Mpox health emergency in Africa With a one hundred and sixty percent increase in fatalities compared to 2023 health authorities have reportedly declared a health emergency caused by monkeypox (mpox) across the African continent calling for concrete action for greater support from the world as the zoonosis is spreading through sexual intercourse or close contact. Concern rises by monitoring the daily situation and the sending of ten million doses of vaccines is requested and there are fears given the pace of spread that it could also affect the whole world, so accurate surveillance of any cases that could go unnoticed with adequate isolation is necessary, then it must be considered that in an interconnected world it could only be a matter of time for the virus to spread as happened for example for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 14, 2024 n: 5722 Floods in Kampala in Uganda At least four people would be killed in the floods following torrential rainfall that lasted days, affected by the floods also defined as among the worst in the history of Uganda Wakiso; there is talk of extensive damage to crops with the fields covered by a thick layer of mud, mud, then the Entebbe road unusable and considerable inconvenience for the population. In the past some speak of poor maintenance of the drainage system in Kampala, which was already inadequate and therefore insufficient in the event of heavy rains. Changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues to report the severe heat wave that is affecting Italy and temperatures are continuing to rise and the melting of ice and snow that had fallen in abundance in recent months on Mont Blanc with the freezing point above four thousand meters for about thirty-three hours is worrying. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 13, 2024 n: 5721 Major fires near Athens in Greece The authorities have reportedly evacuated thousands of people and two hospitals due to large fires that are burning vegetation near Athens that have burned Mount Pentelico and heading towards Penteli; there is talk of many teams of firefighters employed to try to deal with the massive fires that have also burned hundreds of olive trees, also residents of historic Maraton town ordered to evacuate. SMS messages have been sent to the population in Attica to indicate the direction to follow to get away from the fires. Changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic themes it is worth mentioning the use to insulate houses in Taiwan as a kind of paint of the residues of the calcination of crumbled oyster shells (with a preliminary procedure of fine cleaning), this allows to keep houses cool in summer and warm in winter. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 12, 2024 n: 5720 Floods in Quebec in Canada At least one municipality in Quebec has reportedly declared a state of emergency due to the floods, then La Macanza about one hundred and seventy kilometers northwest of Montreal has opened a shelter for people affected by torrential rainfall also setting up a coordination center for relief efforts. Almost half a million people have been left without electricity supply especially in areas in the south of the province, there is also talk of people trapped by floods as well as roads turned into rivers with floating or semi-submerged vehicles and flight cancellations, sewers often do not work and some events have been postponed. In practice these are the remnants of the tropical storm "Debby" which recently lashed Florida and then rose very slowly from the United States to Canada causing damage and inconvenience. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 10, 2024 n: 5719 Possibility of a major earthquake in Japan Although it is not possible to predict earthquakes some Japanese researchers speculate about the possibility of a strong earthquake after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake three days ago shook the south of the island of Kyushu in the south country causing eight injuries using a monitoring system set up after the devastating earthquake of 2011 (which caused the serious atomic accident of Fukushima with the meltdown of three reactors putting the whole world at risk). Resting on four major tectonic plates the Japanese archipelago could be hit by a so-called "megaearthquake" with a seventy percent probability in the next thirty years and a death toll of three hundred thousand in the worst hypothesized scenario. Generally for example it happens that after a strong shock another one or seismic swarm occurs to discharge the energy accumulated underground, but this does not always happen. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 09, 2024 n: 5718 Italy divided in two in terms of weather conditions While in the northern regions a disturbance characterized by cloudbursts, hailstorms and gusts of wind with damage and one victim (a mountaineer surprised by bad weather on Mont Blanc) caused temperatures to drop a little, in the southern ones they remain quite high and for example in Sicily crowded with tourists in addition to the heat the drought makes the living conditions really unpleasant and for the vegetation the situation is of emergency. The weather forecast warns of the arrival in the next few days of a severe heat wave that could raise the mercury column by more than eight Celsius degrees above the average for the period (in France perhaps even ten), then there is talk of a kind of farewell to the Mediterranean climate replaced by the tropical one including the sea that is becoming warmer and less populated by native species. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 08, 2024 n: 5717 New sites built with artificial intelligence To recognize if a new site that deals with current news has been created with artificial intelligence and it is just disinformation, according to experts have to look for example at the logo and see if the image makes sense including any text phrases included, then check that it is not a facade that really existed in the past but is no longer active, examine the errors made by neural networks to user requests and for the more experienced check the HTML code of the page and see what the reference addresses are (generally they point to the same server that can be identified). It is worth mentioning the significant increase in the resources allocated lately to the development of artificial intelligence with the use of tens of thousands of programmers, so in practice we are going in the opposite direction and do not try to put a stop to this questionable technology. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 07, 2024 n: 5716 A tropical storm heads towards Georgia After causing at least four deaths in Florida due to torrential rainfall and subsequent flooding, as well as gusts of wind, power outages and damage, tropical storm "Debby" is heading very slowly towards Georgia and South Carolina, although it is not excluded that other floods in Florida are possible. Initially the hurricane (defined as capable of causing historic and potentially unprecedented flooding) and then downgraded had evacuated low-lying areas in coastal areas and now the authorities warn to wait before returning to homes because the sea level is still high due to the action of the strong vortex. Some events previously scheduled also at the national level in Georgia have been canceled, then there is talk of many utilities temporarily without power. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 06, 2024 n: 5715 A hurricane is about to lash out in Florida The tropical storm called "Debby" gained strength as it approached the coast of Florida and is now classified as category one hurricane after the strong vortex approached the Big Bend region, with a state of emergency on sixty-one of the sixty-seven counties of the American state; the authorities warn the population that the hurricane could be very dangerous and to protect themselves from possible flooding especially in areas in the south-east of the country, then gusts of wind and really intense rainfall are expected. Changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic issues international organizations claim that extreme heat kills one hundred and seventy-five thousand people a year in Europe, affected by marked warming with temperatures rising to about twice the average percentage compared to the rest of the planet. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 05, 2024 n: 5714 High temperatures in Morocco and North Africa There would be over twenty-one victims recently in Morocco in the city of Beni Mellal according to the authorities due to a heat wave with temperature peaks of over forty-eight degrees Celsius as well as a prolonged drought that has been affecting the country for some time heavily damaging crops and making work in the fields very difficult or almost impossible and the situation is not much better in Algeria and Tunisia. To be noted changing the subject but remaining on naturalistic themes the theme that has now become almost obsolete on the depletion of the planet's resources announced two days ago and on the fact that it will be necessary to affect the naturalistic capital to move forward perhaps continuing for example to quietly consume meat every day, processed foods, purchase polluting plastic clothes, take the plane, smoke, waste water and various fossil fuels. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 03, 2024 n: 5713 First Page * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |