Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw

A naked man was shot dead after eating an 18-year-old's face and assaulting a retired policeman, the Pam Beach Post reported.

The man, who possessed what authorities described as a superhuman-like strength, died Tuesday night during a confrontation with deputies near Delray Beach, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

The naked man, who had previously assaulted the retired officer who reported serious injuries, attacked the 18-year-old boy near South Military Trail, north of Lake Ida Road.

The teen attempted to defend himself with a box cutter knife. The victim sustained serious injuries during the fight and was taken to Delray Medical Centre. Deputies arriving on the scene tried to calm the attacker and attempted, unsuccessfully, to subdue him with a Taser.

"He's obviously delirious on something," Bradshaw said. "He is a huge guy. He takes a fighting stance. They're trying to get him on the ground. He starts charging them. The Taser did not affect him," Bradshaw explained.

At that point, a sheriff's sergeant fired three shots, one to the torso and two the lower part of the man's body. The man was rushed to Delray Medical where he died.

"We don't know right now if he's expired from the gunshots, or if he's expired because of obviously he's on some type of drugs that have made him act like this," Bradshaw said.

"There's no way to know if those are the shots that actually killed him, or if he's died from what they called exited delirium. He's obviously on some type of narcotics to make him act like this," Bradshaw continued.

Neither the names of the deceased man nor of the assault victims were released late Tuesday.

The motiv behind the assaults is still unknown.

https://www.facebook.com/Jacks

The homeless man whose face was permanently disfigured after he was attacked by Rudy Eugene in May 2012

A similar case of 'face-eating' occurred in December 2012 when Rudy Eugene, renamed Miami Cannibal, ate the face of homeless ... in Florida.

Poppo underwent intensive medical treatment as 80 per cent of his face was eaten by Eugene as he was under the influence of drugs.

Eugene was shot dead by the police following the attack.

Initial tests revealed that Eugene had a number of undigested pills in his stomach, according to the Miami Herald. Marijuana was also in Eugene's system at the time of the attack.

http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/09ju2012.htm

Last week the Zetas said that a highly Service-to-Self soul was in possession of the guy who ripped another person’s face off. The agenda of that spirit being to cause extra fear once starvation gets really bad due to the upcoming earth changes. It gives one the feeling that this cannibal story must stop, so that the agenda won’t be successful. But then a few hours later, a new story about a guy who killed and ate a guy’s heart and part of the brain was front and center on my local newspaper’s website (Maryland Cannibal), and then a couple of days later, it was reported that the Canadian guy who mailed different body parts of a guy he killed also ate part of him. (All 3 of those murders happened on May 24 – 25, so they couldn’t have been copycats.) The question is how successful could this agenda by the Service-to-Self be? And if it continues, what would be the best way for any media person who reads ZT to combat the agenda. Even though the real reason is a possession, perhaps completely focusing on drug use, rather than giving the idea that such a horror is something that the average person is capable of.

Why is cannibalism suddenly in the news? Because it fascinates the public, and every TV station and newsprint organization is hungry for ratings. Those who eat the dead, as Jeffrey Dahmer did to over a dozen of his lovers, are not news. Being a highly Service-to-Self individual, Dahmer sought control over his victims, and eating them represented their inability to escape him, even in death. Many primitive cultures practice cannibalism as a means of gaining the strength of the enemy, incorporating it into oneself. One should look to the ancient form of the Chinese practice of Bon and even to the Christian ritual ofCommunion – eating the body and blood of Christ – to see that this practice can be ritualized into a religious practice. What made the subject suddenly media worthy was eating another while they are still alive. Recent copycats are only attempts to bite another during human combat. But the media will make the most of this until the public tires of it.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on March 22, 2014 at 7:30pm

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-26696629

22 March 2014 Last updated at 13:19 ET

Tuberculosis infects Cambridgeshire factory workers

Staff at two vegetable packing plants in Cambridgeshire have been infected with tuberculosis, Public Health England (PHE) has confirmed.

Officials said 17 staff at two sites in the Chatteris area had been diagnosed with the disease since 2012.

Six patients were diagnosed with TB in 2012, nine in 2013 and two so far this year.

The PHE said there was "no evidence" tuberculosis could be caught from consuming the factories' vegetables.

The agency added the affected workers from the un-named plants were receiving treatment and were "no longer infectious".

