PLAGUES/PESTILENCES, 2007-2008

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I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:8)

 How can anyone doubt we're being warned by the Almighty????? 

 

Norovirus in new outbreak in New Zealand
Posted 8/29/08

West Nile Virus claims first New York City resident 
Posted 8/29/08

West Nile Virus claims more deaths in California 
Posted 8/29/08

London hospitals in grip of vermin infestations
Stomach-turning research disclosed the mortuary of Queen Mary's, Sidcup, had an infestation of maggots. The same trust called in pest controllers to treat cockroaches in a neonatal unit, ants and mice in a maternity ward and wasps in the delivery suite.
Posted 8/8/08

Morgellan's for tomatoes?  Image from the Byte Show... genetically modified food???  This is scary to think about, folks!  Click HERE to see images of Morgellons inside of a person.  Graphic content... not for children.  Not all the photos show up on her main page, so click on each of the links and you will be taken to lots of photos in each segment.
Posted 7/14/08

Bees Swarm Weston Eye Clinic, Beekeeper Comes to the Rescue
Posted 7/7/08

Waterlogged US Midwest faces a Monster Mosquito Plague
Posted 7/7/08

Media Blackout Ordered As UK Begins Mass Burials <- Smacks of the Black Plague of the 1600's!!!
Disturbing reports from Britain today are showing that their government has invoked their dreaded Official Secrets Act as a mysterious pandemic sweeps their Nation leaving an, estimated, 3,000 people dead and leaving ‘no choice’ for British Health Officials but to begin mass burials.
Posted 1/11/08

5 horrifying parasites guaranteed to overstay their welcome
Posted 9/5/07

Cholera kills at least 119 people in eastern India
Posted 9/5/07

Mystery Pig disease spreads through China
Posted 9/5/07

Australia Crisis talks over horse flu epidemic
Posted 8/27/07

Nearly 2,000 camels die in Saudi mystery disease
Posted 8/27/07

Snakes enter homes, increasing South Asia flood torment
Posted 8/27/07

WHO Ties Rising Population with New Diseases
Posted 8/27/07

Deadly Bird flu confirmed in Bali
Posted 8/15/07

Deadly flu Virus kills Australian boy
Posted 8/15/07

Elderly 'suffering mental health pandemic'
Posted 8/15/07

Killer flu claims two more lives in Australia
Posted 8/15/07

West Nile Virus cases soar as summer steams on
Posted 8/15/07

Fungus Epidemic killing off California Amphibians: study
Posted 8/13/07

Hotel closed as 200 tourists fall ill from mystery virus
Posted 8/13/07

Officials Fear Spread of Invasive Mussel Plague
Posted 8/13/07

Polio strikes more Angolan children
Posted 8/13/07

Source of Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak Sought
Posted 8/13/07

Spain burns fields to kill Rodent Plague
Posted 8/13/07

5th Australian Child dies of Mystery Illness
Posted 8/10/07

Bluetongue virus spreads in Netherlands
Posted 8/10/07

Bluetongue virus spreads to more Australian farms
Posted 8/10/07

EU bans British meat, livestock amid foot and mouth outbreak
Posted 8/10/07

Foot and mouth 'may have spread in floods'
Posted 8/10/07

Rodents Plague Northern Spain
Posted 8/10/07

Source of Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak Sought
Posted 8/10/07

Swine Fever Hits Romanian Farm
Posted 8/10/07

The timebomb diseases that scientists are breeding in our labs
The fact that a biological research laboratory was probably the source of the foot and mouth outbreak is, paradoxically, both hugely reassuring and at first sight very worrying.
Posted 8/10/07

