In today’s troubling times, contracting an infectious disease is easier than one may think. An infectious disease is a disorder caused by organisms (e.g., bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites) that have entered your body. Knowing how to protect yourself from such a disease is only half the battle, putting your knowledge into practice is actually the main step to win the war.
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How to Invest in Yourself and Benefit Your Family
Becoming a parent changes things for all of us. We stop worrying about what we want and what we need and start spending more of our energy, thinking about how we can make life better for our children.
Putting Together a Mountain Medical Kit
The bone protruding from the young man’s moist red jeans pulled the student’s blood to her feet. Her face became as pale as that of the victim lying on the ground. Unknown to the student, the “victim” was an artistic creation for the purpose of showing wilderness survival students how to react to medical emergencies in the wilderness.
Pest Control Strategies and Proven Tips
Modern man has trouble realizing how serious a problem pests can be. Even the word “pest” (a word whose root comes from the same Latin word that “plague” and “pestilence” come from) has been degraded to mean little more than an annoyance. Insecticides, antibiotics, traps. etc., have all brought the problem of pests into check so that we can go about life without much worry about malaria or food spoilage.
Essential Items For a Get Home Bag
A get home bag will help you reach the safety of your home if a disaster happens, and you are in an unfamiliar location. A disaster can hit anytime and anywhere, and you should be prepared to reach your home and your loved ones.
Decontamination and Sterilization of Water
We usually take water for granted. While water is almost never scarce in most areas, uncontaminated water might become very scarce following a wide-spread disaster like a nuclear war or economic collapse during which all pollution control endeavors were abandoned.
Natural Disaster Survival Tips for Different Scenarios
Enduring a hazardous or intense storm, flood, or earthquake can be a traumatic experience, particularly for children and youth, and the destruction of a familiar environment can be long-term and very upsetting.
Rope Making and Usage In The Wilderness
The rope is one of the oldest tools known to man. For thousands of years, man has twisted vines and plant fibers to make rope. Primitive man first used rope to bind simple tools to handles.
Hunting Catapults – Why You Need One In Your Bug Out Bag
Weapons have been around for a long time. One of the oldest, yet still used, is the catapult. Providing you buy the right one and learn to use it well, it can be a beneficial survival and hunting tool for your bug-out bag. In this article, we are going to look at how to pick a survival catapult.
Being Prepared During The Current Pandemic
By now, we’ve seen the effects of this pandemic. Even though it spreads rapidly and infects efficiently, there are ways you, the prepper, can mitigate your risks and continue living a healthy, functional life.
Decontamination Procedures for Biological and Chemical Agents
We all know (at least the old dogs) about reports of “yellow rain” in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. Reports of chemical weapons attacks come from Yemen, Laos, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. If recent history is any indicator, the possibility of a chemical/biological weapons attack on a civilian population may be greater than the chances of a nuclear attack or any other “world-ending” event.
Solar Powered Radio – Which Should You Choose?
As a prepper, you will know that it is vitally important to keep up do date with the news. That allows you to be more informed about the situation as it develops and will enable you to stay ahead of the problem, too. We all know that the radio is the best option for when SHTF, and we think that the solar-powered radio is the best choice. Every prepper should have one in their bug-out bag, and if possible, everyone else should have one, somewhere.
Avitaminosis (Vitamin Deficiency) Effects on Your Body During Isolation
Avitaminosis translates as a state of being without vitamins, also known commonly as vitamin deficiency. In normal times, vitamin deficiencies of any kind are rarely seen; hence most medical practitioners are unfamiliar with their effects.