Brief Global Health Synopsis

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BRIEF GLOBAL HEALTH SYNOPSIS: ACROSS-THE-BOARD ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE &REPLACEMENT VIA HUMAN ACTIVITIES. WHAT IS EXPECTED? PANDEMICS OF ANIMALDISEASES (MAD COW, FOOT & MOUTH, BIRD & PIG INFLUENZA) & HUMANDISEASES/DYSFUNCTION (SARS, LYME, WEST NILE VIRUS, PESTICIDE & CHEMICALLY-INDUCEDMISCARRIAGES, ADHD, CANCERS, HIV/AIDS, EBOLA, MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE, INFERTILITY,MCS/METABOLIC SYNDROME, LUPUS, etc)

By Murray Thompson (BAppSci Environmental Health 1998, University of Western Sydney)

http://poisoningandlegalaction.com.auhttp://poisonedpeople.comhttp://indiegogo.com/poisoned-peoplehttp://murraythompsongraphics.x90x.net

Essay URL: http://poisonedpeople1.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/pandemic/Short link: http://wp.me/s2DVqC-pandemic

Diseases today are a factor of the meshing of many dynamics.

1.0 Foundational Precursors of Future Events

Here are some of the prominent factors now bringing about a rapid alteration of older, long-time establisheddisease patterns:

1. The doubling of global population before 2015.

2. From 1990 to 2020 developing countries will see the proportion of their total populations that inhabit urban areasincrease from approximately 37% to 52%.

3. Globally (in developing and developed countries), health problems as a function of environmental pollution arelikely to amplify.

4. Environmental change, as a function of increasing global temperatures, will occur.

5. Zoonotic disease [inter-species infectious diseases] patterns will change. There is an increasing incidence ofnewly recognized or emerging, or re-emerging older diseases. Alterations of the natural environment, includingthe replacement of formerly uninhabited areas with human settlements [see my Essay:http://poisonedpeople1.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/many-diseases-come-from-a-disturbed-nature/], are prominentcauses here. Also, greater demands for animal protein, intensive animal production, and an amplification of thelive animal trade (including animal products) are contributors (World Health Organization 2002:10).

6. As a further expansion of the third point above, there is the matter of pesticide and other chemically-inducedand/or aggravated disease. First: "In the United States, more than 18,000 products are licensed for use, and eachyear > 2 billion pounds of pesticides are applied to crops, homes, schools, parks, and forests" (Kamel & Hoppin,2004).

Cancers, foetal death, miscarriages, premature births (NCAP, 1999:3; Bonn, 2005; Cox, 2004) and ADHD (Cox,2004) are all now linked to pesticides. Further: "Animal data and in-vitro work suggest that chronic pesticideexposures might be tied to learning and behavioral problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivitydisorder (ADHD) and other neuropsychological deficits" (Ashley, et al. 2006:7, citing Chanda et al., 1996; Rice etal., 2000).

There are increased stillbirth rates with proximity to agricultural areas using organophosphate - pyrethroid -carbamate - or chlorinated pesticides (Sinclair & Pressinger, no date, citing Bell, et al., 2001).

Pesticides are strongly linked to birth defects (Montague, 2001).


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"Two separate studies in Sweden have linked exposure to Glyphosate to Hairy Cell Leukemia and Non Hodgkin'sLymphoma. These types of cancers were extremely rare, however Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma is the most rapidlyincreasing cancer in the Western world. It has risen by 73% in the USA since 1973. Another study has found ahigher incidence of Parkinson disease amongst farmers who used herbicides, including glyphosate" (Leu, 2007citing Cox, 1998; Lehmann & Pengue, 2000; Nordstrom, et al., 1998; Hardell & Eriksson, 1999). Cox, 2004 andVachani, 2007 also linked Roundup to Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Roundup causes genetic mutations in cell tests (NCAP, 2000:2, citing Vigfusson & Vyse, 1980; Kale et al., 1995;Rank et al., 1993). It is "a known carcinogen, neurotoxin, irritant, and has been found to kill human embryoniccells, and can cause kidney and liver damage" (BeyondPesticides.org 2012). Roundup has been heavily implicatedin thyroid, liver and pancreatic tumours in test animals (Cox, 1993:4, citing Dykstra & Ghali, 1991). Roundup isalso now shockingly linked to Mad Cow's Disease (Rotella 2003), and to an increase in plant diseases(gmwatch.org 2010).

