Israel: Polio spreads, along with several other countries that the USA and other Western nations are taking. I wonder if it will work out the same as TB being reintroduced?

Refugee population by country or territory of asylum

From WorldBank 

Refugees are people who are recognized as refugees under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, people recognized as refugees in accordance with the UNHCR statute, people granted refugee-like humanitarian status, and people provided temporary protection. 

JERUSALEM—Israel’s president is urging the country’s children to get polio boosters after a rare appearance of the virus spread to the north of the country.

President Shimon Peres met with children getting vaccinations at a Jerusalem clinic on Wednesday together with Health Minister Yael German.

German said new lab results show the “virus is migrating north and spreading.”

Peres detailed the suffering his family endured when one of his children was stricken by polio as an infant.

Israel this week began a nationwide campaign to inoculate children with booster drops after a rare discovery of the virus in the south of the country.

Israel already immunizes its children against the disease. The campaign gives a second boost of protection.

There have been no clinical cases of the virus.

Polio is mostly considered eliminated globally except mainly in three countries where it is considered endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

When Clean Was a New Concept in the Operating Room

Today, keeping things clean as a way to ward off germs and infections just makes sense. But before antibiotic-resistant superbugs became a hospital’s biggest concern, there were the bad old days when doctors would move from surgery to surgery without washing. And surprisingly it was only during the 20th century that sterilization evolved from a simple and very new concept into one of the most important life-saving practices in medicine.

Effects about 1.7million a Year, killing almost 100,000 a Year and that is just the USA.

One of the world’s most famous polio patients, Franklin D. Roosevelt, spoke to a young girl who also had the disease while on the presidential campaign trail in 1932.

In 1910, the United States was dealing with a public health crisis — the relatively unknown virusPoliomyelitis, more commonly known as polio, was infecting large swaths of the American population. The disease spread through cities and even climbed up the socioeconomic ladder into the ranks of the elite,infecting Franklin Delano Roosevelt, perhaps the malady’s most famous victim, more than a decade before his rise to the presidency. By 1932 the country was still struggling to contain infection rates —the vaccine that ended the epidemic would not be developed until the 1950s — but much had been learned about the way the virus behaved. Once it became known that polio could be transmitted through the nose and mouth many hospitals ordered their staff to wear one additional item: a simple plastic shield over the face, which kept the virus from spreading.

Somalia suffers from world’s worst polio epidemic

Somalia is suffering an “explosive” outbreak of polio and now has more cases than the rest of the world combined, an official said Friday.

Vaccine-wielding health workers face a daunting challenge: accessing areas of Somalia controlled by Al-Qaeda-linked militants, where 7 of 10 children aren’t fully immunized.

Polio is mostly considered eliminated globally except mainly in three countries where it is considered endemic: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. India marked a major success in February 2012 by being removed from the World Health Organization’s list of countries plagued by the disease.

Somalia now has 105 cases, figures released Friday show, and another 10 cases have been confirmed across the border in a Kenyan refugee camp filled with Somalis. Globally there have been 181 cases of polio this year, including those in Somalia and Kenya. >more<

Funding Gap Threatens Progress Against Polio

(World Health Organization HQ, Geneva) – The world is closer than ever to ridding the planet of the polio virus,  but the global polio eradication effort faces a huge funding shortfall that may undermine humanity’s progress against the disease. – See more at:

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Big banks weigh risks, rewards of California’s new CO2 market

Carbon Tax, Global ‘Warming’ and Smart Grids – welcome to the New International Economic Order

This push towards a cashless carbon/energy-based currency seems to have started as early as 1932. With today’s technology, and the rolling out of the Smart Grid around the globe – we can seen now, the steps taken by the elite to achieve this goal. 

