Most everyone has seen one of those population clocks. They display the growing numbers of deaths and births in the current day, as well as the year in total. It's always quite interesting to check out the other countries, watching the numbers climbing, seeming impossibly fast.
And then there's the net migration. The number of people who have moved to a country. What turned out to be both a blessing and a curse, was that it includes Net Migration on the World Population clock as well. The number there is always a fixed zero. Obviously, right? Who's going to be moving to Earth? It's ludicrous.
At least, that's what everyone thought.
It was January 17, 2021, and the World Net Migration number
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went up to 1. At first people thought it was a glitch. Or maybe a joke. But NASA were releasing continuous warnings: IF YOU SEE ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, CONTACT OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY. People began to realize that this... maybe was more serious than we originally thought. Little did we know, NASA were ripping out their hair and screaming in frustration and confusion because what is this, what is happening? Something slipped past our radars and is now dwelling among us and we don't even know who or why or where. Their warnings didn't heed any tips or sightings, no calls at all. People began spreading rumors, such as "It looks just like us!", "It's invisible!", "It's possessed someone's body!". There was chaos, but it was only just the beginning. Everyone knows the story of what happened when the British came over to America. They had diseases that the Native Americans had never been exposed to, so their immune systems were not equipped to handle it, which in turn caused disease to wipe out many of their tribes. This is essentially what happened in this case. The foreign visitor had brought with them an infection. One that was completely irreversible and unavoidable in the current human state. Our immune systems held no chance, and we did not yet hold the technology required to cure this. Patient Zero was a man in a small town in Colorado.
He had sometime during his day on February 7th come in contact with the creature, and contracted the disease. He was feeling too weak and too ill to go into work the next day so his wife kept him in bed. His condition started to deteriorate rapidly; he developed a high fever, he was extremely confused, and he started having hallucinations. That night, the wife called the local doctor to come check him.
The doctor was completely bewildered. He was prepared to diagnose him with the Rabies virus, but it was progressing too quickly. Along with that, he didn't appear to have any sign of transmission, no bites or scratches. He gave the man about 5 hours.
He did not last 5 hours. There, in his home, next to his sleeping wife, his heart stopped. However, he remained 'awake' and proceeded to turn to the one laying next to him, taking a bite out of her neck. She struggled but in the end, the wound to her neck was too extensive, and she drowned, gargling her own blood.
But the cycle repeated. The bite was the more efficient transmission tactic. The bite allowed the virus to go straight through the body up into the brain. She was awake and in a rage in less than 20 minutes. The poor, unsuspecting doctor walked right into the deathtrap and was attacked and infected immediately. The whole town was ravaged by the next
night. It may seem unbelievable that it spread that quickly, but there was another detail about the Unknown virus that contributed to it. All mammals were susceptible, not just humans, and Patient Zero owned a dog. If trying to run away from the infected humans wasn't hard enough, add infected dogs, and cats, and eventually squirrels and wolves and other wild animals into the equation. You never really think about it, but if something as small as a squirrel really was in a murderous rage, what could you do to stop it? They can get to the top of an Oak tree in two seconds, and it only takes one small bite to be infected. The humans tried everything, every cure the CDC had. Shots to the head was the only way to permanently stop the virus in a host, but it was a dead-end. Whoever has gone hunting will tell you that it is hard enough when animals aren't in a constant frenzy for blood. The human race was doomed, and the foreign visitor watched on as an entire civilization was annihilated. Most people didn't know that this year happened to be F. Kenton Beshore's doomsday prediction. He believed this was the year Jesus would return to the Earth. How ironic.
[1, 4, 5, 9, 13] There have been no documented cases where a human has contracted the disease from another human. [4] It appears, based on field and lab data, that infection requires direct contact with the virus through means such as contact with infective bodily secretions, urine, or tissues. [12] It is unknown to scientists how the virus can be maintained in the bat populations and avoids extinction as the host species becomes immune to its presence. [14] The incubation period from time of infection to the onset of symptoms is about 5-14 days in experimentally induced animals [4] and 8-14 days in natural field cases.
Rabies is a deadly virus that occurs in the brain. It can affect all mammals but the ones that are most commonly found with the virus are dogs, bats, raccoons, skunks, and coyotes. This means that any non-mammal can not contract the virus, such as fish, birds, and reptiles (2). The virus can be contracted by humans with saliva transfer with broken skin contact from an animal which has the disease. As this is the most common form of transferring the disease it is very believable that Tea Cake contracts the virus from the wild dog that “managed to bite [him] high up on his cheek bone once” (1). The rabies virus works by being a bullet shaped virus that directly attacks th...
