A NEW DEATH ILL RIDING ACROSS NIGERIA AFRICA–AS IT KILLS INFECTED INDIVIDUAL IN 24 HOURS–AS 18 DEATHS COUNTED THUS FAR WITH SYMPTOMS OF HEADACHE, WEIGHT LOSS, BLURRED VISION, LOSS OF CONCIOUSNESS–AS WHO INVESTIGATES

A “mysterious” disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 18 lives in a south-eastern Nigerian town, the government says.

“Twenty-three people (were affected) and 18 deaths were recorded,” the Ondo state health commissioner, Dayo Adeyanju, said on Saturday.

The government spokesman for the state, Kayode Akinmade, earlier gave a toll of 17 dead.

“Seventeen people have died of the mysterious disease since it broke out early this week in Ode-Irele town,” Akinmade told AFP by telephone.

The disease, whose symptoms include headache, weight loss, blurred vision and loss of consciousness, killed the victims within a day of falling ill, he said.

Laboratory tests have so far ruled out Ebola or any other virus, Akinmade said.

The World Health Organisation meanwhile said it had information on 14 cases with at least 12 dead.

“Common symptoms were sudden blurred vision, headache, loss of consciousness followed by death, occurring within 24 hours,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP by email, adding that an investigation was ongoing.

http://www.news.com.au/world/africa/mystery-disease-kills-18-people-in-24-hours-in-nigerian-town-ode-irele/story-fnh81gzi-1227310252284

THE SHROUD OF TURIN TO GET A PUBLIC VEIWING THIS SUNDAY 2015 AFTER 5 YEARS OF SECLUSION AS 1 MILLION ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR THE VIEWING–THE CLOTH THAT EMBODIED THE CRUCIFIXION OF YESHUA

The Shroud of Turin will be displayed for the first time in five years on Sunday. More than a million people have signed up to view one of Christianity's most celebrated relics.

Pilgrims believe the Shroud of Turin, measuring 4.3 meters (14 feet) in length, was the cloth used to bury Jesus Christ.

The most-talked about piece of linen in history, the shroud imprinted with an image of a man who appears to have been crucified, will go on display from April 19 until June 24 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the north of Italy.

http://www.dw.de/shroud-of-turin-returns-for-public-viewing/a-18392084

SANDSTORM ENVELOPING CITIES AROUND THE WORLD FROM CHINA, EASTERN EU, TO THE MIDDLE EAST, AUSTRALIA, EVEN LONDON

city of Soligorsk, Belarus

city of Golmud in north west China

EVEN LONDON, UK

small town in Queensland, Australia

Egypt's capital city

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3043849/Mystery-surrounds-spate-huge-dust-storms-world-year-grounded-flights-blotted-sun.html

LIKE EVERY SOCIALIST PROGRAM THAT TAKE HOLD OBAMASCARE LOOKS TO BE HERE TO STAY- WANING THE REPEALIST STANCE FOR FEAR OF REDISTRIBUTION FROM THE PITCH FORKS AND TORCHES OF WHAT WILL BE MADE UP PROTESTS THAT THE MSM WOULD FOLLOW–CONSIDER THE NEW TAXES INVOKED ON HEALTHY AMERICANS FOR FREE- AS 20 MILLION NOW TAKE TO THE TIT OF THE GOV CONTROLLED HEALTHCARE–AS THE TAX COFFERS INCREASED TO THE GUISE OF HELPING AKA CONTROLLING AMERICAN CITIZENS HEALTH–THE POTUS LEFTIST SOCIALIST BHO LEGACY LIVES SO FAR

After five years and more than 50 votes in Congress, the Republican campaign to repeal the Affordable Care Act is essentially over.

GOP congressional leaders, unable to roll back the law while President Obama remains in office and unwilling to again threaten a government shutdown to pressure him, are focused on other issues, including trade and tax reform.

Less noted, senior Republican lawmakers have quietly incorporated many of the law's key protections into their own proposals, including guaranteeing coverage and providing government assistance to help consumers purchase insurance.

And although the law remains very unpopular with GOP voters, more than 20 million Americans now depend on it for health benefits, making even some of the most conservative Republicans loath to cut off coverage.

Facing the prospect that the Supreme Court this year could strip away insurance subsidies provided through the law in most states, several GOP lawmakers have proposed extending the aid, perhaps even until a new president takes office.

At the same time, the presumed Republican presidential front-runner, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has shown little enthusiasm for a new healthcare fight. Last year, he even criticized the repeal effort.

Republicans who still demand a repeal, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, appear to be long shots for the presidential nomination.

"Only 18% of Americans want to go back to the system we had before because they do not want to go back to some of the problems we had," Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster who works for presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, said at a recent breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

"Smart Republicans in this area get that," he added.

These developments have sapped enthusiasm among Republican leaders for "pulling out Obamacare root and branch," as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) once put it.

The waning of the repeal campaign does not mean that calls to undo the law will vanish from the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

http://www.latimes.com/business/healthcare/la-na-obamacare-republicans-20150418-story.html#page=1