MCS: "Multiple chemical sensitivity (1) (MCS), also known as chemical intolerance, multiple chemicalsensitivities, chemical sensitivity, or toxicant induced loss of tolerance (TILT) is an illness or disease whereprevious chemical exposure appears to initiate the wide ranging sensitivities characteristic of MCS" (Pall 2009?a).As well, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been linked to "viral infection, bacterial infection, organophosphoruspesticide exposure, carbon monoxide exposure, ciguatoxin poisoning, physical trauma, severe psychological stress,toxoplasmosis (protozoan) infection, ionizing radiation exposure" (Pall 2009?b).

Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, and Metabolic Syndrome: "Recent epidemiological studies have found thatbackground exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs)xenobiotics accumulated in adipose tissueisassociated with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome (13), suggesting that POPs may play akey role in their pathogenesis" (Lee, et al. 2008).

Children, Pesticides & Neurological Development: "...given the toxicity of all insecticides toward somecomponent of the nervous system (both central and peripheral nervous systems), it is believed that children are avulnerable, at-risk population because complete development of the nervous system does not occur until late inchildhood (Hall et al., 1997)... Extensive mammalian studies of organophosphate toxicity, in general, andchlorpyrifos toxicity, in particular, have suggested that neurotoxic effects can be expected from low dose/chronicexposures. In addition to inhibiting nerve transmission, organophosphates also interfere in the acquisition anddevelopment of new brain cells and inhibit DNA synthesis (Whitney et al., 1995; Dam et al., 1998; Li and Casida,1998). These functions are critical to proper neurological development, especially with respect to cognitivefunctions (Rice and Barone, 2000; Weiss, 2000)" (Ashley, et al. 2006:7).

Motor neurone disease: "Most studies have focused on organophosphate insecticides, but some found neuro-toxiceffects from other pesticides, including fungicides, fumigants, and organochlorine and carbamate insecticides.Pesticide exposure may also be associated with increased risk of Parkinson disease; several classes of pesticides,including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, have been implicated" (Kamel & Hoppin, 2004).

Autoimmune diseases: The findings of a study linked environmental pesticide exposure to the development ofautoimmune rheumatic diseases (Parks, et al. 2011). As well, a study of 75,000 women who used insecticidesinside the home and in the garden demonstrated a strong link between the pesticides and the autoimmune diseasesrheumatoid arthritis and lupus (Laino, 2009).

7. And we have not here even begun to touch upon a whole other world of disease pain in terms of medication-induced disease. Note Thalidomide as a matter of historical course, and the recent exposition of the link betweenAcetaminophen (paracetamol) use, measles-mumps-rubella vaccination, and autistic disorder: "Acetaminophen useafter measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was significantly associated with autistic disorder when consideringchildren 5 years of age or less" (Schultz, et al., 2008).

In brief summary at this point: "Most tragically, suffering, illness and disease surround us today in a way we wouldnot have imagined a half century ago. We have banished some diseases only to have them replaced by a grumblingyet profound toxicity which is stripping our children of their rightful future" (Donohoe, 1998:38). That "grumble"is now accelerating into an across-the-board pandemic roar!


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2.0 Developments and Amplifications

The overall outcome is inevitable. Changing human disease patterns will be impacted by "high populationdensities, movements of human populations within and between countries, and changes in lifestyles [consider warand refugee movements here, too]. Infectious diseases will remain the major causes of mortality in mostdeveloping countries, with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)and opportunistic infections (including zoonoses) being especially important. The problem will be exacerbated asthe proportion of immunosuppressed people in the population increases" (World Health Organization 2002:10).