It is now obvious that major turning points such as: Nixon decoupling the dollar from gold, petro-dollars, the environment movement/Kyoto, peak oil and stimulus package spending – were all desired steps towards an Artificial Intelligence-controlled hi-tech future.I recommend reading these articles in the following order. However, if you suffer from short-attention-span or lack-of-time disorders, read the final article first:

Following last week’s successful test of the state’s auction platform, the reality is starting to settle in: California carbon trading has overcome legal and political challenges to position itself a mere 10 weeks away from its first official CO2 permit sale.

 

The carbon market’s success or failure will sway U.S. environmental policy for years to come, and early-moving Canadian banks like Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) and the Royal Bank of Canada, as well European banks like Deutsche Bank and Barclays, could play a critical role in that outcome.

 

Banks facilitate the purchases and sales of carbon credits for their clients, advise company executives on how to keep their costs down, and ultimately help them meet their environmental goals.

 

Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas

But so far, most brand-name investment banks have either kept their distance or already walked away, wary of pumping precious capital into the nascent market, especially in light of their tumultuous experience in the European carbon market.

 

Just as California hopes to learn from the mistakes made by their counterparts in Europe, where the eight-year-old market has been beset with plunging prices and regulatory uncertainty, banks hope to marshal their European experience to give them an advantage in California.

 

“We’ve been trading in Europe for years, so we have a deep understanding of carbon right now,” said Anthony D’Agostino, director of emissions markets for the Royal Bank of Canada.

 

“To replicate this in California is a no-brainer for us,” he said.  more

 

Carbon market chaos strikes again

What a surprise: The free-market-that-is-not-free leaps from one scandal to the next. In a real free market where salesmen sell something real, and buyers buy something they want, people can’t get away with cheating, or not for long.If someone sold you a bulk carrier of coal, and it turned up empty, you’d notice.

But, if someone sold you two million Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) that were worthless, how could you tell? They are “certified”. They are real “certificates”, and as long as you believe they exist, perhaps they do? Welcome to the world of fiat currencies, where confidence doesn’t just make or break a market; it’s its sole underwriter.

Times Online reports on the Chaos in the carbon market over recycled permits.

The Hungarian Government, the cheeky sods, figured out that if CERs were issued by the UN (and not the EU), they could use them to write off the obligations of some Hungarian companies, and then, apparently, sell them again, so others could use them to write off their obligations, too.

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City Councils being taken over across the U.S.A. by the UN and The “6 Sin’s of Greenwashing.”

AGENDA 21:  Section 1 Social and Economic Dimensions 

Greenwashing is the unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue by a company, an industry, a government, a politician or even a non-government organization to create a pro-environmental image, sell a product or a policy, or to try and rehabilitate their standing with the public and decision makers after being embroiled in controversy.

THE “6 Sins of Greenwashing TM”
The U.S.-based watchdog group CorpWatch defines greenwash as “the phenomena of socially and environmentally destructive corporations, attempting to preserve and expand their markets or power by posing as friends of the environment.” This definition was shaped by by the group’s focus on corporate behavior and the rise of corporate green advertising at the time. However, governments, political candidates, trade associations and non-government organizations have also been accused of greenwashing. [1]

So is Somali and East Africa Going To Send Us Aid, When We Need It? THE USA IS BROKE!

United States Citizens and Elected Officials  STOP GIVING MILLIONS  IF NOT BILLIONS TO COUNTRIES THAT REMAIN IN TURMOIL, every-time the UN throws a pity party.  It’s bad enough US Tax payers are basically being gouged already paying for assistance to Refugees, Immigrants, non-Citizens and Citizens who have never paid a dime into anything.  Can’t officials  see  The United States is just one or two more crisis’s away (floods and droughts across the United States) from being in about the same boat as Somali or other third world nations. shera~

(CBS News)

A U.S. relief official says at least 29,000 Somali children have died in a famine that, day after day, is forcing hundreds of Somalis out of their own country.  For many, the desperate search for food, water, and medicine ends at a sprawling refugee camp in Kenya.