HIV/AIDS rates skyrocketing among gays
Posted 8/8/07

10 mysterious diseases of today’s world
Posted 3/27/07

100 Sickened by Norovirus On Cruise, Company Says
Posted 4/17/07

1,000 UK turkeys killed by bird flu
Posted 2/5/07

160 stung by jellyfish
Posted 1/15/07

19 contract cholera in areas without clean water
Posted 2/5/07

190,000 sick after Jakarta flood
Posted 2/14/07

25,000 Bird Flu Turkeys Slaughtered at W.Va. Farm
Posted 4/4/07

3 Million in Japan Have Mental Illness
Posted 6/18/07

300 QEII passenger and crew ill With Norwalk Virus
Posted 1/25/07

4 in Britain Test Positive for Bird Flu
Posted 5/30/07

48 carriers of super bug still in Israeli hospitals
Posted 3/12/07

680 Die in Ethiopia Cholera Outbreak
Posted 2/23/07

9th Case of Mad Cow Disease in Canada
Posted 2/9/07

AFGHANISTAN: New bird flu cases confirmed
Thirteen new cases of bird flu have been detected in Afghanistan over the past week, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the country to 17 for this year, health officials said.
Posted 3/14/07

AFRICA: Fighting meningitis epidemic a race against time
Posted 3/19/07

AIDS-hit South Africa running out of burial plots
Posted 4/12/07

AIDS rising among South Africa's rich
Posted 1/31/07

AIDS spread could spark killings
Posted 1/30/07

Alberta hospital closes doors over superbug spread
Posted 3/22/07

Angola cholera cases rise sharply after deadly floods
Posted 1/30/07

Angolan cholera outbreak kills 3,000
Posted 1/17/07

Another Australian Salmonella outbreak affects 40
Posted 3/30/07

Antibiotic Resistance Found In Black Plague
Posted 3/26/07

Antibiotic-resistant super virus kills 'dozens' in Israel hospitals
Posted 3/9/07

Asia's Soaring Cancer Rates
Posted 4/23/07

Attack of the Deadly Moths
Posted 6/27/07

Australia: Salmonella Food poisoning affects 247 people
Posted 4/2/07

Australia alarm at rises in HIV/AIDS
Posted 2/12/07

Australian anthrax outbreak discovered
Posted 2/8/07

Australian fowl tested for bird flu
Posted 1/19/07

Australian Health Alert over devastating mosquito virus
WARNINGS about potentially fatal mosquito-borne diseases have been re-issued for the Northern Territory's Top End, after high numbers of the insects were detected across flooded coastal plains.
Posted 5/21/07

Australian HIV/AIDS at record levels
Posted 3/12/07

Australian Homes hopping with flea Epidemic
Posted 1/18/07

Australian Patients quarantined with deadly virus
Posted 3/30/07

B'desh launches emergency polio vaccination drive
Posted 5/22/07

Bacteria in food 'may cause rise in superbugs'
Posted 5/25/07

Bacterial Disease Eyed in Sea Lion Deaths
Posted 2/2/07

Bangladesh culls more bird flu infected chickens
Posted 5/15/07

Bangladesh says bird flu spreading More Quickly
Posted 4/12/07

Bangladesh says bird flu spreads in farms
Posted 4/2/07

Bangladesh says bird flu spreads
Posted 4/10/07

Bangladesh says detects bird flu in poultry
Posted 3/26/07

Belgian troops deployed to battle Plague of marauding caterpillars
Posted 6/4/07

Big rise in deaths from 'superbug'
Posted 6/1/07

Bird Flu Genome Study Shows New Strains As new Infections Spread
Posted 4/23/07

Bird flu hits poultry farm near Vietnamese capital
Posted 3/8/07

Bird flu in Britain has pandemic potential
Posted 5/30/07

Bird Flu Kills Endangered Japanese Eagles
Posted 3/22/07

Bird Flu Mutations Found
Posted 1/22/07

Bird flu outbreak in north Wales
Posted 5/25/07

Bird flu outbreak in Pakistan zoo
Posted 2/22/07

Bird flu outbreaks confirmed in Afghanistan flocks
Posted 2/26/07

Bird flu Rapidly spreads in Bangladesh, as more fowls culled
Posted 6/14/07

Bird flu re-emerges in central Vietnam, kills ducks
Posted 5/8/07

Bird Flu Resurfaces with a Vengeance in Vietnam
Posted 6/25/07

Cancer Rates Skyrocket in Asia
Posted 6/1/07

Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan
KABUL, May 7 (Reuters) - The 10-year-old Afghan girl has big eyes, a shy smile and a dark lesion speckled with blood on her right cheek. The girl has leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face.
Posted 5/8/07

