GLOBAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Agriculture/Bio Terrorism

 

...a much needed learning tool for the future!

Every neighborhood group and school district

in the country would do well to establish similar community projects.

First lady to break ground on 'kitchen garden'

 

...of course - this is the reason H.R. 875 needs a huge overhaul!

H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act

 

Obama bans downer cows from food supply

Obama - Food Safety System Is Health Hazard

...one of the biggest threats in 2009!

 

Articles and Links

 

H1N1 - Influenza A Flu Virus Information (Swine Flu)

Flu Pandemic Information - Swine Flu

 

U.S. companies who buy inferior Chinese-made goods

(or other foreign-made products) should be held accountable,

especially if the products later prove to be dangerous to the consumer.

 

Agriculture Warnings and Terror Threats

Cadmium New Fear in Kids' Trinkets

Children's Toy Recall List 2006-2007

US Consumer Product Safety Commission - Toy Hazard Recall

Toys Made In America

250+ Lead-Free Toys Made in USA

Safe Toy Watch: Toy Recalls and Lead-Free Toys

500+ "Not-Made-in-China" Toys

What's For Dinner?  How long has it been since you asked, "What's in your food?"

China and Food Safety Problems

If movie stars and popular icons are so interested in preserving the environment,

they should start with food safety/quality/nutrition first.  Earth-quality/global warming won't make any difference if

everyone dies of cancer-related disease before the Earth expires.

Tainted, Spoiled, or Contaminated

 

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Alerts

Sustainable Food News

 

USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beef

Undercover Investigation Reveals Rampant Animal Cruelty at Calif Slaughter Plant (warning disturbing images)

The Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act (H.R. 1726) would set modest animal welfare standards, including humane euthanasia of any downed animals, for producers who sell food to federal government programs, and the

Downed Animal Protection Act (S. 394 and H.R. 661) would ban any slaughtering of downed animals for human consumption.  What You Can Do:  Ask the USDA to put an immediate stop to downers in the food supply.

 

What will it take to ban imported food items until they are proven safe for animal or human consumption?

How long will it take before the American public (and the world) become outraged?

America don't just bring back COOL (country-of-origin labeling)

implement COCE (country-of-origin certification) listing

all ingredients used plus a guarantee of quality assurance.

Quality, purity, safety, and inspection guarantees are more important than origin.

(From Lampholder Publications 2007 Newsletter)

 

U.S. To Monitor Product Safety In China - American Regulators To Set Up

Office In Beijing To Monitor Exported Products From Pet Food To Toys

Congress Finally Gets Tough On Food Safety

New Safety Rules urged For Imported Goods

Food Safety Revamp Urged

Bush OKs Tough Product Safety Rules

Food-Labeling Effort Gains New Momentum

Food-origin law is back from oblivion

AMI Misleads Congress, Consumers on COOL

What is COOL?

Americans for Country of Origin Labeling

USDA on Country of Origin Labeling

Farms.com on COOL

Make The Country of Origin Labeling Mandatory

V-Cool Program

Strengthen the Farm Bill!  Reduce Hunger and Help Rural America

It's time to leave some things natural...

Tell USDA No Toxic Chemicals or High Heat

Don't Nuke The Almonds

 

 

Bird Flu

SARS

Mad Cow Disease

methicillan-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

 Bio-Terrorism, Bio-Warfare and Infectious Disease

and other Global Infectious Disease

(Including links on Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever)

 

Lampholder Prophecy Articles

A forewarning? Milk, Poison, and The River in Symbolism

"al Zabadi"

Recipe for terror

Prophecy pictures September 5, 2003 on Mad Cow Disease

 

America Needs A Health Care Revolution

Drug-Resistant TB at Record Levels

America's 50 Best Hospitals Listed

States act to protect individual health insurance coverage

Those Who Pay Private Care Test Britains Public Health Sys

Study Finds Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance

Justices Shield Medical Devices From Lawsuits

Poll Finds Americans Split by political Party Over Whether Socialized Medicine Better or Worse Than Current System

Blue Cross To Docs: Help Cancel Coverage

 

 

H1N1 - Influenza A Flu Virus Information (Swine Flu)

 

Swine Flu Pandemic DECLARED By World Health Organization  Alert At Phase 6

CDC plans massive swine flu immunization

Obama seeks $1.5 billion for swine flu as cases jump

Obama says swine flu 'not a cause for alarm'

White House Prepares For Possible Flu Pandemic

WHO alerts countries to watch suspicious flu cases

Swine Flu Linked To Mexico

Travel warning - mysterious respiratory illness

Canadian Travel Alert - Respiratory Illness Flu Mexico

Risk of Pandemic
Mutated from pigs, transmitted to humans

Answers to swine flu questions

CDC too late to contain U.S. outbreak

April 24, 2009 - CDC press release

WHO Press Release

WHO Chief, Margaret Chan, to oversee handling of swine flu crisis

WHO - United Nations has activated Strategic Health Operations Centre (SHOC)

Updates CDC Swine Flu Investigation

International Society For Infectious Diseases

Flutrackers Forum

Biosurveillance - Swine Flu Timeline

Swine Flu Outbreak Locator Map

 

 

 

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Agriculture Warnings and Terror Threats

 

Imported Food Today - lesson - know your source

Eat at your own risk...

 

"When someone says, 'It is good business,'

you may be sure it is bad morality." 

Robin Skelton

 

Peanut Butter Salmonella

Fallout Widens as Buyers Shun Staple

FDA Peanut Butter Recall List

Salmonella Fuels Food-Safety Efforts

 

Vitamins to Food:  Should China be the source for anything edible?

