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The Greatest Biological Threats To Civilization
With recent concerns over the bird flu virus being used by terrorist's to make a bioweopen, we took a look at other biological threat agents in a list compiled by the Federation of American Scientists....
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Ebola Panic Looks Strikingly Similar To This 19th-Century Epidemic
On Oct. 19, an inspector sent north from London to Sunderland reported a long-awaited arrival: the first British case of cholera. It was 1831 and as part of a second pandemic cholera had again...
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How the UN caused a massive cholera outbreak in Haiti
The cholera outbreak in Haiti is the UN's Watergate, except with far fewer consequences for the people responsible and an immeasurably more disastrous real-world impact.And an exchange of letters...
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The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a huge risk of disease outbreaks
The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a risk of disease outbreaks — including measles and diarrheal diseases — among the survivors, and humanitarian agencies are rushing to bring aid to help.The...
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A cheap, life-saving vaccine that’s been around for 6 years could finally be...
Every year, a bacterial infection affects 3 to 5 million people — most of them children — and kills more than 100,000 people.And experts are now saying a vaccine that's been around for years could help...
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Iraq is facing a new threat that can kill within hours
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq, which is already facing a prolonged battled against the Islamic State group and mass protests against government corruption and inefficiency, is now struggling with a new...
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Scientists can’t agree on how to fight a deadly disease that's ravaging a...
The clinics were overwhelmed.Over just a few days in 2010, cholera had swept through the chaos of earthquake-ravaged Haiti.Violently ill patients were packing wards, slumping in tents, and dying within...
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Haiti’s cholera epidemic could become a permanent problem
On January 12, 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing thousands of people and displacing millions more.Ten months later the country was stricken with an outbreak of cholera, a deadly...
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The UN admits it played a role in a cholera outbreak that’s killed thousands
The United Nations has, at long last, accepted some responsibility that it played a part in a cholera epidemic that broke out in Haiti in 2010 and has since killed at least 9,200 people and infected...
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The UN admitted it played a role in the cholera outbreak that’s killed...
UPDATE (August 2016): When we first published this story in July 2015, some people claimed that the United Nations was responsible for bringing cholera to Haiti in the 2010 outbreak – something that...
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Cholera has killed at least 13 people in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
PORT-AU-PRINCE/LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) - Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, as health workers...
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Haiti looks 'like a nuclear bomb went off'
PORT-A-PIMENT, Haiti (Reuters) - Patients arrived every 10 or 15 minutes, brought on motorcycles by relatives with vomit-covered shoulders and hoisted up the stairs into southwest Haiti's Port-a-Piment...
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115 dead as Yemen declares state of emergency over cholera outbreak
Sanaa (AFP) - Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of cholera that has spread rapidly in the Yemeni capital.The...
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More than 300,000 people in Yemen have been infected with a deadly disease
GENEVA (Reuters) - A 10-week cholera epidemic has now infected more than 300,000 people in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday, a health disaster on top of war,...
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Yemen records over 500,000 cholera cases, nearly 2,000 deaths
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said...
View ArticleWhat really happens when a fly lands on your food is worse than you thought
What happens when a housefly lands on your food? First, houseflies have no teeth. They eat by slurping fluids through a trunk-like nose. When they land on solid food, they regurgitate saliva on it. The...
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The Greatest Biological Threats To Civilization
With recent concerns over the bird flu virus being used by terrorist's to make a bioweopen, we took a look at other biological threat agents in a list compiled by the Federation of American Scientists....
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Ebola Panic Looks Strikingly Similar To This 19th-Century Epidemic
On Oct. 19, an inspector sent north from London to Sunderland reported a long-awaited arrival: the first British case of cholera. It was 1831 and as part of a second pandemic cholera had again...
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How the UN caused a massive cholera outbreak in Haiti
The cholera outbreak in Haiti is the UN's Watergate, except with far fewer consequences for the people responsible and an immeasurably more disastrous real-world impact.And an exchange of letters...
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The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a huge risk of disease outbreaks
The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a risk of disease outbreaks — including measles and diarrheal diseases — among the survivors, and humanitarian agencies are rushing to bring aid to help.The...
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