Particles of the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus have been found in the air of a barn that had housed an infected camel. The particles contained genetic fragments of the virus on all three days that the air was sampled.
Medical Emergencies
Money and Control: Why the FDA is Cracking Down on Natural Medicine Supplies
While the FDA has long, some wonder if the FDA has ulterior motives and if this is coming into play now for a reason.
Natural First Aid: 5 Items To Put In Your Emergency Medical Kit Today
Things can go awry very quickly when a medical emergency occurs during a disaster. Having resources to turn to, skills to treat wounds, along with items you have around you can be lifesaving.
New Flu Strains Threaten Public as CDC Admits to Flu Medicine Shortage
As the numbers for those infected with the flu continue to rise, the CDC has come out with a new warning indicating that new strains are emerging just as this year’s flu season is about to peak, thus causing even more health issues for the public.
No One is Safe in a Post-Antibiotic World
Modern day antibiotics are failing us and we must open our eyes to the fact we are in the beginnings of a post-antibiotic world. The world has a choice: either the medical world makes drastic changes to stave off overuse of antibiotics or they resort to other alternative methods of eliminating bacteria.
Pellagra: Curse Of The Unprepared
Vitamin deficiencies could become more prevalent during a long term emergency. The unprepared, especially will come face to face with medical ailments stemming from vitamin deficiencies. Learn more about the symptoms and how to avoid it.
Post-Collapse Food Will Probably Make You Sick. Here’s What You Need to Know.
3,000 die each year from foodborne-related diseases. Get the low down on how to prevent these nasty critters from making a home in your gut, as well as, various pharmaceutical and naturopathic measures for dealing with the foodborne illnesses.
Post-Disaster Wellness: Why Drinking Alcohol in High Stress Environments Should Be Avoided
In a post-disaster scenario, your wellness is paramount, and grabbing a drink to deal with stress could have lasting consequences.
Residents Warned of Bubonic Plague Risk
It remains to be seen if having plague infected fleas in such close proximity to a large number of domestic pets and humans will cause an increase in cases during the remainder of the year.
SHTF Survival: Assessing Abdominal Pain in Children
A sudden onset of severe abdominal pain in your child is not something to take lightly. Because the late stages of an apprendicitis can be life threatening, learn which symptoms require medical attention, natural ways of preventing and curing an inflamed appendicitis through Eastern medicinal practices.
Social Distancing as a Means to Avoid Contagion
There can be no rule of thumb for how long you need to stay isolated for, but if any of you think a month will do it you need to think again. Although diseases spread at different rates, have different incubation times and are infectious at different times during their course they all rely on one thing. A supply of suitable hosts.
Kids Were Rarely Allergic To Things In The Old Days
I didn’t really want to watch it, but we were visiting Delores and her lot and she “simply had to see it’ Pah…Delores always has to ‘simply have’ something or other!