• January 2 - A shoemaker in Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy. (wikipedia.org)
  • January 18 - Nicolò Contarini is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice and spends most of his time fighting a bubonic plague epidemic, but dies in office on April 2, 1631. (wikipedia.org)
  • Throughout the Soviet era, the AP system worked effectively, preventing major epidemics from decimating Soviet citizens in regions where diseases such as anthrax, brucellosis, bubonic plague, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and tularemia are endemic, and protecting economically important animals and crops from infectious diseases. (nti.org)
  • The oriental rat flea, a major carrier of bubonic plague, can jump a vertical distance more than \(100\) times its body length. (uoguelph.ca)
  • It was the Japanese who made the most use of biological weapons during World War II, as among other terrifyingly indiscriminate attacks, the Japanese Army Air Force dropped ceramic bombs full of fleas carrying the bubonic plague on Ningbo, China. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Bubonic plague was the contagious disease that led to quarantines as early as the 14th century in port cities in southern Europe. (cdc.gov)
  • Although mass graves can be used during major conflicts such as war and crime , in modern times they may be used after a famine , epidemic , or natural disaster . (wikipedia.org)
  • During the siege of Caffa, a Genoese possession in Crimea (now Feodosia, Ukraine), the attacking Mongol forces experienced an epidemic of plague ( 6 - 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Mongols, however, converted their misfortune into an opportunity by hurling the cadavers of their deceased into the city, and this action perhaps initiated the ensuing plague epidemic. (cdc.gov)
  • In the 14th century AD, during the siege of Kaffa (now Feodosia, Ukraine) the attacking Mongol force hurled the corpses of those who died of plague into the city to attempt to inflict a plague epidemic upon the enemy. (medscape.com)
  • This originated in 1377 when the Rector of the Venetian-controlled city of Ragusa declared a 40-day isolation period for land travellers during a plague epidemic (2). (who.int)
  • MEXICO CITY - Security forces searching mass graves in the northern Mexican state of Durango have unearthed eight more bodies, authorities said Wednesday, bringing the total to 188 and making it the largest discovery yet of corpses secretly buried in regions plagued by drug-gang fighting. (foxnews.com)
  • A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most corpses had evidence of blunt force trauma to the head while seven men had stabbing injuries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Essentially the larval form of the Abandoned Hospital , conditions in this facility are clearly dire: resources are rapidly dwindling, the staff are overworked, space is so limited that patients may be forced to sleep in corridors, and the morgue is overflowing with corpses - sometimes to the point where the authorities are forced to start digging mass graves. (tvtropes.org)
  • In 1710, during the Swedish-Russian War, in the siege of Reval (now Tallin, Estonia), the Russians were said to have hurled corpses of plague victims into the besieged city ( 9 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This was repeated in 1422 during the Hussite wars in Bohemia at the seige of Karlstejn (now in the Czech Republic) when invading forces hurled plague-striken corpses, dead cows, and 2000 cartloads of excrement at enemy troops. (medscape.com)
  • ethnically targeted killings , assassinations , forced displacement , and the burning of villages . (progressive.org)
  • The mission to Libya welcomes the decision of the Minister of Justice to establish a committee to investigate these mass graves and we call on the members to quickly begin work to secure the mass graves, identify the victims, establish the causes of death and return the bodies to their relatives", Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary General said. (africanews.com)
  • The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution , [1] although an exact definition is not unanimously agreed upon. (wikipedia.org)
  • A mass grave containing at least 300 bodies of victims of a Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' in the year 1238, was discovered during an excavation in 2005, in Yaroslavl, Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Big Finish Doctor Who episode " Enemy Of The Daleks ," the research base's infirmary at first appears to be functioning perfectly - up until you notice the locked ward for victims of the recent viral outbreak: unable to treat these patients, the Sistermatic medical droid has been forced to simply leave them there under strict quarantine. (tvtropes.org)
  • The data we describe, obtained from the Archives of the Venetian State, are related to an operation organized by the Venetian Intelligence Services, which aimed at lifting the siege by infecting the Ottoman soldiers with plague by attacking them with a liquid made from the spleens and buboes of plague victims. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1346, plague was deliberately used as a biological weapon. (cdc.gov)
