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Into the Shadows

Fighting Ebola: How We Battle One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
Ebola is viral hemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate exceeding fifty percent that first appeared in Zaire in 1976. It is a horrible disease to die from, survive or even witness. The world continues to experience outbreaks pretty much annually mostly in Africa. Some outbreaks have killed thousands and caused nation-wide panics.
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The Rise of Chlorine Gas: The First Mass Use of a Chemical Weapon
The use of chemical weapons in combat has been traced back to about 1000 b.c. But it was little more than an experimental weapon until World War One when tear gas gave way to chlorine, phosgene and mustard gases causing horrific death and injuries to friendly as well as enemy soldiers and civilians.
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Marburg: The Completely Untreatable Virus
Marburg is a hemorrhagic disease that kills 90 percent of victims, usually after eight or nine days of increasingly more agony and gore. Since 1967 there have been 383 deaths in 14 outbreaks. It principally comes from bats or their feces in Uganda.
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The Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide began with the Hamidian Massacres 1894 reaching it's zenith during World War One by which time a million or more were brutally killed. The events are still (2023) denied by the perpetrators; Turkey and Azerbajan.
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Chechnya: Russia's Achilles' Heel
The Chechen Wars are yet another of Russia's continuing efforts to dominate nearby regions through invasions involving savage atrocities that traumatized Russia as well and region that fell victim.
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