For one retired Marine Corps general, it’s deja vu on a tragic scale. CBS News correspondent Erica Hill reports that, regardless, retired Lt. Gen. Robert Johnston is relieved he got there at all.

He arrived at the world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, where more than 1,300 Somalis arrive each day, many trekking over a hundred miles, driven from their homes by the worst drought in 50 years, and Somalia’s second famine in 20 years.

One refugee told CBS News: “I had some goats and a big farm. Four years with no rain and the farm died.”

Lt. Gen. Johnson says the situation is a kind of flashback for him. He led the international mission to feed starving Somalis – Operation Restore Hope – in the 1990′s.

“What’s happening now is almost a mirror image of what happened 19 years ago,” Johnson said.

During the 1992 famine, Somalis gratefully welcomed the help of the international community. When a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu on October 3rd, 1993, American empathy turned to outrage.

With the world economy stretched to the brink, and the U.S. military committed to two wars, America isn’t as willing, or able, to help.

“I don’t see them wanting to go in there again, and we’re surely not going to take the lead,” Johnston said.

Further complicating relief efforts is the fact that Somalia has been without a central government for two decades.

Armed factions are constantly at war, using food to buy loyalties and guns.more at source

‘Look UN, The Piggy Bank Is Broke!’ Where are you going to go when there is no more?

In The USA  And European Countries Your Asking  To Give Money In Case You Haven’t Noticed We Have Many Of The Same Issues:  War, Drought, Hunger, and Financial  Issues Of Our Own!  shera~

NAIROBI, Kenya – Parts of southern Somalia are suffering from famine, a U.N. official said Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation.

The Horn of Africa is suffering a devastating drought compounded by war, neglect and spiraling prices. Some areas in the region have not had such a low rainfall in 60 years, aid group Oxfam said.

“Desperate” Somalia famine puts 11M at risk

The U.N. needs $300 million in the next two months, said Mark Bowden, the U.N.’s top official in charge of humanitarian aid in Somalia. The last time conditions were this bad was in 1992, when hundreds of thousands of Somalis starved to death. That famine prompted intervention by an international peacekeeping force, but it eventually pulled out after two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in 1993.

Hunger in the United States
35.5 million people (including 12.6 million children) experience hunger or the risk of hunger.
This is roughly 10.9 percent of the 301 million people in the U.S. (July 2007 estimate)
4.0 percent of U.S. households (11.1 million people, including 0.43 million children) experience hunger. Some families skip meals, eat too little, or go a whole day without food.
1 out of every 8 households in the United States has reduced the quality of its diet to utilize money elsewhere (rent, clothing, day care).
6.9 percent of U.S. households (24.4 million people, including 12.2 million children) are at risk of hunger.
In 2007, an average of 26.5 million people participated in the Food Stamp Program each month (8.8 percent of the U.S. population).
In 2006, requests for emergency food assistance increased 7 percent. Of those requesting emergency food assistance, 48 percent were members of families with children, and 37 percent of adults requesting assistance were employed.
America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest network of food banks, reported that an estimated 24 to 27 million people turned to its agencies in 2006.

Somalia is facing its worst food security crisis in the last 20 years,” Bowden said. “This desperate situation requires urgent action to save lives.”

Famine is officially defined as when two adults or four children per 10,000 people die of hunger each day and a third of children are acutely malnourished. In some areas of Somalia, six people are dying a day and more than half of children are acutely malnourished, Bowden said. Prices of staple foods have increased 270 percent over the last year.

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. will give another $28 million, on top of the $431 million in assistance it has given to the Horn of Africa this year, which Clinton said was simply “not enough.”

Britain has pledged $145 million in the past two weeks — about 15 percent of what is needed — and the European Union pledged around $8 million, with more expected in coming days. Spain has promised nearly $10 million and Germany around $8.5 million but Oxfam said France has so far not pledged any more money and Denmark and Italy have said no significant new sums are available.

