Nocere – Earth Disasters

Since June of this year, 350 or more people in Nigeria have died from Cholera.

There has been over 6400 people that have been sick and 352 others that have died.

Cholera becomes a threat when there is no good clean source of drinking water. The flooding after the heavy rainfall has help distribute the disease.

At this time, the occurrence of Cholera has been in the north west and northeastern parts of a Nigeria, the entire country is at risk.

There is 2/3rd’s of the Nigerian population that do not have clean drinking water. Even less then that, less then 40% of the population have any type of indoor plumbing for bath room facilities.

cholera affects the intestines. It will cause diarrhea and vomiting. These two together can cause very serious dehydration.

There are around 120,000 people that die every year from Cholera. It can kill with

in hours if no treatment is started.

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Emergency personnel have been sent to a distant area in the Amazon region to fight an occurrence of rabies that is being spread by vampire bats.

500 people have been bit by the bats and 4 children have died.

The vampire bat typically feeds on blood from animals in the wild or livestock. They don’t normally attack humans. They suck blood from the animals while they sleep.

The rabies vaccine has been given to the people who would accept it. There are some that denied it.

It is possible that the reason for the sudden spurt in the vampire bats attacking humans could be due to the harvesting of trees in the Amazon.

The children in the area of Urakusa which is located in the north-eastern Peruvian Amazon are the ones who perished due to the disease. When the children died, and the community did not understand why, they asked for help.

That is when the health ministry sent out 3 medical groups to take care of and vaccinate the people who had received bites.

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In Cameroon, over 100 people have perished from cholera since this past June.

In June, a warning was announced about a possible cholera outbreak. Then came the news of people dieing in the Far North area located in the northern parts of Cameroon.

At this time, there have been known to be over 600 people who have contacted cholera. Cholera causes severe diarrhea which causes people to dehydrate. If you are dehydrating and cannot get proper medical care, you can die from it within hours.

Cholera is a disease that is found in infected drinking water. People living in the Far North region, do not have the access to potable water for safer drinking and cooking with.

It is possible that all the flooding in the area has led to the spread of the disease.

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We are getting use to hearing of suicide bombings and war taking the lives of people, never agreeing with it, but accepting it.

Hearing that approximately 22 people have passed away due to the fact they never got a shot to prevent them from getting measles, is not acceptable.

The people who have perished are mostly young children under the age of 5.

They had not received a shot to prevent the disease. Their parents never got them to the clinic to get the shot.

There have been over 340 possible cases of measles in just Harare this year.  People are not getting their children vaccinated and they could have.

Measles is a disease that can be prevented with the shot.

The fact children and adults are dieing of measles is very unacceptable.

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Authorities of California are concerned with the shape of the state concerning the drought.

Californian states have been experiencing really low rainfall in the past three years, which ensued in low water reserves.

Now the Government has been impelled to send a notice to all the citizens to cut down their water usage by 20% in order to survive long.
If the regulation is not being obeyed by the people it might bring risk to whole California and Government wouldn’t be left with an alternative other than to impel the citizens to use 20% less by reducing their water supplies.

Officials are taking quick measures to fix the problem but are not able to find answers.
Due to dry and cold climate the reservoirs are dry. This is the worst situation California has been in since seventeen years.

With water scarcity farmers are facing great problems in growing the crop.
Officials are guessing that the water scarcity might cause people their jobs as well, as there are no jobs to be done in neither reservoirs nor fields and many more water required places.

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Due to lack of sufficient rainfalls China is experiencing the worst drought in its history.

Lack of rains has substantially affected the growth of crops, which has become a major point of concern for the country’s population.
With over 14 million crops under threat millions of people are short of supplies.

In China, October is the official month of the rainfalls to make their landfall, but ever since then the country has received very short amount of the annual rainfall it is supposed to receive.

Beijing the capital city, that provides shelter and living for over 17 million people are facing the most problems. Drought has posed real threat to the population in the city.
Along with it Central Shanxi, Hebei and Shangdong are also some of the areas which are experiencing the worst drought effects.

Suitable measures are being taken by the officials to fight this situation.

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The ‘worst case scenario’ that was predicted by health experts has now came to realism. World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed a total of 60,401 people in Zimbabwe are currently infected by cholera. To make matter more drastic, the death toll stands at 3,161.

The collapse of Zimbabwe’s water, sanitation and health systems has been deemed as the cause of such extraordinary health crisis. Many hospitals are closed down and water supply in towns is not sufficient. Broken sewers and uncollected waste could be seen lying around. There are rising concerns by aid workers over rainy season, which could lead to even more infections as water sources become contaminated.

The UN agency has stressed the need for international community to interfere in Zimbabwe’s uncontrollable cholera epidemic.

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Millions of worms are causing major crop damage in the state Liberia.

These worms in huge number referred to as “army worms” have been making their way through to Guinea destroying crops of about 80 villages already.

Officials have stepped up and are summoning every possible resource in order to stop this massive destruction to the crop.
Number of pest control workers has been employed to spray pesticides on the affected farms as a measure of protection.
But the army of worms has out numbered the workers. Liberia has reached for international help to solve this problem.

Alternative ways like spraying on the crops from above, with the help of choppers have been considered and are waiting for permission from officials.
These worms daily are multiplying in millions and are covering a massive ground leaving their faeces, which is polluting the drinking water as well.

The President has declared a state of emergency in the state and promised to put an end to this situation as soon as possible.

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