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1. Environment, 2. Health, 3. Operations in Hot Zones, 3.1. Venezuela, 3.2. Congo, 3.3. Yemen, 3.4. Syria, 3.5. Sudan (Rwanda), 3.6. Northern Triangle of Central America, 4. BioChem. Previous Week 190331-Polemic.
Other topics: Homeless (Forced Migration), Etymology, Fragile States, Cholera, Failing States, Food Insecurity (Famine), Language, Biomes, Anthromes, Genocide, Borders,
-1. Environment: Climate Change Versus the US Military Podcast, States, Military Clash on Cleanup of Toxic Chemicals. Climate Change Needs National Security Response, Experts Tell House. Utah Base Cited as Most at Risk in Climate Change Rankings, Hill AFB Most at Risk for Negative Climate Change Impacts; UM Environmental Engineering Faculty Publishes Paper on Risk Assessment.
-2. Health: In Gentrifying Echo Park, the VA Is Forcing These Homeless Veterans to Leave$. Mumps on the USS Fort McHenry, 190317-Polemic-2, 190317-VCP-2-USA-C. Alcohol Misuse Is More Common in the Armed Forces than Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Army Thought He Was Faking His Health Issues. Turns out He Had Chronic Lead Poisoning$.
-3. Operations in Hot Zones: Deadly Comrades: War and Infectious Diseases 2002. No surprise that Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and DR Congo are the top 5 fragile states, with Venezuela at #32. [Interactive Map] [Somalia Food Security Map].
-3.1. -181209-4>2. <ADDED 190331>3. Maduro Says Venezuela Will Ration Electricity for 30 Days. Venezuela’s Health System in ‘Utter Collapse’ as Infectious Diseases Spread$. AP Photos: as the Sun Sets, Venezuela’s Capital Empties. Chronicles of a Venezuelan Exodus: More Families Flee the Crisis on Foot Every Day. Why Are You Crying, Mami. In Venezuela, the Search for Water Is a Daily Struggle. Researchers Are Surprised by the Magnitude of Venezuela's Health Crisis. Is this a Photograph of Worthless Money in the Gutters of Venezuela. Another thing that is concerning is Candida Auris -7, a fatal drug resistant global fungus, that has been identified in Venezuela. With the breakdown of its health system and surveillance we no longer know if there have been more outbreaks and reservoirs. This is not the same fungus as A Deadly Fungal Disease Is Devastating Amphibian Populations.
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-3.2. An Epidemic of Suspicion – Ebola and Violence in the DRC. Butembo: Dr. Serge Kavalami Denies the Military Hassle at Ebola Treatment Center. Resistance Against the Response Teams Kills a Woman in Kathiri. When Ebola and Other Epidemics Strike, a Dysfunctional Outbreak Culture Hinders Adequate Response. With potential spillover Rwanda to vaccinate Front line health workers against Ebola [Map]. Biakato: Women Walk Half Naked Against Ebola Response Teams, which may be a trend of non violent protest -2- -3- [Photo]. It does tend to be a problem for Law Enforcement as it make it difficult to claim presence of weapons.
-A. When compared to other violent events attacks of medical during Ebola does not seem so bad, and may be of no interest even though just 1,400 km/ 870 miles away, Congo Massacre Survivors Tell of Canoe Escapes and Being Left for Dead -2- [Map, Map]. Likewise the statistics related to attacks of healthcare are surprisingly few in the DR Congo. Violence Against Health Care: Insights from Afghanistan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The report entitled Violence on the Front Lines: Attacks on Health Care in 2017 documents more than 700 separate attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients, and ambulances in 23 countries in conflict across the globe. As shocking as these numbers are, they are merely a fraction of the real figures: due to under reporting of attacks and the use of aggregate data by some agencies, the true numbers are undoubtedly higher. Though the number and lethality of attacks are low, keep in mind that an attack on health infrastructure has a magnified effect, equivalent to taking out say a food or water source for a geographic area. In other words a high value target, which is also a highly vulnerable soft target that is hard to protect and difficult to replace. This would be part of Risk Assessment: the probability of something going wrong and the subsequent consequences if it does, where the event is a very unlikely black swan, but if it happens its catastrophic.
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-3.3. A combination of diseases outbreaks is a syndemic, which when combined with a war could be a limnophtoros or keres, but here is called polemic. Dengue Outbreak During Ongoing Civil War, Taiz, Yemen. 190331-Polemic-3.4. Medical Admissions in Aden Suspended after Patient Kidnapped and Killed. 190224-VCP-Yemen. Cholera Is Surging Once Again in War Ravaged Yemen.