Symptoms of TB

TB develops slowly in the body and it usually takes several months for symptoms to appear. They include:

Fever and night sweats
Unexplained prolonged cough
Unexplained weight loss
Blood in phlegm or spit at any time

Details of the infections came to light on Friday when Paul Bullen, leader of UKIP on Cambridgeshire County Council, said he had "been hearing rumours" about the infection.

He alleged the county council had known it "for some time" but had "made no effort to alert the public".

Mr Bullen said he had been advised TB was "endemic" at the plants.

He added: "I believe that officers of the council in various departments have known about this for some time and have made no effort to alert the public. This cannot be right."

'Not easily spread'

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire County Council said it was "working closely with PHE" and that "advice had been displayed in the affected factories and TB fact sheets had been circulated with staff payslips".

A PHE spokeswoman confirmed one person withtuberculosis had died, but it was not known the death was related to the disease as the patient had other health problems.

Dr Giri Shankar, consultant in communicable disease control with the PHE, said the disease was "not easily spread unless you have had close prolonged contact with an infected individual."

She added the PHE was "following up on close contacts of cases and will also be carrying out screening.

"There is no evidence to suggest TB transmission can occur from consumption of vegetables from the factories," she said.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on March 22, 2014 at 4:43am: http://www.ubalert.com/yAHb

Mysterious Fever Disease Outbreak Kills 23 People in Guinea Region

GuineaModerate // Epidemic

Health authorities said that an outbreak of a mysterious fever disease has killed 23 people in southeastern forest region of the Republic of Guinea. Last month, 35 cases have been recorded by local health officials resulting in 23 deaths. Local media reports further say the strange disease has been identified by health authorities as hemorrhagic fever. Those affected have now been isolated and samples had been sent to Senegal and France for further tests. Health experts describe the hemorrhagic fever as a group of illnesses that are caused by several distinct families of viruses which result in severe multi-system syndrome. This can affect the multiple organ systems in the body and can damage the overall vascular system causing the body to stop regulating itself.

Mar 20, 2014, 6:23 p.m.

Comment by Yvonne Lawson on March 8, 2014 at 9:33am: First Case of Zika Virus reported on Easter Island

Easter Island Ahu Tongarikiby Nicolas de Camaret August 2009 via Flickr

Zika virus (ZIKV), a rare but benign mosquito borne illness, is spreading across the islands of the south pacific. The Disease Daily recently published a spotlight piece on Zika virus, highlighting current outbreaks on 15 different Polynesian islands including Tahiti and Bora Bora.

Most recently, according to local news reports and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, one confirmed and 40 suspected cases of the mosquito-borne virus were detected on Easter Island, also located in the south pacific. Easter Island, or Isla de Pascua, is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world; the nearest continental point lies in central Chile, more than 2,000 miles away. The Island is governed by Chile’s Valparaíso Region and is most famous for its ancient monolithic rock statues carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui.

To control the outbreak, Chile increased preventive measures against both Zika and dengue virus, since they are both transmitted through a bite from the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Travelers are advised to practice precautions such as applying insect repellent and wearing protective clothing. Additionally, Chilean health authorities strengthened surveillance methods by tracking and monitoring any cases of fever and rash on the island.

Authorities believe that tourists from other vacation islands in the area may have carried the virus onto Easter Island. From January to February, Easter Island celebrates its annual Tapati Festival, which attracts thousands of tourists due to the mix of dances, music, sports, and theatrical presentations, all of which pay homage to the island’s rich history and people.

Chilean health authorities decided not to raise a health alert, stating that the outbreak is contained and under control.

- See more at: http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/first-case-zika-viru...

Comment by lonne rey on February 25, 2014 at 12:05pm: Nice. (France) Three young people die from lightning meningitis

A meningitis epidemic in Nice? That's the rumor concern after three young men have died in the space of two days and a fourth is currently in intensive care. From Nice-Matin is meningitis méningoque which was behind these devastating deaths.

The most dangerous strain B,

Two Nice, aged 20 to 30 years, have lost their lives due to meningitis during the last weekend. A third person, apparently the brother of one of the victims, also died. Shortly after, a teenager was accepted to the ICU Lenval hospital in a state being strongly suspect the same disease. It would be achieved in the most virulent and dangerous strain B meningitis.

A "worrying situation"

This series of four cases in two days has greatly worried, while the state statistics are normally only one or two cases per year

source in French

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 24, 2014 at 6:08pm: http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2014/02/fordham-university-hit-...

Fordham University hit with mumps outbreak

By Laura Hundemer, 2/23/2014

Fordham University reported an outbreak of mumps that has infected 13 students. The school reported cases of the disease present at both the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx and the Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan.

According to the New York Post, every student received an e-mail informing them of the outbreak and advising them to be aware of the situation while interacting on campus.

The infected students have been temporarily removed from the campuses. According to News Week, the university said, “All the students with suspected mumps infections have either returned home or have been isolated from other residents during the infectious phase of the illness.”

The disease is highly contagious and can cause fever, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and swollen glands. Although all students are required to receive the MMR vaccination to prevent against mumps, measles, and rubella it does not provide 100 percent protection against the diseases. The students that became infected had been vaccinated.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 24, 2014 at 5:43pm: http://www.wptv.com/news/health/mysterious-polio-like-illness-found...

Mysterious polio-like illness found in California children

Feb 24, 2014

These MRI scans show acute encephalitis caused by enterovirus 71 in an adult. Five children in California have a 'polio-like syndrome,' and two have tested positive for enterovirus 68.

CDC, CNN Newsource

(CNN) -- Doctors are looking for more information about a "polio-like

syndrome" that has caused paralysis in a few children in California.

Neurologists have identified five patients who developed paralysis in one or more of their limbs between August 2012 and July 2013. All five children had been vaccinated against the poliovirus. Treatment did not seem to help the children regain their motor function.

Samples from two of the children tested positive for enterovirus 68, a rare virus that has been linked to severe respiratory illness in the past. Samples from the other three children were not collected or tested soon enough to yield conclusive results, said Dr. Emmanuelle Waubant, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Waubant and her colleagues will present a case report about these patients' illnesses at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in late April. They are asking health care providers to be on the lookout for similar cases and send in samples from any patient exhibiting these symptoms.

Dr. Carol Glaser, chief of the Encephalitis and Special Investigation Section at the California Department of Public Health, said the state is aware of the paralysis cases but believes the risk to families is very low.

"We are evaluating cases as they are reported to us," Glaser said in an e-mail to CNN. "We have not found anything at this point that raises any public health concerns."

The poliovirus has been eradicated in the United States for more than 30 years. Only three countries in the world are not yet free of the disease: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.

Poliovirus is part of the Picornaviridae family, which also includes enteroviruses and rhinoviruses (better known as the common cold). There are more than 100 types of enterovirus that cause 10 million to 15 million infections in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most people who become infected with an enterovirus do not get sick or experience only mild symptoms, said Dr. Steven Oberste, chief of the Polio and Picornavirus Laboratory Branch at the CDC. Common symptoms include fever, runny nose, cough, skin rash and body aches.

Enterovirus is often the cause of "summer colds," whose cases spike in July, August and September. Children and teens are more likely to fall ill because they have not yet built up immunity to these common viruses.

However, some types of enterovirus are more serious. These can cause hand, foot and mouth disease; viral meningitis; encephalitis (inflammation of the brain); an infection of the heart; and paralysis in some patients.

Enterovirus 68 was first identified in a California lab in 1962, after four children came down with a severe respiratory illness. Between 1970 and 2005, only 26 cases of enterovirus 68 in the United States were reported to the CDC. Since 2000, the government agency has kept a closer watch and has seen 47 cases, Oberste said. Outbreaks have occurred over the years in Asia and Europe, but it's still one of the rarest types of enterovirus.

More common -- and more concerning to health officials -- is enterovirus 71, which was discovered by the same California lab in 1969, Oberste said. Enterovirus 71 is usually associated with severe neurological issues, including aseptic meningitis, polio-like paralysis and encephalitis.

According to a CDC report, several outbreaks of paralysis caused by enterovirus 71 were seen in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, fatal encephalitis was a big problem in Malaysia and Taiwan.

"Ever since then, the virus has circulated in high levels in Southeast Asia," Oberste said.

In recent years, the outbreaks have spread to Australia; a cluster of cases near Sydney drew media attention in 2013.

Between 1983 and 2005, 270 cases of enterovirus 71 were reported in the United States. But none has resulted in a larger outbreak, despite the virus's infectious nature.

"That's the really odd thing," Oberste said. "We see cases from time to time in the United States. Occasionally they'll be severe. Basically it's identical to what's circulating in Asia ... but it doesn't cause the same big outbreak in disease. And we really don't know why."

The CDC is aware of the small cluster of cases in California but is not actively involved in an investigation, a spokesman told CNN. Waubant and her colleagues don't want to alarm anyone with their case report presentation; they're simply seeking help in finding the cause of these seemingly connected cases.

"We would like to stress that this syndrome appears to be very, very rare," one of Waubant's colleagues, Dr. Keith Van Haren, said in a prepared statement.

Parents need to know that vaccination is key to preventing polio from returning to the United States, Glaser said. While there is no vaccine to protect you from a non-polio enterovirus, washing your hands frequently and avoiding close contact with others who are sick

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 18, 2014 at 5:31pm: http://twocircles.net/2014feb18/over_70_mn_indians_afflicted_rare_d...

Over 70 mn Indians afflicted with rare diseases

Submitted by IANS on 18 February 2014 - 9:28pm

By IANS,

New Delhi : The Foundation for Research on Rare Diseases and Disorders pegs the number of patients in India afflicted with one of more than 7,000 rare diseases at over 70 million.

Attempting to make rare diseases in India diagnosable and treatable, the Organisation for Rare Diseases India (ORDI), an initiative by doctors, organisations and government bodies, was launched Tuesday.

"There is a genetic origin for at least 80 percent of rare diseases, and in 50 percent of cases the onset occurs in childhood. Rare diseases also include rare cancers, autoimmune diseases, congenital malformations and infectious diseases," said Vijay Chandru, founder member, ORDI.

He added that since a majority of these diseases lack proper diagnosis, ORDI will empower the patients and their families by providing access to national and international resources to ensure a good quality of life.

"This would also mean the development and delivery of affordable diagnostics and treatments for rare diseases through innovative collaborations and partnerships among multiple stakeholders," he added.

According to health experts, a lot needs to be done at the policy level to address the needs of patients with rare diseases, and that the absence of a budget allocation is a bottleneck in developing a quality healthcare delivery mechanism for rare disease patients in India.

"Patients suffer physically, mentally and financially as families approach various hospitals seeking diagnosis. Even after proper diagnosis, there is little hope for cure. It is in this context, ORDI has an important role to play in pooling together expertise, efforts, and resources to help patients and health professionals share information," said Prasanna Shirol, founder member.

Co-founder Harsha Karur Rajasimha said the organisation's review of the state of rare disease management in India identified the challenges and opportunities associated with those.

Comment by Tracie Crespo on February 17, 2014 at 4:55pm: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/bizarre-cluster-severe-bi...

'Bizarre' Cluster of Severe Birth Defects Stuns Health Experts

By JoNel Aleccia

A mysterious cluster of severe birth defects in rural Washington state is confounding health experts, who say they can find no cause, even as reports of new cases continue to climb.

Federal and state officials won’t say how many women in a three-county area near Yakima, Wash., have had babies with anencephaly, a heart-breaking condition in which they’re born missing parts of the brain or skull. And they admit they haven't interviewed any of the women in question, or told the mothers there's a potentially widespread problem.

But as of January 2013, officials with the Washington state health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had counted nearly two dozen cases in three years, a rate four times the national average.

Since then, one local genetic counselor, Susie Ball of the Central Washington Genetics Program at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, says she has reported “eight or nine” additional cases of anencephaly and spina bifida, another birth defect in which the neural tube, which forms the brain and spine, fails to close properly.

“It does strike me as a lot,” says Ball.

And at least one Yakima mother whose baby is part of the cluster says no one told her there was a problem at all.

“I had no idea,” said Andrea Jackman, 30, whose blue-eyed daughter, Olivia, was born in September with the most severe form of spina bifida. “I honestly was really surprised that nobody had said anything. If my doctor hadn’t wanted us to see the geneticist, I wouldn’t have known.”

James Cheng / for NBC News
Andrea Jackman comforts her 4-month-old daughter, Olivia, after her MRI scan at Seattle Children's Hospital.

There’s no secret, state and CDC officials said, and they noted that small clusters of birth defects often turn out to be nothing more than sad coincidence.

The agencies released a report last summer detailing an investigation of 27 women with pregnancies that resulted in neural tube defects in Yakima, Franklin and Benton counties between 2010 and 2013. That included 23 cases of anencephaly, a rate of 8.4 per 10,000 live births, far higher than the national rate of 2.1 cases per 10,000. There were three cases of spina bifida and one with encephalocele, a sac-like protrusion of the brain through the front or back of the skull.

They publicly posted the results of the investigation in press releases and on state and federal websites. Those were picked up in news stories, including one in the local newspaper, the Yakima Herald-Republic. "State says no cause found for birth defect in Yakima County," the July headline read.

But it's not clear whether affected women saw those stories, and there was no effort to reach out to individual families, said Mandy Stahre, the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer based in Washington state, who led the inquiry. “There were very few of us that could spend time doing this investigation,” Stahre said. “I’m not sure the women knew they were part of a cluster.”

Health officials originally were alerted to the problem by a nurse, Sara Barron, 58, who was in charge of infection control and quality assurance at Prosser Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed medical center in the farm town set on the Yakima River. A 30-year nursing veteran, she’d seen perhaps one or two devastating cases of anencephaly in her wide-ranging career.

“And now I was sitting at Prosser, with 30 deliveries a month and there’s two cases in a six-month period,” Barron said. “Then, I was talking to another doctor about it and she has a third one coming. My teeth dropped. It was like, ‘Oh my god.’”

At a regional medical meeting, there were more anecdotal reports. So Barron notified state health officials, who started looking into the problem.

“This is bizarre,” Barron said. “This is a very, very small area."

Investigators pored over medical records of the 27 area women with affected pregnancies and 108 matched controls who received care at the same 13 prenatal clinics, Stahre said. They examined where the women worked, what diseases they had, whether they smoked or drank alcohol, what kind of medications they took and other factors. They looked at where they lived and whether they got their water from a public source or a private well. They looked at race and whether the problem was more pronounced in the area's migrant farm workers or in other residents.

In the end, there was nothing — “no common exposures, conditions or causes,” state officials said — to explain the spike.

“No statistically significant differences were identified between cases and controls, and a clear cause of the elevated prevalence of anencephaly was not determined,” the CDC wrote.

The results were disappointing, but not entirely unexpected, said Jim Kucik, a health scientist with the CDC’s Birth Defects Surveillance Team who reviewed the results. There’s not usually one single factor that causes such birth defects and it can take an examination of a much larger population to find when something’s wrong.

“This cluster is fairly small in size. It makes it challenging to find that smoking gun,” he said.

A group of birth defects can appear to be related, when it’s actually just coincidence, Kucik added. “I think that there is a lot of frustration when dealing with these type of cluster investigations because they end up without a lot of answers,” he added.

Adding to the problem is that investigations take time and personnel. Stahre and her crew relied only on medical records for their study because there weren’t resources for a full “boots-on-the-ground” effort, Kucik explained.

“We certainly don’t shrug off any indication of high rates of birth defects,” he said.

But that doesn’t help Amanda Jackman, who was an assistant manager at a Yakima Blockbuster Video store when she discovered she was pregnant — and then that the baby had spina bifida.

“The doctor who did the ultrasound said she’d be in a wheelchair the rest of her life. He pretty much told us she’d be a vegetable,” said Jackman, who now lives with Olivia at the home of her aunt and uncle in Ellensburg, Wash.

The news was devastating, and Jackman initially considered ending the pregnancy.

“Then I decided that it wasn’t my decision to make,” she said. “If she wasn’t going to live, it wasn’t going to be my decision.”

James Cheng / for NBC News
Four-month-old Olivia Jackman of Ellensberg, Wash., waits for her MRI exam at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, WA. Olivia has spina bifida.

That choice was a good one, she said, cradling a smiling Olivia as they waited for a medical appointment at Seattle Children’s Hospital. The tiny girl has survived surgery to close the gap on her back and endured multiple MRI procedures to measure the fluid inside her brain. So far, she hasn’t needed a shunt to drain fluid, and she’s meeting all typical developmental milestones.

“It was scary at first, but every time they see her, she gets better and better,” Jackman said.

Olivia's defect isn't as severe as some, but she's still considered part of the cluster of neural tube defects in the region. Jackman said that if she’d known that other area women had babies with similar birth defects, she would at least have been aware that the issue existed.

That concern is shared by experts in neural tube defects, who say health officials should look harder — and spread the word about what what they find.

“Any time you see a geographic cluster of a pretty severe birth defect, it does make you wonder if there is a common exposure contributing,” said Allison Ashley-Koch, a professor at the Duke University Medical Center for Human Genetics, whose focus is anencephaly. “If there were resources, it really would be wonderful to go back to the families to conduct more intensive interviews regarding common environmental exposures."

That's been true in high-profile clusters, including one in Texas in April 1991, in which three babies with anencephaly were born in a Brownsville hospital within 36 hours. It sparked years of surveillance and research that found that the problem could be traced in part to the lack of folic acid in the diets of the mostly Hispanic women who lived on the Texas-Mexico border. Obesity and diabetes appeared to be factors, as did exposure to fumonisins, or grain molds.

Research has shown that there are potential links between anencephaly and exposure to molds and to pesticides, Ashley-Koch said. Central Washington is a prime agricultural area that produces crops from apples and cherries to potatoes and wheat, which may require pesticides that contain nitrates.

“They may have eaten the same type of produce from a particular grower or farmer, which essentially put all those folks at risk,” she said.

A Texas A&M University Health Science Center study published last year found that mothers of babies with spina bifida were twice as likely to ingest at least 5 milligrams of nitrate daily from drinking water than control mothers of babies without major birth defects.

The study, led by Jean Brender, associate dean of research at the School of Rural Public Health, found that nitrate levels in drinking water varied widely according to the source, with average levels of 0.33 miligrams per liter in bottled water, 5.0 milligrams per liter in public water supplies and 17.5 milligrams per liter in private wells.

“I have a daughter in her childbearing years,” Brender said. “If she were on a private well, I would tell her to have her well-water tested or drink bottled water.”

Ashley-Koch, the Duke professor, acknowledged that CDC and state officials faced a tough task. It's difficult tracing back through previous pregnancies and trying to find a common cause for birth defects, particularly when not all of defects are the same. Still, she suggested that the investigation may have been a “cursory approach.”

“Without actually conducting interviews, it’s pretty difficult to discern what potential exposures may or may not have occurred,” she said.

Sara Barron, the nurse who discovered the problem, thinks that health officials could — and should — do more.

“I definitely believe something is going on,” she said. “There was something. Maybe it just hit once and blew through, God willing. If there are still cases going on, we need to know.”

James Cheng / for NBC News
Dr. Joffre Olaya, a neurosurgeon at Seattle Children's Hospital, has been monitoring the care of Olivia Jackman. Her mother, Andrea Jackman, says the baby is doing better than anyone expected.

CDC and state officials refused to tell NBC News how many new cases they’d received in 2013, saying they plan a full report later this spring. Stahre had previously said they’d received “a few more cases” after the original investigation.

Susie Ball, the genetic counselor who has reported additional cases, said she's "not convinced — yet" that there's a problem in the area and that it may take more time to tell. She wouldn't want to scare people, she said. Still, she said the situation should be more widely publicized to let local women of child-bearing age know the risk — and to help them take action to prevent birth defects.

“Make sure that everyone who could become pregnant knows they should be taking folic acid,” Ball said, referring to the B vitamin that can help prevent spina bifida. “Look at this unexplained spike here in the valley. Take your folic acid.”

It’s the lack of information that still haunts Amanda Jackman, who said she lived near a pesticide-laden apple orchard and drank well water in the couple years before her surprise pregnancy.

“There’s got to be something. I mean, something causes it,” she said. “Every mother wants their child to be perfect. If you could find a way to stop this from happening, why wouldn’t you want to do that? Why would you not want to tell people?”

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 16, 2014 at 4:50am: A Service to Self disease..........

Cannibalism seems to be on the rise again with 2 incidents in Delray Beach Florida this week and last. My mom let me know about this so I did a google search. I wonder how much more we'll see of it. I understand it's drug related or at least that's what they're saying but this is sick sick sick.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/florida-superhuman-cannibal-shot-dead-afte...

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw

A naked man was shot dead after eating an 18-year-old's face and assaulting a retired policeman, the Pam Beach Post reported.

The man, who possessed what authorities described as a superhuman-like strength, died Tuesday night during a confrontation with deputies near Delray Beach, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

The naked man, who had previously assaulted the retired officer who reported serious injuries, attacked the 18-year-old boy near South Military Trail, north of Lake Ida Road.

The teen attempted to defend himself with a box cutter knife. The victim sustained serious injuries during the fight and was taken to Delray Medical Centre. Deputies arriving on the scene tried to calm the attacker and attempted, unsuccessfully, to subdue him with a Taser.

"He's obviously delirious on something," Bradshaw said. "He is a huge guy. He takes a fighting stance. They're trying to get him on the ground. He starts charging them. The Taser did not affect him," Bradshaw explained.

At that point, a sheriff's sergeant fired three shots, one to the torso and two the lower part of the man's body. The man was rushed to Delray Medical where he died.

"We don't know right now if he's expired from the gunshots, or if he's expired because of obviously he's on some type of drugs that have made him act like this," Bradshaw said.

"There's no way to know if those are the shots that actually killed him, or if he's died from what they called exited delirium. He's obviously on some type of narcotics to make him act like this," Bradshaw continued.

Neither the names of the deceased man nor of the assault victims were released late Tuesday.

The motiv behind the assaults is still unknown.

https://www.facebook.com/Jacks

The homeless man whose face was permanently disfigured after he was attacked by Rudy Eugene in May 2012

A similar case of 'face-eating' occurred in December 2012 when Rudy Eugene, renamed Miami Cannibal, ate the face of homeless ... in Florida.

Poppo underwent intensive medical treatment as 80 per cent of his face was eaten by Eugene as he was under the influence of drugs.

Eugene was shot dead by the police following the attack.

Initial tests revealed that Eugene had a number of undigested pills in his stomach, according to the Miami Herald. Marijuana was also in Eugene's system at the time of the attack.

http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/09ju2012.htm

Last week the Zetas said that a highly Service-to-Self soul was in possession of the guy who ripped another person’s face off. The agenda of that spirit being to cause extra fear once starvation gets really bad due to the upcoming earth changes. It gives one the feeling that this cannibal story must stop, so that the agenda won’t be successful. But then a few hours later, a new story about a guy who killed and ate a guy’s heart and part of the brain was front and center on my local newspaper’s website (Maryland Cannibal), and then a couple of days later, it was reported that the Canadian guy who mailed different body parts of a guy he killed also ate part of him. (All 3 of those murders happened on May 24 – 25, so they couldn’t have been copycats.) The question is how successful could this agenda by the Service-to-Self be? And if it continues, what would be the best way for any media person who reads ZT to combat the agenda. Even though the real reason is a possession, perhaps completely focusing on drug use, rather than giving the idea that such a horror is something that the average person is capable of.

Why is cannibalism suddenly in the news? Because it fascinates the public, and every TV station and newsprint organization is hungry for ratings. Those who eat the dead, as Jeffrey Dahmer did to over a dozen of his lovers, are not news. Being a highly Service-to-Self individual, Dahmer sought control over his victims, and eating them represented their inability to escape him, even in death. Many primitive cultures practice cannibalism as a means of gaining the strength of the enemy, incorporating it into oneself. One should look to the ancient form of the Chinese practice of Bon and even to the Christian ritual ofCommunion – eating the body and blood of Christ – to see that this practice can be ritualized into a religious practice. What made the subject suddenly media worthy was eating another while they are still alive. Recent copycats are only attempts to bite another during human combat. But the media will make the most of this until the public tires of it.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on February 7, 2014 at 3:58am: http://www.livescience.com/43024-mental-health-hurt-by-climate-chan...

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Freelance writer Marlene Cimons is a former Washington reporter for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in science and medicine. She writes regularly for the National Science Foundation, Climate Nexus, Microbe Magazine, and the Washington Post health section, and she is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. Cimons contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

For months after Hurricane Sandy sent nearly six feet of water surging into her home in Long Beach, N.Y. — an oceanfront city along Long Island' s south shore — retired art teacher Marcia Bard Isman woke up many mornings feeling anxious and nauseated. She had headaches, and inexplicable bouts of sadness. She found herself crying for no apparent reason.

"I would feel really sad, and that's just not me," she said. "I felt like the joy was out of my life. I still haven't recaptured it."

