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krystalxu

The Threat of Polio in the Badlands of Boko Haram - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Crisis US Badlands Boko

shared by krystalxu on 23 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • one orchestrated to both distribute and increase awareness of the polio vaccine.
  • Poliovirus is so cunning, so contagious, so devastating, that a single case of poliomyelitis, the paralysis-inducing disease it causes, sends up the flares as a public-health emergency, which quickly ignites international concern.
  • it can be spread by coughing or kissing or sharing food or shaking hands. Peak season comes with the annual rains that send it coursing through the city.
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  • All of the most recent victims were children who had been huddling with their families in crowded, unsanitary camps where they had fled to escape the violent jihadists.
  • By the mid-20th century, epidemics of polio terrorized industrialized nations. Stricken children lost the use of their limbs and sometimes their lungs.
  • Together with the CDC, they make up the full choir of the GPEI push.
marleymorton

More national parks appear to defy Trump on Twitter - BBC News - 0 views

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politics US

shared by marleymorton on 26 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • marleymorton on 26 Jan 17
     
    More US National Parks appear to have joined a protest against President Trump's policy on climate change. On Tuesday, tweets by the Badlands National Park account about global warming were deleted, but now others have shared their concerns. President Trump has called climate change a hoax.
cartergramiak

Opinion | Why Has There Been a Spike of Anti-Asian Hate? - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by cartergramiak on 05 Mar 21 - No Cached
  • Pandemics fade. Racism does not. And when a president like Donald Trump unfairly blames an entire ethnic group for the coronavirus pandemic crisis, it can embolden discrimination and violence.
  • On a recent January morning, Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old from Thailand, was walking in the Anza Vista neighborhood of San Francisco. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the police say, a 19-year-old man slammed into Mr. Vicha, knocking him down. He died two days later in the hospital.
  • “The rhetoric spurred by the previous administration when the pandemic started — using ‘China virus,’ ‘kung flu’ and all that kind of stuff — has made Asian-Americans a target to basically people who are racist,” Daniel Wu, star of the television series “Into the Badlands,” told me in a recent interview. Mr. Wu was born in Berkeley, Calif., worked as an actor in Hong Kong for many years and is now active in the campaign to prevent attacks against Asian-Americans.
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  • By 2044, America’s white population may no longer represent a majority of the country, according to the Census Bureau’s calculations. And what we’ve been witnessing in the United States — on the streets of the nation’s Chinatowns, in the Capitol on Jan. 6 and in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 — is the resentment and incomprehension of a small yet aggressive segment of the population that refuses to accept that the country is changing, that it is increasingly made up of people from many different backgrounds.
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