Contact Report 731: COVID Information from February 3, 2020

The most comprehensive, earliest warnings about COVID; plus health, sanitation and hygiene information for dealing with disease

NOTES: Regarding the contact below, I’ve emphasized some passages because I noticed how much information in this contact was absolutely unknown at the time it was first published, in German. There is so much bold-worthy information but I didn’t want to make a mess of the transcript and I leave it up to each reader to make their own notes.

Also, we will soon be confronted by even more government and social hysteria. I received the following information from a friend. Each person of course must decide for themselves how accurate and applicable it may be: VACCINE EXEMPTIONS

Again, what Bermunda recalled on May 5:

“…He also explained that the Corona virus has a sneakiness that can manifest itself in such a way that the virus appears to be retreating, only to suddenly break out again in greater numbers and spread vehemently once more, which is why a drop in infections and deaths could possibly only be a warning sign of a new outbreak.”

Suggestion: Live for Love

Contact 731, Monday, 3rd February 2020, Unofficial DeepL translation by Joseph Darmanin

List of Epidemics and Pandemics

The list of epidemics and pandemics includes events involving epidemics or pandemics of infectious diseases. Source: Wikipedia
List (Selection)

Time period resp. Onset
Disease, pathogen
Affected areas
Number of Affected
Number of Dead
Description

ca. 1400 BC.
Not identified
Egypt, Near East
Epidemics in the time of Muršili II. and Ameno-nophis III. It could have been the plague. The causative agent has not been clarified.

430–426 BC.
not identified
Athens
(¼–⅓ of Athens’ population)
75,000–100,000
The causative agent of the Attic plague has not been clarified.

165–180 (to 190)
not identified
Roman Empire
≈ 7–10m.
The causative agent of the Antonine Plague has not been clarified, it was probably smallpox.

250–271
not identified
Roman Empire
The Cyprian plague is possibly equivalent to smallpox.

541–770
Pest
Europe and the Middle East
The Justinianic Plague occurred every 15 to 25 years in about 15 to 17 waves.

877
not identified
Italy
Italian Fever – The Annals of the Monastery of Fulda (Annales Fuldenses) mention the first outbreak of an unknown plague in Italy.

889
not identified
Italy
Italian Fever – The Annals of the Monastery of Fulda (Annales Fuldenses) mention a second outbreak of an unknown plague in Italy.

1346–1353
Plague
Old World
≈ 25 million.
The Black Death claimed a third of the European population at the time. An epidemic broke out on the Crimean peninsula during the siege by the Golden Horde. The Great Plague of 1348/1349 in Norway claimed more than 200,000 lives.

1485/1486
English Sweat
England
First outbreak; The pathogen itself could not yet be further identified.

1494 (≈ 50 years)
Syphilis
Europe
New to Europe, probably from America (introduced from the West Indies in the course of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage).

1507
English sweat
England
Second breakout.

1517
English Sweat
England, especially Oxford and Cambridge, besides Calais and Antwerp
Third outbreak.

1519/1520
Pox
Mexico
≈ 5-8 million.
New to the Americas, blamed for most of the decimation of indigenous peoples (Indians).

1528/1529
English Sweat
England, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Lithuania, Poland and Russia
Fourth breakout.

1545/1546
Unidentified haemorrhagic fever
Mexico
> 800,000
Cocolic fever, first outbreak.

1551
English Sweat
England
Fifth (and final) outbreak.

1576/1578
Unidentified Haemorrhagic Fever
Mexico
2 million.
Cocoliztli, second eruption.

1665/1666
Pest
mainly England
100,000
The Great Plague of London caused 70,000 deaths in London, and about 100,000 deaths overall in the south of England.

1678/1679
Pest
Vienna
12,000
The number of victims of the plague in Vienna has not been clarified.

1708–1714
Pest
North and Eastern Europe
1 million.
Plague epidemic during the Great Northern War.

1718–1874
Picardial sweating fever
France, Germany and others
194 epidemics were counted.

1775–1778
Pox
West Coast North America
11,000
The smallpox epidemic on the Pacific coast of North America beginning in 1775 was the first smallpox epidemic on the west coast of North America.