Report Finds Dirty Money, Water In China

Gov't Not Protecting U.S. Consumer Products Tainted With Radiation - Chinese-Made EKCO Cheese Grater

Poisoned heparin 'deliberate'

Scientists Near Source of Altered Heparin

Dumplings Poisoned 'on Purpose' - "Chinese dumplings which were laced with pesticide and made at least 10 Japanese people ill were probably poisoned on purpose, Japan's health minister says.  The frozen dumplings were contaminated with a highly toxic organophoshate pesticide methamidophos."

Japan Probes Tainted Dumplings From China

China firm cans toxic tinned meat

China Blocks Toxic U.S. Potato Chips

China Cracks Down on Food Safety Violators

U.S., China to sign import safety pacts: HHS' Leavitt

Are your drugs safe?

Tainted Exports Damage China Plan to Build Reputation of Brands, Factories

In Latest Scare - China Finds Fake Veterinary Drugs

Contaminated Wheat Glutin Looks for Other Uses - "Tons of melamine tainted wheat gluten earmarked for Del Monte is currently sitting in a warehouse in Pennsylvania because it’s too valuable to throw out. The owners are looking for an industrial, non-food use for these stockpiles."

2 U.S. firms recall feed ingredients - "For the first time, the industrial chemical that contaiminated pet food ingredients imported from China has been found in livestock and fish feed ingredients produced in the USA.  Two companies in Ohio and Colorado recalled the ingredients found to contain melamine...The melamine was found in products used to bind feed pellets together made by Tembec BTLSR of Ohio...."

U.S. to China on Pet Food: The Market Will Be the Enforcer! - "the Bush administration said it made it perfectly clear food safety is a 'top concern.'"

NJ May Give Pet Owners Right To Sue

Pet food probe: China cracks down, detains 2

Pet Food Recall Expands to Salmon Farms

Pet food probe: China detains managers of export firms

"Scientists" Try to Reassure American Public of Food Safety

Tainted pet food: Lab says melamine not only culprit - The Other Chemical is Cyanuric Acid

Tainted Feed Little Risk to Humans, Scientists Say

Concerns Raised on China's Global Health Disclosures

20 Million Chickens Held Because of Feed - "Federal officials on Friday placed a hold on 20 million chickens raised for market in several states because their feed was mixed with pet food containing an industrial chemical."

U.S.: Pet food ingredient mislabeled

China Makes Arrest in Pet Food Case

Suspect melamine-contaminated ingredients imported from China
• Wheat gluten - a protein found in wheat bread, oats, barley, rye, and some cereal fillers
• Corn gluten
• Cornmeal/corn gluten meal, corn by-products
• Soy protein/soy gluten also found in soy sauce

• Rice bran or or barley malt; mung bean protein
• Rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate

Detention Without Physical Examination of all Vegetable Protein Products from China - "for animal or human food use due to the presence of melamine and/or melamine analogs"

FDA: Tainted feed could be nationwide

Tainted Pet Food Linked to Indiana Chickens

CA Ag Dept Search for 50 people who bought pork

N.C. hog farm quarantined after melamine found

California - 1500 Hogs Quarantined

China Bans Melamine in Food but Rejects it as Cause of U.S. Pet Deaths

Was Melamin-Contaminated Feed Fed to Hogs - Pork Intended for Human Consumption?

Were Our Pets Deliberately Poisoned?

FDA Asks If Pet Food Tainted on Purpose

Melamine in pet food may not be accidental

New Pet Food Worry: Contaminated Rice

Industrial Chemical (melamine) That Contaminated Pet Food Is Found in Second Ingredient (rice protein concentrate) Expanding Recall

Pet Food Scare Has Jumped from North America to the Caribbean Islands

How Close Was Tainted Wheat To Human Food? - "...the FDA had tracked at least one suspect batch of wheat gluten into the human food supply...."

China's Food Safety Woes Expand Overseas - "...The list of Chinese food exports rejected at American ports reads like a chef's nightmare: pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella..."

Dog Biscuits Added to Pet Food Recall

Tainted food may have killed 38 pets in one state

Tainted Wheat Gluten Found in U.S. Food Plants - "The tainted wheat gluten that triggered a massive pet food recall also ended up in processing plants that prepare food consumed by people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.  While agency leaders offered assurances Monday that the U.S. food supply remains safe, they said they cot yet completely rule out contamination of human food by the suspect wheat gluten, which contained melamine, a chemical found in plastics and pesticides."

FDA Blocks Wheat Glutin From Chinese Company Xuzhou Anying Billogic Technology Dev Co. in Wangdien, China in Pet Food Invest

FDA Warning

FDA Begins Testing Foods with Wheat Glutin

The Story Behind The Pet Food Recall

Dolitter.com - A Veterinary Blog

Petconnection.com - Pet Food Recall and What You Need To Know

List of Recalled Dog Food Products

Information Portal for Pet Food Recalls and Related News

Vets Say Kidney Failure Up In Cats

List of Recalled Cat Food Products

 

 

China and Food Safety Problems

...if it is safe to eat, why are pregnant women being warned?

...from the field, water, and streams to your dinner table - a Lampholder 20-year Prophecy forewarning....

Cadmium New Fear in Kids' Trinkets

Security Concerns As China Fills U.S. Medicine Chest

China Bans Exports of Drug-Tainted Toy

China declares 'war' on tainted products

1 Million Lbs. of  Suspect Chinese Seafood in U.S. - "The frozen shrimp, catfish and eel arrived at U.S. ports under an “import alert,” which meant the FDA was supposed to hold every shipment until it had passed a laboratory test."

Fisher-Price recalls toys manufactured in China for excessive lead - "83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters"

FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood

Chinese Premier Calls On Firms To Secure Reputation of "Made in China" Label

Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate - Air - "An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. These rivers of polluted air can be wider than the Amazon and deeper than the Grand Canyon."

