May 8th, 2021
By Michelle L. Warmath
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know.” John Adams, 1765
Forty-one years ago, on May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization officially certified that smallpox had been eradicated completely.
Smallpox was a scourge of Biblical proportions. Its known existence goes as far back as Ancient Egypt, as scars left from smallpox have been found on Egyptian mummies. It caused thousands of painful blisters that spread all over the body and in the mouth and left extensive and disfiguring scarring in most cases. Its severest cases left one-third of survivors blind. There are traders’ and whalers’ accounts of people in agony from the fever and blisters going to lie in a river, a lake or in the sea surf to try to find relief and refusing to come out until they died. People perished of smallpox in the hundreds of thousands every year in medieval Europe and an estimated
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PAHO warns on increase in Covid-19 deaths among young people
PAHO warns on increase in Covid-19 deaths among young people
Washington, May 6 (Prensa Latina) The increase in hospitalizations and deaths of young people across the Americas due to Covid-19 currently keeps the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) on alert. This happens rapidly and adults of all ages, including young people, are becoming seriously ill and many of them are dying, PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne warned.
Between December 2020 and March 2021, mortality rates among those younger than 39 in Brazil doubled and it quadrupled for people in the 40-50 range, the PAHO director pointed out.
COVID-19 testing in Kathmandu.
As neighboring India s massive surge continues, health groups warn of a similar situation evolving in Nepal, where the military is adding hospital beds and COVID-19 outbreaks have reached some Mount Everest base camps.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly snapshot of the pandemic that Nepal s cases last week rose by a staggering 137%. Meanwhile, officials warned that parts of the Americas are still in the thick of the pandemic, with severe cases trending younger.
Nepal part of South Asian COVID crisis
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cross Societies (IFRC) said today that urgent international support is needed to prevent a worsening humanitarian crisis in South Asian countries.
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