YOUR WORLD NEWS AUGUST 2013 DAY 27 Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia West China
It's been 30 years since a serious case of the bubonic plague has appeared in the mountain region of Kyrgyzstan . Recently, a young boy of age 15 died after contacting the plague. It was said the boy may have been bitten by a flea which infected him. However another story said the boy contacted the plague by eating a barbequed groundhog infected with fleas carrying the plague. Since this death more than a week ago, many as 2000 people in the Issik-Kul region have been, or undergoing testing for infection. Officials have tighten border controls and at least 100 persons have been quarantined. Teams have been sent to the regions to rid it of rodents and hosts which could carry the fleas. Last cases of the bubonic plague was in Peru in 2010 when 12 cases were reported according to the World Health Organization. The Bubonic Plague is also known by the name of The Black Death.
Yes, in a Texas town or school...its been years since hearing a measles outbreak. They are creeping back and we have reason to be concerned with never ceasing prayers.
Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 11:18PM
MIISRAEL Bride
Yes, but I didn't hear the details. I wonder if the Christian Evangelicals are using faith - healing beliefs rather getting their children vaccinated???
..."The outbreak started when a person who contracted measles overseas visited Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, about 20 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas. Health department officials said those sickened ranged in age from 4-months to 44-years-old. All of the school-age children with measles were homeschooled.
‘‘If it finds a pocket of people who are unimmunized, and the majority of our cases are unimmunized so far, then if you are around a person with measles, you will get sick,’’ Russell Jones, chief epidemiologist for Tarrant County Public Health, said Monday.
In Tarrant County, where the church is located, 11 of the 16 people with measles were not vaccinated while the others may have had at least one measles vaccination. None of the five people infected in nearby Denton County have been vaccinated.
In a sermon posted online, senior pastor Terri Pearsons encouraged those who haven’t been vaccinated to do so, adding that the Old Testament is ‘‘full of precautionary measures.’’
‘‘I would encourage you to do that. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing that. Go do it. Go do it. Go do it. And go in faith,’’ said Pearsons, whose father is televangelist Kenneth Copeland. But she added, if ‘‘you've got this covered in your household by faith and it crosses your heart of faith then don’t go do it.
‘‘The main thing is stay in faith no matter what you do.’’...
