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Deadly mosquito-borne pandemic poses a greater threat to humankind than global war
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 6/30/2017 | Stephen Matthews

Posted on 06/30/2017 10:35:25 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman
***Climate change warming the planet is allowing for mosquitos to spread from their usual habitats, posing a risk to many in the northern hemisphere. ***

Wonder how many know mosquitoes are everywhere in the Arctic summer months, and 150 years ago Arizona had a massive malaria epidemic.

Memphis and parts of the South had a Yellow Fever epidemic, but schools where I now live were advertised as "NO MALARIA!" to potential students in the rest of the state.


21 posted on 06/30/2017 11:03:11 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: rktman

Bill Gates is now an epidemiologist. Who knew?


22 posted on 06/30/2017 11:03:22 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Depends on which 10 million. Can I pick them?


23 posted on 06/30/2017 11:13:22 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Pfft...nobody would even notice 10 million.

Liberals like Bill Gates have no problem ignoring many tens of millions of deaths inflicted by abortion. Not to mention repressive foreign regimes who butcher people in large numbers.

24 posted on 06/30/2017 11:13:49 AM PDT by roadcat
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[ In a hard-hitting new documentary, the world’s richest man said a killer bug could wipe out 10 million people without warning. ]

Well the libtards tell us that more people die from car accidents than terrorism so we don’t need to worry about terrorism.

55 million die per year in the world, most by natural causes. So 10 million a year is less no worries at all...Right Libsh!ts?????

Use their own rules against them.


25 posted on 06/30/2017 11:14:19 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: rktman

The people responsible for banning it in the first place and those perpetuating the ban should be put in medical experiments for all mosquito vectored diseases.


26 posted on 06/30/2017 11:16:30 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Democrats...a perpetual worry.


27 posted on 06/30/2017 11:17:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Freedom56v2

Starting with Gates.


28 posted on 06/30/2017 11:18:55 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: roadcat

[ Pfft...nobody would even notice 10 million.

Liberals like Bill Gates have no problem ignoring many tens of millions of deaths inflicted by abortion. Not to mention repressive foreign regimes who butcher people in large numbers. ]

Bill Gates would rather release genetically modfied Mosquitoes that were modified using CRISPR tech, which I may remind you has recently been called into question....

http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/crispr-platform-scans-dna-to-predict-off-target-effects/81254601

Bill Gates releases Mosquitoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2FvVRSjMdw

The Damned rich libsh!t is just as likely to START an epidemic himself.


29 posted on 06/30/2017 11:19:55 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: Slyfox

DD frickin’ T BANNED! How many millions have died because of that? Fookin’ idjits!

MALARIA VICTIMS: HOW ENVIRONMENTALIST BAN ON DDT CAUSED 50 MILLION DEATHS!

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1259

Alomg time friend and contributor to Free Republic, Alan Caruba before he died a few years ago, noted that banning DDT caused the deaths of thosands of innocents every day to Malaria. Alan compared to what the death count would be if a dozen of more 747’s crashed everyday with no survivors.

Yet the mediots ignored this deadly reality because those deaths were 3rd world people.


30 posted on 06/30/2017 11:21:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (CNN is thrasing around like a worthless old rooster, after the farmer, (AT&T), chopped its head off!)
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[[Climate change warming the planet is allowing for mosquitos to spread from their usual habitats, posing a risk to many in the northern hemisphere.]]

Well by golly I guess we’re just gonna have to learn how to adapt to NATURAL CYCLICAL CLIMATE CHANGE then aren’t we?


31 posted on 06/30/2017 11:24:09 AM PDT by Bob434
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Hair on fire article

“could wipe out”

“could mimic”

“if a virus was to break out”

“experts worry.”

Could...might...maybe...possibly...if...

Yawn


32 posted on 06/30/2017 11:26:58 AM PDT by Bob434
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Well 22 million may lose health coverage. Millions could die if we cancel lyin’ care.


33 posted on 06/30/2017 11:31:05 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Agree. DDT is the answer. Interestingly, DDT is not mentioned in the article but is mentioned in the comments following the article:Sounds like a FReeper, doesn't it?
34 posted on 06/30/2017 11:33:57 AM PDT by upchuck (RIP, Democrat Party, 1776-2017, Protested itself to death. h/t DarkOne)
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The way the article headline is phrased:one could get the idea the pandemic already exists. Fortunately, untrue.
35 posted on 06/30/2017 11:37:28 AM PDT by upchuck (RIP, Democrat Party, 1776-2017, Protested itself to death. h/t DarkOne)
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10 million is still smaller than the 1918 pandemic.


36 posted on 06/30/2017 11:43:05 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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The Mosquito Killer by MALCOLM GLADWELL

The chief proponent of that view was a largely forgotten man named Fred Soper, who ranks as one of the unsung heroes of the twentieth century. With DDT as his weapon, Soper almost saved the world from one of its most lethal afflictions. Had he succeeded, we would not today be writing DDT’s obituary. We would view it in the same heroic light as penicillin and the polio vaccine.

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Nowhere in “Silent Spring” did Carson acknowledge that the chemical she was excoriating as a menace had, in the two previous decades, been used by malariologists to save somewhere in the vicinity of ten million lives. Nor did she make it clear how judiciously the public-health community was using the chemical. By the late fifties, health experts weren’t drenching fields and streams and poisoning groundwater and killing fish. They were leaving a microscopic film on the inside walls of houses; spraying every house in a country the size of Guyana, for example, requires no more DDT in a year than a large cotton farm does.

37 posted on 06/30/2017 11:43:11 AM PDT by IncPen (Progressivism is in perpetual need of an enemy against which to refresh its outrage.)
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I actually look at this differently than most of the comments here laughing at the sky is falling meme. Personally I would be a little more afraid....the elite usually broadcast their next step. When you consider what Gates owns I would be very leary.


38 posted on 06/30/2017 12:03:09 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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Gates never met a “crisis” he couldn’t invest in. “Coincidentally”he bought pesticide-producers stock last week.

My impression, but it’s probably true.


39 posted on 06/30/2017 12:06:33 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Right, we are all going to die, killer asteroids, killer volcanoes, killer mosquitoes, killer global warming, killer nuclear war. I think I shall stop making my house payment and paying my taxes, we are all dead anyway, and soon.
40 posted on 06/30/2017 12:17:26 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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