1780
Pox
Australia
In the smallpox epidemic in Australia in 1789, the indigenous populations of Australia fell ill.

1813
Fleckfieber
Mainz
15,000-17,000 soldiers, about as-many civilians, i.e. a total of about 32,000 +/- 20 casualties
Napoleon’s Grande Armée made its first major stop in Mainz in the autumn of 1813 on its retreat from its 1812 Russian campaign. Here the epidemic had its peak

May 1820 to 1821
Bubonic Plague
Mallorca
Extensive quarantine measures.

1831
Cholera
in Berlin and in the Prussian provinces of Posen, Prussia and Silesia.

1847/1848
Typhoid
Canada
20,000
The epidemic was brought in by emigrants as a result of the great famine in Ireland.

1852-1860
Cholera
Parts of Asia, the Maghreb (especially Algeria) and Europe
Third cholera pandemic.

1862
Pox
Pacific Coast North America
14,000
The epidemic primarily killed parts of the indigenous peoples, as they were not immunised – about half of the total population died.

1870/1871
Pox
Europe

1889–1890
Viral influenza: Russian flu, possibly A/H3N8 (equine influenza)
worldwide up to one million victims
pandemic.

1892
Cholera
Hamburg and surrounding area
8,605
The epidemic of 1892 was the last major cholera outbreak in Germany.

1894
Polio
Vermont (USA)
18
The Otter Valley epidemic was the first polio epidemic in the United States.

from 1896
plague
worldwide
12 million.
Third plague pandemic.

≈ 1,899
Typhoid
South Africa
58,000
9,000
The epidemic among British troops was so serious partly because Almroth Wright’s immunisation had met with great resistance.

1901
Typhoid
Gelsenkirchen
several hundred
The typhus epidemic in Gelsenkirchen in 1901 led to a court case. The water supply company had added contaminated water to the drinking water, which had led to the spread of typhus.

1902/03
Typhoid
Lebach
> 50
Typhoid epidemic of Lebach.

1910/11
Pest
Manchuria
45,000–60,000
Plague epidemic in Manchuria 1910-1911.

1911
Cholera
India, Venice
See: Death in Venice resp. Chiesa di San Domenico in Chioggia

1916
Polio
Northeastern United States
> 6,000
The 1916 Eastern States Polio Epidemic was one of the first major polio epidemics in the United States.

1918–1920
Viral Influenza: Spanish flu (influenza virus A/H1N1)
worldwide
≤ 50 million.
The ‘Spanish’ flu (in many affected countries, reports on the extent of the epidemic were suppressed) began at the end of the First World War. The determination of the exact pathogen remained unclear for a long time.

1925/1926
Diphtheria
Nome
≤ 100
The diphtheria epidemic in Nome occurred during the winter in what was then Alaska’s largest city. To prevent a larger catastrophe, the town was supplied with antitoxin by dog sled.

1957/1958
Viral Influenza: Asian flu (influenza virus A/H2N2)
worldwide
1–2 million.

since 1961
Cholera
worldwide
several million
Seventh and so far last cholera pandemic; El Tor subtype; started in Indonesia; longest ongoing pandemic.

1967
Marburg fever
Marburg, Frankfurt am Main and Belgrade
7
It was most likely brought into the laboratories of a pharmaceutical company in Marburg with guenons from Uganda.

1968-1970
Viral influenza: Hong Kong flu (influenza virus A/H3N2
worldwide
1 million.
The presumed total numbers of deaths worldwide vary widely. In Germany, ≈ 30,000 human beings died.

1977–1978
Viral flu: Russian flu (influenza virus A/H1N1)
worldwide
rd. 700,000
Most human beings born after 1957 fell ill.

1979
Anthrax
Yekaterinburg
≈ 100
The outbreak was the result of an accident during the manufacture of biological weapons.

1979–1984
Anthrax
Zimbabwe
10,000
The largest known epidemic of anthrax to date.

since 1980
HIV
worldwide
36 million.
HIV causes the immunodeficiency AIDS in human beings; by the end of 2012, about 27,000 people had died of it in Germany.

1995-1996
Viral flu
worldwide
30,000
In Germany: an estimated 8.5 million people ill.

1998–2000
Marburg fever
Democratic Republic of Congo
123
Second outbreak after 1967.

2000
EHEC
Walkerton, Canada
2000
18
Caused by drinking water contaminated with animal excreta.

2002/2003
SARS-CoV
worldwide
8,096
≈ 774
The 2002/2003 SARS pandemic was the first pandemic of the 21st century. Century. It was the 1st occurrence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.

