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The superbug that infected nearly a dozen Americans who recently underwent weight-loss surgery at a Tijuana hospital had a particularly nasty genetic mutation that set off alarm bells after patients began showing up in hospitals and doctors officers with painful wounds.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning this week, notifying the public that 11 Americans who traveled to Tijuana hospitals for weight-loss surgery had become infected with drug-resistant pseudomonus aeruginosa infections during their stays.

Dr. David “Cal” Ham, a CDC medical officer, said Friday that the particular strain of pseudomonus bacteria involved in 11 confirmed cases had metallo-beta lactamase genes. Often called “VIM” by the epidemiological community, Ham explained that these genes cause the microbes that carry them to excrete enzymes that destroy carbapenems, a workhorse class of antibiotics with some of the broadest efficacy in medicine.

The pseudomonus strains that caused the Tijuana outbreak were already drug resistant, Ham said. Picking up carbapenem-fighting chops made an already serious threat more deadly.

“VIM makes this more concerning than your run-of-the-mill, drug-resistant pseudomonus,” Ham said.

One patient with an outbreak-linked infection has died, the physician said, though it’s impossible to say that it was just pseudomonus that caused that outcome.

“The patient who died did have a number of other underlying medical conditions, so we can’t say for sure if this infection was the primary cause of death,” Ham said.

Though six of the cases underwent bariatric surgeries at Grand View Hospital just south of the U.S. Mexico border, Ham said that so far not a single sickened patient was a California resident. Infected medical tourists came from seven states: Arkansas, Arizona, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.

Some of the patients, Ham said, have received treatment with other antibiotics and have seen their infections subside while others are still in hospitals suffering as doctors work down a dwindling list of available options.

“There are still active infections, unfortunately,” Ham said. “Several of the isolates involved are susceptible only to a couple of, I would say, less-than-optimal antibiotics that have significant side effect profiles.”

Patients involved in the outbreak underwent surgeries from August through November with one case subsequently identified in 2015. Two additional suspected cases, Ham said, remain under investigation.

The CDC is urging doctors across the United States to report any cases of pseudomonus so that specialized testing can determine whether VIM or a handful of other problematic mutations that confer carbapenem resistance are present.

It was the CDC’s own Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network that first sounded the alarm in the Tijuana outbreak. Pseudomonus samples are routinely sent to network-affiliated hospitals for analysis, and that’s where the VIM mutation became visible. But it’s necessary for doctors to report positive pseudomonus tests to the network in order for it to take analysis to the necessary next level.

Pseudomonas is relatively new to the VIM party. As of Sept. 30, 2017, only 84 cases nationwide have shown the mutation, Ham said. But other types of bacteria, especially enterobacteriacae and E.coli, have shown significantly higher rates of mutation.

Infectious disease specialists seek to isolate and treat patients infected with extra carbapenem resistance as quickly as possible because the genes that confer this extra protection are stored on structures called plasmids, which can easily move between different bacteria species. The idea is to kill these critters quickly before they have a chance to share their resistance genes with other types of bacteria.

“It’s important that we learn about these infections as quickly as possible so that very specific control measures and containment responses can be implemented,” Ham said.

When the CDC first issued its Tijuana travel warning this week, it said that the Mexican Government temporarily closed Grand View hospital, though it was apparent that the facility was still open Thursday evening. Mexican officials issued a short written statement Friday clarifying that the hospital’s surgery department, but not the entire facility, had been shut down pending an investigation.

Ham said the CDC has no access to the health records of patients involved, so it is difficult for American investigators to learn which surgical practices might have caused the infections.

So far, the CDC has said only that three other hospitals or clinics in Tijuana cared for the five patients out of 11 not cared for by Grand View. Those other hospitals were not mentioned by name in the CDC’s travel warning, Ham said, because they operated on only one or two outbreak patients, and the CDC could not determine that the number of cases was significantly greater than the facility’s normal rate of pseudomonus infection.