China Not Only U.S. Concern When It Comes To Imported Food

Latest China scare: Don't eat the ginger

China Warns U.S. Against "Smear Attacks" On Imports

China's Grip On Vitamin C

China Polishing Food Safety Image

China's Exploitative Cotton Factory

Losing the taste for China's delicacies

Mass Murder of Mice Not Enough

China Struggles to Repair Image

China To Begin Olympic Food Checks

Trading Garbage for Dollars Part I

Trading Garbage for Dollars Part II

China executes ex-food and drug chief

China Braces for More Food Scares

Don't Buy Chinese-Made Products

Faulty Fireworks Were Made In China - "Nearly all fireworks used in the United States are made in China.  But a string of Fourth of July fiascoes in the Tampa Bay region and around the country involving Chinese-manufactured fireworks could raise new questions about their safety and quality.  Chinese-manufactured fireworks exploded on the ground during city-sponsored celebrations in St. Pete Beach and Treasure Island, injuring a dozen people.  Similar accidents involving Chinese fireworks that exploded prematurely wrecked six displays in northern Virginia, injuring 11 people. And two pyrotechnic workers were injured in Savah, Ga., when a firework detonated on the ground and set off a chain reaction."

Chinese Drug Agency Director Sentenced to Death

Chinese-Made Hotel Toothpaste Recalled

Colgate-Labelled Toothpaste Recall

Maputo seizes 'toxic toothpaste'

Possibly tainted toothpaste found in Massachusetts

China blames social unrest on anger over pollution

Investigation in Panama Shows 94 People Died from Tainted Medicine

One-Fifth of China's Consumer Goods Fail Safety Test

Chinese Seasoning Source of Salmonella Poisoning in Veggie Booty Snacks

Authorities in China Find Children's Snacks Fail Food Standards; More Fake Blood Protein Found

Companies in US Increase Testing of Chinese Goods

"Made in China" Now a Warning Label: US

FDA to check safety of imported Chinese seafood

Product Unsafe - Recall It

China Uncovers Thousands of Dangerous Foods

Chinese Honey Now Among Import Dangers

Made-in-China Fears Grip US

Cheap Chinese Tires Blamed for Fatalities

Importer Told to Recall Chinese Tires

China Products Choke, Burn, Drown, Drop, Trap Americans

China Has Cornered The Global Market on Vitamins - "If you pop a vitamin C tablet in your mouth, it's a good bet it came from China. Indeed, many of the world's vitamins are now made in China.  In less than a decade, China has captured 90 percent of the U.S. market for vitamin C, driving almost everyone else out of business.  Chinese pharmaceutical companies also have taken over much of the world market in the production of antibiotics, analgesics, enzymes and primary amino acids. According to an industry group, China makes 70 percent of the world's penicillin, 50 percent of its aspirin and 35 percent of its acetaminophen (often sold under the brand name Tylenol), as well as the bulk of vitamins A, B12, C and E."

China Exports Lead Poisoning

Seafood Imports from China Raised in Untreated Sewage

China Goes on Offensive After Food Safety Scares

1M Text Messages Protest China Plant - "Chinese City Halts Work on Chemical Plant After Receiving More Than 1 Million Text Messages"

As More Toys Are Recalled Trail Ends In China

Chinese Warning Over Toy Safety - "More than 20% of Chinese-made toys and baby clothes are below standard...some were even dangerous...Some baby clothes contained harmful chemicals...."

Bogus toothpaste now in 6 states, Canada

China Blames Panama For Tainted Drugs

Tainted toothpaste found in U.S. prisons

FDA: Throw away toothpaste made in China - "The agency is not aware of any poisoning from toothpaste in the United States, but it did find the antifreeze ingredient in a shipment at the U.S. border and at two retail stores: a Dollar Plus store in Miami and a Todo A Peso store in Puerto Rico."

Nicaragua Seizes 6,000 Tubes of Contaminated Toothpaste

More Dangerous Goods Bed in EU

Not Just China - Filth, Residue are Top Reasons for Rejection

China Defends Produce Safety

Tainted Chinese Products Flood U.S. Market

China's Additives on Menu in U.S. - "China exported $2.5 billion of food ingredients to the United States and the rest of the world in 2006, an increase of 150% from just two years earlier, according to Chinese industry estimates. It is now the predominant maker of vanilla flavoring, citric acid and varieties of vitamin B such as thiamine, riboflavin and folic acid — nutrients commonly added to processed flour goods such as Mission tortillas and Tyson breaded chicken."

Asia Food Safety - "Sometimes health risks are created for merely cosmetic reasons, as when Chinese producers last year used the cancer-causing dye Sudan Red, normally used for colouring solvents and shoe and floor polish, to colour duck egg yolks and chilli oil. Perhaps the highest-profile recent case was in 2004, when 13 babies died in central China and nearly 200 suffered malnutrition after drinking milk made with fake powder.Chinese chemicals have also made their way into the foodchain in Vietnam where authorities have become so alarmed at the prevalence of adulterated food that Professor Nguyen Ba Duc of the Vietnam Cancer Association has blamed one third of the 150,000 ual cancer cases on tainted food."

China Recalls Tainted Infant Formula  "The milk powder is sold in China under the name Sanlu Bei Bei Infant Powder."

China says 432 babies fall ill from milk powder

China Continues to Dominate World Honey Production

Tainted toothpaste had wider reach than thought: report

China probes 'tainted' toothpaste

China Probes Potentially Deadly Toothpaste

Poisoned Toothpaste - "Diethylene glycol, a poison, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs officials there said Friday that the product appeared to have originated in China."

China Confirms Bird Flu Outbreak - "China has confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in the central province of Hunan, state media has reported.  More than 11,000 poultry died of the virus in Shijiping village near Yiyang city, the Agriculture Ministry said."

Fake Goods and Unsafe Food Threaten Chinese Imports

Two Students Die From Eating Chinese-Made Instant Noodles

Pesticides Next Frontier in China Food Safety

Chinese Catfish Ban Over Antibiotic Use

Fish Food Recall May Get Bigger

Even Vitamin Additives Coming From China - "The United States is sitting on a powder keg with uncontrolled importation and the distribution of low-quality food ingredients. Before it explodes – putting more animals and people at risk – corrective steps must be taken."