2004/2005
viral flu
worldwide
20,000
in Germany in 2004/2005: Over 6 million people sickened, up to 2.4 million influenza-related absences from work, 32,000 hospital admissions.

since 2004
Marburg fever
Angola (and Uganda [2008])
210 in Angola, 2 in Uganda
Third outbreak; in 2007, the Marburg pathogen had been found in Uganda in cave-dwelling fruit bats.

since 2004
Viral flu: ‘Avian flu’ (influenza A virus H5N1)
worldwide us
> 800
> 450
The main avian flu event took place from 2004 to 2016, then subsided.

since 2008
Pest
Madagascar
> 600

2009–2010
Viral flu: ‘Swine flu’ (Influenza virus A/H1N1 2009)
worldwide
≥ 18,449
The peak of the ‘swine flu’ outbreak in Germany was in November 2009; there were 258 deaths in Germany. A study assumes a significantly higher number of victims worldwide.

2009
Zika virus
Yap Islands
There was also a Zika virus epidemic in 2015/16.

since 2010
Cholera
Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, USA, Venezuela
10,075 (as of 2017)
Cholera epidemic in Haiti as of 2010: Part of the 7. Cholera pandemic; the outbreak was a result of the 2010 earthquake and led to the declaration of a nationwide sanitary emergency. 9,568 human beings died in Haiti. The epidemic spread to the Dominican Republic with 503 deaths, Cuba with 3 deaths and Mexico with 1 death, and the USA (Florida) and Venezuela with no deaths.

2011
EHEC
Northern Germany
≈ 4,000 ill
53
The cause of the 2011 HUS epidemic in northern Germany was not germ-contaminated cucumbers, as initially assumed, but probably fenugreek sprouts from a farm in Egypt.

since 2012
MERS-CoV
Arabian Peninsula
≈ 2,500 ill
> 850
Coronavirus transitions from bats to camels to human beings.

2013
Legionellosis
Warstein (Germany)
165 cases of disease and suspicion (September 2013)
3
The legionellosis outbreak in Warstein was the most extensive in Germany to date. The pathogen probably spread via sewage treatment plants and cooling towers.

since Dec. 2013
Chikungunya fever
Central America,
875,000 ill
≥ 138 (Nov. 2014)
In Germany there were (as of November 2014) 18 chikungunya cases, including 9 from travellers returning from the Caribbean.

South America, Florida islands

2014–2016
Ebola fever
West Africa
28,639 people sickened
11,314
Ebola fever epidemic 2014 to 2016. It consisted of an epidemic outbreak in West Africa that had grown into a sustained endemic.

2015/2016
Zika virus
South America
The 2015/16 Zika virus epidemic resulted in, among other things, microcephaly in newborns. The pathogen is now found worldwide in tropical areas.

since 2016
Cholera
Yemen
1.7 million. Sick
3,430
The cholera in Yemen since 2016 is part of the 7th pandemic. Cholera pandemic; two epidemic waves are distinguished; the cholera outbreak is considered the largest known worldwide in history. (As of 30.4.2019)

since 2017
Dengue fever
Sri Lanka
130,000 people sickened
300
Predominantly diurnal mosquitoes have been transmitting the dengue virus, which can cause dengue fever, in Sri Lanka since 2017.

2017/2018
Wave of influenza (influenza virus B/Yam and A/H1N1)
worldwide
291,000–646,000
In Germany approx. 25,100 deaths – highest number of deaths in the past 30 years.

2018–2020
Ebola fever
Democratic Republic of Congo/Uganda
3,414
2,237
The Ebola fever epidemic since 2018 is the second most severe outbreak of Ebola fever in history.

since 2018
Masles
Madagascar
> 146,000
≥ 910

since 2019
Measles
Samoa
> 1800
≥ 22

since 2019
Masern
Demokrati Republic of Congo
≈ 5-8 million 250,000
> 6,000
The measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2019 emerged in early 2019 and mostly affects children.

Since Nov. 2019
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
first People’s Republic of China from end Feb. 2020 in other countries, from the beginning of March 2020 worldwide
1,764,927 confirmed infected persons of whom 415,403 recovered (12.4.20 18:24 CET)
110,892 (12.4.2020 18:25 CET) lethality = 0.08-14.81 (9.4.2020, 22:00 CET)
The COVID-19 pandemic began on 17. November 2019 in the Chinese megacity of Wuhan. On 11/3/2020, WHO officially declared the outbreak a pandemic. On 2.4.2020, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 1 million; experts assume a considerable – regionally varying – number of unreported cases.

