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First reports on this coronavirus outbreak in early January gave the impression that it posed the greatest viral threat to human kind since the Bubonic Plague (a.k.a. the Black Death). Like this virus, the plague originated in Asia. The latter killed over 50 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1353. Reports suggested the former… Read more.
I know that’s a provocative title. But nothing justifies it quite like the true story about the origins of Ebola. It just so happens that National Geographic is dramatizing that story in a TV series called the The Hot Zone. It premieres tonight. That said, With the Democratic Republic of Congo facing its deadliest Ebola… Read more.
What is it about the continent of Africa that it suffers the worst not only of man’s inhumanity to man, but also of Mother Nature’s wrath? After all, no continent has been more beset by genocidal wars and political corruption on the one hand, and by drought and disease on the other. This led me… Read more.
The World Health Organization [WHO] declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency on Monday, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak and gives countries new tools to fight it. An outbreak of the Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, was detected in… Read more.
And it’s only a matter of time before they infect the other third…. More than 3.7 billion people under the age of 50 – or 67% of the population – are infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) [which] is also an important cause of genital herpes… [E]stimates reveal that over half a billion… Read more.
I find this illustration so poignant because it gives the impression that the boy could also be kneeling at his bedside praying with an equally aggrieved look. The point for me, of course, is that his letter/prayer couldn’t be any less effective than a bunch of American celebrities – who couldn’t tell Boko Haram from an Arab… Read more.
Thus spoke anchor Shepard Smith … of FOX News no less. His pleading was so warranted because, given the media coverage, one could be forgiven for fearing that Ebola has already become such a contagion, its devastation could rival that of the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed as many as 50 million people. Frankly, I can… Read more.
[NOTE: In light of the pandemic coverage of Ebola, I have decided to reprise this commentary, which I published originally on September 26. In the two weeks since, U.S. officials have held so many press conferences to hail the resources available to treat victims here (compared to what’s available in Africa) that they bordered on… Read more.
