Health & Fitness
THE STRANGE STORY OF THE BLACK DEATH 1915--1918
A historical event that has implications.
This is a news item from long ago. It stands apart from the ordinary found on Patch. It is true and it is frightening. Albert Gitchell never new when he checked into the medical ward at Ft. Riley, Kansas, that the deaths of 1/3 of the World's population would be traced back to him. The disease that was in him would kill more people in twenty four weeks than the AIDS virus would kill in its first twenty four years. After running rampant for several years, it quit and just disappeared. The rapid spread of this was implimented by the days of World War One, many troops being deployed all over the World, and close living quarters. Three days after checking into sick bay, 100 people on the base would be sick...then, it appeared in Queens, NY, Brest Britany, France, Sierra Leone, and Boston, Mass. The strange thing was that the young and viril fell to it while the old and feeble were pretty much spared. It was found that this new virus caused a massive release of Cytokines which are protein molecules and they caused a massive release of immune weaponry called T-cells and Macrophages. This over whelming of the immune system caused the friendly cells to destroy each other. It was a Cytokine Storm. There was no known cure and there still isn't.
This is in the hands of the Almighty God. He has a great arsenal against a World that has mostly ignored or blasphemed Him. This should be sobering.