Tag: CDC

The Other Victims Of U.S. Nuclear Warmaking Policy: The Forgotten Victims Of Nuke Testing In New Mexico Still Fighting For Recognition

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The Other Victims Of U.S. Nuclear Warmaking Policy: The Forgotten Victims Of Nuke Testing In New Mexico Still Fighting For Recognition
Government Still In Denial Over Nuclear Testing Claims: New Mexico ‘Downwinders’ Still Fighting For Compensation And Recognition A recent piece in Vice told the stories of the New Mexico “Downwinders,” people who claim to have been affected by fallout from early nuclear testing are as tragic in their innocence when we consider all we know about nuclear testing today. One woman, Barbara Kent, remembers being jolted awake by the blast, tossed from her bunk at a summer camp in nearby Ruidoso, New Mexico.… Read the rest

Forcing Open The Door: How Monsanto Bullied Its Way Into Nigeria And How Poor Farmers There Are Bound To Suffer As A Result

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Forcing Open The Door: How Monsanto Bullied Its Way Into Nigeria And How Poor Farmers There Are Bound To Suffer As A Result
Monsanto Finally Bulls Its Way Into Nigeria: Corporate Bully To Take Over African Nation’s Ability To Feed Itself As Was The Plan All Along There are some takeovers that are overt and as bold as bold can be. The German army’s Blitzkrieg strategy of overwhelming much of Europe with its tank strength is an example that everyone could witness as it was happening.… Read the rest

Guess Who’s Paying A Premium To Make Americans Fat: You Are. How Taxpayer Subsidies Fuel Obesity And Other Disease

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Guess Who’s Paying A Premium To Make Americans Fat: You Are. How Taxpayer Subsidies Fuel Obesity And Other Disease
We Already Know That Taxpayer Subsidies To Unhealthy Food Industry Giants Are A Rip-Off–Here’s The Proof That They’re Killing Us Too If 70 percent of your countrymen were at risk of contracting a deadly disease, or already dying from it, and you found out who was secretly paying to make them sick, you would want that person prosecuted to the full extent of the law, wouldn’t you?… Read the rest

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaching Crisis Levels: Alarming Rise In Cases Of Sepsis May Herald True Crisis

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaching Crisis Levels: Alarming Rise In Cases Of Sepsis May Herald True Crisis
Crisis of Drug-Resistant Bacteria: Routine Infections Becoming More And More Untreatable If you’re not in the medical profession, chances are you’ve probably never heard a lot about sepsis in your lifetime. Barring a vague notion you picked up from medical dramas on television that it is some kind of disease, you probably never think about it at all. But we may be on the verge of hearing a whole lot more about sepsis, and many other formerly routine infections.… Read the rest

If You’re Unhappy And You Know It: European CDC Reports Gonorrhea Cases Have Doubled

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If You’re Unhappy And You Know It: European CDC Reports Gonorrhea Cases Have Doubled
Like a Clap Of Thunder Echoing Across The Continent: European CDC Reports Gonorrhea Cases Have Doubled If you have college-age children who have a European walkabout planned this summer, you might want to make sure you have a good long talk with them first regarding the dangers of unprotected sex. For supplemental reading, you might give them some literature on how antibiotics work–or, as has become more and more frequent, how they don’t work anymore, at least not as well as they once did.… Read the rest

Startling Finding Reveals The CDC Doesn’t Even Keep Records On The Third-Leading Cause Of Death For Patients

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Startling Finding Reveals The CDC Doesn’t Even Keep Records On The Third-Leading Cause Of Death For Patients
Medical Error Shown To Be Vastly Underreported In Terrifying New Study–And The CDC Doesn’t Even Track It “Medical error.” It’s such a cold term, such a clinical term. It hardly conveys the pain, suffering, sense of betrayal and even loss of life that can result. From botched surgeries, to misprescribed medications, to amputations of the wrong limb–there was a story in the news recently of a hospital where neurosurgeons operated on the wrong hemisphere of the brain not once, not twice, but three separate times within a one-year span–the list of horrors goes on.… Read the rest

A Rogue Agency: CDC Fails To Report Dozens Of Incidents Involving Bioterror Pathogens

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A Rogue Agency: CDC Fails To Report Dozens Of Incidents Involving Bioterror Pathogens
CDC Shuts Out Congressional Investigators: 34 Incidents Involving Bioterror Pathogens Go Unreported There are certain things you have to report. Even as little kids we know this. If your younger brother doesn’t do his homework before watching TV while mom isn’t home, that’s one thing you don’t have to tell anyone about, if you’re feeling merciful. But if he falls off the roof and has a bone sticking out, that’s not something you can really get away with sweeping under the rug.… Read the rest

CDC Warns Of Multi-State Outbreak Of Burkholderia Cepacia Infection, Warnings Issued For Hospital-Bound Immuno-Suppressed People

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CDC Warns Of Multi-State Outbreak Of Burkholderia Cepacia Infection, Warnings Issued For Hospital-Bound Immuno-Suppressed People
CDC Warning: New Outbreak Of Burkholderia Cepacia Infection Could Be Life-Threatening To The Immuno-Suppressed Hospital stays are notoriously dangerous. Not only do you face the very real possibility that going under the knife could result in you having the wrong limb removed, or worse, a brain operation on the wrong side, as happened not once, not twice, but three times in a year at one hospital in Rhode Island, you also face the possibility of contracting a nasty infection.… Read the rest

With The Threat Of Mosquito-Borne Diseases Like Zika Rising, This Is A Great Time To Learn About Foods That Will Help Repel Them Naturally

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With The Threat Of Mosquito-Borne Diseases Like Zika Rising, This Is A Great Time To Learn About Foods That Will Help Repel Them Naturally
Zika Summer Is Coming To A Hot And Sweaty Place Near You: Here Are Some Great Foods You Can Eat To Naturally Keep Them Away With reports coming from the CDC that the first three babies have been born with the Zika virus and the attendant birth defects on U.S. soil, lots of people are rightfully getting nervous about mosquitoes. A second previously tropical disease has already reached our shores too, the chikungunya virus, so global warming is already changing the areas where various viruses live and are able to breed.… Read the rest

Who Would Have Thought It: Giving Infants Multiple Vaccines At One Doctor’s Visit Ahs Proven To Be Harmful

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Who Would Have Thought It: Giving Infants Multiple Vaccines At One Doctor’s Visit Ahs Proven To Be Harmful
Beyond Crying And Fussing: Giving A Baby Multiple Injections Of Vaccines In One Doctor’s Visit Proven To Be Dangerous You Can Say NO to Vaccine Mandates Here: http://TinyURL.com/VaccinationISViolation “Getting shots” for your child is by now treated as a routine function. The doctor’s office calls, you sigh, but you make you appointment, dreading the tears and fussing and likely grumpiness for the rest of the day to follow.… Read the rest