Typhoid fever was up 10.9 times to 19825 cases in 1998 over 1989. Scabies increased every year from zero cases in 1989 to 43,580 in 1998. Every adult knows the misery, suffering and sometimes heartbreak these preventable communicable diseases cause. Doctors, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, all persons in health care, work under tragic conditions. Doctors and nurses uniformly state that patients they could easily save under normal conditions die every day.
Common life saving medicines from dehydration tablets to insulin are never in adequate supply.
Drastic deterioration in the whole environment, the physical plant, sanitation and the introduction of some 25,000,000 ounces of depleted uranium by U.S. aircraft and missiles have caused enormous increases in illnesses from tuberculosis to leukemia and other cancers, tumors and malformations in fetuses. These conditions will take many years and billions of dollars to restore to 1989 levels. The hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed and the health of millions damaged can never be restored. There are no ambulances. There are no new trucks, cars, tractors, buses, or other vehicles.