As we pray for the peace of
Jerusalem
Prophetic News and Commentary
Monday, September 24, 2007
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
V:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
Psalms
122:6 Pray for the peace of
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More Foot-And-Mouth Found in
Britain
Source: AP
24 September 2007 – Britain's livestock owners received more bad news Monday: Another herd of cattle tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, and a second cow was found to have bluetongue disease.
Since the new outbreak of foot and mouth last month, hundreds of animals have been slaughtered and movement of animals has been restricted at one of the busiest times of the year for livestock sales.
A larger outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001 resulted in thousands of cattle, sheep and pig carcasses being burned on large pyres across the country and the farming industry lost millions in revenue.
In the latest outbreak, a herd of cattle slaughtered Monday tested positive for the highly infectious disease, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.
The cattle were found in an existing foot-and-mouth control zone of Surrey, southeast of London, and the site became the seventh one where livestock tested positive for the disease in England since last month.
Before Monday, four cases of foot-and-mouth had been confirmed in Surrey this month, following two in August that authorities traced to a nearby veterinary laboratory site.
Foot-and-mouth disease affects cloven-hoofed animals, including cows, sheep, pigs and goats. It does not infect humans.
Second case of bluetongue disease
confirmed (Britain)
Source: Times
Online
25 September 2007 – A second cow has tested positive for bluetongue disease at the farm where the UK’s first case of the disease was discovered, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said tonight.
The cow at the Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm, near Ipswich, Suffolk was slaughtered this afternoon after the discovery was made by vets.
A Defra spokeswoman said: “I can confirm a second cow has tested positive for bluetongue and was slaughtered this afternoon on the same farm. The evidence remained insufficient to confirm an outbreak.”
Today’s discovery follows the UK’s first bluetongue case, at the farm over the weekend and will come as a blow to the farming community which had been hoping the disease had not spread.
Farmers fear that the disease — which has decimated farms in Europe and Africa — has now become established in the British midge population.
The first British case of bluetongue heightened alarm among farmers and in rural communities that are already struggling after the resurgence of foot-and-mouth disease.
Bluetongue is harmless to humans but if it takes hold in midges its impact on British farmers and their incomes could be worse than that of foot-and-mouth. Farmers’ leaders are also concerned that continuing publicity about both diseases will make consumers lose confidence in home-reared meat.
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There have been 4,772 outbreaks this year in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany, with new cases growing at the rate of 100 a day. The virus has also moved eastwards into Poland. The European strain is thought to be less virulent than African ones, affecting 30 per cent in sheep and 10 per cent in cattle.
Bird flu pandemic inevitable
Source: SofiaEcho
25 September 2007 – Although there are a multitude of problems that the UK and the world-at-large face in the future, there is no more serious a threat to human life than a future bird flu pandemic.
Countries have been stockpiling Tamiflu in the hope that this drug will save the lives of literally hundreds of millions when the pandemic comes, for as history has shown, it is an inevitability.
Unfortunately for humans, research just released by the CSIRO Division of Molecular and Health Technologies in Australia has shown that Oseltamivir (the drug of choice for treating infected persons) and the main constituent of Tamiflu, is showing a declining sensitivity to the disease by as much as 60-fold reduced effectiveness - (Emerging Infectious Diseases - EID Journal ,Volume 13, Number 9-September 2007 - Dispatch: ‘Reduced Sensitivity of Influenza A (H5N1) to Oseltamivir’).
These scientific facts have immense implications and ramifications for the predominant use of Tamiflu in stopping human deaths on an unprecedented scale.
Therefore we say again as a global institution, that there is no immunisation cure for humans, far from it.
Comments: Livestock diseases continue to ravage Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and many other places in the world today. Britain is haunted by the past foot and mouth outbreak in 2001. It lasted 9 months, affected hundreds of farms and thousands of animals were burned across the country. This latest scare of foot and mouth disease may not cause the devastation it did 6 years ago (due to lessons learned) but there is another disease that could have the same devastating effects as foot and mouth and this one is called Bluetongue.
This disease has migrated northward from the Mediterranean since October 1998, perhaps as scientists say as a result of “global warming”. Although the disease is not a threat to humans the most vulnerable common breeds in the UK are cattle, goats and sheep. It’s spread by one particular species of biting fly so it is basically carried with the wind. There is no efficient treatment at the moment but they are working on it as fast as they can. From Foot and mouth to Bluetounge there seems like there is no end to the threat of livestock diseases threatening farms in Britain and other parts of the world. Bird Flu has dropped off the pages of the news but it is still rearing its ugly head in Asia. The Experts keep telling us (read) The Importance of Planning for Bird Flu but will the world be ready when it arrives? Jesus told us that these events would be the beginning of the sorrows and the frequency is increasing. These are the road signs we were told to look for.
Re 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Mt 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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