Today, ten years down the road, the figures that Warren Hamerman had warned about have come in.  The ancient diseases like tuberculosis, cholera, dengue, the pubonic plague, yellow fever, diphtheria, have made a rapid and devatating comeback.  Tuberculosis is up 27.8% over the 1985 period, and becoming multi-drug-resistant.  Diphtheria is up 141% over 1990 (54,516 cases in 1994).  Cholera, is up 454% over 1990 (384,403 cases in 1994).  Dengue, that was eradicated in 1981 is now reported in 16 countries.  Dengue fever is found in Ibero-America and the Caribbean, for the first time in 50 years (100,000 cases in Brazil alone).  The bubonoc plague is back with 2000 cases reported in 1993 and 1994.

And how does mankind react in the face of this onslaught, or more precisely, is guided to react?  It responds to the explosive comeback of the ancient killer diseases by shutting down its most efficient front line general health care structures that were established over the years, by which the original war against the ancient killer diseases had once been won.  For instance, assistance funding for these front line defenses, that are offered to the poorest nations through the U.S. Foreign Operations appropriations bill, has has been cut in 1995 from 235 million to 9 million.  These funds had once provided for inoculation, water treatment and mosquito control to hold back malaria (which is also becoming drug-resistant, like tuberculosis), and to deal with the newly emerging diseases.

Evermore exotic new viruses are emerging at the breath-taking rate of one new species a year, a rate of introduction never heard of before in the entire history of mankind.  The most worrisome factor about the rapid emergence of new viruses is the unpredictability.  If a deadly new type should emerge, like the Ebola virus, that moves like influenza, whole populations could be wiped out, if not mankind itself.

While the danger of such a biological holocaust increases (probably exponentially) as the poor nations are driven ever deeper into poverty by the power of the IMF, the laboratory and research facilities in the 'rich' nations are being closed down in order to save money, with trained researchers being idled and put on the scrap heap.  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) level 4 labs are dubbed "an endangered species."*(EIR, Nov.24/95)  In addition, there is the magic hand of the "market forces" pressing against the health of a mankind.  According to a report by EIR News Service, a non-partisan private commission sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia (one of the leading financiers of environmentalism and population control) recently recommended the elimination of 150,000 doctors and 300,000 nurses over the next ten years, with the projection that "market forces" will soon close over 60% of all hospitals operating today.*(EIR, Dec.1 1995 p.70)

The sad fact is, together with its support structures, mankind itself, is on the endangered list.  It makes no sense why anyone would sponsor processes that poison the biosphere with virus' of killers diseases by creating the most ideal conditions possible for the rapid growth for such diseases, so as to invite life threatening catastrophes around the globe.  But it is done, and it is done under disguise, in the name of the dollar.  It may well be, that in some future age (if there are any future age for mankind) the 'mighty' buck - the symbol (and vehicle) of modern feudalism - will be displayed in some museum as the most potent killer that mankind has ever developed for its self-destruction in its entire history.

However, in coming to terms with this situation, one must also realize that intelligence, the reflection of infinite Mind, is not manifest in stupidity, so that stupidity is therefore an artificial policy set in motion for sinister ends which can be explored, found out, and dealt with.  The proper reflection of intelligence is in structures that support the health of humanity, that eliminate want, in traditional common sense public health support measures, and in the application of science to explore the nature of health and the means to improve it.

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