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The Department of Health and Family Welfare has informed that it had received a message through telephone on 12th September 2011 of an outbreak of fever of unknown cause leading to three deaths at Poilwa village, Peren District. Immediately the State Rapid Response Team (RRT) of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), Nagaland, comprising of Dr. John Kemp (State Surveillance Officer), Dr. Sao Tunyi (Epidemiologist), Dr. Kevisevolie Sekhose (Epidemiologist), and Venezo Vasa (Entomologist) conducted an outbreak investigation at Poilwa village. The team collected three samples from suspected cases out of which all the three were tested positive for Scrub Typhus. Till date, there are 9 cases with 3 deaths. This was stated in a official press note issued by Dr. Imtimeren Jamir, the Principal Director, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Kohima. Scrub Typhus is Rickettsial disease caused Orientia tsutsugamushi and transmitted by the bite of mite called Leptotrombidium deliense. In Nagaland, it was formerly detected by IDSP with Central Surveillance Team at Longsa village Mokokchung in 2006, and in Porba village of Phek District in 2007. The State RRT team carried out the outbreak investigation along with doing and entomological survey. The patients were treated with appropriate medicines and awareness and preventive measures were communicated with the villagers. The concerned local health authorities and programs are informed for further necessary action. The mop-up operation is being carried out by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Program.
Biohazard name:	Typhus (Scrub)
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:	- After bite by infected mite larvae called chiggers, papule develops at the biting site which ulcerates and eventually heals with the development of a black eschar. - Patients develop sudden fever with headache, weakness, myalgia, generalized enlargement of lymph nodes, photophobia, and dry cough. - A week later, rash appears on the trunk, then on the extremities, and turns pale within a few days. - Symptoms generally disappear after two weeks even without treatment. - However, in severe cases with Pneumonia and Myocarditis, mortality may reach 30% Diagnosis - The most commonly used test for diagnosis is Wel-Felix Test, which is available at State IDSP laboratory, Kohima. - More specific serological tests like detection of IgM can also be done for diagnosis.
Status:	confirmed

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Umatilla County health officials today confirmed a case of plague in an adult male county resident. He may have been infected while hunting in Lake County, noted Sharon Waldern, clinic supervisor for the county’s public health department. “Lake County had two cases of human plague last year.” The man has been hospitalized and is receiving treatment, Waldern noted. “People need to realize he was never considered contagious and he started treatment fairly quickly.” Plague is spread to humans through a bite from an infected flea. The disease is serious but treatable with antibiotics if caught early, officials said. Plague can be passed from fleas feeding on infected rodents and then transmitted to humans. Direct contact with infected tissues or fluids from handling sick or dead animals can pass the disease, as well as through respiratory droplets from cats and humans with pneumonic plague, officials said in a press release. Some types are spread from person to person, but that is not the case here, Waldern said. Symptoms typically develop within one to four days and up to seven days after exposure and include fever, chills, headache, weakness and a bloody or watery cough due to pneumonia, enlarged, tender lymph nodes, abdominal pain and bleeding into the skin or other organs. Plague is rare in Oregon. Only three human cases have been diagnosed since 1995 and they all recovered. Last year two human cases of plague were diagnosed in Lake County. As far as she knows, this is the first ever incident in Umatilla County. “In this recent case it is important to stay away from flea-infested areas and to recognize the symptoms. People can protect themselves, their family members and their pets,” said Genni Lehnert-Beers, administrator for Umatilla County Health Department. “Using flea treatment on your pets is very important, because your pets can bring fleas into your home.” People should contact their health care provider or veterinarian if plague is suspected. Early treatment for people and pets with appropriate antibiotics is essential to curing plague infections. Untreated plague can be fatal for animals and people. Antibiotics to prevent or treat plague should be used only under the direction of a health care provider. Additional steps to prevent flea bites include wearing insect repellent, tucking pant cuffs into socks when in areas heavily occupied by rodents, and avoiding contact with wildlife including rodents.
Biohazard name:	Plague (Bubonic)
Biohazard level:	4/4 Hazardous
Biohazard desc.:	Viruses and bacteria that cause severe to fatal disease in humans, and for which vaccines or other treatments are not available, such as Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, H5N1(bird flu), Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, hantaviruses, Lassa fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic or unidentified diseases. When dealing with biological hazards at this level the use of a Hazmat suit and a self-contained oxygen supply is mandatory. The entrance and exit of a Level Four biolab will contain multiple showers, a vacuum room, an ultraviolet light room, autonomous detection system, and other safety precautions designed to destroy all traces of the biohazard. Multiple airlocks are employed and are electronically secured to prevent both doors opening at the same time. All air and water service going to and coming from a Biosafety Level 4 (P4) lab will undergo similar decontamination procedures to eliminate the possibility of an accidental release.
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