(The San Diego Union Tribune)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 1/12/2019 5:08:51 PM
	The oceans are warming faster than we thought, and scientists suggest we brace for impact The oceans are actually warming 40 to 50 percent faster than the most recent IPCC report suggested. (iStock) By Angela Fritz January 11 at 5:25 PM The oceans are warming faster than climate reports have suggested, according to a new synthesis of temperature observations published this week. The most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made what turned out to be a very conservative estimate of rise in ocean temperature, and scientists are advising us to adjust our expectations. “The numbers are coming in 40 to 50 percent [warmer] than the last IPCC report,” said Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and an author on the report, published in Science Magazine on Thursday. Furthermore, Trenberth said, “2018 will be the warmest year on record in the oceans" as 2017 was and 2016 before that. Oceans cover 70 percent of the globe and absorb 93 percent of the planet’s extra heat from climate change. They are responsible for spawning disasters like hurricanes Florence and Maria and generating torrential rainfall via meteorological processes with names like “atmospheric river” and “Pineapple Express.” Sea level is rising with observable consequences along the East Coast and around the world, both physically and financially. Trenberth and his colleagues say if society continues to emit greenhouse gas at its current rate, oceans will rise one foot by the end of the century on top of the rise expected from melting land ice on Greenland and Antarctica. Scientists have started to pin down how climate change is loading the dice on extreme weather. After Hurricane Harvey, researchers found the storm’s deadly and costly effects were probably made worse by warmer oceans. And, as The Washington Post reported in December, “a drought in East Africa that left 6 million people in Somalia facing food shortages was caused by dramatic ocean warming that could not have occurred without humans' impact on the environment.” After several studies published over the past couple of years, some of which included errors that needed to be corrected and published for the record, “we felt the need to do a more general assessment," said Trenberth. The scientists combined four data sets to paint a picture of what has been happening in the oceans since 1991. Trenberth and his co-authors say ocean heat content, which is a measure of the warmth of the water down to about 2,000 meters, is a “great metric for measuring global warming” because the data isn’t as erratic as the temperature on land, and it captures much more of the planet. In the process, they discovered something interesting: Their data agrees with what the climate models were predicting. “Oh, maybe the models have more credibility than we thought,” Trenberth said, tongue firmly in cheek. As the planet warms, models have proven an invaluable tool. It’s not enough to say the climate is changing — scientists want to know how it is going to change in the future. Yet these models are one of the preferred targets of climate change skeptics. They appeared to miss the so-called global warming hiatus between 1998 and 2013. At the time, scientists posited there wasn’t really a hiatus, but that the heat was simply building up in the oceans, or that there was a data collection issue. They were right, but that didn’t save the models from criticism. This synthesis suggests the models are doing just fine. In fact, in the oceans, they are performing even better than expected, and have marched in lockstep with the extreme ocean heating observed by thousands of temperature-collecting floats all over the world. If climate models have actually performed well in the past, it gives scientists more confidence in their predictions for the future. Trenberth said their comparatively concise article published Thursday “highlights some of the developments that have occurred since the last IPCC report," which came out in 2014. The previous one came out in 2007. Articles like the one in Science are helpful to remind people of the advances that happen in science between the big, sweeping reports, said Tom Di Liberto, a climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The IPCC reports have research deadlines at least a year before they are published; science in the most recent report may have been done six to eight years ago and “there’s a whole lot of stuff that has happened since then,” Di Liberto said. “It speaks to the broader issue of science communication,” he continued. “Science works slower than the way we communicate now.” Looking forward, there are two scenarios scientists are working with. The low-emissions scenario that the Paris climate change agreement was built around is no longer realistic, Trenberth said. The high-emissions, business-as-usual scenario will probably continue until about 2040, in his opinion, but eventually society will figure out how to manage the crisis. “Yes, we need to try and stop emitting greenhouse gas. But the inertia is large,” Trenberth said. “Therefore the climate is going to continue to change.” He believes adaptation is the way forward, rather than geoengineering, which is “not thought out well at all and problematic.” Di Liberto agrees that we’re already feeling the effects, but he sees things changing in society, too. “We’ve spent too much time and effort on people who may not be convinced” that climate change is real and important, he said. “But now there seems to be this grass-roots movement of young people who care. I don’t remember a time like this.” (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 1/14/2019 4:56:52 PM
