WARNING: West nile virus spreading across the US… DEATH RATE IS ALMOST THAT OF THE BLACK PLAGUE!

Virus is more active during Solar Maximum Too. Been Proven. Better watch this real close.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/15/lake-county-reports-first-human-west-nile-case-since-10/

Officials were spraying to kill mosquitos in Skokie on Wednesday, as part of a continuing effort to contain the spread of the West Nile Virus.

Throughout the past three weeks, the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District has seen 90 percent of the mosquito samples its collected test positive for West Nile Virus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_nile_virus
Recent outbreaks

From 1999 through 2001, the [...]

‘New AIDS of the Americas’ infects 8M people

Experts have dubbed it the “new AIDS of the Americas.”

A parasitic infection called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to research published recently in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Like AIDS, Chagas is hard to detect and has a long incubation period before symptoms emerge, the study said, according to the New York Times.

As many as 8 million people are infected in the Western Hemisphere, mainly [...]

Stubborn Infection, Spread by Insects, Is Called ‘The New AIDS of the Americas’

via NYT:

Chagas disease, caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects, has been named “the new AIDS of the Americas” in a lengthy editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The authors, several of whom are tropical disease experts from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, argue that the dangerous spread of Chagas through this hemisphere somewhat resembles the early spread of H.I.V.

Chagas is also known as American trypanosomiasis, because the bugs [...]

Obama Relies on Debt Collectors Profiting From Student Loan Woe; “You’re dealing with the federal government. You have no other options.”

From Bloomberg:

The debt collector on the other end of the phone gave Oswaldo Campos an ultimatum:

Pay $219 a month toward his more than $20,000 in defaulted student loans, or Pioneer Credit Recovery, a contractor with the U.S. Education Department, would confiscate his pay. Campos, disabled from liver disease, makes about $20,000 a year.

“We’re not playing here,” Campos recalled the collector telling him in December. “You’re dealing with the federal government. You [...]

Hepatitis C Surpasses AIDS As Killer

(An electron micrograph of the hepatitis C virus.)

By Lynne Adkins

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A new study indicates that one in every 33 baby boomers has the Hepatitis C virus, and many don’t even know they have this liver destroying disease.

Federal health officials say Hepatitis C is now killing more people than the AIDS virus, and most are over 45 years of age.

Dr. Robert Bettiker, associate professor of medicine in infectious diseases [...]

Catalonia’s last bullfight: Almost seven hundred years of Catalan bullfighting history ended on Sunday night with the final death blow dealt by its hometown hero.

From Telegraph:

While Jose Tomas, Spain’s finest matador, was the undisputed star of the evening, the honour of killing the last bull on Catalan soil fell to torero Serafin Marin, a native of Barcelona.

When Marin delivered the estocada, a half tonne bull dropped to the sand, just as reflections of the sun faded in the matador’s suit of light.

On a day when [...]

Report: Highly Contagious AIDS-Like Disease Spreading in China

A poster to promote AIDS awareness ahead of World AIDS Day in Beijing. A highly contagious AIDS-like disease is spreading in China, However, HIV tests come up negative.

In a small hotel across from the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a reporter from New Express Daily, dressed in an isolation suit, interviewed a dozen “unusual” patients from different areas of [...]

SHOCK: Woman Arrested For Dumping Starved Pit Bull Down Trash Chute — In 22-Story Building!

(Photo Credit: AHS)

NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – A New Jersey woman has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty after authorities accused of her dumping a starved 1-year-old pit bull down a trash chute.

Kisha Curtis, 28, could face up to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or community service if convicted.

On March 16, the dog was found in the garbage of a Newark apartment building after apparently having been [...]