Bird flu reports spreading in Asia
Posted 1/18/07

Bird flu resurfaces among poultry in southeast Turkey
Bird flu has been detected among poultry in a village in the southeastern Turkish province of Batman, with experts still examining whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, the agriculture ministry said Thursday.
Posted 2/12/07

Bird Flu Resurfaces in Vietnam
Posted 1/15/07

Bird flu spreads in Bangladesh, more fowls culled
Posted 6/11/07

Bird flu spreads to more farms in Bangladesh
Posted 3/26/07

Bird Flu Spreading In Central Russia
Posted 2/28/07

Bird flu strikes ducks in southern Vietnam city
Posted 3/12/07

Bird flu victim dies in Laos
Posted 3/6/07

'Black Death' Plague found in Denver squirrels
No humans here have been infected with plague, the "Black Death" disease that killed millions in 14th-century Europe. A state hotline gets 50-75 calls daily about dead rodents. Chris Urbina, Denver's health director, says the risk of catching it "is extremely low."
Posted 5/11/07

Black Fungus: stem rust threatens Asian wheat crops
Posted 4/25/07

The Black Plague: Could It Happen Again?
Plague ravaged Europe for nearly 500 years, brought about by the expansion of global travel at the same time climate changed, according to new research. Given the extent of globalization today, when a person can fly anywhere in the world in a day or two, and the fact that the climate is changing, health officials and the public wonder if there is a risk of history repeating itself.
Posted 5/25/07

Briton suspected of infecting teens with HIV
Posted 6/11/07

Cactus-Eating Moth Reaches Mexico
Posted 2/19/07

Calif. Farmers Fear Spread of Apple Moth
Posted 5/28/07

Calif. Officials Impose Quarantine on voracious Australian moth
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- State agricultural authorities have expanded their efforts to stop the spread of a voracious Australian moth by imposing a quarantine on the hundreds of plants the pest eats in a five-county region.
Posted 4/23/07

Canada Confirms New Mad Cow Case
Posted 5/3/07

Cancer cases in Europe rising as population ages
Posted 2/7/07

Carniverous Mice Plague threatens island
Posted 4/23/07

Caution Urged After Norovirus Outbreak
Posted 1/22/07

CDC: Lyme disease cases double in U.S.
More than 21,000 cases of the tick-borne disease are now reported every year, the CDC said, making it the most common illness transmitted by bugs or animals in the United States.
Posted 6/18/07

Chagas Disease spread to U.S., Europe via blood banks -WHO
Chagas, a parasitic disease which can kill victims decades after infection, has spread from Latin America to the United States and Europe due to inadequate blood screening, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
Posted 4/16/07

China: Boy died from bird flu
Posted 3/30/07

China: Pig Disease Could Spread
Posted 5/11/07

China confirms bird flu outbreak
Posted 5/21/07

China Identifies Mystery Pig Illness
The disease spread to China in the mid-1990s, and the recent outbreak was a caused by a new mutation, it said.
Posted 5/11/07

China meeting warns of bird flu mutation risk
Posted 1/30/07

China pig deaths caused by a new and highly pathogenic strain of blue ear disease
Posted 6/27/07

China reports 18,000 pig deaths from disease outbreak
Posted 6/6/07

China reports bird flu deaths in Tibet poultry
Posted 3/8/07

China reports new human bird flu case
Posted 3/5/07

China virus outbreak kills third child
Posted 5/25/07

Climate change pushes 'African' diseases north-expert
Posted 3/12/07

Climate Change to increase British Pestilences
Posted 4/2/07

Congo cholera outbreak reaches capital Brazzaville
Posted 2/6/07

Controversial tests reveal virulence of 1918 flu virus
Tests with a revived version of the 1918 influenza have confirmed scientists’ worst fears, that it was the virus itself and not poor healthcare that led to the deaths of around 50 million people.
Posted 1/23/07

