SMALLPOX SHUFFLES DYNASTIES
SMALLPOX SHUFFLING DYNASTIES “It shuffled the leadership of royal houses like a handful of playing cards.” So says writer Maryn McKenna of smallpox. (See my previous post.) Her National Geographic article revealed …
SURPRISE! SMALLPOX NOT AS ANCIENT AS WE THOUGHT
Unexpected Smallpox A young girl in a Lithuanian church was revealing secrets. Secrets about her life. And her disease. Some were secrets that had been anticipated. But then. As scientists …
Opposition Party Banned, Activists get 30+ Years
Extra Edition When we lived in Equatorial Guinea during smallpox eradication, the dictator of this sinister place, President Macias Nguema, outlawed political opposition. He instituted the Partido Unico Nacional (P.U.N.) …
Smallpox Does Its Dirty Deed
Smallpox virus is an equal opportunity borrower. It has to live. It has to replicate itself in order to live. It has to borrow human cells in order to replicate. …
147 Activists Face Death
Extra Edition: 147 Activists Face Death Penalty in Equatorial Guinea. AFP* reports this bleak breaking news from my former host country. It follows on the heels of the news about …
130 Arrested, Facebook Blocked
Breaking News: January 4, 2018 – Today.ng reports an AFP story that Facebook, WhatsApp and VPNs have been blocked in my former host country, Equatorial Guinea. And… February 5, 2018 – …
Breaking News: Coup Attempt in My Old Neighborhood, Equatorial Guinea
I know I promised you a close up look at smallpox, and I’ll get back to that, but I have to tell you about a coup attempt that hits close …
Bill Gates Warns of Smallpox, Flu & Other Epidemics
“. . . There was a simulation called Dark Winter that didn’t come out very well, i.e., smallpox scored one and humanity scored zero.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates at Davos, Switzerland, …
The Famous Christmas Truce
On Christmas Eve of 1914, enemy combatants lay down their arms for a few hours. If you haven’t heard this beautiful story before, I hope you enjoy it. You can …
Close-up Look at Smallpox in my Memoir
How can you picture the horrors of smallpox? It’s more hideous than I’d ever imagined before moving to Africa. In The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication …