Disease outbreaks will increase as per ZetaTalk
Taking Sick
On Jan 15, 1998 ZetaTalk stated that Illness will increase as Planet X approaches. Zetas right again !!!
- ZetaTalk: Take Sick, written Feb 15, 1998.
- Increasingly, as the pole shift nears, the populace will take sick. This will take the form of known illnesses occurring more frequently, seemingly depressed immune systems, but will also appear as new and puzzling illnesses not seen before in the memory of man. What is going on here?
The changes at the core of the Earth that have resulted in El Nino weather patterns and white buffalo and deformed frogs also affect man. The germs are on the move. Their carriers are on the move. And thus humans are exposed to diseases that are so rare as to be undocumented in medical journals.
You will see increasing illness, odd illnesses, microbes that travel because an insect is scattering about and spreading germs in places where it normally doesn't travel. 90% of all the illness and distress you're going to see is a natural situation, a natural occurrence. Because of the changing, swirling in the core of the Earth, and this will continue to up-tick until the pole shift.
And reiterated in 1999
- ZetaTalk: Next 3 1/2 Years, written Sep 15, 1999.
- Sickness will slightly increase from where it is today. There is a lot of illness now because people who are already unstable are unable to take the turmoil caused by the increased emanations from the Earth. Some of them have simply sensed what is coming and have decided to die. This is true of animals as well as humans. Sickness will increase, but not to the point where it is going to get exponentially worse.
On Feb 2, 2000 a Washington report confirmed this increase, and published concerns were subsequently reported.
- Diseases From Around World Threatening U.S.
Reuters, Feb 2, 2000 - 30 New Diseases Make Global Debut
At least 30 previously unknown diseases have appeared globally since 1973, including HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C, Ebola haemorrhagic fever and the encephalitis-related Nipah virus that emerged in Indonesia. Twenty well-known infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and cholera have re-emerged or spread since 1973. - Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?
Scientific American, August 2000 - Notably, computer models predict that global warming, and other climate alterations it induces, will expand the incidence and distribution of many serious medical disorders. Disturbingly, these forecasts seem to be coming true.
And since this time, SARS and increased incidence of flesh eating disease,
and entire cruise ships regularly returning to port with the passengers ill with stomach flu have been reported.
Depressed immune systems?
Zetas RIGHT Again!
After the pole shift, there will be many opportunistic diseases that will afflict mankind. This does not require an imagination, as today they afflict mankind after disasters. The primary affliction will be from sewage laden water, which will pollute the drinking water man is forced to use. We have been adamant about mankind distilling their drinking water after the pole shift for this reason. Distillation removes heavy metals as well as killing microbes by the boiling process. Any disease that flourishes in malnourished bodies and in areas of poor hygiene will take advantage of the pole shift disasters. Scurvy due to lack of Vitamin C will occur, with bleeding gums and even death if not corrected. Many weeds are high in Vitamin C and survivors should arm themselves with knowledge about the vitamin content of weeds. Unprotected sex by survivors either taking advantage of the weak, as in rape, or by simple distraction and grief and a lack of contraceptive devices will spread AIDS and hepatitis. Morgellons, which is caused by a synergy of parasites and microbes when the immune system is low will likely increase. There will be outbreaks of diseases which were endemic in the past, such as small pox or measles, but in those survivor communities where the members have been immunized in the past these will be limited and quarantines can help in this regard.
http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/20no2010.htm
Chile battles youth unrest and typhoid fever outbreak
September 15, 2011 – SANTIAGO – Chile’s problems dealing with youth unrest over slow education reforms are being compounded by concerns the capital may be in the grip of a typhoid fever outbreak. The government has battled to enforce restraint on law enforcement agencies amid angry student-led protests, which have disrupted urban centers across the country for more than a month. The reforms demanded by youth groups are nowhere near being implemented and protests continue to simmer with support from teachers and workers unions. Now authorities are faced with the more immediate risk of typhoid. Health authorities issued repeated alerts for tougher hygiene checks and controls after they found several people infected and seriously ill with typhoid in the western metropolitan area of Santiago. At least seven cases were confirmed by the Public Health Institute but there were no immediate reports of fatalities. “Typhoid fever is an acute infectious disease triggered by a salmonella bacteria strain,” Institute Director Maria Teresa Valenzuela said. In most cases the infection is caused by consumption of contaminated food and drink or fruit and vegetables grown in areas where contaminated water is used in irrigation. Typhoid fever produces symptoms of high fever, diarrhea or intense headaches. The Santiago region has been prone to typhoid outbreaks since the 1990s when incidence of the disease caused up to 190 cases a year.
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/chile-battles...
Epidemic Hazard in India on Saturday, 17 September, 2011 at 03:16 (03:16 AM) UTC.
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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. |
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Turns out, the plague isn't just ancient history. New Mexico health officials recently confirmed the first human case of bubonic plague — previously known as the "Black Death" — to surface in the U.S. in 2011.
An unidentified 58-year-old man was hospitalized for a week after suffering from a high fever, pain in his abdomen and groin, and swollen lymph nodes, reports the New York Daily News. (Officials declined to say when the man was released from the hospital.) A blood sample from the man tested positive for the disease.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/10/first-case-of-bubonic-plague-...
Epidemic Hazard in USA on Saturday, 17 September, 2011 at 03:33 (03:33 AM) UTC.
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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. |
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| 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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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on November 23, 2011 at 10:10pm
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http://newsblaze.com/story/20111123094529zzzz.nb/topstory.html
Outbreak of Acute Watery Diarrhoea Engulfs Horn Of Africa
Recurring drought, insufficient hygiene and ongoing regional conflict are driving a deadly outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) across the Horn of Africa, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva that more than 50,000 cases of AWD have been recorded in the region this year, resulting in over 700 deaths in Djibouti and Somalia.
A clinical form of deadly diarrhoeal disease, AWD can last several hours or days, depriving the body of water and salts that are necessary for survival. Most people who die from diarrhoea succumb to severe dehydration and fluid loss.
Pointing to reports from the health ministry in Djibouti, Mr. Jasarevic said the incidence of AWD had rapidly spread across the country, more than doubling since last year with 5,000 cases announced in 2011 alone. He noted that the number of cases was likely to be under-reported as not all were being detected.
But Mr. Jasarevic emphasized that prevention and contingency planning from WHO and the health ministry was already having an impact in Djibouti, with both entities providing training for health workers, pre-positioning oral rehydration salts and essential medicines, and chlorinating and monitoring water supplies. WHO had also supplied five emergency kits for diarrhoea and cholera, and they will arrive shortly, he added.
The spread of AWD was being facilitated by the overall situation in the Horn of Africa, Mr. Jasarevic said, as recurring drought in both Djibouti and neighbouring countries was weakening the population and exposing it to contagion.
He also noted that 54,000 cases of AWD had been reported in south-central Somalia, resulting in 795 deaths, while the outbreak of the disease was also on an upward trend in the all five refugee camps at the Dadaab complex in Kenya.
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How AIDS really got started
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/23/how-aids-really-got-started/
A Canadian doctor claims the ‘dead-end’ virus was hiding in plain sight for decades
Daniel Rosenthal/laif/Redux
In 1976, a handful of Belgian nuns were operating a badly needed hospital in Yambuku, a remote village in Zaire. Some 300 patients a day came, many seeking antiviral drugs, which nurses provided via the poorly funded hospital’s five reusable syringes. The result of the inevitable cross-infection was the first outbreak of the blood-borne virus Ebola, which killed 280 of its 318 victims—far more deaths than if there had never been a hospital in the first place.