Costa Rica Probes Mystery Deaths of 500 Pelicans
Posted 2/15/07

COTE D IVOIRE: Meningitis outbreak reported
Posted 2/23/07

Czechs fear beetle invasion after trees felled by storm
Posted 1/23/07

Deadly Antibiotic-Resisting Bacteria Has Killed Dozens
Posted 3/12/07

Deadly bird flu found in Hungary
Posted 1/25/07

Deadly bird flu found in Pakistan
Posted 2/7/07

Deadly Bird Flu Virus hits ninth province in Vietnam
Posted 5/30/07

Deadly Chagas infection poses threat to blood supply
Posted 6/14/07

Deadly Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes
Posted 5/1/07

A Deadly Ebola Mystery
Of all the diseases you need to be afraid of, Ebola is near the bottom of the list.
Posted 4/30/07

The deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue fever Surging in Mexico, Latin America
Posted 4/2/07

Deadly Illnesses Developing From Mystery Vaccine
A shot from a syringe is leaving some U.S. servicemen and women on the brink of death.
Posted 5/11/07

Deadly Jellyfish Plague invades Australia Coast
Irukandji jellyfish are among the world’s most toxic creatures – all but impossible to detect in the water but packing a potentially lethal punch belying their tiny size. Until recently it was thought that they were confined to Australia’s northern tropical waters, but marine biologists have now found them off Queensland’s Fraser Island — a popular tourist spot about 400 miles south of their previously assumed range.
Posted 3/30/07

Deadly Pig-Killing Viral Disease Rapidly Spreads in China
Posted 6/14/07

Deadly Spiders march into Australian Cities
Posted 2/6/07

Deadly Staph infections spread in Chicago
Called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, these staph germs can cause skin infections that in rare cases have led to pneumonia, bloodstream infections and a painful, flesh-destroying condition. MRSA is hard to treat because the bacteria have developed resistance to the penicillin drug family.
Posted 5/30/07

Deadly Storms Sweep Nation
A blast of wind-driven snow and plunging temperatures created headaches for travelers Tuesday across the Midwest with canceled flights and slick, slushy roads. In the south, a powerful storm and likely a tornado hit the New Orleans area, killing one and injuring at least 15 others.
Posted 2/14/07

Deadly TB strain seen in Africa now in rich nations
Posted 3/26/07

Deadly TB strain thrives in African slums--agency
Posted 3/26/07

Dengue Fever outbreak sparks Paraguay emergency
Posted 3/5/07

Destructive Mite Threatens Hawaii Bees
Posted 4/27/07

The dilemma of a deadly disease: patients may be forcibly detained <- FEATURE!!!
South Africa is considering forcibly detaining people who carry a deadly strain of tuberculosis that has already claimed hundreds of lives. The strain threatens to cause a global pandemic, but the planned move pits public protection against human rights.
Posted 1/23/07

Dirty hospital drains blamed in Canada baby deaths
A television documentary by Radio-Canada, the CBC's French-language service, revealed that the babies died after they contracted the "Pseudomonas aeruginosa" bacterium in the neonatal intensive care ward of Sainte-Justine Hospital.
Posted 4/30/07

Disease-Carrying Ticks Spread in Germany as Climate Warms
Experts are warning of an epidemic of disease-bearing ticks in Germany this summer after a particularly mild winter. Their range is likely to keep increasing as the climate warms.
Posted 5/7/07

Disease could kill more than tsunami
Posted 4/9/07

Disease Engulfs China
While China's economy has been rapidly expanding, the country's social welfare is declining fast. Two important factors contributing to this downfall are the noticeable spread of disease among Chinese people, combined with a neglect of public health concerns.
Posted 2/26/07