  • We describe a plan-ultimately abandoned-to use plague as a biological weapon during the Venetian-Ottoman War in the 17th century. (cdc.gov)
  • The potential spectrum of bioterrorism ranges from hoaxes and actual use of agents by individuals or groups against others, to state-sponsored terrorism that employs biological warfare (BW) agents and delivery systems that can produce mass casualties. (medscape.com)
  • They also developed a plague biological weapon by breeding fleas fed on plague-infected rats, and releasing millions of fleas in aerial attacks on Chinese cities. (medscape.com)
  • We are now somehow inexperienced in keeping our focus - unpracticed in holding our nation's attention on the enduring and seemingly endless battle against the plague of domestic and stochastic outbreaks of firearms violence. (minnpost.com)
  • In the first half of the 20th century, the country experienced numerous outbreaks of smallpox, cholera, plague, and typhoid fever - necessitating the arrangement of quarantine facilities by the British (7). (who.int)
  • They either wiped out entire populations owning to food scarcity or forced countless people to migrate out of the region. (explorethecanyon.com)
  • MASS Layoffs, Countless Scandals & MASSIVE Housing Bubble! (investmentwatchblog.com)
  • The END Is Coming For Wells Fargo - MASS Layoffs, Countless Scandals & MASSIVE Housing Bubble! (investmentwatchblog.com)
  • Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the countless scandals plaguing Wells Fargo topped by the slumping housing market which is forcing the insolvent bank to lay off 638 mortgage employees. (investmentwatchblog.com)
  • At the halfway point of January, the United States was on track to have nearly 50 mass shootings by the end of the month. (issuu.com)
  • A "Lewiston Strong" sign posted in the aftermath of the deadly mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine. (minnpost.com)
  • Y. pestis -infected fleas were released from aircraft over Chinese cities to initiate plague epidemics ( 10 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In worst-case scenarios featuring plague, the building itself may become a colossal infection vector, transmitting the disease to the few patients who weren't infected. (tvtropes.org)
  • As a retired Air Force officer, let me tell you this: honor code or not, you can't win a war with lies - America proved that in Vietnam, Afghanistan , and Iraq - nor can you build an honorable military with them. (juancole.com)
  • In the 18th century AD, during the French and Indian War, British forces in North America gave blankets from smallpox patients to the Native Americans to transmit the disease to the immunologically naïve tribes. (medscape.com)
  • and the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, among other evidence of the lying and deception that led to the invasion and occupation of that country, you'll excuse me for assuming that, for decades now when it comes to war, "integrity optional" has been the true core value of our senior military leaders and top government officials. (juancole.com)
  • Egypt is slowly recovering from the political turmoil that has plagued it in recent decades. (goway.com)
  • The coup has also resulted in a surge in fighting between the military and a raft of resistance groups allied with long-established ethnic militias in a country that has been plagued for decades by insurgencies. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • Stitt's latest fundraising message also blamed Biden's policies for the recent gasoline shortage that has plagued the East Coast after a cyberattack involving ransomware force the Colonial Pipeline to shut down on May 7. (newsweek.com)
  • With many manufacturers targeting mass-electrification by 2030, and states such as California planning to ban certain gasoline vehicles by the next decade , many are clamoring for urgent measures to be taken. (arcanation.com)
  • In response to a rebel uprising, Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir directed the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied Arab militias, known as Janjaweed , to launch a campaign of genocide against non-Arab populations in Darfur. (progressive.org)
  • However, the psychological impact from mass mandatory quarantines worldwide should also be considered. (who.int)
  • However, the already present on site and a large amount of stone was psychological impact from mass mandatory quarantines available for use to construct new buildings, from the worldwide should also be considered. (who.int)
  • According to the UN support mission, at least 8 mass graves have been discovered in Tarhouna, 65 km south-east of Tripoli. (africanews.com)
  • Several mass graves have been discovered that were the result of Napoleonic battles, mass graves were dug for expeditious disposal of deceased soldiers and horses. (wikipedia.org)
  • The situation in Darfur is a good case study of what happens when there is impunity for mass atrocities and why justice and accountability are critical to establishing sustainable peace. (progressive.org)
  • However, there is near complete impunity for the forces that have killed more than 300 people since the 2009 coup, including labour, political and land reform activists, journalists and lawyers. (aljazeera.com)