Diseases that cause Epidemics and Pandemics

Plague/Disease:
Pathogen:
Description:

Pest
Bacterium Yersinia pestis
The plague (Latin pestis ‘plague, epidemic’, Greek also loimos), also called pestilence (Latin pestilentia) in antiquity, is a highly contagious infectious disease. Originally, the disease is a zoonosis, i.e. a disease transmissible from animals to human beings and vice versa, which came from rodents (marmots, rats, squirrels). Transmission to human beings is classically via the bite of an infected flea, but direct human-to-human infection via droplet infection is also possible. Treatment of an infection is possible with antibiotics, although resistance is increasingly being observed.

English sweat
unknown
English sweat (also English sweating sickness, English sweating fever or English sweating addiction; Latin: pestis sudorosa or sudor anglicus was a very contagious disease of unclear aetiology (Anm. of unclear origin/trigger), usually fatal, which occurred in the 15th and 16th centuries in 5 epidemic waves, mainly in England, and then apparently disappeared again. The disease was characterised by a very short incubation period and a high lethality rate. Often only a few hours passed between the appearance of the first symptoms and the onset of death. A typical symptom was profuse sweating, which gave the disease its name.

Syphilis
Bacterium Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum.
Syphilis, also called lues (venerea), hard chancre or French disease (maladie française), is a chronic infectious disease belonging to the group of sexually transmitted diseases. Syphilis is transmitted mainly during sexual acts through mucosal contact and exclusively from human beings to human beings. During pregnancy and childbirth, an infected mother can infect her child (syphilis connata). The appearance of the disease is varied. Typical is an onset with painless mucosal ulcers and swelling of the lymph nodes. Some of those infected develop a chronic course, which is characterised by multiple skin and organ infestations. In the final stage, the central nervous system is destroyed. Syphilis is curable through the administration of antibiotics, including penicillin.

Pox
Virus: Orthopoxvirus variolae (smallpox virus)
Pox or variola (also variola; Latin variolae) is the name of an infectious disease that is dangerous and life-threatening for human beings. Due to its high infectiousness and lethality, the disease is one of the most dangerous for human beings. Smallpox can be transmitted directly from human beings to human beings through droplet infection when coughing. In addition, infection can also occur through inhalation of dust, e.g. when shaking out clothes or blankets of people with smallpox.
In contrast to chickenpox, the extremities and the face are more severely affected by the skin rash in smallpox. The incubation period is 1 to 2½ weeks, but usually 12–14 days. At the onset of the disease, there is a severe feeling of illness, headache and backache with high fever and chills, and there is also pharyngitis. At this point, the patient is highly infectious. In smallpox, a biphasic course of fever is typical: after 1-5 days, the fever drops and rises again after one day. Now the typical skin symptoms appear. The purulent fluid in the pustules spreads a very unpleasant odour. In a less severe course of the disease, the pustules gradually dry up about 2 weeks after the onset of the disease, leaving behind clearly visible scars. In more severe cases, blindness, deafness, paralysis, brain damage and pneumonia can occur. The disease is often fatal. The estimated lethality of untreated smallpox is about 30 percent.

Hemorrhagic fevers
various viruses
Hemorrhagic fevers (from ancient Greek αἷµα haima, German ‘blood’ and ancient Greek ῥήγνυµι rhe¯gnymi, German ‘to tear, break’; old German term blutbrechende Fieber) are severe infectious febrile diseases associated with bleeding. They are caused by viral infections, which is why they are also referred to as viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF).
The causative agents of haemorrhagic fevers are native to all continents except Antarctica, but they usually occur in Africa, South America or Southeast Asia. In Central Europe and North America, fatal HFVs are extremely rare. They are occasionally introduced by travellers who have been infected abroad.

Picardial sweating fever
unknown
Picard’s sweating fever is a historical infectious disease that occurred in France and Germany, among other countries. It first appeared in 1718 in Vimeu in the northern French province of Picardy, after which it was named, and spread from Paris to Flanders. There were 194 epidemics by 1874, with the last occurrence in 1918.
The disease has similarities to English sweat, but differs in symptoms and mortality. Symptoms included high fever and nosebleeds, as well as a skin rash. Many victims died within 2 days. Those who survived got better after about 7 days. Skin blisters usually appeared, which later dried and scaled.

