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Posted 11 April 2016 - 04:51 AM

Zika Is Coming.  Why aren't we spraying?

 

IF I were a pregnant woman living on the Gulf Coast or in Florida, in an impoverished neighborhood in a city like Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Biloxi, Miss., or Mobile, Ala., I would be nervous right now. If mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus reach the United States later this spring or summer, these are the major urban areas where the sickness will spread.

 

If we don’t intervene now, we could begin seeing newborns with microcephaly and stunted brain development on the obstetrics wards in one or more of these places.

 

In crowded places, mosquitoes have lots of access to lots of people. Poor people often live in proximity to garbage, including old tires, plastic containers and drainage ditches filled with stagnant water, where this species of mosquito lives and breeds. And they often have homes with torn screens on their windows. The combination creates ideal conditions for the Zika virus to spread.

 

The same factors are present in the poorest urban areas of coastal Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, in addition to South Florida, and an area around Tucson. In the Fifth Ward of Houston (a historically African-American neighborhood that was populated by freed slaves after the Civil War), just a few miles from the medical center where I work, there is an astonishing level of extreme poverty. A brief tour reveals water-filled drainage ditches in place of gutters, as well as evidence of dumping — a common practice in which people toss old tires and other garbage into residential areas rather than designated landfill sites — right next to shabby and crumbling housing.

 

 

http://www.nytimes.c...ef=opinion&_r=0

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Posted 27 October 2017 - 06:47 PM

The Pneumonic Plague Is Spreading in Africa

 

Madagascar isn’t getting this epidemic of the pneumonic plague under control as everyone had hoped. In fact, the opposite seems to be true.

 

When I wrote about the plague less than two weeks ago, I cited a source that said there were 200 infections and 33 deaths. As of today, those numbers have increased dramatically to more than 1300 infections and 124 deaths.  

 

The risk of regional spread is moderate due to the occurrence of frequent travel by air and sea to neighbouring Indian Ocean islands and other southern and east African countries.

Nine countries and overseas territories have been identified as priority countries in the African region for plague preparedness and readiness by virtue of having trade and travel links to Madagascar.

These countries and overseas territories include Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, La Réunion (France), Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania. (source

 

Pneumonic plague can be treated with antibiotics like streptomycin, gentamicin, tetracyclines, or chloramphenicol but there is a caveat. Treatment MUST begin within 24 hours of the initial symptoms to prevent death. 

 

 https://www.lewrockw...to-9-countries/

 

 


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Posted 13 March 2018 - 06:56 AM

Drug-resistant HIV strain discovered in Philippines could trigger new epidemic, scientists warn 

 

‘HIV is not done yet,’ says expert as figures show 56,000 Filipinos now living with condition 

 

A drug-resistant strain of the HIV virus discovered in the Philippines has the potential to spark a new epidemic, scientists have warned. 

Researchers are concerned a new drug-resistant version of the virus, HIV subtype AE, could be fuelling the epidemic.  
The strain is more aggressive, more resistant to antiretroviral drugs and progresses to Aids faster than the HIV subtype B generally found in western countries.
“The HIV virus has the potential to transform itself into a new and different virus each time it affects a cell,”

 

 

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Posted 14 June 2019 - 07:49 AM

An Ebola catastrophe is certainly possible.  

 

1) The Congo is in the midst of the second largest Ebola outbreak in history.

 
2) Ebola is no longer contained within the Congo.  
 
3) the Border Patrol announced that they had apprehended 116 people from Africa trying to cross the Mexican/US border.  
They told Migrant Resource Center workers, they traveled with a group of about 350 migrants through Ecuador to the southern border.
 
5) The medical screening process is overwhelmed  https://www.lewrockw...bola-right-now/

 


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