All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
Idaho, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama on drugs? Says 100-million people now have Obama Care insurance!

19 November 2013 (15:37 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

There are about 314-million citizens in the United States, the Obama regime was recorded during a phone conference telling his NAZI Organizing for Action operatives that 100-million citizens now have Obama Care insurance: “In the first month alone we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.”

That’s even 99.9-million more than what the Obama regime predicted!

But guess what?  Obama was including an estimated million citizens that applied but so far haven’t actually signed up, and citizens that supposedly will now qualify under expanded Medicaid.  In other words, Obama’s claim that 100-million now have insurance is a total guesstimation, it’s not fact!

I’m one of those citizens that should qualify for expanded Medicaid, except I live in one of about two dozen U.S. states that are refusing to expand Medicaid coverage!  You here that Obama?  About half of the 50 U.S. states are refusing to expand Medicaid coverage!

Even the main streamer pro-Obama regime news media says about 100-thousand people have signed up, or applied for Obama Care!  Is Obama on drugs?

Obama also told his NAZI followers that Obama Care insurance would cost less than a cable TV bill!  Guess what I can’t even afford cable or satellite TV, I use the old fashioned free TV antenna!  How the hell can I afford Obama Care?

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Prepare for permanent economic terrorism

Idaho’s Obama Care Christian corruption covered up

 More Obama Care job cuts!

Obama Care shuts down yet another Christian nursing home!

Hundreds more laid off due to Obama Care

Obama Care being blamed for 61 people becoming unemployed

Former mainstreamer news man gets screwed by Obama Care! 

Business/Economics, Idaho, International, U.S.

Economic Decline: JH Kelley blocked by federal court, Hoku auction done in violation of court order! Proof the property will be broken up, into more than 1-thousand lots!

19 November 2013 (13:24 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

When it rains…..

The auction of Pocatello, Idaho’s White Elephant, Hoku Materials factory was ruled in violation of federal court rules.   JH Kelley made a high bid after the piecemeal and bulk auctions ended.

Judge Jim Pappas also pointed out that the massive property was split up into 1364 lots, and that all but 300 lots were bid on.   That’s interesting because after the auction JH Kelley stated they would help Pocatello “…attract a new user to the property…”

The judge will set a date for a new auction.

Idaho politicians give away tens of millions to companies that shut down! 

Hoku factory bought by construction contractor

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: UnAmerican Corporate America asking their employees to donate T-Day food, to themselves!

19 November 2013 (13:02 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“Please donate food items here so Associates in Need can enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner”-Walmart sign in Ohio

It’s not unusual to hear a cashier ask you if you want to make a donation to some charity, but now retail employees are being asked to make donations to their fellow co-workers!

Ohio news media reporting that the Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton (apparently taking on the new role of being a food bank charity) is asking its own employees to donate Thanksgiving Day food to its own employees!

I’ve seen this in the past, but only in businesses that paid much more than Walmart and where there was a major pay difference between long time employees and newbies (also in Union shops).  But, I didn’t think any Walmart employees were economically able to make donations.

At the corporate level Walmart admits they pay most of its employees low income wages, even poverty level.  The organization demanding higher pay at Walmart, OUR Walmart, says the Ohio store’s food drive for its own employees is arrogant and insulting: “The company needs to stand up and give them their 40 hours and a living wage, so they don’t have to worry about whether they can afford Thanksgiving!”-Vanessa Ferreira

Maybe Walmart is getting into the charity business?  Consider the signage asking employees to donate to other employees, note that “Associates” and “Need” are capitalized,  “Associates in Need”, as if it is some kind of organization.

An employee at the Canton, Ohio, Walmart revealed these food drives for employees are not new, they’ve been going on for years.  But she proves to be an example of an ignorant Walmart employee, she said people shouldn’t blame Walmart because low paying jobs are the norm across the United States.  She obviously doesn’t realize that Walmart is the corporation that’s responsible for leading the charge to low wages, spending decades destroying other businesses to become the largest employer in the country!

And realize this, Walmart isn’t donating food to its poverty level employees, Walmart is ‘asking’ other low wage employees to donate the food!  If Walmart is truly concerned about its employees then Walmart should be donating the food, or maybe increase their wages!

