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Michael Yon, a photojournalist specializing in war and a retired U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, warned Jordan Peterson of a growing “triangle of death” driven by globalist machinations: pandemics, famines, and wars.In an interview with Peterson published last week, Yon used a neologism he coined — "PanFaWar" — synthesizing "pandemic," "famine,” and "war" into one term. The three phenomena, he said, are mutually reinforcing and often occur as a package."Let's talk about PanFaWar: pandemic, famine, war," Yon stated. "The triangle of death. They always go together. If you get a big war or a big pandemic or a big famine,...

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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (news - web sites) on Friday downgraded its assessment of SARS (news - web sites)-prevention efforts in Canada after a U.S. visitor to Toronto returned home with the virus. But the U.N. agency said it had no plans to issue another travel advisory for the city. WHO officials also dropped some parts of China from its list of places under the SARS travel warning but retained its advice that people avoid nonessential travel to Beijing and Taiwan. On Saturday, Taiwan reported two SARS deaths, breaking a period of 16 successive days without new fatalities....

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (news - web sites) may renew a warning against travel to Toronto if a feared upsurge in SARS (news - web sites) was confirmed in Canada's largest city and business capital, a WHO spokesman said on Wednesday. But there was "nothing automatic" about issuing a call to avoid unnecessary travel to Toronto, even if the suspected outbreak could push it further above some WHO trigger points for such alerts, spokesman Iain Simpson added. Canadian health officials said on Tuesday they were investigating 12 pneumonia patients at a Toronto clinic who had developed symptoms...

It's a new health threat that is setting off a major alarm. Dozens of cases of Monkeypox have been reported in three midwestern states. Health officials are investigating a suspected case of the virus in an eleven-year-old in New Jersey. Health investigators have also had their eye on Tennessee. As environments change and world travel and trade increase, germs once confined to animals often spread to human populations. The U-S cases of Monkeypox started when an infected rat passed on the disease to prairie dogs at an exotic pet store in Chicago. ...snip...The original source of the U-S invasion is...

As if SARS, mad cow and West Nile virus were not enough, Health Canada is advising public health officials to be on the lookout for monkeypox, a serious disease related to smallpox, which has made its first appearance in North America. No cases have been reported in Canada, but an advisory is being sent to medical officials and public health labs across the country about an "epidemic" in the U.S. and the need to watch for the disease, said Dr. Frank Plummer, head of Health Canada's national microbiology laboratory in Winnipeg. Thirty-seven people in the U.S. Midwest are believed to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The monkeypox outbreak illustrates a growing problem: Exotic animals give exotic diseases to people who get too close, a trend that some medical specialists call a serious public health threat. Such diseases can become a threat not just to the people who buy and sell exotic pets, but to the general public if they spread to native animals and become established in the United States. Federal health officials are working frantically to ensure doesn't happen with monkeypox. "This is a harbinger of things to come," warns Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, who advises the government...

Toronto — Doctors are anxiously trying to determine whether 15 patients who developed SARS-like symptoms after attending a dialysis clinic in Whitby actually have the disease — a finding that would represent a huge setback in the fight against the virus. As worried health officials sort out the situation, hundreds of people who came in contact with the patients or attended the clinic are being put in isolation and officials are scrambling to determine whether there is a link to known cases. "We have to, in these times, assume that they may be SARS and we have to take those...

<p>MONTREAL -- Weary Canadian public health doctors sought yesterday to determine whether a new outbreak of SARS has erupted in greater Toronto, where 33 people have died of the flulike virus and the medical system in the country's biggest metropolis is straining under the burden of the disease.</p>

Jun. 9, 2003. 10:23 PM U.S. man who visited Toronto has SARS FROM CANADIAN PRESS U.S. officials confirmed today that Toronto has exported a case of SARS to the United States. To make matters worse, figuring out how the man caught the disease in the first place is stumping local SARS experts. The man, a 47-year-old from North Carolina, developed fever and pneumonia late last month after a stay in Toronto during which he visited a patient in a health-care facility. Two people who shared the room with the person he visited came down with SARS - but only several...

