Importation of Rabid Animals
The following chronology of rabies in imported animals is extracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series [1] (primary references available on request)
Note that most common scenario has involved rabid dogs imported from Morocco.
Year / Imported From / Into (comments) *
1969 to 1970 / Germany and Pakistan / United Kingdom
1972 / Afghanistan / Netherlands
1987 / Mexico / United States (one dog and one cat)
1992 / Algeria / France (subsequently implicated in a case of human rabies)
1997 / Morocco / Switzerland
2001 / Morocco / France
2001 / Nepal / Germany
2002 / Morocco / France
2002 / Azerbaijan / G...
Source: GIDEON blog - June 23, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Morocco Rabies Source Type: blogs
Cultural Sensitivity or Surrender?
Doug Bandow
One of the most important lessons one learns from traveling abroad is to be culturally sensitive. A self-professed sophisticate like myself would never want to be considered to be the prototypical “Ugly American.”
Yet as I’m visiting the Persian Gulf kingdom of Qatar I’ve been thinking about who gets to decide on culture.
Most of us believe that certain practices are beyond the bounds of tolerance. Consider the Indian practice of suttee—the burning of widows—which Britain banned. Set aside whether the British government should have shown up with soldiers, guns, and warships and claimed the Indian s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
WHO Reluctant to Suspend Vaccine After 26 Children Die in the Developing World
Conclusion
It has become second nature for the likes of WHO and UNICEF to offer free trial and banned vaccinations to the poor and vulnerable populations in the developing world. These are God’s children, too, and they are very precious. They are not lab rats or guinea pigs to be tested at leisure. They are like any other children; they have brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles and grandparents who love them dearly.
Their innocent parents believe the propaganda being fed to them by the likes of UNICEF. They believe that these vaccines are safe and will protect their precious babies. Instead, their child...
Source: vactruth.com - April 2, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Quinvaxem United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Vaccine Death Vaccine Failure World Health Organization (WHO) Source Type: blogs
Another factor contributing to PTSD onset; the NUMBER of traumatic events
A scientific friend and colleague, Professor Thomas Elbert from Konstanz University in Germany, has had a long interest in applying “simple” treatments to individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSDs). With his wife Maggie and others, he has developed and applied such treatments to war victims, primarily in Africa and Sri Lanka. There, literally millions of individuals have endured great personal losses and multiple horrifying experiences. If and when these individuals are resettled back to their homes in Uganda or Liberia or Sierra Leone or Rwanda or Sudan or the Congo Republic or wher...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 16, 2007 Category: Neurologists Authors: Michael Merzenich Tags: Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia Source Type: blogs
