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Darfur Genocide « World Without Genocide - Working to create a World Without ... - 1 views

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  • the government ignored reports of rising violence in Darfur.
  • underdeveloped and marginalized at the federal level, lacking infrastructure and development assistance. This neglect, combined with allegations that the government was arming Arab tribesmen (Janjaweed) to raid non-Arab villages, was cited as the justification for a February 2003 rebel attack on a Sudanese Air Force Base at El Fasher, North Darfur. This attack sparked a series of government reprisals on residents of Darfur,
  • NAMID, with a projected strength of 26,000 troops, was authorized to use force to protect civilians. Despite this mandate, however, only 9,000 were sent, and they lacked the necessary equipment to carry out their mission.
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  • The government has also forcefully expelled aid agencies from the country that has further jeopardized the conditions for thousands of displaced and marginalized civilians.
  • Both countries have refused to arrest him and the African Union also condemned the arrest warrant and asked the United Nations Security Council to delay its enforcement.
  • Meanwhile, the Janjaweed have ventured deep into Chad to conduct assaults, resulting in the fleeing of nearly 100,000 Chadians.
  • Sudanese Air Force bombings
  • Both China and Russia have worked to block many United Nations resolutions in attempts to appease the Sudanese government.
  • Sudanese oil
  • Russia strongly supports Sudan’s territorial integrity and opposes the creation of an independent Darfuri state.
  • 6,000,000 people.
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10 Worst Epidemics : Discovery Channel - 7 views

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  • 30 percent mortality rate
    • mielkel
      mielkel on 30 Apr 14
       
      Out of 10 people, 3 will die.
  • This engraving depicts Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez's Aug. 13, 1521 capture of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The weapon that ensured his victory wasn't modern firepower, but smallpox the conquistadors inadvertently introduced to the continent.
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      The Aztecs could have won?
  • 50 and 100 million fatalities
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      That is more people than in the state of South Dakota.
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  • 20 million people in a matter of months [source: Yount]. In a year's time, the flu would run its course, but only after inflicting a staggering death toll. Global estimates range between
  • The flu of 1918 carried symptoms typical of normal influenza, including fever, nausea, aches and diarrhea. Also, patients would frequently develop black spots on their cheeks. As their lungs filled with liquid, they ran the risk of dying from lack of oxygen. Those who died effectively drowned in their own mucus.
    • js4347
      js4347 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Why is today's flu not as bad as the flu in 1918? It's also horrible that they drown in their own mucus.
  • misery
  • his engraving from 1656 depicts a plague doctor in protective clothing and mask.
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      What is it with the long nose?
  • now-banned insecticide Dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane (DDT),
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Why is it banned now?
  • , 10 percent of all U.S. deaths were attributed to tuberculosis
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      10 percent out of how many deaths?
  • ases greatly decreased.
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      By how much?
  • HIV made the jump from certain species of monkey and ape
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Monkeys?
  • Yellow fever, like malaria, spreads from person to person through feeding mosquitoes.
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Why do a lot of diseases pass through mosquitoes?
  • Outbreaks still occur in parts of South America, Africa and Asia
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Probably because some countries can't afford to get the shots.
  • A 1956 operative in the Glaxo Laboratories mixes three distinct strains of killed poliovirus to prepare the final vaccine.
    • rf3152
      rf3152 on 30 Apr 14
       
      THat is how they mix vaccines, in big metal containers? Cool!
  • 30 percent mortality rate
    • lh3424
      lh3424 on 30 Apr 14
       
      This is actually a lot of people. Because out of the ten of us, three of us would die. That to me is a lot of people
  • Nurses care for victims of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic outdoors amidst canvas tents in Massachusetts.
    • lh3424
      lh3424 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Could they have saved anyone if they were indoors and in quarantine? 
  • Caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, the illness can still present a problem in impoverished, rat-infested areas. Modern medicine allows for easy treatment of the disease in its early stages, making it a far less lethal threat. Symptoms include swollen lymph glands, fever, cough, bloody sputum and difficulty breathing.
    • lh3424
      lh3424 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Is this not correct? I thought they said that the Black death was not caused by rats.
  • cientists suspect the disease moved from birds to humans
    • mm4029
      mm4029 on 30 Apr 14
       
      How did they interact with birds?
  • e Spanish flu
    • sd3336
      sd3336 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Why Spanish
  • Considered the first true pandemic disease, the Black Death killed half of Europe's population in 1348
    • js4347
      js4347 on 30 Apr 14
       
