Peru’s
 Health Ministry reported that a 29-year-old woman has succumbed to 
pneumonic plague in the coastal province of Ascope, which is the same 
region where two other deaths from bubonic plague have been reported 
since June along with 31 others who have been infected. 
Bubonic,
 pneumonic and septicemic plague are all caused by the bacterium 
Yersinia pestis, which scientists say has the potential to easily 
develop a resistance to antibiotics, thus making an outbreak difficult 
to treat. 
The plague is transmitted by fleas, rodents, infected 
humans and consuming infected meats. Scientists have projected that 
climate change is likely to bring about more plague by creating 
conditions conducive to its growth, including frost-free springs and wet
 summers. 
In 2009, the World Health Organization linked the 
deaths of at least three people in China to the consumption of wild 
marmot meat that was infected with the pneumonic plague. 
Their 
cases illustrated the seriousness of the highly lethal and easily 
transmissible disease which can cause the loss of life within a few 
short hours. 
Our heartfelt condolences to the families of the 
Peruvians who lost their lives to this tragic affliction. We pray that 
everyone soon realizes the lifesaving benefits of the plant-based diet 
in avoiding all such devastating diseases as these. 
During an 
August 2009 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai 
discussed the cause and remedy for both disease and global warming.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
 We have produced a lot, a lot, and a lot of negative energy by killing 
billions and billions of innocent sentient lives, and killing millions 
of our fellow humans even, over millennia, directly or indirectly. 
Directly is through war. Indirectly is through disease that we made 
ourselves, like with the bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and now swine
 flu, bird flu, etc.
It is not a coincidence that the main cause 
of global warming is meat eating. And many of the leading health 
problems in our world are also derived from meat eating. So meat eating 
is cruelty to animals. Meat eating is 
cruelty to our well-being. Meat eating is cruelty to our children’s wellbeing. Meat eating is cruelty to the planet. 
Be vegan,and we will never have to suffer many of these kinds of consequences ever, ever again.
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