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Bret Weinstein: Crippling pathologies and up to 17 million deaths worldwide.

"The spread of polio around the world has become so serious it is now an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization warned today. The agency said the problem could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease. It described current polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an 'extraordinary event' that required a coordinated international response. It was the first-ever international alert on polio. 'Until it is eradicated, polio will continue to spread internationally, find and paralyze susceptible kids,' Dr Bruce Aylward, who leads WHO's polio...

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2006 – The establishment of democracy in Iraq will deal a severe blow to terrorism and help spread freedom throughout the region, President Bush said today. "By helping the Iraqi people build their democracy, America will deal the terrorists a crippling blow and establish a beacon of liberty in the Middle East," Bush said during his weekly radio address. "And that will make our nation and the world more secure." A democratic Iraq will deny the terrorists their immediate aim of turning Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban, a safe haven for terrorists to plot...

Walt Disney and airlines admit Sars virus is crippling business By William Kay 14 April 2003 Walt Disney, the international theme park company, and several airlines yesterday warned that their business is being damaged by the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). Their warnings follow similar statements last week by British Airways and BAA, the airports operator, and will send waves of apprehension through investors in global hotel businesses. In a filing with Washington's Securities and Exchange Commission, Disney said concerns over "and uncertainty surrounding the transmission of this illness may also contribute to a reluctance to travel. This...