“There is no time to waste if we are to avoid massive loss of life,” Equiza said in a statement. “We must not stand by and watch this tragedy unfold before our eyes. The world has been slow to recognize the severity of this crisis, but there is no longer any excuse for inaction.”

Some donors, like the U.S., have expressed fears that aid might be diverted byIslamist groups.

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US funds Israels circumcision plan to fight AIDS in Zimbabwe

US funds Israels circumcision plan to fight AIDS in Zimbabwe

Muslims are not isolated from the rest of the non-Muslim societies. Notably, however, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in predominantly Muslim countries is significantly less than among the countries where Christians or Jews are in majority. For example, in Morocco with a 98% Muslim population three out of 10,000 people have HIV/AIDS. On the other hand, in Botswana with 2% Muslim population, 3,580 out of 10,000 have HIV/AIDS, while in Zionist-state with 80% Jewish population 858 out of 10,000 people have HIV/AIDS. Last year, over 2.4 million Africans died from AIDS related illnesses. more
The U.S. ranks high on President Robert Mugabe’s enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on AIDS that may help save the life of 32-year-old Tineyi Marokwe and hundreds of thousands of other Zimbabweans.
The weapon is cheap and simple: male circumcision, considered a significant reducer of AIDS transmission.
In a 10-minute surgical operation, Marokwe recently became one of more than a million Zimbabwean men in the most sexually active age group who are being targeted for circumcision during the next seven years.
Dr. Bill Jansen, a senior American adviser with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Zimbabwe, says trials and circumcision pilot programs in South Africa and East Africa have shown a reduction in HIV infection by 60 percent.
The Zimbabwe program, begun in May 2009, has carried out 12,000 circumcisions. The U.S. spent $6.6 million on it in the first year and more money is promised as the program scales up.
So vilified are Western nations by Mugabe that few Zimbabweans realize their continuing aid programs are the mainstay of humanitarian assistance to the troubled nation.
The U.S. is Zimbabwe’s biggest aid donor — more than $1 billion since 2002 — and the biggest contributor to nationwide modern AIDS clinics that have tested and counseled 2 million people. This month it pledged another $50 million to its wider AIDS programs that include supplies of AIDS drugs.
While Mugabe has done nothing to hinder the program, some volunteers assigned to explain sexual health issues to the poor have been accused by Mugabe’s supporters of abetting a U.S. political agenda and working for the opposition in next year’s election.more

Israeli doctors have been training their counterparts in male circumcision, hoping expertise in the ancient technique will help in the battle against the modern scourge of AIDS. The United Nations announced last year that the procedure could reduce the rate of HIV transmission by up to 60 percent. It was in Israel, with its experience performing adult male circumcision on a wide scale, that the international medical community found an unlikely partner in the global fight against AIDS.
“Israeli medicine and public health are positioned as a real asset in African countries,” said Dr. Inon Schenker, a director of Operation Abraham, the consortium that sent the doctors to Swaziland and plans to send more training teams to Africa.

It’s a model organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations would like to see replicated in Africa as a tool for combating the spread of HIV.more

thank you Battleskin for helping me put this together~

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I am so sick and tired of having to say this of the United States and other European, Danish countries etc at having to change the way we where brought up and are accustomed to living. If by some reason we had to move to one of their countries are we going to get that same kind of treatment we are expected and give Sudanese, or other Islam/Muslim Countries, Nations get!?! A get in Free Passes to America or Other Countries with Incentives left and right as far as Benefits, Tax Breaks, making us bend over backwards to learn their language, customs etc. Given ESL classes to help them learn English. They have been told that they had to take the Citizenship exam in English or all their benefits, aid would be cut off. Oh no, it's to hard so we give them Tests in their Native Language. I seriously don't think that would happen if any of us moved to a Foreign Country. Sounds like they are trying to take over and strip us of Our Rights, Liberties and Freedom to me.
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