Category Archives: pandemic

FastStats – Diabetes Before TrumpCare – after TrumpCare? 30-50 thousand more unnecessary deaths a year from diabetes over current numbers. Thanks to ideology over health and caring.

Current Annual Number of deaths: 76,488

Source: FastStats – Diabetes

IRIN | Cholera can kill quickly. In Yemen, it’s taking one life an hour – Thanks to #TraitorTrump ally Saudi Arabia at war against Yemen!

Cholera is now killing more people than bombs and bullets in Yemen, in a raging outbreak that is out of control thanks to the inability of the country to cope after more than two years of war.According to the latest (and always growing) numbers, 923 people have died of cholera in Yemen since the end of April, 532 in May alone. For comparison, the UN recorded violent deaths of 98 civilians in May.When IRIN first reported on Yemen’s cholera outbreak in the middle of last month, it was bad: hospitals in the capital of Sana’a were overflowing, and humanitarians were racing to contain the disease.

Source: IRIN | Cholera can kill quickly. In Yemen, it’s taking one life an hour

Climate deal: PM Modi’s US visit still on despite Trump rant against India on climate change | India News – Times of India

Trump’s claim that India was seeking “billions and billions and billions” was also typical of the hyperbolic falsehoods he often indulges in. Total foreign aid to India in 2015 was only $ 3.1 billion, with US aid to India only around $ 100 million. This is being whittled down to $34 million in 2018, pocket change for India which now itself gives out $ 1.6 billion in foreign aid, mostly to neighboring countries.

Source: Climate deal: PM Modi’s US visit still on despite Trump rant against India on climate change | India News – Times of India

VIDEO: ‘Make our planet great again’ – Macron rebukes Trump (in English) for ditching Paris climate deal – The Local

 

“Don’t be deceived about climate. There is no plan B, because there is no planet B,” Macron said.Referring to Trump’s idea of redrawing the 2015 accord, he said, in the French version, “we will not in any way renegotiate an agreement that is less ambitious” than the present one.

Source: VIDEO: ‘Make our planet great again’ – Macron rebukes Trump (in English) for ditching Paris climate deal – The Local

Two Chinese cities close poultry markets after H7N9 bird flu infection, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

A 44-year-old man who sold poultry at a farmers market in south-western Sichuan province’s Zigong city was diagnosed with H7N9, China News Service reported. Local authorities announced a one-month halt to poultry markets in the city’s Ziliujing district from midnight on Monday.Separately, a 74-year old man who had visited poultry markets in Shandong province’s Binzhou city was also diagnosed with H7N9, China Central Television reported. Binzhou authorities will temporarily halt poultry markets in three of its districts.

Source: Two Chinese cities close poultry markets after H7N9 bird flu infection, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

Ebola outbreak in Congo forces residents to flee

“Ebola could spread throughout the country if the government doesn’t take precautions by screening anyone who enters the city,” said Devina Katobu, a doctor in Kinshasa. “Already people are living in fear, and are still moving from one place to another to seek safe haven. I think they might be spreading the virus. The international community should move quickly to save this country from the epidemic.”The WHO has said that it needs $10 million to fight the virus in Congo. Officials believe they can stop the virus based on past experience. “We believe that the DRC’s government has strong experience, and a proven track record of handling Ebola outbreaks,” Salama said.Salama said the WHO was planning to use an Ebola vaccine if the Congolese government agrees. An Ebola vaccine was tried in West Africa but there were not enough cases to show how well it worked. The WHO was sending the team to the remote area in the north of the country and would bring the vaccine if possible.“There are 300,000 doses of Ebola vaccine available if needed to stop this outbreak becoming a pandemic,” Seth Berkley, chief executive of Gavi, an international group that seeks to provide vaccines to developing countries, said in an email. “It is a sad fact that the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are all too familiar with this horrific disease.”

Source: Ebola outbreak in Congo forces residents to flee

WHO: Viral hepatitis deaths increasing | CIDRAP

According to the report, 325 million people, or roughly 4% of the world’s population, lives with viral hepatitis, and the disease causes 1.34 million deaths per year. That number is comparable to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. But unlike those diseases, deaths from viral hepatitis are increasing, not declining: Since 2000, deaths from viral hepatitis increased by 22%.

Source: WHO: Viral hepatitis deaths increasing | CIDRAP

Animal cases of yellow fever near Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo | CIDRAP Deforestation drives new outbreaks

So far, yellow fever is currently being transmitted by two types of mosquitoes on Brazil, the Haemagogus or Sabethes. If yellow fever is introduced to a major urban center, the virus could jump to the Aedes aegypti mosquito, making human transmission more likely.”There is no evidence of human cases of yellow fever virus infection transmitted by Aedes aegypti, the vector that could sustain urban transmission of yellow fever,” the WHO said in its update.

Source: Animal cases of yellow fever near Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo | CIDRAP