Another Walmart employee, in Dayton, is more awake: “Walmart sets the precedent for everybody, so if they make changes, everyone would follow suit.”-Scott Stringer

Another Dayton employee said this about working at Walmart after seven years: “Personally, it is difficult for me to stock groceries that I can’t afford at the end of the day.”-Ricki Hahn, planning to go on strike

“That captures Walmart right there. Walmart is setting up bins because its employees don’t make enough to feed themselves and their families.”-Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University Labor Education Research

And since Walmart is the biggest employer in the U.S., that captures the state of the economy for the whole country.  Happy Thanksgiving!

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: More proof reactors damaged BEFORE earthquake & tsunami hit! Dozens of ‘Atomic bombs’! Main streamer news media covering it up!

19 November 2013 (00:42 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

Today, Japan’s NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reporting that Tokyo Electric Power Company has discovered that at least 80 spent fuel rods, in the GE designed Reactor 1 spent fuel pool, are damaged.  TEPCo also says they were damaged prior to the 11 March 2011 quake and tsunami, however, they don’t know how they became damaged.

Last week TEPCo revealed that the spent fuel rods for the GE designed Reactor 4, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, were already damaged prior to the 11 March 2011 quake and tsunami!

But wait there’s more!  The first Reactor 4 fuel rods were damaged during transfer back in 1982!  Then in 2010, more Reactor 4 fuel rods were damaged, also while being transferred!

For some reason main streamer Japanese media didn’t run with story when it came out last week.  It was a local Fukushima newspaper that broke the story, then it was picked up by Reuters.

Reactor 4 was already powered down when the 11 March 2011 quake and tsunami hit.

Reactor 4 spent fuel pool has about 400 metric tons of fuel rods.  The rods are held in racks, containing 50 to 70 fuel rods each.  Don’t think because they are “spent” fuel rods they aren’t dangerous, each rack has the potential explosive power of 10 Hiroshima atomic bombs!

Stupid main streamer U.S. media continues to blame tsunami for “man made” disaster! 

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: Obama Care about to kill you with 20 new taxes! Violates Constitution! Prepare for permanent economic terrorism?

19 November 2013 (00:23 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Muharram 1435/28 Aban 1392/17 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

“….the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated the Origination Clause of the U.S. Constitution….”-MATTHEW SISSEL vs U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al

At least 40 U.S. Congressman have joined a federal Supreme Court lawsuit that charges Obama Care with violating the Constitution.   Specifically “The Senate of the United States violated this constitutional safeguard when it ‘amended’ a House bill designed to reduce taxes by substituting the legislative substance of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was one of the largest tax increases in American history, estimated to raise $675 billion in revenue. The Origination Clause requires that such revenue raising bills originate in the House, not the Senate.”

And just how many taxes were secretly created by Obama Care?  At least 20.  U.S. Congressman Jeff Duncan, from South Carolina, has published a full list of the massive amount of taxes created by Obama Care.  There are new taxes on investments, on individuals, on businesses (I’ve been posting about those medical device makers that are shutting down or leaving the country because of a new medical device tax),  taxes on non-profit hospitals (I’ve also been posting about non-profit hospitals shutting down because of this tax), increase in Medicare tax, even taxes on the outrageously expensive health insurance you’re being forced to pay for!  Click here to see the list.

Forbes is predicting that all the new taxes will result in a new level of tax evasion/fraud.  Obama Care will actually increase corruption within the United States.

Any political scientist/economist/historian will tell you that one of the major factors in the destruction of a society/empire is the introduction of excessive taxes, especially when the economy is crashing and burning.

