WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

BY AL J. VENTER

There have been disturbing health reports concerning infectious diseases emerging from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) for many years. In a British report headlined “Outbreak could kill 80 million in just 36 hours - WHO alert,” the Geneva-based, United Nations body declared that an unknown and surprise disease outbreak could spread across the world in as little as 36 hours, killing upwards of 80 million people “and we are not prepared,” new research has shockingly claimed.

Designated the name “Disease X” by WHO, it was stated that the disease is envisaged to have the potential to creep up on humanity and wipe out large swathes of the population in a similar fashion to the Spanish Flu almost exactly a century ago. That pandemic killed 5 percent of the global population, and Russian Flu, which followed, wiped out a million Europeans.

A NEW PANDEMIC IS VERY POSSIBLE

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) has now warned that the possibility of a major disease taking hold has become a potential reality and indeed, researchers involved in the study have given past examples of how the disease could creep up on humanity, such as the Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2016.

What is notable here is that Washington is perfectly aware of this threat. At a casual meeting with some of my Special Forces friends who remain linked to the Pentagon in July 2019, I was told that indeed, American defense planners were aware of the dangers and had already set up a special division to cope with just such an emergency.

They would not elaborate in detail, except to say that the matter was in hand, in itself a disturbing revelation.

If that were not enough, you only have to look at what went on in this medical field in the recent past and we will start with the United States, where measles has made an unexpected appearance in many states after being virtually eliminated as a threat.

As the CDC says, “Measles infections are everywhere.” Still worse, outbreaks have been global with measles causing an estimated 110,000 deaths worldwide in 2017. Possible complications with this disease, which customarily affects children, include encephalitis (swelling of the brain), pneumonia, severe diarrhea and dehydration and/or permanent disability.

In developing countries, approximately one of every 100 children with measles dies of the disease or its complications. This is but a fraction of what we’re seeing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

What is not generally known by communities not generally affected by measles and revealed by ongoing medical studies is that it has a devastating impact on the body’s immune system that could make it harder to fight infections for years. The virus can cause immune amnesia, meaning the body forgets how to fight bugs it once knew how to beat. Hopefully, this will not be a legacy of the COVID-19 virus as well.

It also resets the immune system to a baby-like state, compromising its ability to devise ways of tackling new infections. Experts maintain that the findings demonstrate the importance of vaccination.