This Failed Experiment Is Still Causing Farmers Trouble Almost a Decade Later. Can the United States Cope With a Resurgence of Tropical Disease? Report Finds WHO Unfit To Confront Public Health Emergencies Like Ebola.
Current Epidemics. What Happens After You Flush? Drug-Resistant Malaria Is On The Verge Of Spreading Into India. Not in Africa or India it ain't.
The Stockholm Convention, which took effect in 2004, outlawed several persistent organic pollutants, and restricted DDT use to vector control. The Convention has been ratified by more than 170 countries and is endorsed by most environmental groups. Recognizing that total elimination in many malaria-prone countries is currently unfeasible because there are few affordable or effective alternatives, the convention exempts public health use within World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines from the ban.[41] Today, about 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes of DDT are produced each year for disease vector control.[17] In fact, eliminating the frivolous overuse of DDT (i.e. agricultural spraying) is probably good in the long run as it considerably slowed the speed at which mosquitoes develop resistance to the chemical.
Arrête de recherche américain sur virales Super souches, invoquant des préoccupations de sécurité. Last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy stunned scientists when it announced a moratorium of federally-funded research of enhanced viral strains of influenza, SARS, and MERS.
The decision came about following a series of public safety concerns, should these souped-up viruses escape from the lab. During this time, no new federal grants will be given for this type of research, and existing projects have been asked to suspend their work. The policy is expected to remain in place while the White House deliberates with the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) and the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies to discuss how this type of research should proceed.
Scientists Make Bird Flu Transmissible Between Humans Then Tell World How To Do It. The H5N1 virus, or Bird Flu, was easily transmissible between birds but not humans.
Two scientists have changed that and are publishing how they did it. The emergence of the avian flu in 2003 caused alarm around the world as it spread through countries in Asia, leaving victims in its wake. While largely contained to the bird population, for the relatively few humans unlucky enough to catch it the flu proved deadly. Now, two groups of perhaps seemingly mad scientists have successfully modified the H5N1 virus so that it could be passed easily between humans. One of them has already published the work for all the world to see, and the second is soon to follow. Of the 603 people infected since the 2003 H5N1 outbreak, 356 have died – a 59 percent mortality rate (by comparison, the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 that claimed the lives of over 50 million had a mortality rate of just 2 percent). Spanish flu-like virus with pandemic potential could emerge in bird populations. 11-Jun-2014 [ Print | E-mail ] Share [ Close Window ]
We May Have Solved the Mystery of the Dying Bees. Broad-Spectrum Anti-biofilm Peptide That Targets a Cellular Stress Response. Abstract Bacteria form multicellular communities known as biofilms that cause two thirds of all infections and demonstrate a 10 to 1000 fold increase in adaptive resistance to conventional antibiotics.
Currently, there are no approved drugs that specifically target bacterial biofilms. Now there's another bird flu we have to be worried about. Smallpox Vials Found In Unapproved Laboratory. Six vials of freeze-dried smallpox virus have been found tucked away in a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cold storage room.
The vials appear to have been stored there since the 1950s. If there is anything thing more frightening than finding vials of an infectious disease that killed more than a billion people before being wiped out, it may be the fact that ten other vials were in the same box with unreadable labels. Smallpox has a unique place in medical history. It is thought that no other virus, nor any bacteria, has killed as many people as Variaola major. Mortality rates for those infected are estimated at 30-35% Variola minor, a slightly less virulent form of smallpox, only killed 1% of those infected, still enough to make it far more deadly than many diseases that cause alarm today. Given the choice, one might still prefer to get smallpox than, for example, ebola. Americans – why do you keep refrigerating your eggs? Charting causes of death in America between 1970 and 2006. Western Countries have this weirdly high youth suicide rate.It was leading cause of death in Australia for a while in 15-26 yearolds, its second only to car accidents now.
Psychiatric conditions may have associated physical disabilities and congenital defects that are a factor in death? Get over yourself with your passive aggressive BS "what with say healthcare or gun control laws etc. " The data does not say that a significant portion of death is due to guns or healthcare (socialized or not). If anything, it speaks volumes that lifestyle is the number one killer. How people live their life with regard to diet, exercise, exposure to risk (HIV), etc. The Sky Isn't Falling: Healthcare Triage #9. Youtube.