The following was taken from How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome, written by Bruce Bartlett in 1994. See how much it reads very much like what’s been going on in (and what’s coming for) the United States: “….unscrupulous emperors like Domitian (81—96 AD.) would use trumped-up charges to confiscate the assets of the wealthy. They would also invent excuses to demand tribute from the provinces and the wealthy……citizenship was greatly expanded [immigration reform] in order to bring more people into the tax net.  Taxes on the wealthy, however, were sharply increased, especially those on inheritances…..Most emperors continued the policies of debasement [currency devaluation] and increasingly heavy taxes, levied mainly on the wealthy. The war against wealth was not simply due to purely fiscal requirements, but was also part of a conscious policy of exterminating the Senatorial class…..As the private wealth of the Empire was gradually confiscated or taxed away, driven away or hidden, economic growth slowed to a virtual standstill. Moreover, once the wealthy were no longer able to pay the state’s bills, the burden inexorably fell onto the lower classes, so that average people suffered as well from the deteriorating economic conditions.  In Rostovtzeff’s words, ‘The heavier the pressure of the state on the upper classes, the more intolerable became the condition of the lower‘ (Rostovtzeff 1957: 430).   At this point, in the third century A.D., the money economy completely broke down. Yet the military demands of the state remained high…….With the collapse of the money economy, the normal system of taxation also broke down. This forced the state to directly appropriate whatever resources it needed wherever they could be found [government run armed robbery]……. The result, of course, was chaos, dubbed ‘permanent terrorism’ by Rostovtzeff (1957: 449).  Eventually, the state was forced to compel individuals to continue working and producing [government run slavery].” 

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

Influenza

Influenza: UN declares start of new flu season, U.S. & Canada already reporting new cases! Flu kills children not considered “at risk”! Flu fights back with glass body armor!

18 November 2013 (21:40 UTC-07 Tango 17 November 2013)/14 Muharram 1435/27 Aban 1392/16 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

On 08 November, the UN’s World Health Organization declared the start of a new flu season in the Northern Hemisphere (it coincides with winter).  And this does not refer to the ongoing cases of ‘bird’ flu around the World (especially in South East Asia).

In the U.S. state of Delaware, the Division of Public Health is reporting the first confirmed case, in Kent County.

Montana’s Flathead and Gallatin counties reporting cases. Flathead reporting two B strain infections while Gallatin reporting a case of H1N1 A flu.

In Michigan, Washtenaw County Public Health reports their first case.

Mississippi reporting “moderate” flu activity, 4.9% of people tested for flu are infected.

Maine reports at least one case of flu.

Iowa’s police state sounding Influenza Surveillance Network reporting three cases.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reporting two cases.

The Kentucky Department for Public Health reporting two cases.

In Canada‘s Ontario, the Waterloo Region’s Public Health reporting two cases.  The Niagara Region’s Public Health also reporting cases of A strains.

Ecuador is forcing millions of people to get flu shots. $13 million USD is being spent on the program.  Health officials claim their flu shot is based on the most common influenzas found in Ecuador.  69 health “brigades” (they’re actually using military terminology) are targeting schools and nursing homes.  The Ministry of Health reports 114 flu cases already!  (who said flu was a cold weather virus?)

Uganda is reporting a new influenza.  The Uganda Virus Research Institute blames the new flu strains in their country to Ugandans traveling to other countries: “Recently we tested 10 samples from a school in Entebbe and eight of them had Influenza B/Yamagata.”-Julius J. Lutwama

Once again (anybody at the UNWHO), who said flu was a cold weather virus?

The U.S. CDC concluded an eight year study with surprising results.  It turns out that many children who died from flu were not considered “at risk” of getting infected: “….any child can be at risk of influenza-associated death regardless of age or high-risk medical conditions….”

Of course the CDC is using these results to push even more vaccinations on children.

Here’s a little reminder why you can’t trust the claims that flu vaccines will save you: Current vaccines are at least a year behind, they’re based on last year’s flus.  The flu you get infected with this year is a new strain.

Vaccines work well on DNA viruses, because DNA viruses evolve very slowly.  Influenza is not a DNA virus, it is a RNA virus like AIDS (by the way, flu kills more people in the U.S. than AIDS, the latest numbers say 49-thousand people died in the U.S. from flu).  This is why current flu vaccines are at least one year behind.

Realizing that the vaccine you get this year is from last year’s flu, and that you probably got infected with flu last year, then it is possible that if you didn’t feel sick from the current vaccine it’s because you already have an immunity from getting infected last year!

Flu vaccines are made with actual flu viruses, and you can not truly kill a virus, unless you incinerate it (there is no such thing as a dead virus unless it’s been reduced to microscopic ash).

Why is it so hard to kill viruses?  Researchers at the Center for Life in Extreme Environments, at Portland State University, have discovered that when subjected to extreme conditions viruses wrap themselves in a cocoon of glass armor.