	Yellowstone volcano 'DANGER': Scientists ‘closely watching’ 465-mile-long RISING magma The Yellowstone volcano could erupt (Image: GETTY) SCIENTISTS are closely monitoring a 465-mile-long piece of molten rock rising below the Yellowstone caldera, a bombshell documentary has revealed. By CALLUM HOARE PUBLISHED: 10:42, Sun, Jan 13, 2019UPDATED: 10:44, Sun, Jan 13, 2019 The supervolcano, located in Yellowstone National Park, has erupted three times in history – 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago. Volcanoes typically blow when molten rock, known as magma, rises to the surface following the Earth’s mantle melting due to tectonic plates shifting. However, geologists have revealed how Yellowstone's magma chamber, which sits on top of the magma plume, is slowly rising each year. Should it continue at this rate, it is possible magma could break through the Earth’s crust – forming flowing lava, it was revealed on YouTube’s “Why the Yellowstone supervolcano could be huge”. The 2015 mini-documentary detailed: “Scientists have new data that gives them a better picture of Yellowstone’s underground plumbing. “Right beneath the caldera, from the last eruption sits the magma chamber stretching 465 miles northwest. “Scientists are closely monitoring it as magma rises from the plume into the chamber at two inches a year. A 3D map shows the molten rock below Yellowstone (Image: AMAZON) “The danger will be if the plume starts liquifying and moving up any faster.” Scientists are now looking for a pattern that matches that of any previous triggering events. The last eruption of Yellowstone produced around 2,500 times more volcanic material than the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens. Geologists have previously warned, once they spot a sign, an eruption could happen in as little as two weeks. Jacob Lowenstern is a researcher for the US Geological survey (Image: AMAZON) Jacob Lowenstern, a researcher with the US Geological Survey in Vancouver, Washington, detailed how the last catastrophic incident may have played out. He said: “Typically when these eruptions begin, they begin from a certain event, then they get larger as they move along the fracture system. “The entire sequence that formed the last Yellowstone eruption may have taken as little as two weeks.” Should the same happen again, the ground around Yellowstone National Park would rise upwards forming a swarm of earthquakes. Yellowston's magma chamber is rising each year (Image: GETTY) Then, following the eruption, enormous pyroclastic flows would blast their way across the park. This mixture of ash, lava blebs, and superheated gas exceed temperatures of 1,000C and can move at speeds of up to 300mph. They are predicted to spread more than 100 miles out from Yellowstone, burying states like Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado in three feet of harmful volcanic ash. If the pyroclastic flow hits anyone, they would possibly die within seconds as the air could heat up to around 300C. (express.co.uk)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 1/14/2019 5:28:23 PM
	CDC: Superbug involved in Tijuana bariatric surgery infections showed concerning mutation This CDC illustration shows the structure of antibiotic-resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Paul Sisson - Contact Reporter The superbug that infected nearly a dozen Americans who recently underwent weight-loss surgery at a Tijuana hospital had a particularly nasty genetic mutation that set off alarm bells after patients began showing up in hospitals and doctors officers with painful wounds. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning this week, notifying the public that 11 Americans who traveled to Tijuana hospitals for weight-loss surgery had become infected with drug-resistant pseudomonus aeruginosa infections during their stays. Dr. David “Cal” Ham, a CDC medical officer, said Friday that the particular strain of pseudomonus bacteria involved in 11 confirmed cases had metallo-beta lactamase genes. Often called “VIM” by the epidemiological community, Ham explained that these genes cause the microbes that carry them to excrete enzymes that destroy carbapenems, a workhorse class of antibiotics with some of the broadest efficacy in medicine. The pseudomonus strains that caused the Tijuana outbreak were already drug resistant, Ham said. Picking up carbapenem-fighting chops made an already serious threat more deadly. “VIM makes this more concerning than your run-of-the-mill, drug-resistant pseudomonus,” Ham said. One patient with an outbreak-linked infection has died, the physician said, though it’s impossible to say that it was just pseudomonus that caused that outcome. “The patient who died did have a number of other underlying medical conditions, so we can’t say for sure if this infection was the primary cause of death,” Ham said. Though six of the cases underwent bariatric surgeries at Grand View Hospital just south of the U.S. Mexico border, Ham said that so far not a single sickened patient was a California resident. Infected medical tourists came from seven states: Arkansas, Arizona, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. Some of the patients, Ham said, have received treatment with other antibiotics and have seen their infections subside while others are still in hospitals suffering as doctors work down a dwindling list of available options. “There are still active infections, unfortunately,” Ham said. “Several of the isolates involved are susceptible only to a couple of, I would