The Yambuku incident is one of the most harrowing proofs ever recorded of the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished. But the story of the Ebola outbreak differs little in its essentials from that of an exponentially more lethal disease, AIDS. Now marking its 30th official birthday—counting from the 1981 U.S. Centers for Disease Control paper about an unlikely pneumonia cluster in Los Angeles—AIDS has so far killed 30 million people. And in Dr. Jacques Pepin’s convincing account of its history, The Origins of AIDS, it emerges as the greatest man-made health disaster of our times.
The disease itself is much older than 30. Molecular studies show that chimpanzees, hosts to the virus that causes AIDS in humans, have carried it for centuries. Pepin, an infectious disease physician and professor at Quebec’s Université de Sherbrooke, uses mathematical modelling to show that dozens of people—chimp hunters or their wives preparing the meat—must have thereby contracted AIDS. One spouse would then infect the other sexually, but those couples became what Pepin calls in an interview “epidemiological dead ends: the disease would develop in them for a decade, and then they would die, with no effect on the larger population.”
But a disease is one thing and an epidemic very much another. The latter requires—as shown by the way tuberculosis exploded as 19th-century Europeans crowded into unsanitary housing in burgeoning cities—helpful social conditions. In Africa, during the first half of the 20th century, Western imperialism obliged. Vast construction projects designed to exploit the continent’s resources turned thousands of African men into forced labourers, housed in work camps that became disease epicentres. With far less altruism than the Yambuku nuns—the driving motivation was the need for a functioning workforce—colonial regimes launched medical programs against malaria and sleeping sickness.
Antiviral drugs delivered by reusable syr- inges were the main—double-edged—weapons, and, as in Yambuku, AIDS quickly spread among the male population. Enter the second factor in the coming epidemic: the same massive disruption of traditional life that dragooned so many men away from home into nearly all-male enclaves spawned an industrial-scale sex trade, with some h
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http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-bacterial-meningitis-reported-centra...
Central Indiana student infected with Bacterial Meningitis
A second-grader was diagnosed with Bacterial Meningitis last Thursday. Now, school officials are working to prevent an outbreak.
Indianapolis
A second-grader was diagnosed with Bacterial Meningitis last Thursday. Now, school officials are working to prevent an outbreak.
Clifty Creek Elementary School officials contacted the state health department and with their advice, started retracing the child's steps."Where has this student been? Who does this student sit with? That sort of thing," said Principal Adam Ulrich.
According to the state health department, only students who had close contact to the child are at risk. The school said that's about 50 students who were exposed in class, the cafeteria or on the bus. All of those students' parents were notified Friday by phone and a letter that said in part:
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/267446/expert-warns-of-leptos...
Expert warns of leptospirosis
Poor sanitation and garbage disposal in Bangkok's flood-hit communities could result in an outbreak of leptospirosis, a health expert has warned.
Sumet Ongwandee of the Disease Control Department (DCD) said people should take precautions against leptospirosis and wear protective gear if they want to return home after the waters recede.
"The waterborne disease can be hazardous to people," he said.
Leptospirosis can be transmitted to both humans and animals by direct contact with the urine of infected rodents in contaminated flood water.
The disease gets into the body through cuts and wounds as well as the eyes, nose and mouth, Dr Sumet told the Bangkok Post.
Symptoms are a high fever, severe headache, muscle pain, chills, redness of the eyes, abdominal pain, jaundice, skin haemorrhages, vomiting, diarrhoea and a rash. Severe cases can be fatal if not treated immediately, he said.
"Leptospirosis is very worrying as the floodwater has hit crowded urban communities in the capital.
"So garbage disposal management is needed, for it is the first measure that will help control rodents infected with the bacteria from spreading the disease to people," he said.
Dr Sumet said people should carefully protect themselves by wearing rubber boots, gloves and masks when wading through contaminated floodwater and dispose of garbage to help prevent themselves and others from catching the waterborne disease.
Apart from Bangkok's flood-hit communities, health authorities are speeding up monitoring for leptospirosis in 46 flood-hit provinces nationwide.
Surveillance teams of the Bureau of Epidemiology found a leptospirosis case in Nakhon Sawan after the floodwaters receded there.