Chicken From China?  Questionable Farming Practices Fuel Skepticism of US Plan to Import Poultry - "In China, some farmers try to maximize the output from their small plots by flooding produce with unapproved pesticides, pumping livestock with antibiotics bed in the United States, and using human feces as fertilizer to boost soil productivity. But the questionable practices don't end there: Chicken pens are frequently suspended over ponds where seafood is raised, recycling chicken waste as a food source for seafood, according to a leading food safety expert who served as a federal adviser to the Food and Drug Administration."

Xuzhou, China - Gluten Factory Had Toxic History - "Before Mao Lijun's business exported tainted wheat products that may have killed American pets, his factory sickened people and plants around here for years."

FDA Warning (pdf)

Tracing a Poison's Global Path Back to China - "A syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze."

U.S. Imports Risk and Uncertainty in Food Safety

Pollution Poisons China's Progress

China's Pollution Threat

A Global Problem - China's Pollution

Pollution - a Major source of discontent in China

In Pictures

Government Must Test Food From China - NOW

Organic or Not?

Organic Milk That Isn't?

Organic Consumers Association

Cornucopia Institute

USDA's National Organic Program

China says export boom shows goods still welcome

 

Arsenic and Chicken

Arsenic In Chicken Production

"For Environmentalists and some public health experts, one of the most puzzling practices of modern agriculture is the addition of arsenic-based compounds to most chicken feed. The point of the practice is to promote growth, kill parasites that cause diarrhea, and improve pigmentation of chicken meat. But Tyson Foods, the U.S.'s largest poultry producer, stopped using arsenic compounds in 2004, and many high-end and organic growers raise chickens quite successfully without them. What's more, McDonald's has asked its suppliers not to use arsenic additives, and the European Union bed them in 1999."

 

 

Tainted, Spoiled, or Contaminated

175,000 Chinese-Made Curious George Dolls Recalled

Illegral Drug GHB (liquid ecstasy) Found In Children's Toy Beads

China's Pollution Reaches the Entire World

Chinese-Made SpongeBob SquarePants Address Books Recalled Over Lead Content

Thai Vendors Hocking Deadly Fish

Poison Blanket Recall - Chinese-made blankets found to contain high levels of formaldehyde

Dirty Chopsticks Picked Up In New China Scare

Poison Found in Children's Clothing - "formaldehyde in woollen and cotton clothes at levels 500 times higher than is safe."

Poison Clothes Add to China's Export Scares

Aspartame Madness - Metal Shavings From China

Dutch Company Recalls Chinese Mattresses

Mattel Plans Another Recall - "excessive lead paint in toys"

255,000 Chinese-Made Tires Recalled

China detains reporter in food scare story

China Faces Rising Costs From Pollution

Vietnam Recalls Tainted Soy Sauce

Eat at Your Own Risk - "The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide."

Imported Foods Get Little Scrutiny - Flaws in Safety Chain

FDA eyes imported human fare after pet food scare - "Wheat gluten, corn gluten, cornmeal, rice bran and rice protein are among the imported products being tested in both the animal and human food supply...."

Congress Shines Spotlight on Food Safety

U.S. Food Safety Strained by Imports

Homeland Security On The Farm

Michigan - Meeting to address food supply threats

USA - US heavyweights to discuss agroterrorism threat

Canada - Dealing with Bio Threats "If it’s not a significant part of your pling, it should be. You need to understand it, recognize it, do exercises and drills for it...."

USA - Keeping your food safe - "In response to mad cow disease and the possibility of bio-terrorism, the federal government is making plans to track animals like cows, pigs and chickens ..."

Livestock Vets Important For Homeland Security, Advocates Say

Agro-Terror Alert

The Utilization of Human Excreta in Chinese Agriculture

 

"Protect God's Creation"

 

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE - Enterovirus - EV71

China EV71 Infections Rise to 20,000 Children, 30 Dead

China - 15,000+ Cases of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Children

Spreading virus kills 28 children in China

China Child-Killing Virus May Be Yet To Peak

WHO rejects cover-up for virus

China issues virus alert; 24 children dead

China puts nation on alert to try to stop deadly virus

China tries to calm fears over virus outbreak - "The Chinese government has dispatched medical experts to eastern Anhui province in a bid to curb a rapidly spreading outbreak of an intestinal virus that has killed at least 20 children.  But officials sought to calm fears amid reports that almost 1,900 children have been taken ill with enterovirus 71, or EV71, which can cause hand, foot and mouth disease."

Sabotage is Suspected Over Foot-and-Mouth

Research lab in spotlight over foot and mouth

Outbreak of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

CDC:  What is hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)?

 

 

 

What's for dinner?  How long has it been since you asked, "What's in your food?"

Import Alert For Chinese Seafood Ignored

Drug-Tainted Asian Fish Slip Into U.S. - "...of 94 samples of Chinese catfish checked by Alabama since March, the state reports that 41 tested positive for fluoroquinolones, antibiotics bed in the U.S. for seafood. Of 13 more samples of species similar to catfish, including one called basa, five tested positive for the antibiotic. The exporting countries included Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia."

Imported Food Rarely Inspected

China's Food Safety Woes Expand Overseas

 "...pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella..."

Vanishing Bees Threaten Food Supply

Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees?

Arsenic in Chicken Feed May Pose Health Risks to Humans

The Corn in Question - MON863

Genetically Modified Foods

Genetically Modified Foods:  Harmful or Helpful?

Labeling of GM foods and food products should be mandatory.