  • Russia's latest military debacle took place on the Kherson front in southern Ukraine between Sunday and Monday, threatening a mass Ukrainian encirclement of tens of thousands of ill-equipped troops. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The businessman's efforts to burnish his credentials as a commander comes as Putin is under increasing pressure, with the Russian armed forces plagued by low morale and high casualties, prompting speculation as to future ambitions. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the Battle of Lützen , 47 soldiers who perished were buried in a mass grave. (wikipedia.org)
  • Generally the mass graves were dug by soldiers or members of logistical corps. (wikipedia.org)
  • A deeper inspiration is found in his attention to bodies and pleasures, and to their evisceration at the hands of mass society-in short, to sexuality as a material force. (fifthestate.org)
  • During the siege, many Tartars died at the hands of plague, and their lifeless, infected bodies were hurled over the city walls . (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • In addition, 160 bodies were discovered at the morgue of the Tarhouna hospital by forces of the Government of National Unity. (africanews.com)
  • By the time the Doctor arrives, the base personnel are all dead or dying with the exception of Professor Shimura , and most of the bodies have been dumped outside in a mass grave. (tvtropes.org)
  • And now, the Rapid Support Forces, a rebranded version of the Janjaweed, are committing mass atrocities in Darfur again. (progressive.org)
  • A grassroots campaign known as "Save Darfur" helped raise awareness of the mass atrocities being committed in Sudan and to put pressure on politicians to act. (progressive.org)
  • Springfield, MA - Honduras now claims the dubious distinction of being the murder capital of the world as drug trafficking and gangs play an undeniable role in the violence plaguing the small central American country. (aljazeera.com)
  • Hung Tack (Lee) is the master of a kung fu school in a town plagued by two evil businessmen, who force Hung to take on the local gangs. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Mubarak won a fifth term in 2005 but was forced to resign in 2011 in response to mass protests. (goway.com)
  • Her death has sparked outrage - with mass protests taking place in Iran and internationally against the Iranian government and the mandatory hijab law. (paisano-online.com)
  • Tomdispatch.com ) - As a military professor for six years at the U.S. Air Force Academy in the 1990s, I often walked past the honor code prominently displayed for all cadets to see. (juancole.com)
  • However, Islamic extremists were denied any sort of recognition from the state as having any legal political standing and in the 1980s and 1990s, they turned to force with many attacks on the president. (goway.com)
  • In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. (mcnallyjackson.com)
  • Handing Mr Bush a major victory, the Democratic-led Senate voted 77-23 for a war-powers resolution backing a possible use of force to rid Iraq of suspected weapons of mass destruction and possibly oust the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • In contemplating an occupation, the Administration is scaling back the initial role for Iraqi opposition forces in a post-Saddam government. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • Upon the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait a new U.S., policy was created for the region. (lu.se)
  • General Lee Butler was US Commander of Strategic Nuclear Forces, with the day to day responsibility for operations, discipline, training of tens of thousands of crew members, the systems that they operated and the warheads those systems were designed to deliver. (worldacademy.org)
  • In the initial phase, Iraq would be governed by an American military commander - perhaps General Tommy Franks, head of US forces in the Gulf, or one of his subordinates - who would assume essentially the role General Douglas MacArthur served in Japan after its surrender in 1945. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • In his speech, Raisi held up a picture of the late Quds Force commander, Qasem Soleimani , whose legacy is plagued in darkness. (paisano-online.com)
  • Cuban forces and Soviet advisers remained in Angola to help that country consolidate its independence against repeated forays by both the SADF and UNITA's stubborn and vicious CIA-aided bandit war. (sahistory.org.za)
  • These forces have seized the entire western part of the country. (africanews.com)
  • For more than a year, Libya has been plagued by clashes between two factions, which wish to take control of the entire country. (africanews.com)