Fleck fever
Rickettsia (Rickettsia prowazekii)
Fleck fever, also war plague, lice fever, louse fever, hospital fever or foul fever, is an infection with microorganisms (bacteria) that is transmitted by lice, especially the clothes louse, mites, ticks or fleas.
The name spotted fever is derived from a symptom of the disease, a red-spotted skin rash. The incubation period is 10–14 days. Then there may be a prodromal stage with chills, increasingly high fever, headache, pain in the limbs and clouding of consciousness (if the brain is also affected). Later, a blue- to red-spotted skin rash due to petechial haemorrhages is typical.
Spotted fever favours further infections by other bacteria, so-called secondary infections. These include: Meningitis (inflammation of the brain), pneumonia (pneumonia), myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle).

Bubonic plague
bacteria
In bubonic plague, infection usually occurs through the bite of a rat flea, which carries the pathogen as an intermediate host. Through host switching, the bacterium is transmitted from an infected to a previously healthy food victim after it has multiplied in the flea. In addition to transmission from rat to rat flea to human being, there is also a transmission route from human being to human being via the human flea.
The incubation period is a few hours to 7 days. The symptoms are fever, headache and pain in the limbs, a strong feeling of illness and drowsiness. Later, there are disturbances of consciousness. The name bubonic plague comes from the severely swollen, very painful bumps (bubones, which can form a bundle of swollen lymph nodes of the secondary complex) on the neck, armpits and groin (axillary and inguinal bubones) that result from infection of the lymph nodes and lymph vessels in the area of the flea bite. These bumps can reach a diameter of up to 10 centimetres and are blue-black in colour due to internal bleeding in the lymph nodes. The growths disintegrate after they have fused with pus.

Cholera
Bacterium Vibrio cholerae
Cholera (‘bile flow’, name for ‘diarrhoeal disease’, from Greek χολή cholḗ ‘bile’), also bile-breaking diarrhoea (formerly also biliary dysentery), is a severe bacterial infectious disease mainly of the small intestine. The infection usually occurs through contaminated drinking water or infected food. The bacteria can cause extreme diarrhoea and severe vomiting, which can lead to rapid desiccosis with loss of electrolytes. Although most infections (about 85%) are asymptomatic, the lethality at the onset of the disease is between 20 and 70% if untreated.

Typhoid
Bacterium Salmonella enterica ssp. Enterica Serovar Typhi
Typhoid fever or typhus abdominalis (also abdominal typhus, typhoid fever or enteric fever) is a systemic infectious disease.
The course of the disease is mainly characterised by high fever. If left untreated, the disease can be dangerous and lead to death.
Paratyphoid fever is a weakened form of typhoid fever whose causative agent is not Salmonella Typhi but Salmonella Paratyphi.

Russian flu
viral influenza possibly A/H3N8
The influenza pandemic of 1889 to 1895 was a worldwide influenza epidemic that was called Russian flu in newspapers at the time, and later also in professional literature. The pandemic began in Central Asia in the summer of 1889, from where it followed trade routes and spread to Russia, China and from Russia to Europe and then worldwide. The spread occurred in waves. The first wave of 1889/1890 was followed by three more waves of varying severity until 1895. With up to one million victims worldwide, the Russian flu was the most severe influenza epidemic to date, surpassed only by the Spanish flu, which claimed well over 25 million victims from 1918 onwards.
The illness was often short but severe with fever, headache and pain in the limbs, nausea and vomiting, but occasionally also took a more protracted course with complications such as pneumonia. Because of its rapid course, often lasting only 3 days, the flu was also called ‘Blitz-Katarrh’ in German, which was also the name given to the Spanish flu in 1918/19.
Within 4 months, the epidemic spread worldwide.

Polio
Polioviruses
Poliomyelitis (Greek. πολιός ‘grey’, µυελός ‘marrow’), often also called polio for short, German (spinal) polio, polio disease or Heine-Medin disease, is an infectious disease caused by polioviruses, predominantly in childhood. It affects motor neurons and remains asymptomatic in a large number of cases, but can also lead to severe, permanent paralysis. These often affect the extremities. Infestation of the respiratory muscles is fatal; this led to the first machine ventilation procedures. Even years after infection, the disease can reoccur.
The virus is usually transmitted by smear infection (urine or stool), but droplet infections are also possible. It can only replicate in human beings (and a few species of monkeys) and can only be transmitted from human to human.