What we are witnessing today is a massive and global synergy of immunosuppression (on a basis of profligatetoxic chemical usage) and disease emergence and amplification.

"Two examples of zoonotic diseases that have recently become prominent are Lyme disease and West Nile virus.Both of these diseases have their roots in animal populations and apparently were only recently transferred tohuman populations" (Pierce County Washington 2002:4). How recently?

"Although Allen Steere [professor of rheumatology at Harvard University] realized that Lyme disease was a tick-borne disease in 1978, the cause of the disease remained a mystery until 1981, when B. burgdorferi was identifiedby Willy Burgdorfer" (http://en.wikipedia.org 2012a).

"West Nile virus was first identified in 1937 in Uganda in eastern Africa. It was first discovered in the UnitedStates in the summer of 1999 in New York" (National Center for Biotechnology Information 2010). "West Nilevirus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic arbovirus" (http://en.wikipedia.org 2012b).

As well, there is, notably, SARS. "Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in Hong Kongnearly became a pandemic, with 8,422 cases and 916 deaths worldwide..." (http://en.wikipedia.org 2012c).

These are just three examples of diseases breaking out of nature and releasing into human populations. And thesemay be "nothing" in comparison to a filovirus called "Ebola". The kill rate in humans for Ebola Zaire is nine outof ten. It is a slate wiper in humans, so in a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against our humanspecies (Preston 1994:319-20).

3.0 "Armed" Inevitabilities

We have backed ourselves into a corner from which THERE IS NO ESCAPE. A global and aberrantoverpopulation dynamic saturated in chemical toxicants is leading an accelerating and catastrophic wave ofincursion into forested and other natural areas, environments ALREADY RADICALLY AFFECTED BYGLOBAL POLLUTION. Affected in what way? Viruses locked away deep in nature have been "washed" fordecades by air pollution. Thus, they have been "pre-armed" with chemical resistance and are now releasing intoindigenous (and other) human communities that are infectiously compliant due to broad immunosuppression.

See how mining pollutes lands and leaves indigenous populations devastated in this Essay:http://poisonedpeople1.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/mining-destroys-environmental-health-creates-martian-wastelands-human-health-human-rights. What I did not address in this particular Essay is the resultingimmunosuppression amongst the 'locals', those closest to the rainforest who can be the first to transmit the start ofan epidemic. Further, these populations, thanks to modern transport, are not far removed at any point on this globefrom extensive land travel opportunities and then, in terms of intersection, international travel vectors via otherswho can afford to do so.

As well, this immunosuppression is fatally backed by antibiotic resistance.

In regard to antibiotics and our, especially, CORPORATE (Big Ag, Biotech, Big Pharma) proclivity for assumingthat control is best: Unfortunately, we played a trick on the natural world by seizing control of these [natural]chemicals, making them more perfect in a way that has changed the whole microbial constitution of the developing


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countries. We have organisms now proliferating that never existed before in nature. We have selected them. Wehave organisms that probably caused a tenth of a percent of human disease in the past that now cause twenty, thirtypercent of the disease that were seeing. We have changed the whole face of the earth by the use of antibiotics(Garrett 1994:437, quoting Lappe & Collins 1979).

Further: Bacteria that have developed immunity to antibiotic drugs pose a large and growing threat to the successof modern medicine. These studies demonstrate that antibiotic resistance is literally streaming across America andwhat has not been appreciated is the extent of contamination (American Society of Microbiology 1999).

4.0 Perfect Storm

The human corporate biotech miasma of "greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness" leads us todayinto inevitable perfect storm opportunities: pathogens can and will rapidly and extensively populate and dominatethe world becoming the new numero uno apex predator. This is PANDEMIC.

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