Following the accidental releases of biological agents in 1979 from secret Soviet laboratories, the Soviet army learned that there were a number of families who were unaffected or minimally affected by the agents, primarily anthrax. They sent researchers into the field, located the people and began investigating their environments, particularly their diets. One of the ...
Ring Around the Rosy. A Pocket Full of Posies. Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down. Today when children sing this well-known rhyme it doesn’t stir up the fear that it once did. The seemingly innocent song refers to the bubonic plague, known as the Black Death that swept through Europe, Asia, and Africa in the ...
It’s the dirty little/big word that no political party or government (save for China) wants to address. Overpopulation! The root cause of our planet’s social, economic and environmental ills. It extends from the greenhouse effect with its truly horrific effects upon the planet – including the horrendous prospect that we could actually lose the Polar ...
Europe, somewhere about 300-400 BC, a new and wonderful weapon started turning the tide of battles. Enter the Catapult, going to war will never be the same. The Catapult refers to a family of mechanical devices designed to throw an object a great distance. The obvious would be objects such as large stones, or similar ...
Long before “the sun never set on the British Isles,” the Spanish controlled a vast territory in the New World. Within a few years, Spanish conquistadors managed to utterly destroy the most powerful American empires and replace those empires with lucrative plantations and gold and silver mines. Why did the mighty Aztec and Inca empires ...
What is anthrax? Anthrax is a disease caused by the bacteria Bacillus Anthracis. This bacteria can be found everywhere but seems to be more prevalent in central and south America. It is in the ground and can be eaten by grazing animals such as cattle and deer. Anthrax is also a disease that can infect ...
Infectious diseases are those diseases that are contagious; these diseases include parasites, fungi, viruses, and bacteria that are able to enter a body, whether human or animal, and survive as well as multiply. Infectious diseases cause more than 15 million deaths each year. But there is one infectious disease that is considered to be the ...