Disease fears amid Horrific Jakarta floods
Posted 2/6/07

Disease fears rise as Australia soaks in sewage-contaminated floodwaters
Posted 6/14/07

Disease hits as aid trickles into Solomons disaster area
Posted 4/5/07

Disease hits as Malaysian floods displace 90,000
Posted 1/16/06

Disease is ravaging Africa
"More than seven percent of Ethiopia's 77 million people are susceptible to river blindness," he told ministers and diplomats from several African nations. "Children are particularly vulnerable to the disease and this is unnecessary." 
Posted 2/14/07

Disease Outbreak kills 250,000 fish at hatchery
Posted 5/9/07

Disease rising as Australia dries
Posted 4/10/07

Disease's rise after New floods hit Malaysia
Posted 1/17/07

Dole recalls Salmonella infected cantaloupes in U.S. states, Quebec
Posted 02/20/07

Drug resistance and HIV-AIDS threaten anti-TB drive: WHO
Posted 3/26/07

Drug-resistant germ escapes hospital confines  
MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, has long been known as an infection associated with hospitals, where patients are already sick and vulnerable. A newer strain of MRSA known as "community associated" has emerged outside hospitals and is causing severe infections in previously healthy children and adults.
Posted 4/24/07

Drug Resistant River Blindness Super Disease Found
The parasite that causes river blindness, a crippling disease endemic in Africa and tropical regions of the Americas, may be developing resistance to the one drug used to treat it, according to research published Friday in The Lancet.
Posted 6/18/07

Drug-resistant TB spreading around the world
Posted 3/7/07

Drug Resistant TB Spreads In Africa
Posted 2/28/07

Duck Farming Spreads Bird Flu in Vietnam
Posted 1/25/07

Dysentery kills hundreds in Somalia
Posted 3/22/07

E. coli. Contaminated Beef Recall Expanded to Millions of Pounds
A meat supplier has greatly expanded a ground beef recall, which now includes about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat that may be contaminated with E. coli.
Posted 6/11/07

E. coli death toll rises
Posted 1/29/07

Egypt says a 13th citizen has died of bird flu
Posted 02/20/07

Egyptian 4-year-old tests positive for bird flu
Posted 3/13/07

Egyptian child, 2, tests positive for bird flu
Posted 4/6/07

Egyptian girl dies of bird flu, 14th death
Posted 4/12/07

Egyptian girl dies of bird flu virus
Posted 6/11/07

Egyptian girl has bird flu, 27th human case
Posted 3/27/07

Egyptian woman dies from bird flu
Posted 1/22/07

Egyptian woman tests positive for bird flu
Posted 1/19/07

Epidemic of syphilis endangers Europe
Posted 8/6/07

ERITREA-YEMEN: New locust swarms threaten crop harvests
Posted 4/23/07

ETHIOPIA: Locust Plague threat in the east
A Plague of locusts is likely to infest the eastern part of Ethiopia in mid-June, the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) has warned.
Posted 5/10/07

Europe's flu earlier, more virulent
Posted 1/30/07

Experts: Asian Soybean Rust Fungus Found in La.
Posted 5/17/07

Experts: Poisonous Brown Widow Spider invades Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana bug experts say the poisonous brown widow spider, a cousin to the well-known black widow, is increasingly being spotted in Louisiana.
Posted 5/11/07

Experts Fear Bird Flu's Spread in Asia
Posted 2/16/07

Experts tackle the devil's tumour
Posted 2/22/07

FACTBOX-Bird flu's spread around the globe
Posted 3/12/07

Fast Spreading Fish-Killing Virus Found in Lake Huron
Posted 1/29/07

Fatal disease found in developing countries with poor hygiene habits hits South Texas
Medical professionals in South Texas have identified another disease that has apparently slipped across the border – caused by a rare brain worm that can be fatal and is being spread by unsanitary food-handling practices.
Posted 1/15/07