U.S. Food Imports Outrun FDA Resources

Agriculture Safety, Global Infectious Disease

 

 

ARTICLES/LINKS

A Toxic Pipeline: Counterfeit Drugs Path Eased by Free Trade Zones

Los Angeles to Drain Two Reservoirs Due to Cancer Risk

Mercury Banned  in Cosmetics - What States Will Join?

Pollution Cutting Europeans' Life Expectancy

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak in UK

Official: EU will ban British livestock exports

FDA Says Food Recall Is Urgent Health Threat

Extended Recall List

www.Castleberrys.com

Bush Creates Import Safety Panel

Bill Ties Climate Change to National Security

"...proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to a national defense issue."

Report: Warming Threatens Millions By 2020

Scientists warn of warming world

Bleakest Climate Report Approved

Scientists, governments clash over warming report

Map - Climate Change Around the World

 

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service

 

Disappearing Bees Colony Collapse Disorder


Agricultural Biowarfare & Bioterrorism

US Department of Agriculture and Homeland Security

John Hopkins Center for Biodefense Strategies

Animal Terrorism

DFDACS Division of Animal Industry

Agro-terrorism Resources

A target for terrorism?

 

Countering BioTerrorism and Other Threats to The Food Supply

2004/2005 Fact Sheet FDA's New Food Bioterrorism Regulation

 

 

 

 

BIRD FLU

 

Bird Flu Breaking News

H5N1 World Map of Bird Flu Outbreaks

CDC Report on Bird Flu - CDC report provides background information about avian influenza, including recent outbreaks, the viruses, and the risk to human health.

Influenza Intrigue - A Laboratory Mistake or Bioterrorism?

World Health Organization (WHO): Avian influenza FAQ

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): H5N1 outbreak information

CDC's Basic Information About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

Canadian Public Health

European Union

 

WHO: Human Bird Flu Cases Hit 160

Map - Tracking the Spread of Bird Flu - until the alerts were recently removed, this map was originally covered with bird flu alerts throughout Asia and Europe

National Avian Influenza Surveillance Information

CDC Current Situation

CDC Avian Flu Index

DOD - Avian Flu

Business Pandemic Influenza Checklist

PandemicFlu.gov

FAQ

 

Article links and other information on the global spread of bird flu

Deadly bird flu jumps to Pakistan

China Says Father Of Bird Flu Victim Also Infected

British Bird Flu Worker Is Hospitalized

UK BBC, Suffolk County - Tests show UK bird flu is H5N1 virus

Glaxo claims bird flu breakthrough

Bird Flu Human-to-Human Transmission Proven in Indonesia, UN Agency Says

Canada Is Investigating Bird Flu-Infected Gosling for Lethal H5N1 Virus

Canada finds bird flu case, plans further testing

Canada finds bird flu, unclear what virus strain

WHO completes bird flu study on biggest cluster death in Indonesia

WHO puts Tamiflu maker on bird flu alert - Indonesia — Possible human-to-human spread of the virus -"The World Health Organization has for the first time asked the maker of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu to ready the global stockpile after human-to-human transmission was suspected in a family cluster in Indonesia, a WHO official said Saturday."

Bird Flu Virus May Infect People Through Digestive Tract, Virologist Says

U.S. preps for flu disaster

Britain to cull 35,000 chickens after bird flu found on farm

Bird Flu in UK

Israel To Slaughter Half Million Birds

Israel Hospitalizes Three Suspected of Having Bird Flu

Bird Flu Almost Ready to Go Pandemic -

"Scientists discover bird flu virus one gene away from human to human transmission.  (PRWEB) March 8, 2006 -- Scientists have now verified through gene sequencing that the H5N1 virus has been rapidly mutating and evolving towards a strain that will be deadly for humans. Six months ago scientists estimated that the H5N1 virus needed to make about five changes to it’s gene structure for it to be deadly for humans. Now it requires only one last change."

Bird Flu Likely in U.S. Stocks Soon

Bird Flu Flying Toward U.S.

Bird Flu Suspected in Bahamas

France Fights Panic Following Flu Outbreak

Bird flu confirmed in Hungary; Malaysia begins killing birds

Bird Flu in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bird Flu in Russia

Recombinomics Inc. Predicts A New Genetic Change in the H5N1 (Avian Flu) Virus

First case of bird flu in India

H5N1 Found in Indian Chickens

French bird flu results awaited

Egypt finds deadly bird flu virus

Bird Flu in The Netherlands

Bird flu hits Germany

Bird Flu Found in Germany, Fifth EU Country; Indonesia's Human Cases Climb

Iraqi health minister declares bird flu alert

Bird Flu Alert Declared in Southern Iraq

Spread of bird flu boosts pandemic chances

Bird Flu Hits Italy

Italy, Greece Report EU's First Cases of Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu, in Swans

Italy tests likely bird flu cases

Nigeria starts testing people for bird flu: WHO

Avian Flu Found in Greek Swans, May Be First European Case of Deadly Virus

Deadly bird flu detected in Nigerian outbreak

Deadly bird flu found in Africa

Iraq Fears Over 160 Bird Flu Cases

12 Cases of Bird Flu Suspected in Iraq

Iraq Goes on Bird-Flu Alert

Avian Influenza Update Iraq - WHO - "The Ministry of Health has further informed WHO of a third human case of respiratory illness that is under investigation for possible H5N1 infection."

Iraq health minister says dead teenager had bird flu

Bird Flu Fears in France

Turkey says its neighbors covering up bird flu - Iran and Syria

Israeli Man Tested for Bird Flu; Death Toll From Disease Rises in Turkey

Girl Is 4th Bird Flu Death in Turkey

Bird Flu Kills Third Child in Turkey; UN, EU Send Experts to Halt Spread

Turkish siblings become first bird flu deaths outside Asia - "Turkish teenager whose brother died of bird flu also succumbed to the disease...."