Spanish flu
Influenza virus A/H1N1
The Spanish flu was an influenza pandemic caused by an unusually virulent derivative of the influenza virus (subtype A/H1N1) that spread in three waves between 1918 – towards the end of World War I – and 1920, claiming between 27 million and 50 million human lives out of a world population of about 1.8 billion. This means that more persons died from the Spanish flu than in the First World War (17 million). A total of about 500 million people are said to have been infected, resulting in a lethality rate of 5–10 per cent, which is significantly higher than that of diseases caused by other influenza pathogens.
One special feature of the Spanish flu was that it mainly affected people between 20 and 40 years of age, whereas influenza viruses usually endanger small children and old human beings in particular.
In 2005, the researchers involved succeeded in reconstructing the virus, which, in the opinion of the researchers involved, is directly descended from the bird flu virus and has acquired its dangerousness in only a few mutations. Because of this and because of the immensely increased human mobility since 1918, virologists have since increasingly warned of a new, possibly more dangerous pandemic.

Asian flu
Influenza virus A/H2N2
Asian flu was the second worst influenza pandemic of the 20th century after Spanish flu. century. It was caused by the H2N2 influenza virus. The Asian flu broke out in 1957 and probably originated in the People’s Republic of China. It is estimated that 1–2 million human beings worldwide fell victim to it in 1957 and 1958. The Asian flu was caused by a virus subtype that had developed from a combination of a human and an avian influenza virus (antigenic shift). For prevention, gargling with hydrogen peroxide and taking tablets containing formalin were recommended at the time. A/H2N2 was easily transmissible from human beings to human beings and caused further influenza infections every year until 1968. H2N2 was then ‘superseded’ by the A/H3N2 subtype; A/H3N2 caused the pandemic known as Hong Kong flu in 1968 and 1969.

Anthrax
Bacillus anthracis
Splenic fever or anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis that usually affects cloven-hoofed animals, but also other herbivorous animals. Humans can also be affected if they are exposed to anthrax spores, which can also be transmitted from animals to human beings. Transmission from human beings to humans is considered very unlikely; no such case has been documented to date.
The causative agent of anthrax is an aerobic and spore-forming rod-shaped bacterium. The anthrax toxin produced by the pathogen is highly toxic. The spores may survive for decades or even centuries.
Cutaneous anthrax is the most harmless form of anthrax. It is only transmitted through direct skin contact; if left untreated, 5 to 20% of cases are fatal. When infection occurs, a vesicle-lined ulcer with a black necrosis in the centre forms at the site of transmission. A pus-filled vesicle develops from this. As the disease expands further, new vesicles appear. When these vesicles coalesce, a splenic gangrene develops, which, if it gets connected to a blood vessel, can lead to blood poisoning.
Pulmonary anthrax
For an outbreak of disease (apparented infection), approx. 3000–9000 anthrax spores must be inhaled with the breath, which adhere to animal skins or hairs and are still contagious after years. The incubation period is a few days to several weeks. The disease begins non-specifically and flu-like with a cough; high fever, chills and shortness of breath follow. The coughed-up secretion is highly infectious. Even with immediate antibiotic therapy, the lethality (death rate) from pulmonary anthrax is very high, since a massive release of anthrax toxins has already taken place with the onset of symptoms. Death usually occurs within 3-6 days with the appearance of septic shock.
Intestinal anthrax
Intestinal anthrax is transmitted by eating infected dairy products or infected meat. The incubation period is a few hours to 3 days. Bloody vomiting and bloody diarrhoea occur, which are signs of a bloody intestinal infection. The germs spread throughout the body, blood poisoning and heart and kidney failure can occur. Over 50% of those who fall ill die. This is the rarest form of anthrax.

HIV
HI viruses
Untreated HIV infection usually leads to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) after a latency period of varying length, usually several years without symptoms. The spread of HIV has developed into a pandemic since the early 1980s, which, according to estimates by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), has claimed around 39 million lives to date. At the end of 2014, an estimated 36.9 million human beings worldwide were infected with HIV, with an equal distribution between the two sexes.