This would explain viruses being able to survive their long journey through outer space.  In 2003, researchers in India suggested that the SARS virus is extraterrestrial.  In the 1980s, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe stated that viruses came from outer space. It’s based on historical data showing outbreaks of new strains of influenza taking place at the same time on different parts of the Earth.  Outbreaks of new virus strains also coincide with solar flare activity (mmm, the Suns been flaring up lately).  This could also explain why birds get sick with new virus strains before any other animals (as they fly they’re the first to catch it as the virus filters down from the upper atmosphere).

And yet another study says vaccinating old people is a waste of time and money.  This latest study was done in Canada, and looked at 15 years of medical records.  The conclusion was that only 20% of old people vaccinated were actually protected.  The researchers pointed out that most studies fail to research two age groups; people older that 65 and people between the ages of five and 18 years.

 

U.S.

Mystery hemorrhagic disease killing dogs in United States! Blame pigs?

18 November 2013 (21:40 UTC-07 Tango 17 November 2013)/14 Muharram 1435/27 Aban 1392/16 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

In California, Ohio and Michigan there are reports of dogs dying from an unknown disease.  Some veterinarians are suggesting it’s a pig virus called circovirus.

Basically the virus causes all the bacteria in your pets digestive system to attack your pet, which then bleeds to death on the inside.  Circovirus can destroy an entire pig farm in one week.  Birds are known to die from the virus.

There is no vaccine, there is no treatment.  One California TV station in Sacramento ignorantly reported that people should get their dog’s vaccines up to date.  Hello, no vaccine no treatment, are you people in the main streamer news media paying attention?

Back in April, the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, as well as the U.S. CDC, reported the discovery of the new canine circovirus.

At this point the number of cases of dogs infected with the new virus are small, but that makes the job of scientists trying to study the disease harder.  Infectious disease researchers can’t get enough data until there’s a massive outbreak.

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

World War 3, East Asian Front: Japanese leaders overheard talking about invading Korea! Calls South Korea “foolish”!

17 November 2013 (14:57 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Muharram 1435/26 Aban 1392/15 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

In a move that might result in North and South Korea uniting, a Japanese newspaper, Shukan Bunshun/Japan Daily Press, is reporting that  neo-imperialist Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was overheard calling South Korea “foolish”, Abe even called China “absurd”.   However, Shukan Bunshun actually re-wrote their story after massive outcries from Koreans, saying people mis-read their original story.

No author was given for the article, and it never said where or when Abe made the comments.  The South China Morning Post published their version of the story in China.

Other Chinese news media say Abe’s aides were also overheard talking of invasion plans for Korea!  Apparently the invasion would begin with Japanese banks cutting off funding for South Korean corporations, like Samsung.

Japanese news media is reporting that Hagel is planning to officially ask Japan to prepare to take over some U.S. military ops

Trilateral Commission member, Japan, to create new Homeland Security office!

Japan enters U.S. data collection/spying market!

Imperialist Japan to increase military spending by tens of billions 

TriLateral Imperialism as the U.S. mulls allowing Japan to invade Korea!!!

The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973.  The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Japan, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).

In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asia Group.

In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region.  The answer is very simple.  Today’s NATO is a new NATO.  It’s a NATO with a global perspective.  It’s a NATO with global partners.  And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club

Business/Economics, U.S.

Exceptional Failed State: U.S. job losses & store closings 04 September 2013. Bad economy kills hoity toity restaurant! Who said internet sales were booming? Continued bad economy disapoints major truck maker, or does it?

Incomplete list of announced closings and layoffs.

Arizona: In Tucson, after 25 years in business Anthony’s In the Catalinas upscale (they sold bottles of wine as high as $13-thousand USD) restaurant closed down.  The restaurant’s wine steward blames the bad economy, saying business crashed back in 2008: “I thought we would have closed down years ago. When the market crashed, people didn’t have expendable income any more.”-Joseph Mascari, sommelier

California: In Culver City and Mountain View, Symantec laid off 20 employees.

Florida: Plastic surgery promoter SRAI now bankrupt.  Company officials blame lawsuits (maybe the company officials never heard the phrase “truth in advertising”?).  Too Big to Jail Bank of America lays off another 150 people in the Sunshine State!  In Tampa, Too Big to Jail Mortgage Bank laid off 435 people!