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but some thought he might actually be suffering from drug-induced toxic psychosis. He visited the emergency room for testimonials that bones were coming out the back of his head, someone stole his pulmonary arteries, his stomach was backwards, and his heart stopped beating sometimes. He was also diagnosed with hypochondria, where he believed his heart was in danger of shrinking until disappearance. He then came to the solution that drinking blood of animals or humans would stop the shrinking. He was also interviewed and said that he killed to stay alive. He was admitted to a mental institution and was prescribed antidepressants. He was allowed to leave anytime he wanted. He was left unsupervised and his mother told him that he did not need the
Hospitals are busy places, and with so much going on it is hard to believe that mistakes are not made. However, there are some accidents that should never happen. Such events have been termed ‘never events’ because they are never supposed to happen. This term was first introduced by Ken Kizer, MD, in 2001 (US, 2012). The Joint Commission has classified never events as sentinel events and asks that hospitals report them. A sentinel event is defined as, “an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physiological or psychological injury, or the risk thereof” (US, 2012). Never events are termed sentinel events because in the past 12 years 71% of the events reported were fatal (US, 2012). Because these events are never supposed to happen, many insurance companies will not reimburse the hospitals when they occur. A study in 2006, showed that the average hospital could experience a case of wrong-site surgery, one example of a never event, only once every 5 to 10 years (US, 2012). This study illustrates how rare a never event is. Hospitals do not want these never events to happen any more than a patient does. To help prevent these errors, hospitals have created policies that, if followed, will minimize the possibility of a mistake. The consequences of never events are devastating and because of this the goal is to make sure that they are eradicated from hospitals and medical facilities.
However they did not find anything until during one of the autopsies, Burton, one of the group of scientists, had torn his glove, meaning he was contaminated with the virus. And the automatic detonation button was turned on and set to go off within three minutes. Hall another one of the scientists was the only person able to turn it off, forcing him to crawl through the air shaft to another floor while darts filled with poison were being shot at him.
Rabies is the oldest infectious disease that is spread between species. Historical evidence of rabies dates from about 2300 BC. The first written record of rabies is in the Eshnunna code (ca.1930 BC), which states that owners of rabid dogs with symptoms of rabies should take preventative measures to keep their dog away from others. If a person were to be bitten and later become ill or die, the owner would be fined heavily. During this time and for many centuries to follow, it was commonplace to kill any animal or human who showed symptoms of the disease. Today rabies incidents involving dogs in the United States are rare, but there are increasing numbers of outbreaks among the wild animal population, notably in the southern states.
A person who has been infected by the disease may experience signs of fatigue, loss of appetite, fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, and a red rash that appears blotchy. Generally the signs become present between ten and twenty-one days after the person has been exposed to and infected by the virus (Silverstein et al., 1998). This is what is known as the incubation period (Plum, J., 2001). The rash is most likely to begin on the chest, back, or the scalp, but will soon spread to the rest of the body. After a couple days of having physical evidence of the infection, the rash will s...
Something as simple as taking a walk around the facility can prove to be a battle with patient X. From the day I met patient X it was noticeable that she was lacking her memory. Patient X could no longer tell me her name and everyday it would be different struggle, but for that day it was getting her out of bed to take a walk. From the moment I walked in and introduced myself, patient X could not provide me with her name. Patient X constantly asked if I was her baby, and when dealing with an Alzheimer patient, it’s always best to go along with what that patient is saying. As I got patient X up and out of bed, she started to become violent and resistant. Patient X took forty-five minutes to simply get out of bed and dressed, and that was the very beginning of the battle that would consist all day.
Baer, George M. Report on Rabies: the Current Rabies Situation in the United States-an Overview. Princeton Junction: Veterinary Learning Systems Co., Inc., 1983. 2-6.
The symptoms in humans are flu-like symptoms, anything ranging from fever to headache. After a few days after exposure, the human will experience the symptoms of clinical rabies: anxiety, confusion, agitation, hallucinations, and also insomnia (CDC). These symptoms may last two to ten days. Once the clinical symptoms have appeared the fatality rate is very high. To date, there have only been six cases of survival from the clinical stage of rabies (CDC). Incubation period ranges form ten days to one year, but the average is 20 days. Also bites closer to the brain will progress faster and bites in the lower appendages will take longer to spread (Mayo Clinic Proceedings).
It is over in a matter of days. The victim staggers, disoriented and exhausted, and collapses in a fever. His eyes turn bright red, and he starts vomiting blood. Within a matter of hours, he "crashes" and "bleeds out" surcumming to agonizing death with blood seeping from his eyes, ears and other orifices. At autopsy, pathologists discover, aghast, that the patients internal organs have disintegrated into an indistinguishable mass of bloodied tissue. The killer: A "hot" virus, a highly contagious and deadly microbe that has never been seen before, and has no known cure. (Bib5, CQ Researcher, 495)
Overpopulation has become a drastic issue, for no one knows how many people the earth
I had been in hospital rooms many times before, but this was the first time that I was the patient anxiously awaiting their results. I sat on the hospital bed and nervously kicked my legs back and forth as I stared at the door, willing the doctor to walk through it. After a long wait I grew tired of this, and shifted focus to my surroundings. I had been admitted to Scottish Rite hospital, a branch of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Being a children’s hospital meant that the nurses wore cartoon print scrubs, the walls were painted in bright colors, the televisions were always turned to either Disney Channel or Nickelodeon, and everyone treated you like royalty. They did everything they could to mask the fact that it was indeed a hospital. However, I was too old to be fooled. I knew exactly where I was and what that meant, and that was that nothing good could come from being here.
About ten years ago while in a science museum, I saw a counter that estimated what the world population was at that given moment. Innocuous at first glance, since a number in excess of five billion is difficult to comprehend, what became alarming after watching the counter for a minute was the continual increase in the population. Thinking about the circumstances related to the population rise logically made the problem seem apparent. The earth is finite both in terms of physical size and in resources but the population is growing towards an infinite value. At some point the steadily rising population will move from being a problem that is geographically distant to one that is immediate and more salient than just an increasing value on a faceless counter.
She said that he had had a stroke the night before. He died in the