Archive for the ‘Pestilence’ Category

Deadly fungus spreading across US and Canada

Monday, August 30th, 2010

(NaturalNews) A research study out of Duke University has found that a
dangerous mutated form of an airborne fungus called Cryptococcus gattii
is spreading across the Northwest United States and some parts of
Western Canada. The fungus, which typically only infects people with
autoimmune disorders and compromised immune systems, now seems to be
infecting healthy people as well, worrying experts.

Published in PLoS Pathogens,
a journal of the Public Library of Science, the report explains that
the new fungus is currently infecting people across the Pacific
Northwest region and its scope is continuing to expand. Though the
fungus was originally discovered in tropical and subtropical regions, it
is somehow thriving in temperate regions far different than its native
home.

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Lettuce in 23 states recalled over E. coli fears – Food safety- msnbc.com

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Shredded romaine, ‘grab and go’ salads linked to 19 cases of the illness

WASHINGTON – A food company is recalling lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people, three of them with life-threatening symptoms.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that 12 people had been hospitalized and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was looking at 10 other cases probably linked to the outbreak.

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press Writer

Buzz kill! Is this bee Armageddon?

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

What is devastating the world’s honeybees?

In what appears to be a honeybee mystery of Armageddon proportions that has baffled scientists and beekeepers, more than one-third of the nation’s commercial honeybee population is mysteriously disappearing – and researchers warn the unexplained phenomenon threatens one-third of the American diet.

Entire colonies of honeybees are abandoning hives and food stores, including honey and pollen. In collapsed colonies, adult bees mysteriously disappear, and there is no accumulation of dead bees. Even hive pests such as wax moths and hive beetles are nowhere to be found around affected colonies. Likewise, other honeybees are reluctant or unwilling to rob the abandoned hives of honey.

Only days before a honeybee colony collapses, according to Bee Culture Magazine, the colony appears to be strong and fully functional.

Then, it explains, the affliction travels like a wave through a beeyard.

Buzz kill! Is this bee Armageddon?.

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Outbreak of rare disease in the Netherlands | Health | PRI’s The World

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The Netherlands is grappling with an outbreak of a rare disease. It normally strikes farm animals, but it’s now sickening hundreds of people who have no contact with farms. While most people get something like the flu or pneumonia for a few weeks, some are sick for months, and a handful have died. The disease is caused by a type of bacteria so resilient that the U.S. government considers it a bioterrorism agent. From the Netherlands, Emily Kopp reports. (images courtesy of VJ Movement)


Truck driver Frank van Lent lives in a small town an hour southeast of Amsterdam. He used to play tennis and jog, but now a short stroll through his neighborhood is all he has energy for. His trouble began ten months ago.

Frank Van Lent and his partner Ans Brouwers

He became exhausted, he says. He developed a fever, headaches, muscle aches, heart palpitations. At first, his doctor was stumped. He prescribed antibiotics, but those didn’t help. Two months went by, but van Lent didn’t get better. He went in for more tests.

Outbreak of rare disease in the Netherlands | Health | PRI’s The World.

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Drug-resistant TB at record levels worldwide, the WHO says

Saturday, March 20th, 2010


An estimated 440,000 people had multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in 2008 and a third of them died as the new variant of the TB mycobacterium continues to spread, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Nearly half of the cases were in China and India, which have been hit hardest by the outbreak. But in some areas of the world, especially three provinces in Russia, more than one in every four cases of tuberculosis are the result of the hard-to-treat strain, according to the report.

Worldwide, there were an estimated 9.4 million cases of TB and 1.8 million deaths, so the drug-resistant forms remain a relatively small problem. But experts fear that they will continue to spread, displacing the drug-susceptible strains and greatly complicating treatment and increasing its cost.

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First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
This Oct. 5, 2009 photo shows tuberculosis and HIV patient Vancherleum LANTANA, Fla. – It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.

Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian visiting to study English. His lungs clattered, his chest tightened and he ached with every gasp. During a wheezing fit at 4 a.m., Juarez felt a warm knot rise from his throat. He ran to the bathroom sink and spewed a mouthful of blood.

I’m dying, he told himself, “because when you cough blood, it’s something really bad.”

It was really bad, and not just for him.

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By MARGIE MASON AND MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press
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Bat die-off could have lasting impact on ecosystem, agriculture – Fosters

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

http://www.netcore.ca/~peleetom/Bats%20in%20sunset%202.jpgEPHRATA, Pa. (Lancaster Farming) – Having read reports of dying bats in New York and New England, DeeAnn Reeder feared that Pennsylvania could be next on the radar.

