bacteria are seriously ill, health officials said on Thursday, fanning fears of a wider outbreak. Officials said the bacteria did not appear to be related to the lethal strain of E. coli that has killed 37 people and made 3,000 ill, most of them in northern Germany. A privately owned German disco...
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Super Toxic E. coli Strain to Blame for Outbreak in Europe

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Friday, June 3, 2011, In : Pestilences

Associated Press: London - Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe's worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a "super-toxic" strain of E. coli bacteria that may be brand new. While suspicion has fallen on raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce as the source of the germ, researchers have been unable to pinpoint the food responsible for the frightening illness, which has killed at least 18 people, sickened more than 1,600 and spread to at least 10 European countries. An alarmingly large number ...
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E. coli Outbreak In Germany

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Thursday, June 2, 2011, In : Pestilences

Associated Press: Berlin - European health officials tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record might never know where it came from. Its a sad fact of life in food poisoning cases: There is often no smoking gun. Germany's national health agency said Wednesday that more than 1,530 people there had been sickened by a dangerous E. coli germ, including 17 dead, 470 suffering from a kidney failure complication that was previously considered rare. Most patients who have been intervi...
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Measles Outbreak

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, In : Pestilences

Fox News: US health officials have reported that 2011 has had the highest rate of measles since 1996, with 18 cases in the US so far. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released the count from January 1 through May 20. Cases were seen in 23 states. None of the patients died, but 40% were hospitalized. The US normally sees about 50 cases of measles in a year. Measles is highly contagious and up to 90% of people exposed to an infected person get sick. The virus sp...
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Center for Disease Control Issues Warning of Apocalypse

Posted by Leisa Amorosa on Thursday, May 19, 2011, In : Pestilences

FoxNews.com: Are you prepared for the impending "zombie invasion?" That is the question posed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a blog post on Monday, gruesomely titled, Preparedness 101 "Zombie Apocalypse." While it is no joke, CDC officials say it is all about emergency preparation. There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for, the post reads. Take a "zombie apocalypse" for example. That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e-a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You m...
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