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The Basics of Bible - Herald of Hope

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<strong>The</strong> Independent International 12 May 1998 reported grave fears <strong>of</strong> an<br />

Aids epidemic in India:<br />

“India can fairly be described as the Aids capital <strong>of</strong> the world...While<br />

the Aids watchdog, the National Aids Committee (NASCO),<br />

estimated that there were 70,000 HIV cases in the country and 6,000<br />

Aids cases, the independent Indian Health Organisation (IHO)<br />

based in Bombay put the HIV number at 7 million and the fullblown<br />

Aids sufferers at 500,000. <strong>The</strong> head <strong>of</strong> IHO, India’s most<br />

prominent campaigner for Aids awareness, Dr IS Gilada, predicted<br />

that by 2001, in the most optimistic estimate, there will be 20 million<br />

HIV cases in the country and 2 million cases <strong>of</strong> Aids.”<br />

Also, a definite link has been established between “mad cow” disease<br />

and CJD, a fatal brain disease in humans, which turns brain tissue<br />

into jelly, and we now know that other animal diseases are being<br />

transmitted to humans. <strong>The</strong> International Independent 11 August 1998<br />

states that a livestock parasite, Old World Screw-worm, has infested<br />

two thirds <strong>of</strong> Iraq and poses a threat to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.<br />

<strong>The</strong> report stated:<br />

“<strong>The</strong> infestation which causes foul-smelling discharges after<br />

attacking wounds, scars and cuts, has already led to 40 deaths ...<br />

George Pumphrey, a biological warfare specialist based in<br />

Germany, said: Iraq is the latest victim in what appears to be a<br />

deliberate introduction <strong>of</strong> the screw-worm as a biological weapon.<br />

In Libya, where an outbreak occurred in 1989, 2,000 animals were<br />

killed. It was exemplarily combated, yet by the following year it<br />

covered 35,000 sq kilometres and killed 12,000 head <strong>of</strong> stock.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> infestation is caused by the larvae <strong>of</strong> the fly cochliomyia<br />

hominivorax. <strong>The</strong> female fly lays about four batches <strong>of</strong> 400 eggs on<br />

the edge <strong>of</strong> a wound, cut, tick bite, castration wound, or new-born's<br />

navel, <strong>of</strong> warm-blooded animals including human beings.<br />

<strong>The</strong> report goes on to say,<br />

“In just 12 hours the larvae hatch and enter the body for feeding.<br />

THEY CAN CONSUME A WHOLE COW IN FIVE TO SEVEN<br />

DAYS!”<br />

Pestilence is one <strong>of</strong> the signs <strong>of</strong> the end <strong>of</strong> the age, and in Zechariah<br />

14:12-15 we are told <strong>of</strong> the plague wherewith God will smite the<br />

nations who come against Jerusalem. It will affect humans and<br />

animals. We read,<br />

“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the<br />

people that have fought against Jerusalem; <strong>The</strong>ir flesh shall<br />

117<br />

Signs <strong>of</strong> the Last Days

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