The Russians worked with monkeypox virus, a close cousin to smallpox, in their bioweapons program and it is possible terrorists could use it in a biological attack against the United States, scientists and former United Nations weapons inspectors told United Press International. Although some biological weapons experts are concerned with the possibility of terrorists using another smallpox-related virus called camelpox, which Iraq has admitted to researching, Mark Buller, a biologist at Saint Louis University who conducts research on smallpox vaccines, said he is more concerned about monkeypox. Buller's concern stems from the fact that monkeypox, unlike camelpox, causes mortality in...

The subject of the anthrax mailings of September and October 2001 has become the focus of considerable online "cult" activity. Using a search engine, you will find people who blame the CIA, people who insist it was all a devious Israeli plot, and folks who blame a sinister Wall Street cabal--the attacks, as I recall, were triggered by a decline in the Dow Jones average. There are those who claim some sort of right-wing "bio-evangelist" was responsible, and others who point the finger at those "Greenpeace ecology nuts", or at Iraqi secret agents operating out of the UN. One researcher...

Health officials are concerned that monkeypox, a little-known disease from African rain forests that has infected some Midwesterners could wreak havoc now that it has entered new territory. "Whenever you hear about a new virus being introduced into an ecosystem where it's not been present before, you have to be very, very concerned about the public health threat," Dr. Stephen Ostroff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. Authorities in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana are investigating at least 33 possible cases of monkeypox among people who have come into contact with prairie dogs. The patients are recovering,...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. health officials reported on Monday that the West Nile virus had resurfaced in two dozen states, but they stopped short of predicting another record outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne disease. West Nile has been detected in birds, horses and mosquitoes in at least 24 states so far this year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has tracked the virus since it first emerged in the United States in 1999. No human cases have been reported this year. Dr. Stephen Ostroff, deputy director of the CDC's national center for infectious diseases, said...

<p>Continuing bioterrorism scares are breathing new life into obscure scientific projects as the nation gropes for a way to defend itself from deadly microbes.</p> <p>The sudden interest in microbiology is fueled by revelations such as the discovery of a mobile bioterrorism laboratory that traveled Iraqi highways.</p>

New SARS outbreak feared at Whitby hospital Fifteen dialysis patients have respiratory symptoms HELEN BRANSWELL CANADIAN PRESS An unexplained cluster of respiratory illnesses at a hospital east of Toronto has Ontario's SARS containment team worried about the possibility of a new outbreak of the disease. Fifteen dialysis patients of the Whitby site of the Lakeridge Health Centre have pneumonia or respiratory symptoms and are under investigation as possible SARS patients, Dr. James Young, Ontario's commissioner of public security, said today. In addition, "there have been some staff reports of illness today which we are looking into," said Dr. Donna Reynolds,...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Officials in three states tried on Monday to track down pet prairie dogs believed spreading "monkeypox," a smallpox-like illness not seen before in the Western Hemisphere that may have infected 37 people. Only six of the victims were being treated in hospitals, officials said, and they were expected to recover with bed rest. The disease, caused by monkeypox virus, is not believed to spread person-to-person. But in light of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome scare and an approaching summer season when mosquito-borne West Nile virus was likely to again pose a deadly threat, health officials were moving...

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Monkeypox virus underscores danger of having exotic pets Two new cases of illness confirmed By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and SARAH CARR mmarchione@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: June 8, 2003 The human monkeypox outbreak, likely spread by prairie dogs via imported African rats, is the latest example of a danger that health officials have warned of for years: Exotic pets often bring exotic health threats. Deadly infections, unusual injuries and people getting bored with or overwhelmed by owning such pets and releasing them into the wild have been reported, health and agriculture officials say. Importing super-exotic pets into the United States, such as Gambian...