  • But the official suggested the US military might enter and secure the country anyway, not only to eliminate weapons of mass destruction but to ensure against anarchy in the weeks and months after Saddam's removal. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • The revelation of the occupation plan marks the first time the Administration has described in detail how it would administer Iraq in the days and weeks after a possible invasion, and how it would keep the country unified while searching for weapons of mass destruction. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • Napyidaw [Myanmar], March 27 (ANI): In a grand display of forces, Myanmar's military Junta showcased a grand display of forces soon after the United States imposed sanctions on the ruling military for the current situation of the country, CNN reported. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • and the escalation of mass political and armed struggle was led by the ANC in South Africa. (sahistory.org.za)
  • At the height of the violence, between 200,000 and 400,000 civilians were killed and millions more were forced to flee their homes. (progressive.org)
  • CCM has convened a Special Task Force on Reducing Gun Violence to make recommendations to the Governor and state legislature, and it starts with increasing the accountability for serious firearm offenses in our justice system. (issuu.com)
  • Violence - and especially the killing of children such as the mass killing that occurred this week at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, leaving at least 19 students dead - can't be understood in the immediacy of shock and despair, however deplorable and understandable. (truthout.org)
  • Among Democrats, the general response to mass violence in the U.S. is to call for more gun regulations and criticize the NRA, gun lobbies and the weapons industry. (truthout.org)
  • It is not surprising that Cruz responded to the mass shooting in a Texas elementary school by declaring that one way to solve the problem of school violence was to arm teachers. (truthout.org)
  • During the Soviet era, they had accumulated a solid stock of equipment, vehicles, and scientific and medical supplies that allowed them to continue monitoring the natural plague foci and other dangerous diseases occurring on their respective territories, and conducting scientific research related to these diseases after the dissolution of the USSR. (nti.org)
  • Unfortunately, in the event of a natural disaster, a plague, a war, a spectacular economic crisis, or maybe just a problem Inherent in the System , the orderly nature of a hospital begins to break down - giving way to this trope. (tvtropes.org)
  • Results --Almost all hospitals have plans for responding to natural disasters attacks or mass casualty incidents. (cdc.gov)
  • It is assumed that many will flee from the disaster area in mass panic, leaving the community stripped of its human and natural resources. (cdc.gov)
  • Some researchers believe that this tactic may have been responsible for the spread of Black Death plague into Europe. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • They allegedly spread plague in St. Petersburg, infected mules with glanders in Mesopotamia, and attempted to do the same with the horses of the French cavalry. (medscape.com)
  • For those on probation, the task force suggests the probation officer shall seek a warrant for violation of probation, the individual shall be detained pending a violation of probation hearing, and the court shall hold a violation of probation hearing within 30 days. (issuu.com)
  • It was called the 'anti-plague system,' where the word 'plague' was used broadly to refer to infectious diseases causing high morbidity and mortality. (nti.org)
  • In the course of history, plague, caused by Yersinia pestis , has been responsible for at least 3 widespread pandemics with high mortality rates. (cdc.gov)
  • The history of smallpox is remarkable not only because of the spectacular devastation it wreaked upon civilization since the dawn of humankind, but also for the astounding achievement of modern medicine, which eradicated this plague through the concerted efforts of global vaccination (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • This might have led to a mass destruction of the existing population. (explorethecanyon.com)
  • Does technology always lead to mass destruction? (intellectualtakeout.org)
  • Mr Bush's aides said they also want full control over Iraq while US-led forces carry out their main mission of finding and destroying weapons of mass destruction. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • Throughout the 20th century, especially after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when the masses became a real social and political force in society, the bacteria / mass metaphor became particularly prevalent. (spiked-online.com)
  • In an article "The Economic Basis of Politics," Connolly argued "an effective political force" had to have its origins "deep down in the daily life of the people, not in the brains of some half dozen gentlemen in parliament. (irishecho.com)
  • By taking Marxist and sex-economic categories as his ultimate frame of reference for sex-political inquiry, Reich obscures his own radical insight into the nature of the emotional plague. (fifthestate.org)
  • While the government had attempted to force small transporters to absorb the majority of the increase, convincing the National Transport Federation to pass on only 30% of the increase to passengers, many smaller federations and individuals refused to respect this agreement. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Mass graves at various places like Semmani and Kokkuthoduvai has been found in Sri Lankan Island that are believed to be killing and burial of innocent Tamils by the SriLankan Army along the years of the Civil War between the Sinhalese government and the Tamils. (wikipedia.org)
