Nature can be Deadly
…When Summit was done, researchers analyzed the results. It was, in the words of Dr. Daniel Jacobson, lead researcher and chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge, a “eureka moment.” The computer had revealed a new theory about how Covid-19 impacts the body: the bradykinin hypothesis. The hypothesis provides a model that explains many aspects of Covid-19, including some of its most bizarre symptoms. It also suggests 10-plus potential treatments, many of which are already FDA approved.…
…A herd of cattle in southeastern Oklahoma was swept from a flooded pasture into a quickly flowing creek under a bridge and all of the action was caught on video.…
…He heard something hitting his safety helmet and realised that it was not rain that was falling but stones.
“We’d already started our descent… when the ash cloud reached us and day turned into night. From daylight it went to being as dark as at 10pm,”…
More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway in what wildlife officials are calling an unusually large natural disaster. … 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves.…
CRISPR gene drives allow scientists to change sequences of DNA and guarantee that the resulting edited genetic trait is inherited by future generations, opening up the possibility of altering entire species forever. More than anything, this technology has led to questions: How will this new power affect humanity? What are we going to use it to change? Are we gods now? Join journalist Jennifer Kahn as she ponders these questions and shares a potentially powerful application of gene drives: the development of disease-resistant mosquitoes that could knock out malaria and Zika.…
Scientists studying the Zika outbreak in Brazil say previous exposure to dengue, another mosquito-borne virus, may exacerbate the potency of infection.…
Bangladesh… unprecedented upsurge in lightning strikes have resulted in then deaths of over 60 people across the nation in three days.…
…The twister was one of several powerful tornadoes to strike yesterday in the Oklahoma towns of Elmore City, Katie and Wynnewood, inflicting 'catastrophic damage' as numerous houses were destroyed, barns were flattened, mobile homes were overturned and trees were uprooted.
Garvin County Sheriff's Office confirmed that at least one man in his 70s, who has not yet been identified, was killed when a tornado struck near his home in Wynnewood. Another man died when the storm hit near the town of Connerville, Johnston County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Stacey Pulley said.
At least one person was injured in Murray County and rushed to the nearby hospital. Their condition is not yet known.
Several homes in the area were completely destroyed by the storms, local officials confirmed. Livestock were also killed in the twisters while cars, farm equipment and even trucks were overturned.…
A new study finds that up to 2.2 billion people worldwide are at risk of contracting the Zika virus, which can cause irreparable damage to unborn children and painful nerve damage.
The study adds to the woes looming over Brazil – the epicenter of the Zika outbreak – as the nation prepares to welcome thousands for the 2016 Summer Olympics.…
TIAWAH, Oklahoma …a rancher attempting to deliver a calf was dragged to death by the cow after he became entangled in a chain. …75-year-old man was using a calf-pulling chain to help deliver the calf Tuesday when something spooked the cow, causing it to take off running.…
Massive Wildfire Makes Way Across Washington, Osage County Ranchlands
Posted:
Sunday, March 6, 2016 9:21 PM EST
Updated:
Sunday, March 6, 2016 10:29 PM EST
BY: KATIERA WINFREY, NEWS ON 6EMAIL
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oklahoma -
Thousands of acres burned through Osage and Washington counties on Sunday as crews from nearly a dozen agencies did their best to get the wildfire under control.
“It actually looks like a volcano; it doesn't look like a hill in Oklahoma…"
…Four days after visiting Grand Lake, Jo Rogers thought she had the flu. On day five, her family took her to a hospital.… By day six, doctors said Jo’s organs were shutting down.… “By Saturday morning, her arms and feet were turning dark blue and black… It was crawling up her limbs.” …then someone thought to check for what may have happened just one week earlier, a tick bite that went unnoticed. The one tiny bite, enough for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to ravage Jo’s body, forcing doctor’s to amputate her arms and legs.… Now a quad amputee, Jo’s family is rallying around her, raising money to help her in her new life they say she’s lucky to have.…
An Oklahoma man has died after contracting a waterborne disease while swimming in a local lake…Carter County resident, contracted Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection that derives from contact with Naegleria fowleri— also referred to as the brain-eating amoeba— while swimming in Lake Murray, a 5,700-acre lake in the south central part of the state.…
…Late last night, three separate thunderstorm systems converged over Space City to form one incredibly nasty storm. For weeks Houston and other parts of the Lone Star State have been pelted with storm system after storm system… Leaving two dead, lightning storms and torrential rainfall pounded Houston for most of the night. Some parts of the city, particularly southwest Houston, saw more than ten inches of rain in as little as five hours. Courts and schools were closed Tuesday with much of the city still unnavigable.… [Video, Photos]
…Captain Farley slipped or fell into the area around a storm drain and all personnel on scene rushed to help. A firefighter grabbed hold of Captain Farley while another firefighter held that one.