-3.4. UK, US, and France Warn Syria Not to Use Chemical Weapons.
-3.5. Mass Measles Vaccination Campaign Underway in Response to Outbreak in Mayom, South Sudan. In South Sudan, a War on Civilians Despite Six Months of Supposed Peace. And all of this increasing famine which in turn will increase forced migration and conflict [Map]. Will South Sudan Become Another Rwanda April 7, 1994, Once Again, Fear and Hope in South Sudan, Rwandan genocide 25 years on, [Map]. Political boundary maps are misleading in terms of biosphere and anthroposphere that show the connections that influence and determine disease outbreaks. Better are maps of social group - religion - and language. These tend to more closely correspond with tribal groups and their historical conflicts [Map], biomes [Map], and anthromes [Map]. Pathogens are not stopped by borders no matter how in depth and lethal. ADDED Sudan Activists Say Soldier Killed During Raid on Sit In.
-3.6. Continuing drought that will lead to more famine, economic downturn, forced migration, continued exploitive crime for scarce resources and armed conflict in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador [Chart].
-4. BioChem: Instead of the R&D, production and maintenance expenses of developing biochem weapons and delivery, one simply has to release the agents already at the target, after China’s Deadly Chemical Disaster, a Shattered Region Weighs Cost of the Rush to Get Rich, Houston Chemical Disaster Zone Remains No Go Two Weeks after Blaze. US Army Formulates New, Fast Acting Spray for Chemical Weapons Decontamination. The Nuclear Sins of the Soviet Union Live on in Kazakhstan. How Emerging Technologies Increase the Threat from Biological Weapons.
Narrative Version
-1. Environment: Who is responsible for the Cleanup of Toxic Chemicals from military facilities, while the various effects from Climate Change continue.
-2. Health: The chronic conditions of warfare include: Homeless Veterans, infectious disease in the close quarters of military facilities, Alcoholism, and determining if a health condition Line of Duty related. The report entitled Violence on the Front Lines: Attacks on Health Care in 2017 documents more than 700 separate attacks in 23 countries in conflict across the globe. Though this seems to be a low number compared to total casualties, keep in mind that an attack on health infrastructure has a magnified effect, equivalent to taking out say a food or water source for a geographic area. Medical infrastructure is a high value target, which is also a highly vulnerable soft target. This would be part of Risk Assessment: the probability of something going wrong and the subsequent consequences if it does, where the event is a very unlikely black swan, but if it happens its catastrophic.
-3. Operations in Hot Zones: Deadly Comrades: War and Infectious Diseases 2002. No surprise that Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and DR Congo are the top 5 fragile states, with Venezuela at #32. [Interactive Map] [Somalia Food Security Map].
-3.1. Venezuela continues to have problems with Electricity, Health System Collapse, Water Supply, and Rumor. <ADDED 190407-181209-4>.
-3.2. Likewise the DR Congo has rumor, fear of the military, continued resistance to medical help. There continues to be potential spillover into neighboring countries [Map]. There has also be a unique response against Ebola response teams. When compared to other violent events attacks of medical during Ebola does not seem so bad, and may be of no interest even though just 1,400 km/ 870 miles away, Congo Massacre Survivors Tell of Canoe Escapes and Being Left for Dead [Map, Map]. Likewise the statistics related to attacks of healthcare are surprisingly few in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <ADDED 190407-180513-1.1>.
-3.3. A combination of diseases outbreaks is a syndemic, and a syndemic with violent widespread and persistent conflict is called polemic. Yemen has both acts of terrorism and Cholera.
-3.4. Syria once again warned Not to Use Chemical Weapons.
-3.5. South Sudan still remains tense, with famine that will force migration and conflict [Map]. This creates concern that South Sudan will become Rwanda [Map]. Political boundary maps are misleading in terms of biosphere and anthroposphere that show the connections that influence and determine disease and conflict outbreaks. Better are maps of social groupings [Map], biomes [Map], and anthromes [Map]. Pathogens are not stopped by borders no matter how in depth and lethal.
-3.6. Continuing drought that will lead to more famine, economic downturn, forced migration, continued exploitive crime for scarce resources and armed conflict in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador [Chart].
-4. BioChem: Instead of the R&D, production and maintenance expenses of developing biochem weapons and delivery, one simply has to release the agents already at the target -2-. It also adds costs to the target to protect and defend. In some cases the biochem events are self inflicted, or an unintended consequence.
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