epidemic - Page 6

The images are impressive: ghost towns deserted by their millions of inhabitants, masked men, convoys of people taken to containment centres, closed borders. The Chinese coronavirus has triggered a fever of anxiety, if not panic. A fever fought with the most effective means

Doctors, WHO scientists and all public health organizations kept telling us this. We are on the brink of a devastating global pandemic. The question that no one can answer is that of the source of this expected and almost certain disease.

Les pesticides et fongicides abondamment utilisés dans l’agriculture ont engendré des mutants résistants qui menacent l’homme. Ce serait le cas de Candida auris. Ce champignon résiste à tous les traitements et médicaments fongicides. Il prolifère aux quatre coins du monde et commence à devenir un véritable serial killer puisque la

It is a highly contagious disease that was thought to have been eradicated by vaccination. Before the vaccine, up to two and a half million people died each year from measles. Thanks to vaccination campaigns, the disease should have disappeared completely. Today, however, there is a health alert all over the world.

Les épidémies comme Zika portées par les moustiques amènent à développer des réponses d’urgence. Organismes tueurs transgéniques, stérilisation de masse, missiles génétiques… les biotechs partent à l’assaut du moustique tigre. Les pistes envisagées sont-elles efficaces ? Sont-elles soutenables ou éminemment dangereuses ? Peut-on impunément agir massivement sur les populations d’insectes