say, less-than-optimal antibiotics that have significant side effect profiles.” Patients involved in the outbreak underwent surgeries from August through November with one case subsequently identified in 2015. Two additional suspected cases, Ham said, remain under investigation. The CDC is urging doctors across the United States to report any cases of pseudomonus so that specialized testing can determine whether VIM or a handful of other problematic mutations that confer carbapenem resistance are present. It was the CDC’s own Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network that first sounded the alarm in the Tijuana outbreak. Pseudomonus samples are routinely sent to network-affiliated hospitals for analysis, and that’s where the VIM mutation became visible. But it’s necessary for doctors to report positive pseudomonus tests to the network in order for it to take analysis to the necessary next level. Pseudomonas is relatively new to the VIM party. As of Sept. 30, 2017, only 84 cases nationwide have shown the mutation, Ham said. But other types of bacteria, especially enterobacteriacae and E.coli, have shown significantly higher rates of mutation. Infectious disease specialists seek to isolate and treat patients infected with extra carbapenem resistance as quickly as possible because the genes that confer this extra protection are stored on structures called plasmids, which can easily move between different bacteria species. The idea is to kill these critters quickly before they have a chance to share their resistance genes with other types of bacteria. “It’s important that we learn about these infections as quickly as possible so that very specific control measures and containment responses can be implemented,” Ham said. When the CDC first issued its Tijuana travel warning this week, it said that the Mexican Government temporarily closed Grand View hospital, though it was apparent that the facility was still open Thursday evening. Mexican officials issued a short written statement Friday clarifying that the hospital’s surgery department, but not the entire facility, had been shut down pending an investigation. Ham said the CDC has no access to the health records of patients involved, so it is difficult for American investigators to learn which surgical practices might have caused the infections. So far, the CDC has said only that three other hospitals or clinics in Tijuana cared for the five patients out of 11 not cared for by Grand View. Those other hospitals were not mentioned by name in the CDC’s travel warning, Ham said, because they operated on only one or two outbreak patients, and the CDC could not determine that the number of cases was significantly greater than the facility’s normal rate of pseudomonus infection. (The San Diego Union Tribune)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 1/14/2019 6:12:48 PM
	DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Hidden Bible messages say next week’s ‘super wolf blood moon’ will trigger end of the world, conspiracy theorists claim The strange celestial occurrence has given rise to prophecies of doom By Tariq Tahir 13th January 2019, 5:15 pm Updated: 14th January 2019, 2:57 pm A RARE super wolf blood moon has been the harbinger for wacky theories about the Bible predicting the end of the world. The stunning moon appears only 28 times in a century with the next appearance on January 21 and its strange colour has given rise to number of prophecies of doom. The super wolf blood moon will be in the skies from January 21 Some see the blood moon as a fulfilment of biblical prophecy and a string of apocalyptic books have been published about the phenomena. Perhaps the best know is ‘Four Blood Moons: Something is about to change’ in which author John Hagee suggest the event could be a fulfilment of biblical prophecy. Also predicting doom are 'Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs' by Mark Biltz and 'Blood Moons Rising: Bible Prophecy, Israel, and the Four Blood Moons' by Oklahoma pastor Mark Hitchcock. Megachurch pastor Hagee wrote that the red disks of the moon during the full eclipses are referred to in the book of Joel 2:31: "The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come." The Bible says the moon is a harbinger of doom Acts 2:20 echoes the same doom: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord.” “I believe that the Heavens are God’s billboard, that He has been sending signals to Planet Earth but we just have not been picking them up,” he has said. He predicted a Rapture will occur where Christians will be taken to heaven, Israel will go to war in a great battle called Armageddon, and Jesus will return to earth. His book reached number 4 on The New York Times best-seller list in the ‘advice/how to section’ but his predictions were less successful. So far the predictions haven't come true For many cultures the disappearance of the moon is a time of danger and chaos. A myth of the Hupa tribe from northern California claims that the moon has 20 wives and pets including mountain lions and snakes When the moon didn't provide them with enough food, they attacked their master, making it bleed. The eclipse would only be brought to an end when the moon's wives came to its aid, collecting its blood and bringing it back to health, so the legend goes. Their southern California counterparts the Luiseno believe that the eclipse shows that the moon is ill and tribe members to sing prayers and chants to nurse it back to health. For the Incas of Peru, jaguar that attacked and ate the moon and then would crash to earth to eat people. (thesun.co.uk)
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