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Contributors: Cecil Maranville and "Current World News & Trends" staff

Will Common Diseases One Day Collapse the Economies of the West?

In the current climate of constant threats of terrorist attacks, of anthrax scares and biotoxin fears, who could guess that a heat wave would hand France one of the greatest tragedies in its history? The official count is still unknown, but as of this writing, the death toll in France for the period of Aug. 1 to 15 was 11,435, and most victims were elderly. The country simply cannot afford to care for its senior citizens in the way that it should. Discussions are under way about the possibility of every worker donating one day’s wage per year (by working through a national holiday) to generate emergency funding.

Alzheimer’s will grow by 150 percent in the United Kingdom by 2050. By the same date, the number of people with Alzheimer’s in the United States could reach 300 percent of today’s numbers—that’s up to 16 million Americans. This projection, based upon U.S. census data, comes from the Rush Institute on Healthy Aging.

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