India’s Totally Drug Resistant TB 2012 Threat
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Doctors in India confirmed this week that they’re treating 12 cases of people suffering from total drug resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB) prompting news organization DNAIndia to declare ‘this is as scary as it can get’.
The apocalyptic potential of the new antibiotic resistant strain of the deadly disease comes because “each person with active TB can infect 10 to 15 people a year’, the Times of India reported, noting that the six men and women currently identified with the disease (one of whom has already died) have an average age of just 32.3.
“TB is a contagious disease,” the Times added, “Like the common cold, it spreads through the air.”
Infectious disease specialist Dr Om Shrivastav from Jaslok hospital, where the patients are currently isolated, was similarly apocalyptic.
“TB is no longer a poor man’s disease. I am seeing more and more people from all sections of society suffering from TB,” the Doctor told DNAIndia.
“The manifestation of the disease has changed and it is no longer restricted to the chest. We are seeing TB infection in scalp, skin and even nails,” he added.
2012: Is the End Nigh (Or Not?): Claudia Cazacu (interview)
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According to the Mayan Calendar the world (or at least civilisation) is due to end cataclysmically on December 21st 2012. With economists and futurologists also almost all predicting a year of upheaval, Skrufff asked a bunch of our favourite DJs and personalities for their predictions for 2012; both musically and apocalype-wise . . .
Claudia Cazacu: I Am an Avid Follower of the Mayan Prophecy (interview)
“It’s been quite a while since I passed my banking and finance degree but from my amateur position I don’t think the current situation is going to get better any time soon.”
London based tech-trance DJ Claudia Cazacu has already lived through one revolution having been a child when Romania’s dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu was deposed and executed in 1989.
“Part of me feels the system needs to fail to be able to rebuild itself again on realistic value. At some point one country or another is going to have to default or else have their debt written off at the cost to another nation. When this happens we may well find money as a belief system seriously compromised,” she predicts.
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Barefoot Doctor’s 2012 Message (interview)
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“There is a need to be aware an almighty storm is on the way and so do what you can to lash yourself down as securely as possible until it passes and the rebuild operation gets underway.”
Though Taoist teacher (and regular Skrufff contributor) Barefoot Doctor is more than a little apocalyptic in his new book The Message he’s characteristically optimistic despite his warning.
“We have reached a crisis point in human history,” he continues, “The indication is for collapse rather than destruction – the sort of collapse that leads to the discovery of a necessary jewel that might have otherwise been left undiscovered.”
Tiga’s 2012 End of the World Choices
Tiga was asked what the last records he’d play if the world ends next December and revealed a decidedly 80s slant …..
“Maybe The Cure – Just Like Heaven,” he suggested,
… or The Smiths – There’s A Light That Never Goes Out… a kind of soundtrack to the end of everyone’s life. It would not be one of my own records!”
October 21; World Possibly Not Over Yet!
Apocalypse expert Harold Camping, 90, hinted this week that zombies might not stalk the Earth on Saturday 21st as he appeared to backtrack on earlier predictions of fire, brimstone and violent brutal death for all unsaved sinners.
Speaking last month Pastor Camping remained cheerfully bloodthirsty, despite being roundly ridiculed after his last End Time date May 21st passed without incident.
“On the last day, all the unsaved are going to come under the curse of God,” he promised, “They are going to be thrown out of the grave if there are still a corpse there or bones. If they are in the grave, they will be shamed in the eyes of God. If they die on that day, they’re not going to be buried. They’re going to be shamed in the eyes of God,” he enthused.
This week, via a ‘special message’ delivered via his Family Radio website, he instead sounded subdued.
“Probably there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against god,” he grumbled.
“They’ll quietly die…the true believers will quietly receive the new heaven and the new Earth. I really am beginning to think as I restudied these matters that there’s going to be no big display of any kind. The end is going to come very, very quietly probably within the next month. It will happen that is by October 21…” (Christian Post; http://bit.ly/qrDkE3 )