Illinois: Semi truck maker, Navistar International, laid off another 500 employees countrywide. Navistar laid off 140 people in August, Company officials said they were hoping the economy was actually recovering, but their hopes were dashed.  But are their claims of economic woes true? In 2011 the company reported huge profits, yet turned around and began closing factories and laying people off, and they’ve been selling off divisions and laying off employees off ever since!

Massachusetts: In West Boylston, the Ace Hardware in the Meadowbrook Plaza closed.  It’s blamed on a greedy landlord who jacked up the rent to force Ace out.  The landlord thinks they can make more money by dividing up the building into smaller store spaces (I’ve seen that happen here in Idaho, it’s a big fail and it caused lots-o-job losses!).

Minnesota: In Minneapolis, aerospace company SIFCO closing its turbine repair factory and laying off 50 employees. Company officials blame it on the continued crashing and burning in the aviation industry.

Missouri: In South Saint Louis, after 58 years of operations Manzo Importing Company imported foods grocery store shut down.  The owner said he’s focusing on wholesale restaurant supply only, he blames it on the bad economy: “When you have put all of your personal money into a business, have worked it as best as you can, and it’s still not making what it should.”-Pete Manzo

Nebraska: In Beatrice, Once Upon a Page scrapbooking supply store closed down.  The owners say they have to tend to aging parents and grandchildren.

New York: In Riverhead, The Red Collection consignment shop shut down.  The owner said dealing with a greedy landlord, and running shops in North Carolina was too much.  In Brooklyn, Too Big to Jail JPMorgan Chase closed an office, 35 people out-o-work.

North Carolina: In Wilmington, Carolina Farmin’ grocery store closed on Main Street, after only two years of business.  The company blames it on a greedy landlord who wanted to jack up the rent.

Tennessee: The Christian God can’t stop the YMCA from closing three of its 23 operations.  Officials with the Young Men’s Christian Association said it’s necessary to “ensure long-term stability”.

Washington: In Bellingham, Merch Bot toy/novelty store shut down.  The owner said the sales were good, but profit margins on novelty/gag gifts are bad.  In Sequim, another Mitt Romney Staples store shut down. Local news media tried to interview the manager, but he said the Mitt Romney founded corporation issued a gag order.

Wisconsin:  Whoever thinks internet sales are booming never heard of major fail Alice.com.  The internet retailer based in Middleton shut down.  Alice.com ceased ops less than two years after getting $3-million in private funding, but funding dried up in 2013.  Obviously you can’t make enough selling on the internet to go without debt financing.  There was a warning when company officials shut down their Spanish website.  Officials in Spain revealed the lack of funding.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013

International, U.S.

North Dakota: Christian leaders & Carlyle Group health care workers spreading new forms of Hepatitis?

16 November 2013 (01:14 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Muharram 1434/25 Aban 1391/14 Gui-Hai (10th month) 4711

In Minot, North Dakota, state Health Department warnings after at least 35 people tested positive for a new strain of hepatitis C.  500 people from a Minot nursing home have been tested.  State epidemiologists might expand their testing as they try to find the source of the new strain.

So far investigators have been focusing on medical sources, because hepatitis C can only be spread by blood contact, such as from an infected hypodermic needle.  The nursing home in question, ManorCare Health Services, acts as a halfway house for people recovering from hospital stays.  It is part of the Manor Care Inc./HCR Manor Care operation, a nationwide health care op which was taken over in 2007 by the evil vulture capitalist Carlyle Group.

The Associated Press says state health investigators will not give anymore details about the H-C outbreak, other than it is a version they’ve never seen before.

Treatment for H-C is risky, and depends on any existing medical problems you might have, or how bad the H-C has affected your liver.  There is no vaccine for H-C.

Then there’s the hep-A outbreak in Fargo, Grand Forks and Jamestown.  That outbreak is being blamed on a Catholic Bishop.

Hep-A can be spread simply through contact.  Peace Garden State health investigators say most of those infected got sick after attending communion in their churches (some reports say “hundreds” of Christians are now infected).  The Bishop is said to have gotten infected while attending a Catholic conference in Vatican.

There are vaccines to help prevent getting sick with H-A, but there is no treatment once you’re sick.