Her fears were realized just before Christmas last year when she was conducting a survey of bats in an old, abandoned mine in the northern part of the state.

“My heart just sank. We knew we had it.”

She found hibernating bats covered in a mysterious white fungus and others on the ground, dead.

“It is a mystery, really.”

Bat die-off could have lasting impact on ecosystem, agriculture – Fosters.

GERMANS & RUSSIANS USED FLUORIDE TO MAKE PRISONERS ‘STUPID & DOCILE

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

http://progressivestates.org/sync/images/dispatch/countingPrisoners.jpg“To whom it may concern: I, Oliver Kenneth Goff, was a member of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League from May 2, 1936 to October 9, 1939. During this period of time, I operated under the alias of John Keats and the number 18-B-2. My testimony before the Government is incorporated in Volume 9 of the Un-American Activities Report for the year 1939.

“While a member of the Communist Party, I attended Communist underground training schools outside the City of New York in the Bues Hall and 113 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The East Wells Street School operated under the name of the Eugene Debs School. Here, under the tutoring of Eugene Dennis, M. Sparks, Morris Chyilds, Jack Kling and others, we were schooled in the art of revolutionary overthrow of the established Government.

“We discussed quite thoroughly the fluoridation of water supplies and how we were using it in Russia as a tranquilizer in the prison camps. The leaders of our school felt that if it could be induced into the American water supply, it would bring about a spirit of lethargy in the nation; where it would keep the general public docile during a steady encroachment of Communism. We also discussed the fact that keeping a store of deadly fluoride near the water reservoir would be advantageous during the time of the revolution, as it would give us opportunity to dump this poison into the water supply and either kill off the populace or threaten them with liquidation, so that they would surrender to obtain fresh water.

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By: Devvy
May 14, 2005
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Troubling Reports Out Of Iowa And North Carolina Raise Fears That Deadly H1N1 Swine Flu Mutations Have Already Reached The United States

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

H1N1 swine flu mutationNew reports from Iowa and North Carolina are raising concerns that the deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations that have been confirmed by the WHO in Ukraine, Norway and elsewhere have already reached the United States.  In Iowa, a report that doctors are seeing “very heavy, wet hemorrhagic lungs, lungs with a lot of blood in them” in H1N1 patients is creating concerns among health experts that the deadly Ukraine H1N1 has already spread there.  In addition, a report of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 swine flu in North Carolina is raising questions about the ability of medical authorities to combat H1N1 if thousands of people do start dying.  If deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations have already reached the United States, what does that mean?  Doctors in Ukraine have been reporting that victims of H1N1 there are experiencing violent hemorrhaging in their lungs. As the patients near death, their lungs reportedly become as “black as charcoal” and literally begin to disintegrate.  Will this start happening soon inside the U.S.?

The news report causing the most concern today is the one about H1N1 patients in Iowa.  Commenting on a dramatic spike in H1N1 deaths in Iowa, Dr. Gregory Schmunk told KCCI news that what doctors there are seeing “is very heavy, wet hemorrhagic lungs, lungs with a lot of blood in them.”

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The worrisome Ukraine situation that may head everywhere next.

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
The worrisome Ukraine situation that may head everywhere next.

Suspected Hemorrhagic Pneumonia Outbreak Hits Ukraine – by Stephen Lendman

On October 29, the Australian web site zik.com.ua reported that:

“Western Ukraine was hit by a severe epidemic of unidentified influenza, tentatively diagnosed by doctors as viral pneumonia. The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise Western Ukrainians to stay home and use preventive medicine.”

On October 30, Jane Burgermeister’s theflu.com reported that:

“More than 30 people have died in the Ukraine as a result of a mysterious new virus that has an affinity for the lungs,” according to Swiss reports. Ukraine’s Health Ministry said the virus’ origin is unknown and showed “no signs of mutating to become more virulent.” So far, 40,000 people were reported sick and 951 hospitalized.

On October 30, healthfreedomalliance.org reported that Ukraine’s Health Minister, Vasyl Knyazevych, said two laboratories diagnosed 11 of 33 samples tested as “highly influenza A/H1N1.” As a result, he considered declaring a nationwide quarantine, even though western areas alone were affected.

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Stephen Lendman
Date: November 12, 2009
Subject: New World Order