Archive for August, 2018
The voracious fall armyworm has devastated food stocks across Africa has now arrived in southern India
Thursday, August 9th, 2018“…..the food security of millions of people across Asia could be at risk if the armyworms are not contained…..”
An Invasive New Tick Comes to the USA
Thursday, August 9th, 2018“…..In East Asia, long-horned ticks do carry pathogens related to Lyme and others found in North America. But the biggest threat is a phlebovirus that causes S.F.T.S., for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome…..The syndrome has an overall fatality rate of about 15 percent….But S.F.T.S. is more lethal to people aged 60 or older, killing half of them..…..”
Allegedly, a man linked to “extremist Muslims” was training children to commit school shootings.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018Malawi: “…In Klebsiella….resistance rose from 12% in 2003 to more than 90% in 2016. In E. coli, resistance rose from 1% to 30% in the same time period….”
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018“Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 170th out of 188 on the United Nations’ human development index. More than 70% of its 18 million people survive on less than $1.90 a day, the international benchmark of poverty.
Indonesia earthquake: Lack of equipment and digging by hand
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018“…..Hospitals were reportedly full and injured people were being treated in car parks and makeshift medical tents. ….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGxUP9qVMyc
Commotion in the Pacific
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
…ILEANA MOVING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SOUTHWESTERN MEXICO… …EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE LATER TODAY
…JOHN FORECAST TO BECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE BY WEDNESDAY…
…TROPICAL STORM KRISTY FORMS, ALREADY WITH 50-MPH WINDS…
At more than 443 sq. miles, the Mendocino Complex fire becomes largest wildfire in California history
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018259 Echovirus 30 (E30) cases from Denmark (38), Latvia (1), the Netherlands (85), Norway (37), Sweden (21) and the United Kingdom (England and Scotland (77)
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018- E30 is a non-polio enterovirus that causes aseptic meningitis outbreaks worldwide.
- Such outbreaks have been detected earlier in Europe and occur usually at five- to six-year intervals.
- 27 were reported with meningitis, 26 encephalitis/meningitis and one patient with sepsis, fever, tachycardia and groaning respiration.
- E30 is usually transmitted in an oral-to-oral or oral-to-fecal route.