Mississippi health officials are pleading with residents not to take a medicine meant for cows and horses as an alternative to getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a state with the nation's second lowest rate of vaccination against the coronavirus, a jump in the number of calls to poison control prompted an alert Friday from the Mississippi State Department of Health about ingesting the drug ivermectin. The department said that at least 70% of recent calls to the state poison control center were related to people who ingested a version of the drug that is formulated to treat parasites in cows and horses.
Ingesting the drug can lead to a rash, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, neurologic disorders and potentially severe hepatitis requiring hospitalization, according to the alert written by Dr. Paul Byers, the state's top epidemiologist.
Byers said that 85% of the people calling after using ivermectin had mild symptoms, but at least one person has been hospitalized due to ivermectin toxicity, according to the Mississippi Free Press.
Putting that out there as a PSA. I do understand the need to try to self-medicate at a lower cost. We all have bills. I have bills, for example, and two kids. But for your own safety right now, please seek medical treatment during the pandemic.
That is his latest.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Monday, August 23, 2021. More problems emerge in Iraq and, try not to notice, all are connected to the Turkish government's actions.
Today, the Norwegian Refugee Council issued the folowing:
Across the region, rising temperatures, record low levels of rainfall, and drought are depriving people of drinking and agricultural water. It is also disrupting electricity as dams run out of water, which in turn impacts the operations of essential infrastructure including health facilities. Higher temperatures caused by climate change increase the risks and severity of droughts.
More than five million people in Syria directly depend on the river. In Iraq, the loss of access to water from the river, and drought, threaten at least seven million people. Some 400 square kilometres of agricultural land risk total drought. Two dams in northern Syria, serving three million people with electricity, face imminent closure. Communities in Hasakah, Aleppo, Raqqa and Deir ez Zour, including displaced people in camps, have witnessed a rise in outbreaks of water borne-diseases such as diarrhoea, since the reduction in water.
In Iraq, large swathes of farmland, fisheries, power production and drinking water sources have been depleted of water. In the Ninewa governorate, wheat production is expected to go down by 70 per cent because of the drought, while in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq production is expected to decrease by half. Some families in Anbar who have no access to river water are spending up to USD80 a month on water.
“The total collapse of water and food production for millions of Syrians and Iraqis is imminent,” said Carsten Hansen, Regional Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council. “With hundreds of thousands of Iraqis still displaced and many more still fleeing for their lives in Syria, the unfolding water crisis will soon become an unprecedented catastrophe pushing more into displacement.”
CARE’s Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa, Nirvana Shawky, said: “The situation demands that authorities in the region and donor governments act swiftly to save lives in this latest crisis, that comes on top of conflict, COVID-19 and severe economic decline. In the longer term, beyond emergency food and water, they need to invest in sustainable solutions to the water crisis.”
The Danish Refugee Council’s Middle East Regional Director Gerry Garvey said: “This water crisis is bound to get worse. It is likely to increase conflict in an already destabilized region. There is no time to waste. We must find sustainable solutions that would guarantee water and food today and for future generations.”
In Al Sebat, 30 km away from Hasakah, residents have seen scores of villagers leaving to other areas, forced out by the drought.
“This year we have witnessed a wave of intense drought and as a result our lands did not produce any crops and we don’t have any sources of drinkable water either for us or for our animals,” said Abdallah, a tribal leader from Al Sebat. “It is infuriating to think that the current conditions will force us to leave the rural areas and that our lands will be left as ruins.”
Many farmers have spent their savings and gone into debt to keep their animals alive.
“Because of the drought I was unable to harvest any wheat,” said Hamid Ali from Baaj, one of the worst affected districts in Ninewa, Iraq. “Now I am overwhelmed with debt.”
Other aid groups joining today’s warning and call for emergency and flexible funding are: ACTED, Action Against Hunger, Mercy Corps, People in Need, Première Urgence Internationale, War Child, Help, Women Rehabilitation Organisation, VIYAN Organization, Al Rakeezeh Foundation for Relief and Development.
Notes for editors:
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- Syria is currently facing the worst drought in seventy years while Iraq is facing the second driest season in 40 years due to record low rainfall according to the UN.
- In Turkey, major cities have suffered severe water shortages as the country’s largest reservoirs quickly became depleted at the end of last year.
The 'success' that is Iraq -- according to War Criminal Paul L. Bremer.
Post-government life as a ski bum apparently didn't work out for Paul so he returned with a column for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL that was filled with lies -- see "A War Criminal Returns."
The media's in a panic that the American people might catch on to reality so they're working overtime to hold on to US control of Iraq. They're in panic mode as they cringe and gasp and cry about what's going on in Afghanistan -- refusing to tell you that this was always the way US military in Afghanistan was going to end.
Fearful Americans might catch on to reality, Paul shows up to insist that Iraq is a success. And to prove that THE WALL STREET JOURNAL has no fact checkers and will print any garbage submitted to them.
On the water issue, Dilan Sirwan (RUDAW) reports:
An Iraqi delegation will visit Turkey early next month as water levels
in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have decreased by more than 50
percent, spokesperson for Iraq’s water ministry told state media on
Sunday.
“This year is a water scarce one and there is a clear decrease in water
levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to a point that their water
levels have dropped by more than 50 percent. That is in addition to a
major drop in the water levels at Dukan, Darbandikhan, Sirwan, and
Diyala dams,” spokesperson Ali Radhi told state media.
The Tigris and Euphrates both have their sources in Turkey and pass
through Syria before joining together in Iraq and spilling into the
Persian Gulf. They are important water resources for all three nations.
“Many meetings have been held with the Turkish and Syrian sides on the
water issue, and there is an expected visit of an Iraqi delegation to
Turkey at the beginning of next month in order to continue talks on
Iraq’s share of water and the situation of the Tigris and Euphrates,”
said Radhi.
He said Iraq is also preparing for a tripartite meeting with Turkey and
Syria to discuss “the issue of sharing damage in the water scarcity
period, completing the discussion on the joint protocol between Iraq and
Turkey, and establishing a research team in Iraq” to study the issue.
Staying with that wonderful Turkish government, they're still killing civilians. Yesterday, AFP reported, "Two civilians were killed on Sunday in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region by a Turkish army bombardment as forces battled the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels, local officials said." Dilan Sirwan (RUDAW) notes, "A reported seven other civilians have been killed, several injured, and 20 villages emptied this year. " Kamaran Osman Tweets:
The crime 26-year-old Yousif Ammar and 40-year-old Ahmed Shukir carried out? Yousif Musa (RUDAW) explains that "they visited the village of Bankie."
Well then, off with their heads, as the Queen of Hearts would say in ALICE IN WONDERLAND, right?
This is a genocide and it should have been stopped long ago.
Musa also notes, "A parliamentary report issued last year concluded that at least 504 villages have been emptied across the Kurdistan Region since 1992, and hundreds of people have been killed. In Duhok alone, 366 villages have been abandoned since 1998."
Again, this is a genocide.
Last Tuesday, they bombed a clinic and killed civilians. RUDAW informs that War criminal Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despot of Turkey, insisted yesterday that they did not bomb a clinic. That's right and Erdogan's thugs didn't attack Americans on US soil either, right? Oh, wrong.
Recep lies about attacking the clinic because that attack met the legal definition of a War Crime. He knows that. And he thinks if he rejects the term, cowed journalists won't use it and will continue to act as though it was an 'oopsie!' and not an actual War Crime that he can be -- and should be -- prosecuted for.
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