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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “HJL”. How secure are your water sources? There is a looming water crises and you need to make sure you have your bases covered.

Eye Bleeding Outbreak

Uganda’s Health Ministry finally confirmed that they may be facing a large scale outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. They also fear a large scale pandemic of this disease. Emergency response teams are being deployed to the districts of Nakaseke and Luweero. While only the nine year-old girl has succumbed to the disease in Uganda, three people in neighboring South Sudan have also died of the disease. The disease is spread to humans via tick bites or contact with raw meat and infected animal blood immediately after slaughter. It’s worth noting the rapid response is due to its high fatality ratio (10-40%) and the difficulties in treatment and prevention. Thanks to G.P. for the link.

S***hole Countries

The media blew up this weekend with a private conversation of President Trump leaked to the press where he called the less-desirable countries by a specific name. Setting aside for a moment that it was a Democratic Senator that inappropriately leaked the private conversation, that it has been taken totally out-of-context and the fact that the media never blew up like this at Obama who regularly used unsavory words, it’s interesting to note that California now counts as one of those countries.

Yep, you read that right. California, whose budget exceeds that of most countries now has the highest rate of poor and under-classed people in the United States. How’s that immigration policy working for you now? (Note that the U.S. definition of “poor” is considerably different than the rest of the worlds. Here, you can still own a 100” flat screen TV and be poor.) Thanks to M.M. for that link.

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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods— a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from “HJL”. The Black Death plague continues in Africa with a new variant.

Oops

Several SurvivalBlog readers sent in this huge mistake: A Civil Defense employee in Hawaii accidentally triggered a ballistic missile warning. The alert was issued by cell phone test yesterday morning and sparked terror as thousands fled to bomb shelters. The employee wasn’t even aware that he has issued the alert til his own phone notified him. It took 38 minutes for a correction to be issued by the same alert system. While many are upset by the alert, considering the world events in the Pacific region right now, this was probably a good thing. At least people now know how poorly prepared they are. Will they pay attention?

Immigration

Reader P.S. sent in this article from the New York Times on how even liberal, left-leaning countries have limits on what they will tolerate in terms of illegal immigration. There is a loophole in the U.S. – Canadian treaty that allows people who entered the U.S. illegally to claim refugee status in Canada. Many who have learned that their U.S. status is about to be rescinded have attempted to take advantage of this. However, immigration officials in Canada are warning them, stating that it is stretching the immigration system to a breaking point and risks stoking a potential backlash.

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