China Vaccinates 6.85 Billion Birds for Avian Influenza Amid 30 Outbreaks

Romania confirms new bird flu cases

Ukraine Confirms Deadly Strain of Bird Flu

FDA cracks down on avian flu 'cures'

Indonesia confirms ninth death from bird flu

Thailand - 70th human dies of bird flu

U.S. Places Interim Ban on B.C. Poultry Imports

China reports first three human cases of bird flu

Bird Flu Detected In Middle East - Kuwait

China culls birds in flu affected area

Bird Flu Kills Young Woman in Indonesia

China, Vietnam and Japan suffer new bird flu outbreaks

Bush wants $7.1 billion to fight flu pandemic

Iowa - Bird flu pandamic has state pling worst-case scenarios - "A disastrous outbreak of bird flu could lead Iowa health officials to order quarantines, ban mass gatherings, close schools and restrict travel...."

Asia-Pacific region to stage mock outbreak

Canada discovers H5 avian flu virus in wild birds

Thailand confirms 20th human case of bird flu infection

Lethal bird flu strain in Croatia

Indonesia Says Fourth Human Died From Bird Flu; Taiwan May Produce Tamiflu

Avian flu found in parrot in UK

1 more death - all the human bird flu deaths have so far been in Asia - "Bird flu has taken another human life, officials said on Thursday -- a 48-year-old Thai man who was the 67th person known to have been killed by a virus steadily creeping into Europe and toward Africa."

Russia Reports New Bird Flu Cases

China - 2,600 Birds Dead from Bird Flu

Bird Flu Joins List of Border Worries - "...fears that the deadly virus could make a southwestern entry into the country via the porous Arizona-Mexico border or Southern California ports with heavy traffic from Asia."

Greek bird flu case confirmed

Washing Hands is One of The Best Ways to Avoid Bird Flu

Romania bird flu is lethal strain

Human Risk For Bird Flu Very Low

Status of Bird Flu in Europe

Deadly bird flu strain confirmed in Turkey

Drugs No Answer to Bird Flu

Feds Prepare for Super Flu Disaster

Romania Detects First Bird Flu Case

Confining Bird Flu Abroad Key to U.S. Plan

Bird flu similar to 1918 killer virus

Overseas containment key to bird-flu pandemic plans

US hosts meeting to discuss bird flu response

Bird flu cases confirmed

Bird Flu Virus Presents Nightmare Scenario
Bird Flu Fears Grip Indonesia

Human to Human Cases of H5N1 Increasing in Jakarta

Casual Human Transmission of Bird Flu in Jakarta!

World Has Slim Chance of Stopping Bird Flu Pandemic

U.N. Health Chief Delivers Grim Message About Bird Flu

China - Perfect Incubator for Bird Flu Pandemic

Avian Flu Might Trigger 1930's Style Collapse

H5N1 Pandemic Looms Larger

Balkans May Be Bird Flu Gateway to Wider Europe

Bird Flu Pandemic Would Change the World

Evolving Catastrophic Bird Flu Pandemic of 2005 

Indonesia Facing Bird Flu Epidemic

Flu pandemic could kill half million in U.S.-report - "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half a million Americans could die and more than 2 million could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hits, a report predicted on Friday."

WHO warns bird flu virus unstable and unpredictable, urges vigilance

Quick action may head off global Bird-flu epidemic

2005 Flu Pandemic Start Signal

Bird Flu Virus Growing, Mutating

Hong Kong - More than 10,000 infected in flu outbreak in southern Chinese city

Preparing for the Next Pandemic

Avian flu pandemic could be massive disaster – and few are noticing

Sit up and take notice about avian flu BMJ Volume 330, pp 1087

"Newswise — Governments around the world must stop burying their heads in the sand over the growing threat of a global epidemic of avian flu, argues a GP in this week's BMJ.  Disasters like the Asian Tsunami "pale into insignificance" compared to the human cost of an influenza pandemic, says Dr Higson, which will wipe out "hundreds of millions" of lives if it is not prevented.  A recent report in the BMJ showed that avian flu (called H5N1) is beginning to jump from human to human - as opposed to transmission from bird to human only, as happened initially. This vastly increases the potential for spreading the virus across the population, as infection no longer depends on direct contact with diseased birds...."

70 Percent of Duck, Geese Test Positive for Bird Flu in Vietnam's Mekong Delta

Bird flu epidemic could kill as many as 750,000 in Britain

U.S. To Test Bird Flu Vaccine

Humanity in 'gravest possible danger' of bird flu pandemic - "The world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pandemic. If the virus becomes highly contagious among humans, the health impact in terms of deaths and sickness will be enormous"

Health agencies plan for possible avian flu outbreak "We're in a surveillance and preparedness mode"

CDC fears bird flu plague

Person-to-person transmission of the virus is likely, raising the specter of an epidemic.

Governments Must Plan for Bird Flu Pandemic, WHO Says

CDC - Bird flu could cause pandemic

Vietnam Seeks Global Help On Bird Flu

Ho Chi Minh City Kills Ducks in Bird Flu Fight

Bird Flu Remains A Constant Threat

WHO issues dire warning for bird flu threat

WHO Increases Monitoring of B.C. Bird Flu Outbreak

British Columbia to Kill 80 Percent of Bird Population to Curb Bird Flu

Canada to Kill More Foul to Halt Avian Flu

China says bird flu has been defeated

328,000 Maryland Chickens Destroyed

UN Conference - Bird Flu Presents Unprecedented Threat

Mexico Closes Borders to All U.S. Poultry

EU Bans U.S. Poultry Imports Due to Bird Flu

Bird Flu in Texas Prompts Human Health Monitoring

USDA Serious Form of Bird Flu Found in Texas

Bird Flu in Texas Poultry Farm

Asia Bird Flu Strikes House Cats

Bird Flu Found in Cats in Asia; Canada on Alert

Bird Flu Spreads in China - Experts Ring Alarm Bell

Third U.S. State Confirms Virus in Poultry

Avian Flu May Have Spread to Pennsylvania

Bird Flu Found at NJ Live Poultry Markets

Bird Flu Rattles U.S. Poultry Officials

Three Asian Nations Ban U.S. Poultry

Japan Temporarily Suspends All U.S. Poultry Imports

Bird Flu Detected in U.S.

