It’s a man looking over his family during the British Raj in India. There were many cases of cannibalism and he feared someone would try to kill and eat his children or wife. I acknowledge this is a difficult picture to look at— but I included it for a reason. Many people in the US/West aren’t even aware of the terrible famines that swept through India and which are comparable to the holocaust in deaths (an estimated ~30 million people have died in famines in India). This was taken from the Great Famine of 1876–1878, which was far worse than the infamous Bengal Famine. It was caused by a crop failure/drought and was exacerbated by the crown’s export of wheat abroad. In total, 5.6 - 9 million people died (it’s hard to get exact figures). And within huge statistics like these, are forgotten stories. These are individuals and families, who slowly faced the despair of knowing they had no food and would have no food in the near future. They faced the horror of knowing there was
Right when we were beginning to see Coronavirus and RSV rates drop this spring, one more kind of infection added to a spike in respiratory contaminations
Instances of one more sort of respiratory infection have spiked this spring, similarly as Coronavirus and RSV rates were at last falling in the US. As per the CDC, 19.6% of antigen tests and almost 11% of PCR tests for human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, were positive in the US toward the beginning of Spring. The almost 11% of positive PCR cases is up 36% since before the Coronavirus pandemic when PCR tests for HMPV were returning with a pace of 7% inspiration, as per the CDC. Conversely, Coronavirus cases were down almost 30% toward the start of Spring, as per the World Wellbeing Association, and the quantity of individuals being hospitalized for RSV was down to 1.2 individuals per 100,000 in Spring from 4.5 individuals per 100,000 in January, as per the CDC. Side effects of HMPV incorporate hack, fever, nasal blockage, and windedness, as per the CDC. The side effects could advance into bronchitis, pneumonia, or other comparative infections that cause upper and lower respi