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Pandemic Can hit the Food Supply

Pandemic Can hit the Food Supply We tend to think about a disease that infects humans or even animals that results in widespread crisis. However, what is also unfolding is a rise in a disease that infects the food supply. Wheat leaf rust is a fungal disease that affects wheat, barley and rye stems, leaves, and grains. […]

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How A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland

How A North Korean Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Could Kill Millions And Turn America Into A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important.  North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe […]

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Scarlet Fever Outbreak In England Leaves Researchers Confused: ‘We’re Concerned’

Scarlet Fever Outbreak In England Leaves Researchers Confused: ‘We’re Concerned’ Scarlet fever cases are now at 50-year-high sparking concerns for researchers, as they are baffled as to how “Victorian-era” diseases are making a comeback. The disease has been on the rise since 2014, and researchers are failing to find the cause. Scarlet fever hit its […]

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A Crash Course in Preparedness – Week 2 – Medicine, Sanitation, and Surviving Disaster Diseases

A Crash Course in Preparedness – Week 2 – Medicine, Sanitation, and Surviving Disaster Diseases   Welcome back to week 2 in our Crash Course into Preparedness. Last week we discussed the basics of survival and gear needed for a short-lived event. One of the comments from last week’s class mentioned that it isn’t hard to […]

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Migrations Always Bring Infectious Diseases

Migrations Always Bring Infectious Diseases A new report by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), has confirmed that there has been a sharp rise in disease since 2015 with the arrival of the refugees in Germany. The disease is tuberculosis and just being exposed to a person in the same restaurant carries the rise of you becoming infected […]

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Why Pandemics Are Our Own Damn Fault

Why Pandemics Are Our Own Damn Fault A review of Sonia Shah’s brilliant new book on 21st century disease threats we all face. Science writer Sonia Shah’s new book ‘Pandemic’ offers a critical warning. Photo by Glenford Nunez. An American science journalist, Sonia Shah has published earlier books on malaria and the testing of pharmaceuticals […]

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How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease

How Forest Loss Is Leading To a Rise in Human Disease A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the felling of tropical forests creates optimal conditions for the spread of mosquito-borne scourges, including malaria and dengue. Primates and other animals are also spreading disease from cleared forests to people. In Borneo, an island shared by […]

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The Europe Question in 2016

The Europe Question in 2016 NEW YORK – At the cusp of the new year, we face a world in which geopolitical and geo-economic risks are multiplying. Most of the Middle East is ablaze, stoking speculation that a long Sunni-Shia war (like Europe’s Thirty Years’ War between Catholics and Protestants) could be at hand. China’s […]

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The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy

The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy The scale of the global epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes are truly staggering. Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list—by no […]

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Wicked problems and wicked solutions: the case of the world’s food supply

Wicked problems and wicked solutions: the case of the world’s food supply Can you think of something worse than a wicked problem? Yes, it is perfectly possible: it is a wicked solution. That is, a solution that not only does nothing to solve the problem, but, actually, worsens it. Unfortunately, if you work in system […]

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Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway

Think About This On Your Next Commute: Traces of Anthrax, Bubonic Plague Found in NYC Subway Think about this the next time you grip a New York City subway pole: A new study has found that 48 percent of all DNA on the subway’s surface “matches no known organism.” A study, published Friday by Cornell […]

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How vaccine hysteria could spark totalitarian nightmare

How vaccine hysteria could spark totalitarian nightmare Gov. Chris Christie has been vilified for making a very simple statement – that parents (and presumably patients themselves) should have the freedom to choose whether to vaccinate their children. I have been asked for years what I thought about vaccination, so let me lay out the issues. […]

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