* They think HIV crossed into the human population in the '20's in Kinshasa. At the time there was large scale population displacement and deforestation and they were using unsterilized needles for inoculations. Likely someone carried it in their blood stream from a remote area, and the health system spread it ( Read more... )

* There was a catastrophic mud slide at Hiroshima caused by a month's worth of rain falling in four hours. Normally, the excellent Japanese disaster preparation system would have had people evacuated, but the local government didn't get word out in time. I can not give anything like accurate figures as to how deadly it was right now ( Read more... )