      I didn't know it killed half of Europes population. That is a lot of people.
  • This engraving from 1656 depicts a plague doctor in protective clothing and mask.
    • jh4017
      jh4017 on 30 Apr 14
       
      What's on the doctor nose?
  • Malaria isn't new to the world of epidemic diseases. Records of its impact on human populations date back more than 4,000 years, when Greek writers noted its ravaging effects. Accounts of the mosquito-born illness pop up in ancient Indian and Chinese medical texts. Even then, scientists made the vital connections between the illness and the still waters where mosquitoes breed.
    • jh4017
      jh4017 on 30 Apr 14
       
      So part of the world are all coming to together to slove this 
  • Wartime soldiers of the past often experienced great losses to malaria. In the American Civil War alone, 1,316,000 men reportedly suffered from the illness and 10,000 died. During World War I, malaria immobilized British, French and German forces for three years. Nearly 60,000 U.S. soldiers died from the disease in Africa and the South Pacific during World War II [source: Malaria Site].
    • jh4017
      jh4017 on 30 Apr 14
       
      If these illness where not there during the war how could it affected the outcome.
  • Tuberculosis (TB) has ravaged human populations throughout recorded history. Ancient texts detail the manner in which its victims waste away, and DNA evidence of the disease was even discovered in Egyptian mummies.
    • jh4017
      jh4017 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Could this have killed those mummies?
  • In 1906, the United States employed more than 26,000 workers to construct the Panama Canal. Organizers hospitalized more than 21,000 of these men for malaria [source: CDC]
    • js4347
      js4347 on 30 Apr 14
       
      I remember talking about this. The workers all associated and spreaded it around. A lot of people died.
  • DDT on lice populations
    • sd3336
      sd3336 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Isn't DDT used on crops?
  • Wartime soldiers of the past often experienced great losses to malaria. In the American Civil War alone, 1,316,000 men reportedly suffered from the illness and 10,000 died. During World War I, malaria immobilized British, French and German forces for three years. Nearly 60,000 U.S. soldiers died from the disease in Africa and the South Pacific during World War II [source: Malaria Site].
    • js4347
      js4347 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Another reason why war is bad: You can spread diseases around and wind up killing most of the world because of two countries not getting along.
  • Tuberculosis
    • bh3590
      bh3590 on 30 Apr 14
       
      what is this. is it AIDS
  • handful of developing nations
    • sd3336
      sd3336 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Which nations?
  • When French emperor Napoleon sent an army of 33,000 to French landholdings in North America, yellow fever killed 29,000 of those soldiers. Napoleon was so shocked by the number of casualties that he decided the territory wasn't worth the risk of further losses. France sold the land to the United States in 1803; an event which would go down in history as the Louisiana Purchase [source:Yount].
    • jh4017
      jh4017 on 30 Apr 14
       
      these sickness  had effect on wars.
  • Organizers prepare the world's largest functioning mosquito net
  • During this period, traders inadvertently exported the deadly virus back to cities in China, Japan, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
    • bh3590
      bh3590 on 30 Apr 14
       
      Did we not trade with these countries      because why did north america get the disease.
  • world's poorest developing nations.
    • bh3590
      bh3590 on 30 Apr 14
       
      why does it usually happen in the poor countries  
  • epidemic typhus.
    • jh4017
      jh4017 on 30 Apr 14
       
      This is lice or what is this?
  • frequency among encamped armies
    • bh3590
      bh3590 on 30 Apr 14
       
      why did most of these diseases start at wars.
  • malaise
    • bh3590
      bh3590 on 30 Apr 14
       
      what is this
  • When Spanish forces laid siege to the Moorish stronghold of Granada in 1489, an outbreak of typhus reduced the Spanish forces from 25,000 to 8,000 in a single month [source: Conlon]. Due to the ravages of typhus, it would be another century before the Spanish could drive the Moors from Spain. As recently as World War I, the disease caused several million deaths in Russia, Poland and Romania.
    • js4347
      js4347 on 01 May 14
       
      That kind of bit the Spaniards in the butt. They tried to force the Moorish out of their lands and typhus kiled a lot of their army. Karma!
  • South America, Africa and Asia.
    • js4347
      js4347 on 01 May 14
       
      Why are the diseases still always around here. It seems that Africa and South America have the most outbreaks.
  • mielkel on 30 Apr 14
     
    ­Few words in the English language encapsulate as much horror, misery and doom as " plague." After all, infectious diseases have inflicted a great deal of damage throughout the centuries. They've decimated whole populations, ended blood lines, claimed higher casualties than wars and played pivotal roles in charting the course of history.
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