Marburg fever
Virus
Marburg fever virus is mainly transmitted through contact with body fluids (blood, stool, urine, saliva, breast milk, etc). Human-to-human transmission via aerosols appears to play a minor role in the spread in natural outbreaks. Inhalation of bat excreta as well as consumption of raw bat meat is considered the primary route of transmission from animal to human beings. After an incubation period that usually lasts 3–9 days, but no longer than 21 days, the first non-specific symptoms appear, which resemble the initial clinical pictures of malaria, typhoid or yellow fever. These symptoms are severe, watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain, vomiting, severe chest and lung pain, sore throat and cough. In a high percentage of infected persons, the virus triggers high haemorrhagic fever 5–7 days after the onset of the disease, predominantly attacking the gastrointestinal tract and the lungs. Most of those infected also die within the latter time period, although no statistically significant correlation between the occurrence of haemorrhages and a fatal outcome of the disease has been demonstrated; especially as it has been shown that the resulting blood loss is not lethal.

EHEC
intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli
The pathogen and the infectious diseases it causes occur worldwide. The main reservoir of the pathogen is ruminants, especially cattle, but also sheep and goats, in whose intestines they regularly occur without causing disease. The pathogens are mainly transmitted by direct or indirect oral ingestion of faecal traces. The pathogen can be ingested with food, especially raw meat or raw milk. Infection is also possible via drinking or bathing water contaminated with faeces. Drinking water contaminated with animal excreta caused more than 2000 illnesses and 18 deaths in Walkerton, Canada, in 2000. In addition, infection from human beings to human beings and transmission through animal-human contact are possible. Flies can be vectors of EHEC. Less than 100 bacteria can be enough to cause infection. An infection can be asymptomatic. Otherwise, after an incubation period of typically 3-4 days, but occasionally also after 2-10 days, gastroenteritis (gastrointestinal flu, vomiting diarrhoea) occurs, which can develop into enterohaemorrhagic colitis. The toxins destroy the cells of the intestinal wall and blood vessel walls, especially in the brain and kidneys. The excretion of the bacteria typically takes place over a period of 5-20 days, but can also extend over several months, especially in children. During this time, infection of other persons is possible.

SARS-CoV
SARS-Coronavirus
SARS-associated coronavirus (scientifically Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus, SARS-CoV, formerly also SCV) is the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Avian influenza
Influenza A virus H5N1
Avian influenza H5N1 is a viral disease of birds caused by the influenza A virus H5N1. In isolated cases, the viruses have been transmitted to mammals and human beings, and the disease is therefore a zoonosis. The incubation period of the A/H5N1 virus appears to be longer than the 2-3 days observed in ‘normal’ human influenza. Data published by the WHO indicate that the incubation period is between 2 and 8 days; however, cases with an incubation period of 17 days have also been described. Many patients with H5N1 infection developed pneumonia at an early stage. After the onset of the disease, the following flu-like signs have been regularly observed initially: Extremely high fever, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat. Sometimes also diarrhoea, more rarely abdominal pain and vomiting. In the further course of the disease, very often: pneumonia, stomach complaints, intestinal complaints, elevation of liver values, strong reduction of leucocytes (leucopenia), strong reduction of erythrocytes (anaemia), strong reduction of thrombocytes (thrombocytopenia). Occasionally, patients also developed kidney weakness, which later increased to complete kidney failure. Often, however, a fatal lung failure developed, or the patients died of a multi-organ failure. The relatively high death rate is not unusual for novel viral diseases and can be explained, among other things, by the fact that, on the one hand, this virus is not yet adapted to humans (and therefore quickly kills its host instead of using it as a ‘tool’ to spread) and, on the other hand, human beings have virtually no defences against this virus subtype.

Swine flu
Influenza virus A/H1N1
Influenza A virus H1N1 (A/H1N1) refers to a subtype of influenza A virus (genus Alphainfluenza virus) in the orthomyxovirus family that is found in ducks, human beings and pigs, but can also infect numerous other mammalian species as well as turkeys. ‘Swine flu’, in contrast to swine influenza, refers to an illness in human beings. In 1976, there was a local outbreak of variant A/New Jersey/1/1976 among US soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. That pigs were the source of the influenza viruses at Fort Dix is likely, but has never been substantiated.