Avian Flu Virus Detected in Delaware

Pigs May Carry Bird Flu

Stage May Be Set for Bird Flu Pandemic

Bird Flu Facts

Warning Issued for Human Transmission of Bird Flu

First Human Transmission of Bird Flu

Mapping the Bird Flu Outbreak

Experts Meet on Bird Flu Crisis - Bird Flu Hits China

10 Countries Reporting Bird Flu Cases

Fears Grow Over Bird Flu

Avian virus resistant to flu drugs, WHO says

Bird Flu Could Kill Millions http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109586,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

SARS

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Atypical Pneumonia)
 

 

 

methicillan-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

The Silent Epidemic

Why Arent The Feds Fighting MRSA Harder?

Staph Infection Cases now include Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, and New Rochelle, N.Y.

Parents Fear School Outbreak

School districts in at least six states reported students infected with MRSA

4 yr old Salisbury, NH girl dies of staph

Staph Infection May Have Killed 11-Yr Old Girl

Staph Outbreak Plagues Pensacola Jail

Students at Oklahoma Wesleyan Univ Battling Staph Infections

34 Oubreaks In Allegheny County Pittsburg

Iona College Issues Warning

Virginia Schools Closed for Cleaning

VA Teen Dies From Staph Infection

Area Staph Infection Grows

Weston, Connecticut High School

Staph Infections Send Three Elementary Students Home - "More than 20 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students and faculty members were diagnosed with MSRA last fall."

MRSA Cases Growing

Nebraska - Seven Students Ill

Infection Killed 19,000 in 2005

Horror Bug That Kills

MRSA Outbreaks in Prison Associated with Low Personal Hygiene

 

Oct 2007 - England - Baby unit shut over six cases of MRSA

 

2005 - Doctors Fear Superbug Epidemic

2004 - MRSA Outbreak in Connecticut Football Team

 

Ear Infection Bacteria Strain Is Resistant to All Child Antibiotics

Study Shows Baltimore Has Highest Rate Of MSRA

The Nose - A Natural Home

Protecting Yourself and Family From MRSA

Staph Fatalities May Exceed AIDS Deaths

MRSA infection - MayoClinic.com

How to avoid MRSA infection

Guidelines for the Control of MRSA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAD COW DISEASE  

 

Mad Cow Disease Resource Information

Resource Center From The Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy

Mad Cow in Canada - The Science and The Story

 

 

 

Article Links

Two die in Spain from human variant of mad cow disease

Kansas Man Dies Of Rare Brain Disease - "Frank Rebarchek of Scott City said the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center had confirmed that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused the death of Milton Eugene Rebarchek. He was from Monument, about 20 miles south of Colby."

Ninth Case of Mad Cow Found in Canada

USDA Investigating Possible Mad Cow Case

Canada Confirms Mad Cow Positive

Japan may halt US beef imports on new mad cow fear

FDA Unveils Proposal to Fight Mad Cow

Moose Tests Positive for CWD - "first known case of species contracting disease in the wild"

Idaho Woman Dies of Suspected Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease - St. Maries, Idaho State health officials suspect a St. Maries woman may be the seventh Idaho person to die this year of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.

Relief after potential 'mad cow' case arises

USDA probes possible 3rd case of mad cow disease

USDA confirms second case of mad cow

USDA finds possible 2nd case of mad cow disease

Washington - No New Health Risk Of Mad Cow?

U.S. checking mad cow report

Canada - Probe - USDA Allowed Import of Dubious Meat

Idaho, Rupert Sheep Found With Wasting Disease

Japan Confirms First Case of Mad Cow Disease

Mad Cow Disease Found in Goat

"A French goat has tested positive for mad cow disease - the first animal in the world other than a cow to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)."

USDA orders silence on mad cow in Texas

Mad cow disease safeguards may be inadequate, study suggests

Canada ounces New Mad Cow Case

Canadian Beef Producers Sue U.S. for 150 Million

     CALGARY - A group of cattle producers is suing the U.S. government for millions of dollars, in a bid to reopen the

     border to Canadian beef.

Up to 100 More Cases of Mad Cow Expected In Washington

June 25 - U.S. Animal Tests Positive For Mad Cow Disease

Florida Woman Dies of Human Form of Mad Cow Disease

Knappster - USDA dithering prompts mad cow cover-up fears

Japanese, U.S. Scientists Develop Mad Cow-Resistant Cow for Medical Use

3,800 people in Britain may be carrying the prion protein responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Possible Mad Cow Deaths in New Jersey

Dead Cows, Veterinary Waste Piled in Holes at Dairies

U.S. Approves Mad Cow Test

No Private Mad Cow Testing Allowed

USDA To Ramp Up Mad Cow Testing

Three Men's Deaths Prompt Wisconsin to Look for Wasting Disease

Staggering List of Products Made From Cattle

Feds End Search for Mad Cow Disease

Organophosphates Implicated in Mad Cow Disease

More U.S. Cattle Likely To Have Mad Cow Disease

Panel Sees Good Chance of More Mad Cow

Bush Orders New Measures to Protect Food Supply From Terrorist Attack

Growing Interest in Bison Meat as Beef Alternative

DoD Still Confident on Safe Beef Supply in Its Ranks

Two More U.S. Herds Quarantined Over Mad Cow

Marketing Claims Confuse Beef Consumers

Five Cows From Canadian Herd Traced to Facility in Washington

Another Herd Quarantined Due to Mad Cow Link

Calves Killed to Prevent Mad Cow Disease

DNA Tests Verify U.S. Mad Cow from Canada

USDA - Third Cattle Herd Quarantined

Mad Cow Beef Recall Expands to Eight States

U.S. Mad Cow Came From Canada

Italy Reports Mad Cow Disease

 