  • The display of forces on Monday marked the third time the military, also known as the Tatmadaw, has celebrated Armed Forces Day since overthrowing Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected government. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • In The Handmaid's Tale we follow the handmaid 'Offred' who finds herself in the totalitarian theocratic Republic of Gilead, which replaced the US government, in a world plagued by the consequences of climate change and mass infertility. (erasmusmagazine.nl)
  • After lengthy negotiations, the Bahraini government sold the site to the British Royal Air Force (RAF) for 13 000 Gulf Rupees, which included the foreshore between the camp and the sea. (who.int)
  • In disasters , mass graves are used for infection and disease control. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the end of 1631, the city of 250,000 suffers 186,000 deaths, losing almost three-quarters of its population to plague. (wikipedia.org)
  • Videos circulated on the web of Iranian security forces firing on peaceful protesters in the city of Shiraz on day four of protesting. (paisano-online.com)
  • The United Nations expressed its horror Thursday after discovering mass graves in Libya in an area that fell last week to forces of Fayez el Sarraj, who have been at war for more than a year against forces of Khalifa Haftar. (africanews.com)
  • The Cataclysmic effect - Around 1110 AD, severe droughts were plaguing the areas where the Anasazi lived. (explorethecanyon.com)
  • hospitals (identified as proprietary or as will be possible to study changes in The 2003 NHAMCS Bioterrorism located in nonmetropolitan statistical preparedness as a function of the and Mass Casualty Preparedness areas) was selected from the 2002 VHD. (cdc.gov)
  • June 14 - Passengers of the Arbella, including Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet of significance, finally set foot in the New World at Salem, Massachusetts. (wikipedia.org)
  • To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. (mcnallyjackson.com)
  • Officials said they want to avoid the chaos and infighting that have plagued Afghanistan since the defeat of the Taliban. (hotcopper.com.au)
  • It is by viewing sexuality as a struggle of material forces that we can understand the pervasive suffering that defines civilized life at all levels of the social order. (fifthestate.org)
  • Instead I think he saw technology as the plague that isolates, a relentless social force. (intellectualtakeout.org)
  • This brief is inspired by a ground-breaking study on the anti-plague system of the former Soviet Union conducted by a team of researchers from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Kazakh Scientific Center of Quarantine and Zoonotic Infections in Almaty, Kazakhstan, under the supervision of the study's principal investigators, Dr. Sonia Ben Ouagrham and Dr. Raymond A. Zilinskas. (nti.org)
  • Myanmar security forces have subjected many people arrested since the coup to torture and other ill-treatment, including frequent beatings. (hrw.org)
  • Mass or communal burial was a common practice before the development of a dependable crematory chamber by Ludovico Brunetti in 1873. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Paris, the practice of mass burial, and in particular, the condition of the Cimetière des Innocents , led Louis XVI to eliminate Parisian cemeteries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Resistance groups have repeatedly accused Myanmar's military of carrying out mass killings, air strikes and war crimes against civilians in the regions where fighting has raged, charges the junta repeatedly denies - despite a growing body of evidence. (bignewsnetwork.com)
  • METHODS: We used self-reported data from Zika en Embarazadas y Nios (ZEN), a cohort study of women in early pregnancy across three regions of Colombia during 2017-2018. (cdc.gov)
  • the heat forced six public-school campuses to shut down early for the day both Thursday and Friday, Sept. 8. (yourarlington.com)
  • Computer related musculoskeletal disorders plague the American office work force. (cdc.gov)
  • Area residents and community members gather at the town square in Uvalde, Texas, for a vigil in the wake of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022. (truthout.org)
  • August 25 - Sinhalese-Portuguese War: In the Battle of Randeniwela on the island of Sri Lanka, King Senarat of Kandy leads more than 35,000 troops in killing most of an attack force led by Portuguese Ceylon governor Constantino de Sá de Noronha. (wikipedia.org)
  • After the Soviet Union's dissolution, the NIS reorganized their healthcare systems, merging plague control institutions with sanitary and other public health organizations. (nti.org)
  • We are hopefully living in a time that allows us to see what we don't have, even if it forces us to rely on technology more. (intellectualtakeout.org)
  • Thursday marked the first time the Administration has discussed what could be a long occupation by coalition forces, led by the US. (hotcopper.com.au)