Another case with similar symptoms to leptospirosis was reported on Nov 18 in Ayutthaya's Pachi district and is still under investigation, the bureau said.
Bangkok has in the past experienced three leptospirosis outbreaks after flooding. The last outbreak in the capital was reported in 1964, said Wirongrong Jirakul, of Mahidol University's faculty of tropical medicine.
Dr Wirongrong said major outbreaks in the country were reported between 1997 and 1999. Up to 15,000 cases and 400 deaths were reported.
In Thailand, an estimated 2,000-3,000 people are infected with leptospirosis every year.
The disease is endemic in the Northeast where farmers work in fields and rice paddies without proper protection. Leptospirosis cases usually peak during the monsoon season.
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http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/local/legionella_bacteria_is_f...
Legionella bacteria is found in hospital water
TRACES of Legionella bacteria have been found contaminating the water at St Michael’s Hospital, limiting the supply of running water at the site.
The bacteria, which can lead to Legionnaires disease, has been found in the water, in the second outbreak of the problem in north Warwick this year. In June the IBM site sent staff home after the bacteria was found. The bug can potentially be lethal, with muscle pains and pneumonia among the symptoms.
Water has been switched off in one building of the site for a few hours at a time over the past week as maintenance is carried out.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust operates the site, and has been in regular contact with the relevant authorities since the problem was found.
One person, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “My partner works at St Michael’s. They’ve had an outbreak of Legionnaires, there’s no running water, they have sent certain levels of staff home and some patients. It’s a problem, especially when its a mental health institution so there’s lots of people who have problems with paranoia and start thinking it’s their fault.”
The Trust denied anyone had been sent home, saying that no services had been affected, but added that everyone had been asked to follow advice restricting the use of water, and precautions had been put in place. Extra supplies of bottled water have been brought onto the site, which treats people with mental illnesses.
Director of operations for the Trust Nigel Barton, said: “Our paramount concern is the health and wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors using the St Michael’s site, and as a result we have acted promptly to deal with this matter.
“We are advised that, as long as everyone using the site continues to follow the advice provided, we have taken all reasonable steps to minimise any possible risk in the short term of infection to people using this site.“
They are working to resolve the problem, although it could be some time before the water is uncontaminated.
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http://www.healthcanal.com/infections/23629-Scripps-Research-Team-F...
Scripps Research Team Finds a Weak Spot on Deadly Ebolavirus
LA JOLLA, CA – Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus and one of the most dangerous human pathogens.
“We suspect that we’ve found a key spot for neutralizing ebolaviruses,” said Scripps Research Associate Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire, who led the study with US Army virologist John M. Dye.
The new findings, which were reported November 20, 2011, in an advance online edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, show the antibody attaches to Sudan virus in a way that links two segments of its coat protein, reducing their freedom of movement and severely hindering the virus’s ability to infect cells. The protein-linking strategy appears to be the same as that used by a previously discovered neutralizing antibody against the best-known ebolavirus species, Ebola-Zaire. The new study suggests that this may be the best way for vaccines and antibody-based therapies to stop ebolaviruses.
Deadly Outbreaks
Ebolaviruses first drew the attention of the medical world with simultaneous deadly outbreaks in 1976 in the nations of Sudan and Zaire (currently known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo). These two outbreaks were caused by the two major viruses: Ebola-Sudan and Ebola-Zaire, and early field studies showed that sera from patients that survived one virus could not help patients infected with the other. . Both viruses persist in animal hosts–probably bats–and when they spread to humans, typically cause severe hemorrhagic fevers, killing up to 90 percent of people they sicken. Although not as contagious as influenza or measles, ebolaviruses can be transmitted in bodily fluids including exhaled airborne droplets, and scientists who study these viruses are generally required to use special “Biosafety Level 4” facilities. The US government regards the ebolaviruses as a potential bioterror threat.
