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A Modern Menace: Emerging and Reemerging Diseases

A Modern Menace: Emerging and Reemerging Diseases

  • by Becky Sweat
Worried health officials have declared the latest swine flu outbreak to be a worldwide epidemic, though so far it has proven not to be as deadly as first feared. But is this a warning of greater dangers to come? Does Bible prophecy give any indications?

World News and Trends: Incurable TB threatens South Africa

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
According to The Guardian, "Doctors at the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry [in South Africa] were already grappling with the onslaught of AIDS and its partner in death, tuberculosis."

Futuristic Weapons and the Bible

  • by Jerold Aust
One particular prophecy in the Bible comes pretty close to describing the type of non-lethal weapons governments are developing now.

Instant Epidemics: The New Breed of Weapons

  • by Scott Ashley
Chemical and biological weapons have recently made headlines. Although the weapons themselves are not new, the magnitude of the threat certainly is. Does Bible prophecy tell us anything about the likelihood of these weapons being used?
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The World's Most Deadly Disease

  • by Becky Sweat
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), almost two billion people-one third of the world's population-are infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria.

Malaria Poses a New Threat

  • by Becky Sweat
Malaria, a disease that comes to humans through tropical mosquitoes, is posing a new threat. During the past five to 10 years, the disease has reappeared in regions where health authorities once thought it was under control, and it is emerging for the first time in countries that previously had no problem with the disease.

Drug-Resistant Bubonic Plague

  • by Jerold Aust
A case of bubonic plague was recently discovered in Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa.

Are New Plagues Emerging?

  • by Jerold Aust
We can add Pfiesteria to the list of other newly discovered killers that have made headlines in recent years-AIDS, Ebola, Lassa fever and hantavirus, among others.

Deadly Diseases: Again a Threat to Humanity?

  • by Jerold Aust
Through the centuries, man's greatest threat often has not been natural disasters or warfare, but the microscopic creatures with which we share the earth. When epidemics break out, man has often been able to do little other than let the epidemics run their deadly course. Has the threat disappeared, or is it lurking in the background, waiting to strike again?

Could it happen again?

  • by Scott Ashley
The influenza epidemic that traversed the globe from September 1918 through March 1919 left more than 20 million dead--could another epidemic of this magnitude strike again?