Europe's New Deadly Disease

     In a recent news article entitled, New SARS-like Virus, Kate Kelland informs the viewers of Yahoo! News of a deadly new disease that has taken over Europe. According to the World Health Organization, the virus was identified in Septemeber of 2012. WHO explains that SARS, "or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, symptoms... include respirtatory illness, fever, and coughing." The virus is currently showing person-to-person transmission. Viruses such as SARS usually travel in airborne droplets, causing this case to be very interesting. Tom Wilkinson, a lecturer in respiratory medicine at Britain's University of Southampton, has stated  said that "if [the virus] turns out to be like the previous SARS outbreak, it may prove quite slow to spread..." Doctors are working day and night in order to treat those infected. They are also trying to come up with a vaccine in order to prevent more infections. This article caught my eye because of the fact that some people have actually died from the virus. Many viruses already have vaccines to prevent them, but this one is mutated and transmits through human contact. It reminded me of the Black Plague, a disease that killed a huge population of Europe and Asia back in the Middle Ages. 

         Kidnapped

 In a recent news article in MSN News entitled New Mexico Girl Found Locked In Cage, Russell Contreras informs his readers of a young girl who was found recently locked in a wooden crate by two adults.
          According to Las Cruces police, Patriarchias, the woman responsible for the act, and her boyfriend, Edmond Gonzales, "left the girl in the cage while they took her three children to an elementary school." Apparently, Patriarchias was not worried about the girl, saying that she would not be gone long. Instead of only leaving her at home, she decided to lock her up in a wooden crate.
         This article interested me, as well as angered me. The fact that someone can simply lock a small child up in a cage, as if they were not a human being, astonishes me. Also, I cannot help but wonder if the other children living with this couple have been taken away by officials as well, for they should be under the supervision of these terrible, sick minded people.
          Luckily for the young girl, she was found alive and well. Although a bad situation, there is always some good found in everything. The girl was found early on and the adults responsible are now under watch and also have a $25,000 cash only bond. The bad news is that Patriarchias has been released, though hopefully her other children have been taken into child services as well.

http://news.msn.com/us/new-mexico-girl-found-locked-in-wooden-cage