Ebolavirus researchers hope to develop a vaccine that could be used to protect health workers and others in the vicinity of ebolavirus outbreaks, as well as an antibody-based immunotherapy that could help infected people survive. However, these tasks are complicated by the fact that there are now five recognized species of ebolavirus: Ebola-Zaire, also known simply as Ebola virus; Taï Forest virus; Reston virus; Bundibugyo virus; and Sudan virus.
“These species differ enough from each other that neutralizing antibodies to one don’t protect against the rest,” said Ollmann Saphire. “Sudan virus is a particular concern because it has caused about half of the ebolavirus outbreaks so far, including the largest outbreak yet recorded.”
Uncovering the Body’s Natural Protection
US government researchers recently demonstrated that an experimental vaccine containing proteins from Ebola and Sudan viruses provides monkeys with some protection against those viruses. But precisely how the vaccine works is unclear, and it has never been tested in humans. Moreover, until now no laboratory has isolated a neutralizing antibody against Sudan virus.
To find such an antibody, Dye and his colleagues at Fort Detrick, Maryland, injected lab mice wi
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I have a question regarding disease, infectious tuberculosis in particular. Recently the CDC discovered a homeless shelter in Atlanta, GA who had several people with the disease and it was found during the Occupy Atlanta protests against Wall St bankers which means thousands of people are in the area of this homeless shelter. They are now supposedly monitoring these people but how would they know just how many people? My question is: is this a Black Ops ploy to infect a part of the population and watch it spread (which I gather would be considered part of the 8 of 10) or is this just an opportunistic germ making its way.
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http://nation.foxnews.com/occupy-wall-street/2011/11/10/tuberculosi...
The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease. WGCL reports that a health department spokeswoman said there is a possibility that both Occupy Atlanta protesters and the homeless people in the shelter may still be at risk since tuberculosis is contracted through air contact. Over the last three months were have been two persons who have resided in this facility who have been diagnosed with confirmed or suspected infectious tuberculosis (TB). One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication used to treat this condition. All person(s) identified as positive have begun treatment and are being monitored to ensure that medication is taken as directed.
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Drug resistant diseases are not new. In the past, ALL germs were drug resistant, in essence, because antibiotics and drugs like interferon were not known. The reason pharma companies constantly develop new antibiotics is because mutations occur, capable of resistance to the current drugs. Thus one has MRSA – resistant staph – which can only be treated by one remaining antibiotic else the flesh eating infection develops. Doctors are now reluctant to give antibiotics freely to patients for trivial concerns, lest this practice incite a population explosion of the resistant germs in a host where no competition exists. Beyond drug resistant germs are the germs not quite stamped out, such as polio and small pox. Backed into a corner now, these germs could start an epidemic in a world where modern medicine can no longer function.
Will this mean epidemics in the Aftertime, where plagues wipe out populations that have contact with one another? Ebola was controlled in human populations in the past by such total destruction, where all infected died so the germ could not be passed human to human. Such means of controlling outbreaks operates in the animal kingdom, and always has. Gradually, natural genetic resistance builds in the population, over many such epidemics, due to those with genetic resistance surviving while all others die. But in the 100 years where mankind will reside on Earth, prior to the Transformation, little progress in this direction will occur. Rather, survivors should not be surprised at news of an infection wiping out whole colonies of survivors, so only the bones remained to greet travelers.
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Date: 18/11/11
http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=8...
Hepatitis A outbreak in Malaysia: update from The Travel Clinic
The Hepatitis A outbreak in Malaysia, reported earlier this week, has now spread from 27 to 800 people.This illness is easily spread by poor hygiene (dirty hands on food), or by contaminated or inadequately treated water. It is incredibly infectious.
There is no specific treatment for hepatitis A virus infection. Recovery from symptoms following infection may be slow and take several weeks or months. Therapy is aimed at maintaining comfort and adequate nutritional balance, including replacement of fluids that are lost from vomiting and diarrhoea. It is a debilitating disease causing inflammation of the liver
Hepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable disease. One vaccine protects for 1 year. If another one is given within that time, protection is for at least 25 years or maybe even for life.