 

 

 

Prophecy pictures September 5, 2003 on Mad Cow Disease

 

MAD COW DISEASE

"if there is one, there is more" 

 

Excerpt from original prophecy alert

December 10, 2003 

     The following prophecy alerts continue to be of great concern.  Increased security and vigilance in the food, water, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industry (especially involving imports) remains at a very high alert/warning.  Since the date of this posting (from 2001 to present) a number of other reports have reiterated the need for heightened concern and increased security in these areas.  Along with many others, The Lampholder is voicing concern about vulnerabilities and weaknesses where those with evil intent may gain access.  It is The Lampholders' desire to help protect and forewarn the public through documented prophetic discernment of current and future trends.  This is the foremost reason Lampholder prophecy alerts are posted on this site. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bio-Terrorism, Bio-warfare and Infectious Disease

Congress Wants Answers On TB Scare

CDC: Father-in-law of TB patient to be investigated

California Tuberculosis Case Sparks Alert

TB Patient Asks for Forgiveness

Global Health Scare

May 29, 2007 - Man With Rare Strain of TB Quarantined - "A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights to Paris and from Prague...."

CDC Media Alert - Public Health investigation seeks people who may have been exposed to extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) infected person

Virtually Untreatable TB Found

 

Denver, Colorado - Officials: Bubonic plague killed zoo monkey

We're Unprepared

America Unprepared For Biological Attack

Q&A: Asian Flu scare

Labs Urged to Destroy Pandemic Flu Strain -"LONDON (AP) - Thousands of scientists were scrambling Tuesday at the urging of global health authorities to destroy vials of a pandemic flu strain sent to labs in 18 countries as part of routine testing.  The rush, urged by the World Health Organization, was sparked by a slim, but real, risk that the samples, could spark a global flu epidemic...."

Unit For Infectious, Deadly Illness Opens - "The nation's largest medical unit for victims of highly lethal infectious diseases such as smallpox, anthrax and the plague opened in Nebraska on Monday."

Summary of Common Biological Agents and Their Treatment

Emerging Infection Diseases

Anthrax

Information About Anthrax and Bioterrorism

Botulism

Q Fever

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B

EBOLA Net Resources

World Health Organization EBOLA information page

Ebola Information Page

Hepatitis-C (HCV)

Small Pox

Fact on the the Disease  (pdf format)

The Smallpox Vaccine - overview  (pdf)

13 Dec 2002: President Bush Delivers Remarks on Smallpox 

Smallpox: What you need to know...Answers on the risks, benefits of the vaccine
Q & A from MSNBC

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE

 

Washington, Dec 3, 2004  Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned Friday.

He warned of the possibility for global flu outbreaks and pandemic health-related terror attacks;

explaining, 'For the life of me, I cot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our

food supply because it is so easy to do,' he said."

 

  

 

   

 

Global Disease Health Map

Real-Time Map of Infectious Outbreaks

Disease Outbreak Alerts From Space

U.S. "Flu Watch" Tracking Map

ProMed [Under Infectious Diseases]

Center For Disease Control Homepage

 

Angola (Marburg) Virus Out Of Control

CDC Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever

World Health Organization

UN says Marburg outbreak in Angola worse than Ebola, launches aid appeal

 

Feds alert to health threat of new mosquito disease more dangerous than West Nile

Rift Valley Fever

Other Global Disease Concerns

 Poison, Italy Threat, Toxicity and Shipping Containers

 

Additional article links

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Forewarning - Milk, Poison, and The River in Symbolism?

"al Zabadi"

Recipe for terror

 

A puzzling scenario emerges within these prophecy pictures

 

Discerning and Interpreting Prophetic Events

Prophecy can be portrayed in pictures, symbolism,  and/or words to

describe a prophetic event(s).  Many prophecy pictures may not appear to make sense

at the time they were discerned, but as time passes, the picture develops into

a clearer prophecy picture puzzle.

Here is an example from a January 2001 prophecy puzzle.

For instance, what could be associated with the prophetic picture of

milk in containers?

(1) dairy = production = milk = cow

 

From January 2001 through September 5, 2003-December 10, 2003 

     Updates and several articles have been referenced on this page followed by two of the prophecy alerts from September 2003/December 2003 and the "Toxicity" prophetic vision from January 2001 (see links below).

 

A reoccurring prophecy picture was discerned with the word "milk" and a "river of flowing milk!"

 

Prophecy Alerts

POISON!

 Danger Alert !!

From January 2001 through September 2003-December 10, 2003

the following future prophetic pictures were discerned

  "milk, poison, and a river"

 

Update - In a May 4, 2004, House of Commons, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Foreign Affairs Committee,

Foreign Policy Aspects of the War Against Terrorism, the following information was revealed,

"Ayman Zawahiri made a floppy disk detailing his plans for biological and chemical program.

He called it "al Zabadi" which means curdled milk...Ahmed Ressam was an Algerian captured in the

USA and he gave evidence in court about how they were experimenting to pump cyanide into an office

building through the ventilation system." (1)

 

 Could a pattern be emerging with the above prophecy pictures? 

The prophecy pictures (above) may be a part of the Toxicity puzzle pictures that began in January 2001. 

Strangely, it would appear several pictures are emerging that are possibly interrelated.

From the February 21, 2003, Lampholder Newsletter

Milk-Threat Study Issued Over Objections

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References

House of Commons, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Foreign Affairs Committee,

Foreign Policy Aspects of the War Against Terrorism,

4 May 2004

 

 

 

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Further update information on this article page and other Lampholder Publications'

Articles on Global Infectious Diseases

are available at The Lampholder Publications Article Archive

or Lampholder Publications' Index

 

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