Zika fever
Zika virus
The first major outbreak of Zika fever in human beings – in the Yap Islands of Micronesia in 2007 – led to the Zika virus being classified as a so-called emergent virus, meaning a pathogen that could potentially spread even further across the world. This was followed by an epidemic in French Polynesia in 2013-2014, where an increased incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) was observed for the first time, as well as evidence of transmission to the unborn child.

Guillain-Barré syndrome
Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute neurological clinical picture in which inflammatory changes of the peripheral nervous system occur. The nerve roots arising from the spinal cord (polyradiculitis) and the associated anterior or proximal nerve sections are mainly affected. The exact cause is not known. In some cases, previous infections and other suspected triggers are held responsible. There can be different courses with varying lengths, GBS can develop from hours or days to months. Guillain-Barré syndrome is characterised by the development of weakness. Paralysis typically develops first in the legs and spreads through the trunk and arms towards the head. The muscles affected first are usually more severely affected than those affected later. Usually the muscles are symmetrically weakened or paralysed. Paralysis of the respiratory and swallowing muscles is life-threatening and requires intensive medical therapy. The degree of paralysis is very variable, i.e. the spectrum ranges from barely noticeable movement restrictions to severe paralysis of large parts of the body. Up to 25% of patients suffer respiratory paralysis and have to be ventilated to maintain life. Many of these patients then suffer from a form of nightmares (oneiroid syndrome).

MERS-CoV
Coronaviruses
MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) is a virus in the coronavirus family first identified in 2012 that can cause severe respiratory infection, pneumonia and kidney failure in human beings.

Legionellosis
Bacteria of the genus Legionella
Legionellosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella (Legionella) and can usually be treated well with antibiotics. By far the most common pathogen (90% to 95% of cases) is Legionella pneumophila. Several forms of legionellosis can be distinguished. The two most important forms are Legionnaires’ disease, which is characterised by pneumonia caused by a droplet infection and can take a life-threatening course if left untreated, and the rarer Pontiac fever, which does not cause pneumonia and is usually mild. In rare cases, legionella can also cause infections such as wound infections, endocarditis and pyelonephritis.

Chikungunya fever
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)
Chikungunya fever is a tropical infectious disease caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), accompanied by fever and joint pain, and transmitted by mosquitoes. The word chikungunya means ‘the bent walker’ and originally comes from the Makonde language. In German, the disease is also called ‘Gebeugter Mann’ (bent man). The exact diagnosis can only be made by blood tests. In most people affected, the course of the disease is benign and self-limiting; permanent damage and death are rare.

Ebola fever
Ebola virus
Ebola fever is a zoonosis and is fatal in about 25-90 per cent of all cases, depending on the type of virus. Up to now, treatment has been available to combat or alleviate individual symptoms of the disease. Vaccinations are used for prophylaxis.
The pathogen can be transmitted to humans from sick human beings (through body fluids), from animals (including the regionally common ‘bush meat’) and from contaminated objects.
In many patients, two clinical phases of the disease can be distinguished, between which the symptoms subside over 24-48 hours (remission). In the first phase, symptoms occur as in the onset of influenza, the second phase is characterised by haemorrhagic fever (Note: High fever associated with bleeding).

Dengue fever
Dengue virus
Dengue fever, also dandy fever, polka fever, bone-crushing fever, seven-day fever, is a disease whose cause is infection with the dengue virus. The virus is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito and is common in tropical and subtropical areas. The only known hosts of the virus are primates and various mosquito species. The disease often manifests itself with non-specific symptoms or those resembling a severe flu; however, internal bleeding can also occur. In a severe course of the disease, a so-called ‘dengue haemorrhagic fever’ (DHF) or dengue shock syndrome (DSS) can occur, both of which can lead to death.

Measles
Measles virus
Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease that mainly affects children. In addition to the typical red skin spots (measles exanthema), the disease causes fever and a considerably weakened general condition. This so-called children’s disease is caused by the measles virus and can be life-threatening in some cases due to severe courses (complications) with pneumonia and brain inflammation.
A specific therapy does not exist, but the disease and thus also the complications can be prevented by vaccination from the age of twelve months.

COVID-19
Corona virus
All worth knowing and important information can be found in this block 18 of the ‘Pleiadian-Plejaren Contact Reports’.

Contact Report 731: COVID Information from February 3, 2020

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