FDA expects pet food death toll to rise
Posted 3/21/07

FDA extends salmonella infected peanut butter recall
Posted 3/12/07

Fears grow that gulls will spread bird flu far and wide
Posted 02/20/07

FEATURE-Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan
Posted 5/10/07

Feds Say 20 Million Have Form of HPV Virus
Posted 3/1/07

Fiji urged to intensify HIV/AIDS fight as rates of infection increase
Posted 2/13/07

Flight Risk
An airline passenger infected with a particularly lethal form of tuberculosis is under quarantine. How much of a threat is the disease to others?
Posted 6/1/07

First bird flu death in Nigeria
Posted 2/1/07

First dysentery cases reported after tsunami
Posted 4/6/07

Flesh-destroying ulcer infection spreads
The Bairnsdale ulcer, which kills human skin cells, fat and blood vessels, was first diagnosed in Australia in 1948, on the Victorian coast.
Posted 1/16/06

Floods, legacy of wars drive Africa cholera risk
Posted 3/5/07

Florida tries to wipe out cat-sized African rats
U.S. federal and state officials are beginning the final phase of a two-year project to eradicate the Gambian pouched rats, which can grow to the size of a cat and began reproducing in the remote area about eight years ago.
Posted 5/28/07

Flu drug warning after two child deaths
Posted 3/26/07

Flu pandemic gets hurricane-style warnings
(1) CDC issues guidelines to help states plan for the next flu pandemic; (2) Plan would rank flu severity much as hurricanes are categorized; (3) Plan doesn't tell states what infection-control steps to take
Posted 2/2/07

Foot and mouth lab failure causes outbreak
Posted 8/6/07

Four suspected bird flu deaths in Nigeria, official says
Posted 2/1/07

French Beekeepers Brace for Asian Hornets Sting
The situation is "very worrying," he said. "If the hornets keep attacking the bees then their number will be reduced and honey production will be severely handicapped."
Posted 4/16/07

Ga. Lab Aims to Halt the Hemlock Pest Plague
Posted 3/19/07

Gabon reports outbreak of Chikungunya virus
Posted 5/15/07

Ghana confirms first case of bird flu
Posted 5/3/07

Giant Mice Devouring Island Seabird Chicks, Threatening Extinction
Common house mice were introduced to the island more than a century ago. Now three times larger than normal mice, the invasive rodents likely number more than a million.
Posted 4/19/07

Girl Gets Flesh-Eating Infection From Game
Officials say the 14-year-old girl was playing the "ABC game" in class, the object of which is for kids to see how long they can tolerate someone finger-scratching the letters of the alphabet onto their skin.
Posted 4/23/07

Growing number of diseases jump from exotic beasts to humans
The monkeypox outbreak illustrates a growing problem: Exotic beasts give exotic diseases to people who get too close, a trend that some medical specialists call a serious public health threat.
Posted 4/16/07

H5N1 bird flu virus confirmed in eight Moscow suburbs
Posted 2/26/07

Health expert blames pollution for rapid cancer rise
Posted 5/17/07

The hidden suffering of India's lepers
Posted 4/2/07

HIV/AIDS Infections on the Rise in Asia
Posted 4/2/07

HIV/AIDS numbers soaring in Malaysia:
Posted 2/13/07

Horses at risk from virus that kills in four hours
Posted 3/28/07

Hospital failings allow superbugs to spread
Thousands of patients risk contracting potentially deadly superbugs because NHS hospitals are not taking basic steps to stop the spread of infection, research for The Daily Telegraph reveals today.
Posted 4/26/07

Hundreds still sick in Mexico Catholic school mystery
Posted 4/10/07

India alarm over the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS
Posted 6/1/07

India finance minister says AIDS cases underreported
Posted 5/25/07

Indian farmers braced for rat plague
Posted 5/4/07

Indonesia confirms 76th bird flu death
Posted 5/16/07

Indonesia confirms three more bird flu deaths
Posted 3/29/07

Indonesia faces growing HIV/AIDS Epidemic , Papua big worry-WHO
Posted 2/19/07

Indonesia finds asymptomatic H5N1-infected poultry
Posted 6/14/07