World Without Borders
Data from the Vermont Department of Health show that more than one-third of refugees resettled in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis.…
…The Syrian refugee crisis has precipitated a “catastrophic outbreak” of a flesh-eating disease that is spreading across the Middle East and North Africa… ongoing violence in Syria has “created a setting in which we have seen the re-emergence of polio and measles, as well as tuberculosis, hepatitis A, and other infections in Syria and among displaced Syrian refugees.” … Regarding the flesh-eating disease, leishmaniasis… “We may be witnessing an epidemic of historic and unprecedented proportions, but it has largely been hidden due to lack of specific information.”…
One of every five refugees resettled in Minnesota by the federal government tested positive for latent tuberculosis in 2014, according to the state’s Department of Health.…
A new study has allowed scientists to watch the Zika virus destroy nascent brain cells in mice fetuses, proving definitively the link between the virus and birth defects in humans as well as cementing suspicions that the strain of Zika spreading in Latin America is a more dangerous mutation than those seen previously.…
The first reported case of a person with measles in the recent Memphis outbreak, which now numbers seven confirmed cases, was at a local mosque on April 15, according to the Shelby County Health Department.… outbreak could have originated with an unvaccinated for measles adult or child brought to Tennessee under the federal refugee resettlement program…
Doctors have found the Zika virus in placentas of two U.S. women who contracted the virus. They suffered miscarriages after they returned to the states.… occurred in the early stages of the pregnancy…
Media outlets in Venezuela are reporting that at least eleven patients nationwide have died of Guillain-Barré syndrome, though the government’s Health Ministry has yet to report any of the cases, and most appear linked to the Zika virus pandemic ravaging Latin America.… “Delaying treatment can result in profound neurologic damage including paralysis of the face, arms and legs, loss of sensation in the extremities and respiratory failure requiring intubation and admission to an intensive care unit for a prolonged period (weeks to months)…”
The appearance of the Zika virus in Mexico has kept Mexican health officials on alert after the country has seen more than 34 cases in recent weeks. In the border city of Reynosa, authorities have confirmed one case.… So far the cases that have been reported in Mexico are linked to the “importation” of the virus by people who were infected in Central and South America.…
Police had to fire warning shots into the air when thousands of Dutch protestors stormed the site of a planned asylum centre, shortly to open for 1,500 refugees. … in the small town of Geldermalsen… A planned discussion about the imminent arrival of the migrants, staged by the town council, was abandoned in the chaos as the mob outside tried to storm the building. Councillors were forced to flee out of rear exits into police vans. …
Drone Finds Thousands Of EU-Bound Muslim “Refugees” Pouring Across Slovenia Border…
German doctor sounds off about the flood of muzzie migrants who are overwhelming the hospitals with exotic diseases long abolished in the west. She says they refuse to be treated by female doctors and they abandon their children at pharmacies when the find out they have to pay for their drugs. That flood of exotic diseases is also happening here, you just don't hear about it.…
Representative Mike Rogers from Alabama has submitted a bill to withdraw from The United Nations.… The United Nations has long been a thorn in the side of the United States. They basically take our money and spend it in places and on projects that overall weaken the American stance in the world. Now that I think about it, this administration tends to have the same track record.…
NATO foreign ministers ended their meetings in Antalya, Turkey with a sing-a-long. The NATO ministers hugged and sang, “We Are the World”…
…With a unique, magnificent exception, much of the Middle East is running out of water due to such maladies as population growth, short-sighted dictators, distorted economic incentives, and infrastructure-destroying warfare.…
The first citizens will arrive on Friday to populate the world's newest self-declared country – Liberland, a tiny patch of woodland and fields on the sandy banks of the River Danube. The establishment of the pocket-sized nation was declared earlier this month on land wedged between Croatia and Serbia which, its founders argue, was never properly claimed by either country.…
A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington… [found a] decades-old vials of smallpox… in a cardboard box… intact and sealed… scientists have yet to establish whether the virus is dead or alive
United Nations experts said Wednesday that Detroit’s decision to cut off water to residents who haven’t paid their bills may violate international human rights. … The U.N. experts said international human rights law requires governments to take urgent measures, including financial assistance, to ensure access to essential water and sanitation. “The households which suffered unjustified disconnections must be immediately reconnected,” the U.N. statement said. [There is no situation the UN can't make worse.]
...World Health Organization announced Monday that spread of polio is an international public health emergency... could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease. ...described current polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an "extraordinary event...." first-ever international alert on polio. ...
[Extraordinary.... what could these areas have in common...?]
The 22-year US military veteran, freshman congressman, Tea Party darling and passionate Israel advocate talks to Herb Keinon.... West sat down with The Jerusalem Post and pulled no punches when talking about his view of the Palestinians, Iran, Israel and the African-American community, and Jonathan Pollard.
It's time for the American people to stand by our strongest ally, the Jewish State of Israel, and reject this foreign policy blunder of epic proportions. [h/t to cjwk on HillBuzz]
Ice sheets in Antarctica don't just grow on top when snow falls, they also grow from the bottom up
The Senate is gearing up to ratify a Nixon-era U.N. treaty meant to create universal laws to govern the seas -- a treaty critics say will create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways.
U.N. peacekeepers have upset traditional wild asparagus harvesters on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus by preventing them from entering a buffer zone to gather the tasty shoots.
Seventeen private water wells have tested positive for E. coli bacteria near a northeastern Oklahoma town where an E. coli outbreak last summer killed one man and sickened hundreds.... Health officials have said a restaurant called the Country Cottage was the source of the outbreak in Locust Grove, but Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said this month that it could have been the result of contamination from nearby poultry farms....
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible. A "world government" would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force. [Um, How about we use the U.S. Constitution as a model rather than a mess like the EU? Good idea, in some distant millenium when humanity is civilized.]
Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich Islamic kingdom that forbids the public practice of other religious faiths, will preside Wednesday over a two-day U.N. conference on religious tolerance that will draw more than a dozen world leaders, including President Bush, Israeli President Shimon Peres and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.