23 June 2013 (02:25 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Sha’ban 1434/02 Tir 1391/16 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
The UN World Health Organization is sounding an international warning for the new MERS virus. Since September 2012, the UNWHO has been notified of 68 cases in which 38 people have died. That’s more than a 50% kill rate.
More than 100 […] Continue Reading…
23 June 2013 (02:00 UTC-07 Tango)/14 Sha’ban 1434/02 Tir 1392/16 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
Health officials in Taiwan confirm that a woman has become the first person to be infected by H6N1. At least four people who know the woman are showing signs of infection, but tests have been negative.
The woman recovered. H6N1 normally infects […] Continue Reading…
21 June 2013/12 Sha’ban 1434/31 Khordad 1391/14 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
In Kunar Province, Ghazi Abad District, local government officials say a U.S. airstrike (drone strike?) killed three people and wounded several others.
In Helmand Province, Greshk District, reports of a major battle between Mujahideen and NATO/ISAF and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops. Four armored […] Continue Reading…
22 June 2013 (14:35 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Sha’ban 1434/01 Tir 1391/15 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
In Virginia, the Fairfax County Health Department is investigating a TB outbreak where as many as 430 people at Robert E. Lee High School, in Springfield, have been exposed.
In South Carolina, a nurse formerly in charge of the tuberculosis program with the Department […] Continue Reading…
22 June 2013 (13:08 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Sha’ban 1434/01 Tir 1391/15 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“The detachment will remain in Jordan, in full coordination with the government of Jordan, until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed.”-Barack Obama, President of United States
After months of saying U.S. Marines, and other personnel were in […] Continue Reading…
In Wyoming U.S.A., at least 200 people are sick, possibly with norovirus (a few cases have been confirmed as norovirus), at the National Park called Yellowstone. New cases are being reported in nearby Grand Teton National Park. Infected people included park employees and tourists. Local Wyoming news reports say the outbreak started on a […] Continue Reading…
20 June 2013 (14:22 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Sha’ban 1434/30 Khordad 1391/13 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“Palestinian children being shot by the State party’s [Israeli] military near the Gaza border whilst collecting building material to support their families in the reconstruction of their homes, 30 such cases having been reported over the reporting period…”
In Israel, a child […] Continue Reading…
20 June 2013 (03:04 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Sha’ban 1434/30 Khordad 1391/13 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“This is insane. I’ve never seen so much security!”-a 20 year veteran newspaper editor in Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama was given a welcome worthy of the Führer, when he arrived in Berlin, Germany!
The entire city of Berlin was locked down, even […] Continue Reading…
19 June 2013 (14:19 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Sha’ban 1434/29 Khordad 1391/12 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the percentage of men with jobs had dropped to 88%, in 2012. There are several factors, but it seems there’s a correlation with the record breaking incarceration rates of men.
By the end of 2011 […] Continue Reading…
19 June 2013 (04:08 UTC-07 Tango)/10 Sha’ban 1434/29 Khordad 1391/12 Wu-Wu (5th month) 4711
“The US (and Canadian) yields are falling behind economically and technologically equivalent agroecosystems matched for latitude, season and crop type; pesticide (both herbicide and insecticide) use is higher in the United States than in comparator W. European countries….”
A study by the […] Continue Reading…