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Boy, 4, latest victim of meningococcal
http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/boy-4-is-latest-victim-of-br...
Northland's meningococcal outbreak has a 13th victim after a 4-year-old boy was yesterday confirmed as having the potentially deadly disease.
Northland District Health Board medical officer of health Clair Mills said the boy, from the Mid-North, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday night very ill and he was confirmed as having a yet-to-be identified strain of meningococcal disease yesterday.
He was in a stable condition yesterday.
It is the first confirmed meningococcal case in the region for almost three weeks, but Dr Mills said health officials would not be dropping their guard in the belief that the outbreak was over yet.
Dr Mills said since July there have been 13 confirmed cases of meningococcal in the region, including three deaths. Nine of the cases were of meningococcal C strain and three meningococcal B with the latest type still to be identified.
Dr Mills said the most important thing to remember with meningococcal disease was that early intervention saved lives. Northland DHB is conducting a mass meningococcal C vaccination campaign aimed at inoculating up to 85 per cent of the 44,000 Northlanders aged from 1 to 20 against the potentially deadly disease.She said the vaccine offered in Northland was effective and safe, and the best protection against the disease and so far more than 20,000 people had received the vaccine with four weeks of the campaign left.Dr Mills said meningococcal cases normally lessened towards summer, with about 20 per cent of cases usually between October and December, but this was an exceptional year and just because there had been no other cases, there was still the need to be vigilant.
"The challenging group to get vaccinated is the teens and we want to reinforce the message that they are a very high risk group(of catching meningococcal.
"While they may not think it's very sexy to have a vaccination, it's also not very sexy to lose a limb or your life from meningococcal," she said.
"Parents tend to leave these decision to the teen, but they really should be sitting down and talking the issue over with them so they can make an informed decision."
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http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-health-byo-9225-article-zim+...
Zim hit by a serious outbreak of typhoid
An outbreak of typhoid has hit the country with more than 200 cases having been reported as of yesterday.
A total of 207 cases had passed through their units and that 36 people were currently admitted at the Beatrice Road infectious disease unit.
Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid,is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the faeces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi.
The bacteria then perforate through the intestinal wall and are phagocytosed by macrophages. The organism is a Gram-negative short bacillus that is motile due to its peritrichous flagella. The bacterium grows best at 37°C / 98.6°F – human body temperature.
Harare City Council Director of Health, Dr Prosper Chonzi said "It's a crisis and we have raised the alert ban to red".
"Basically people are drinking their own faeces in places like Dzivaresekwa and as I speak to you, we have dispatched a team to Mabvuku where suspected cases of typhoid have been reported," Chonzi added.
In Dzivaresekwa where the outbreak began, tests carried out at most shallow and makeshift wells where people frequently fetched water, came out positive.
The outbreak comes at a time when the disease is likely to spread due to the rainy season which has just started.
Chonzi who said they had not been any deaths reported since the outbreak a month ago, highlighted the need to move with speed to avoid a case similar to the cholera outbreak in 2009 which claimed thousands of people.
Unicef Zimbabwe, which spearheaded the fight against rapid spread of cholera in the country in 2009, is set to end its assistance programme next year and has notified the relevant authorities of their move.
Asked about Unicef's intentions seeing that the water situation had improved, Chonzi said that he had actually held meetings with them earlier in the day and requested for clean water truck deliveries to resume in affected areas.
Sixty-two-year-old patient Magline Makotese from Dzivaresekwa who is admitted at the Hospital spoke to the Daily News and narrated how she began experiencing abdominal pains and was rushed to the hospital on Monday morning.
Patients admitted at the hospital were mainly young women and children, though even the elderly were not spared either.
On a positive note, Chonzi did however, state that they had adequate drugs to deal with the outbreak but was quick to discourage public gatherings if possible.
He encouraged public awareness campaigns aimed at fighting the outbreak.
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