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Category 4 Hurricane Florence drawing closer to Carolinas and threatens ‘catastrophic’ flooding
Large and violent Florence is continuing on a beeline toward the East Coast as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 hurricane. Catastrophic flooding and destructive winds are becoming very likely in the eastern Carolinas. Forecasts generally project the storm to make landfall between northern South Carolina and North Carolina’s Outer Banks as a strong Category 3 …
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California wildfires damage in 2018 worth over $2.6 Billion
More than 6,000 wildfires have hit the US state this year and experts say situation to worsen in the future. Wind-driven flames roll over a hill towards homes during the Mendencino Complex Fire near Lakeport, California, U.S. August 2, 2018. [Fred Greaves/REUTERS] More than 6,000 wildfires have hit the US state of California this year, burning…
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Earthquake paralyzes Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido
An earthquake has paralyzed Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, killing eight residents. Power is cut to 3 million households. Trains and mobile phone networks are idle. The jolt follows a typhoon over western Japan. Japan mobilized 20,000 rescue workers on Hokkaido on Thursday after being wracked by a magnitude-6.7 earthquake just south of Sapporo, Hokkaido island’s main…
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‘Incurable’ & drug-resistant: Deadly superbug colonizing hospitals across globe
The superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. © William WEST / AFP Doctors are warning of a potentially fatal and “formidable” pathogen which has spread to hospitals across the globe and is resistant to all known antibiotics. A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia discovered three…
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Syphilis: Rates of the sexually transmitted disease on the rise
Syphilis is a thing of the past? Wrong. The number of syphilis infections worldwide has increased drastically in recent years. 4,309 cases were reported in Germany in 2007, 10 years later, it had reached 7,476. But why? Berlin today, New York or Bangkok tomorrow and a different bedmate at each stop over. And with that,…
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Deadly Indian ‘rat fever’ kills at least 12, with another 54 suspected deaths
Disease spread through water, soil or food containing rodent urine has infected 372 people in southern state of Kerala. “Rat fever” has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 372…
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Hawaii volcano update: Fissure 8 ‘lava pond’ suddenly DISAPPEARS leaving cavernous black hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf2kMnTLLRo&t=212s