As Lieutenant Zane James went to help the other firefighters pull Captain Farley out, Farley and James were pulled into the storm drain.… [James survived]
A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, destroying homes, flinging cars like matchsticks and ripping an infant from its mother's arms. At least 13 people were killed… In Texas, 12 people were reported missing in flash flooding from a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes.…
A storm system dropped record amounts of rainfall across the southern Plains Sunday, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes, destroying homes, and forcing at least 2,000 people to flee. Two people were confirmed dead in Oklahoma… firefighter was swept to his death while trying to rescue people from high water and a woman in Tulsa died in a traffic-related crash. In Texas, a man's body was recovered from a flooded area along the Blanco River, which rose 26 feet in just one hour and left piles of wreckage 20 feet high… In Wimberley, Texas, southwest of Austin, eight people were reported missing, including three children…
80 years ago today in the heart of the Dust Bowl a major dust storm pushed its way across the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. …dubbed “Black Sunday”… April 14, 1935… one of the worst dust storms in American history… caused immense economic and agricultural damage… estimated to have displaced 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairie area in the United States.…
SAND SPRINGS, Oklahoma …The eagle parents are circling the park with their piercing calls, looking for their nests and their chicks which were all killed. … The EF-2 tornado destroyed a natural habitat for one of our national treasures and protected animals, the bald eagle. … reports that over four nests were destroyed. That resulted in seven baby chicks losing their lives. …
…Part of the roof collapsed as well as parts of the actual building that held 76 people, including more than 25 children. Staff members were able to take the young gymnasts to safety inside the basement. …Jennifer Patterson is credited with directing the building's occupants to the basement for shelter… possibly saved several lives during the building's collapse. … No one was injured. …
A confirmed, “extremely dangerous” tornado was spotted near Sand Springs in suburban Tulsa, moving east at 45 mph, the weather service said.
A mobile home park southwest of that town was “hit very hard,” said Chief Daniel Bradley of the Sand Springs Fire Department. His office was told 24 homes were damaged, some rolled over. …
A tornado touched down in Moore, Oklahoma in metropolitan Oklahoma City according to KFOR.com. It appeared to take a path similar to a devastating tornado that hit Moore May 20, 2013. …
Massive cyclone rips across Vanuatu, killing 'at least 40 people and leaving thousands homeless' as it causes CATASTROPHIC destruction on the island nation… expected to bring destructive winds of 250km/h, torrential rain and phenomenal seas to Vanuatu… [Daily Mail - many more links to cyclone news at War News Updates]
The man, who was previously healthy and in his 50s, became ill after receiving a tick bite while doing work on his property outdoors. Although he was treated with antibiotics, his organs eventually failed and he lost the ability to breathe on his own.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated the man's blood and found he had been infected by a previously unidentified virus that belonged to the thogotoviruses group, which had never before caused human illness in the U.S.
At least one person has died and scores more injured after two tornadoes struck in Nebraska on Monday. … The Associated Press reported the number of those critically injured was 16.
An Oklahoma man has died after acquiring the Heartland virus, making him the second person in the U.S. to die after coming down with the illness… found in the lone star tick and is likely spread through tick bites… Symptoms include fever, fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, loss of appetite, nausea, bruising easily and diarrhea. There is no vaccine or drug to prevent or treat the illness.
someone mentioned a letter, handwritten and dated 1876, with what appeared to be a smallpox scab pinned inside -- light brown, about the size of a pencil eraser and crumbling. The scab got the attention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), home to one of the world's two known caches of live smallpox viruses. Alerted by a government scientist in Maryland who was concerned that the scab might transmit infection, the agency dispatched two CDC representatives to Richmond. They donned disposable surgical gowns and gloves, lifted the scab from a display case, sealed it in bio-bags inside a red cooler and whisked it back to a high-security lab deep within the CDC's Atlanta headquarters.
most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980... deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States...
...250 homeless victims of a tornado that killed 21 persons in a residential district here and roared off "whistling like 10,000 devils."
1974-Jun-8 -- Tornadoes and floods left 13 dead in several state cities and towns, including one in Tulsa where damage was estimated at $20 million.
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