SINCE its founding in 1854 as a small department within the Board of Trade, the Met Office has performed a huge role in the UK’s daily life. Advising the country of what to expect weatherwise is of key importance to both businesses and citizens. A government grant of £1.2billion in 2020 enabled the installation of […]
The House Homeland Security Committee voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Mayorkas after a marathon 13-hour hearing. The vote was along party lines, 18-15. A full house vote will likely take place next week. This is a rare event. No cabinet member has been impeached in over 150 years. Yet, that is how bad […]
This is the second of two parts. You can read Part 1 here. THE next step of the International Commission investigating the 1977 outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in Yambuku, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC), was to pay antibody-positive people in the town to donate blood plasma for use in treating new patients. […]
This is the first of a two-part series. NOTHING creates public panic or sells pulp fiction quite like a horror disease, and the haemorrhagic fever Ebola is a peerless example. Before 1995, Ebola was a rare occurrence but epidemics now occur with increasing regularity thanks to a global network of disease surveillance laboratories established since the start […]
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