As the rate of opioid addiction has surged in the United States, Mexico has become the world’s third-largest producer of opium used to process heroin. Mexican cartels are now the primary suppliers of the drug to the US, producing a crude and unrefined form known as black tar. VICE News travels to the fertile mountains…
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Military History: Beating the “Bloody Flux” and How Sir John Pringle Waged War on Dysentery
“Sanitation standards in the 18th Century were almost non-existent. Soldiers were in the habit of relieving themselves wherever they wished, including outside their own tents, turning encampments into mucky breeding grounds for dysentery.” 18TH CENTURY MILITARY camps were hotbeds for communicable diseases. Often, more soldiers on campaign died from illness than were ever felled in battle. Interestingly enough, the…
8 Things You Should Know About the Zika Virus
The Zika Virus is fast becoming a serious health issue in the United States. Here in Texas the Dallas Morning News recently confirmed there are Six Known Cases of Zika. All of the cases are in people who had recently returned from international travel however, no LOCAL transmissions of the disease have been confirmed.-SF …
Heads Up: Legionnaires Disease Kills 10 in Flint, Michigan Since Water Change
Something you may have not heard about since all this kicked off in Flint..All the Media has been talking about is Lead Poisoning, Legionaires Disease is something totally different and certainly more dangerous. -SF Ten people have died and 77 others have been sickened byLegionnaires Disease in Flint, Michigan and the the surrounding area since…