• Another Russian Bioweapon?

    From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 15 14:11:31 2022
    Mystery Hepatitis Leading to Kids' Liver Transplants Crossing Borders: WHO

    Since the U.K. cases were reported, the WHO said Spain has confirmed three cases in children with hepatitis who range in age from 22 months to 13 years. It also noted that "less than five cases (confirmed or possible)" of hepatitis have been reported in
    Ireland https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-hepatitis-leading-kids-liver-transplants-crossing-borders-who-1698273

    https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1607398876167.jpg

    https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/789390/The_Economist_The_World_In_2019.jpg?p=facebook

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 15 14:09:20 2022
    Mystery Hepatitis Leading to Kids' Liver Transplants Crossing Borders: WHO

    Since the U.K. cases were reported, the WHO said Spain has confirmed three cases in children with hepatitis who range in age from 22 months to 13 years. It also noted that "less than five cases (confirmed or possible)" of hepatitis have been reported in
    Ireland https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-hepatitis-leading-kids-liver-transplants-crossing-borders-who-1698273

    https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1607398876167.jpg

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 16 09:37:03 2022
    UK, US health officials investigating cases of severe hepatitis with unknown causes in children

    Alabama health officials released a separate statement Friday in which they said they have been investigating similar cases of hepatitis in kids in the state since November.

    In six of the children in the UK, the disease was so severe that they had liver transplants, but as of April 11, no deaths had been reported.

    The Alabama Department of Public Health has similarly identified nine children, ranging in age from 1 to 6, with hepatitis. All of those children were also positive for the adenovirus, and two needed liver transplants. None of the children had any
    underlying health conditions, the department said. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/health/pediatric-hepatitis-cases/index.html

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 16 09:35:32 2022
    UK, US health officials investigating cases of severe hepatitis with unknown causes in children

    Alabama health officials released a separate statement Friday in which they said they have been investigating similar cases of hepatitis in kids in the state since November.
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/health/pediatric-hepatitis-cases/index.html

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 19 19:36:19 2022
    12 cases of unexplained hepatitis found in children in Israel https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-704642

    Additional cases of hepatitis had been identified in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in a statement Tuesday, without specifying exactly how many cases were found.
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-reports-12-cases-of-mysterious-liver-disease-in-children

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 23 21:52:50 2022
    At least 169 cases of acute hepatitis in children aged one month to 16 years old have been identified in an outbreak that now involves 11 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.

    Among the cases of acute hepatitis, at least one child has died and 17 children have required liver transplants, the WHO said in a news release.
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/23/health/multi-country-outbreak-of-hepatitis-in-children/index.html

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 23 21:54:35 2022
    potential emergence of a novel adenovirus

    At least 169 cases of acute hepatitis in children aged one month to 16 years old have been identified in an outbreak that now involves 11 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.

    Among the cases of acute hepatitis, at least one child has died and 17 children have required liver transplants, the WHO said in a news release.
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/23/health/multi-country-outbreak-of-hepatitis-in-children/index.html

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 18 00:13:24 2022
    Monkeypox: What we know about the smallpox-like virus spreading in the UK https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/15/monkeypox-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-smallpox-like-virus-detected-in-the-uk

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 18 10:03:01 2022
    Spain, Portugal report monkeypox cases, raising specter of wider outbreak https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/18/spain-portugal-report-monkeypox-cases-raising-specter-of-wider-outbreak

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 18 11:24:08 2022
    Spain, Portugal report monkeypox cases, raising specter of wider outbreak
    The news of cases in additional countries led a senior official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn that cases will likely be spotted in the United States.
    “We do have a level of concern that this is very different than what we typically think of from monkeypox,” said McQuiston.
    https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/18/spain-portugal-report-monkeypox-cases-raising-specter-of-wider-outbreak

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 19 15:14:02 2022
    The Russians worked with monkeypox virus, a close cousin to smallpox, in their bioweapons program
    https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2002/06/09/Monkeypox-could-be-used-as-bioweapon/19421023612300

    Upcoming G7 health ministers virus exercise: "A leopard bites a human and transmits a dangerous smallpox virus."
    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1527058147571015681

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 24 03:38:03 2022
    Ebola outbreak: 4th case confirmed in Mbandaka
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is experiencing its fourteenth Ebola outbreaks since 1976. The current outbreak is the sixth since 2018 alone – the most frequent occurrence in the country’s Ebola history.
    http://outbreaknewstoday.com/ebola-outbreak-4th-case-confirmed-in-mbandaka-37889

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 26 19:41:23 2022
    Why unprecedented bird flu outbreaks sweeping the world are concerning scientists
    outbreaks pose a significant risk to vulnerable species, are hard to contain and increase the opportunity for the virus to spill over into people.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01338-2

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    A mutating strain of bird flu that has emerged in Russia has “a fairly high degree of probability” of human-to-human transmission
    https://nypost.com/2021/03/12/russia-warns-of-human-to-human-transmission-of-bird-flu-strain

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 29 14:49:05 2022
    Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge
    "The number of cases recorded is unprecedented," said Haidar Hantouche, a health official in Dhi Qar province.
    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220529-deadly-nose-bleed-fever-shocks-iraq-as-cases-surge

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  • From Jim Wilkins@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 30 14:28:13 2022
    "Matthew" wrote in message news:7e4b28a6-8e52-4fd8-9bff-a46b71cfb3b7n@googlegroups.com...

    Deadly nose-bleed fever shocks Iraq as cases surge
    "The number of cases recorded is unprecedented," said Haidar Hantouche, a >health official in Dhi Qar province. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220529-deadly-nose-bleed-fever-shocks-iraq-as-cases-surge

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    Although covertly spreading diseases normally carried by animal vectors or
    sex tourists offers the advantage of plausible deniability, it prepares the targets to successfully counter them and similar diseases that might be released in the future and is thus self-defeating.

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 30 13:47:59 2022
    You're just talking about deterrence in general. It doesn't always work.

    Some today believe humanity's propensity for open conflict no longer applies to relations between great powers - that because rational leaders are not suicidal they will continue to prevent MAD. This is wishful thinking that misunderstands the primal
    motivations for war, underestimates the fragility of the current paradigm, and is refuted by the historical record.

    Leaders and nation states do not always behave rationally. In 1939, Germany started a war it would lose. In 1941, Japan provoked a war with the United States it would also lose. Men are prone to miscalculation. That is especially true in totalitarian
    systems where open and honest criticism is highly restricted, resulting in leadership with an inflated sense of its own power and inaccurate views of conditions in general. More fundamentally, a strong desire for justice or revenge can override one's
    normal tendency for self-preservation. We see this in the logic of a suicide bomber and the sting of a bumble bee.

    As WMDs continue to proliferate in the hands of more and more nations, the risk of catastrophe becomes all the more certain.
    http://pol.foundation/Happening.html

    "It is impossible to know how many Russians have been recruited abroad, but there is no doubt that their expertise has been attracting bidders.... I've heard that several went to Iraq and North Korea. A former colleague, now the director of a
    Biopreparat institute, told me that five of our scientists are in Iran."
    -Ken Alibek, formerly the First Deputy Director at Biopreparat, USSR's bioweapons program
    https://www.google.com/books/edition/Biohazard/wxfSAgAAQBAJ

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  • From Matthew@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 3 05:27:09 2022
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8LLVLJd-WM

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