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It's everyone's job to be on watch against causes of disease and the beginnings of communicable disease spread.
Let's not be found sleeping "on our watch"!
Sample OIE country report of
H5N1 Avian Flu in Poultry
of 42 local outbreaks
- June 2008
Check out:
the locations: village names and areas,
viewable on the right of each box,
the map of occurences and
the summary numbers of poultry destroyed near the end of the file!
You can access more country files by searching the menu. The total information is very saddening.
On checking more country files, it seems obvious that outbreaks occur more often near rivers and water!
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Stir your soul! Just published:
Health Words in the Word
- Avoid Frequent Illnesses
by G.G. Koch
amazon.com (most cost effective)
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and
Xulon Press Bookstore
Download: Frequent illnesses and the Power of God
View with the free downloadable Adobe Reader 8
The book and webpage updates are timeless for any frequent illness and can be adapted with some thought for new and ancient illness situations just in time. The book has a specific focus: avian flu as an example. This webpage extends the focus to other illnesses, especially as they are in the headlines.
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Influenzas are frequent...Avian Flu is a particular influenza--frequent in birds that MAY become more frequent in people.
There was no case of confirmed human avian flu in May 2008 written up in a situation report by the WHO, yet poultry cases are numerous in many countries.
There was only one report filed in June 2008 about 2 human deaths.
Is there a lull before a storm? Are vaccines being used successfully? Scientific American just featured an article about Walter Fiers, of Ghent University, Belgium, who seems to have a vaccine that may eliminate all influenza. The numbers of annual world-wide victims of all influenzas is staggering! The vaccine or some part of it is patented.
(Lord Jesus, son of the Most High, will there be justice and good conscience?)
In 2007 there were reports of human cases every 4 days and a death every 6 days. Survival rates seem stable. Numbers indicate 1/2 to 3/4 of all people with avian flu died. But perhaps countries are not reporting all cases, since only laboratory confirmed cases are included in the WHO statistics.
In 2007, January to April 2, there were 25 human cases; 12 died. In January-September 2007 there are 65 cases; 42 died. Long-term trend seems to continue.
There are troubling indicators. In 2008 there have been human avian flu cases in most provinces of Indonesia and many governorates in Egypt. There are cases in China, Vietnam and other Asian and African countries. In Egypt getting this flu is not necessarily a death sentence!
As Egypt and Indonesia reported human cases (2007), they did not report bird and chicken die-offs on the FAO webstite. That should go together.
In March 2007 already, there were animal cases in Pakistan in 5 districts. Abbottabad, Mansehra, Peshawar, Rawalpindl and Islamabad. No human cases were reported at the time. The first Pakistani officially died of avian flu in the Peshawar area in November 2007. WHO reported it on its website a month later in December.
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For AIDS there was a time when these numbers were the infection rate.
Now an HIV infection occurs every 6 seconds.
Acknowledge the risk of Chaos, but get proactive straight from the heart to have PEACE. Let's value people near and far.
There is hope. Scientists are working on avian flu vaccines for prevention. As of February 2008 there are vaccines being tested for Clade 1 and Clade 2 tpyes of avian flu. (See the WHO webpage for details.) Health departments are teaching infection control management for families, doctors/nurses etc. and countries.
There is hope. A Canadian train was put into quarantine when a woman died there and others were sick. Everybody was checked out, and as it turns out, there was no risk. The quarantine was lifted quickly. Better to have a preparedness plan with good communication in place, than to leave everything to 'chance'.
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In 6 months, what will you answer to:
"In the last 6 months, what have YOU done?"
I hope that YOU will
1) check out this webpage
2) pray in your own words (Today's Prayer gives you a start, if you wish.)
3) bookmark this page for future reference
4) give away "Health Words in the Word" books
5) check for updates here
6) add a frequentillnesses.com link to your webpage(s)
7) click the "Recommend to a friend" button at the end of each sub-page to forward a link of the particular subpage to friends and acquaintances, especially those in the medical community or whereever an epidemic is starting
and
8) use the information for yourself, your family and community "to heal" even though you may never have thought of yourself as a healer.
Pray for the whole world including Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Djibouti, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Malaysia, Niger, Nigeria, Romania, Slovenia, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Vietnam. Current world status of various illnesses can be accessed by following various links on the "current" link on the menu.
As of May 2008 there have been visitors from about 80 countries of the world to this website since there are detailed stats. It is an ongoing encouragement! _____________________________________________________
For such times as these, read this.
Health Words in the Word
- Avoid Frequent Illnesses
by new author G.G. Koch, published by Xulon Press _____________________________________________________
What can we do against emerging virulent flu viruses?
What can we do against communicable diseases in general?
What can we do about illness now and in the future?
Pray and do something.
Prepare for LIFE even in difficult epidemics.
G.G. Koch, teacher with a Master of Education degree, wrote a series of November and December 2005 letters that were substantially revised in 2007. The revised book is published just in time for the flu season that is bound to come around again. She looks at what Bible words can be useful. G.G. has also published free webpages online with ourchurch.com. The letters or chapters are written for Christian believers as well as skeptics. The first letter addresses the general recommendations of Health Departments.
All of you wash your hands!
Do not touch!
and
Cover...your face.
There is more of course.
There are some thoughts about and answers to:
God speaks in all human languages, so many direct quotations from the Bible are featured in English first with equivalent quotes.
Will God give you new, ordinary and spiritual gifts?
God's Word says you should ask.
These letters are for YOU! The least YOU can do is pray and use your talents and connections.
These health letters were written for YOU to read ...
for such times as these.
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Some people have asked:
Is there such a word as "illnesses"?
Here is my answer.
1) "illnesses" as in "frequent illnesses" is found in 1 Timothy 5:23. In this case you can count the "illnesses": The unspecified stomach illness, the back pain that comes and goes illness, the cholera illness, the AIDS illness, etc.
2) There is a also a general, generic "non-count" illness word that appears all-inclusively plural.
example:
Illness, in general, is a big problem in poor countries.
or
Illness of all types, is a problem in poor countries.
This "illness" word includes all the illnesses of poor countries.
Besides, how can you count some illness. Sometimes, there is just an uneasy feeling, hard to put into words.
3) As for communication with real people, mainly those learning English, I don't think this fine difference in meaning is so important. The main goal is understanding and saving lives for this webpage!
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