To him shall come fire, water and pestilence.

(According to experts on nuclear terrorism and pandemics, the dangers are real.)

And then there are global fears linked to climate change, epidemics, cyber wars, and more.

Sukhomlyn and his wife programmer Tetyana Cheshko ( tvnotes ) used to work at a regional sanitary and epidemic department.

There is much to be done in the area of promoting sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, epidemics, hunger and illiteracy.

My feelings of guilt prevent me from screaming that a healthy revolution is first and foremost the work of healthy people.

People are experiencing great suffering on a daily basis including hunger, poverty, death and pandemics.

Pollution, terrorism, pandemics, and climate change are global phenomena. They do not respect national sovereignty, and, therefore, they necessitate global cooperation.

America, like the rest of us, is vulnerable to climate change, pandemics, and terrorism challenges that require coordinated global solutions.

Medicinal plants are used in the treatments of many diseases and illnesses, the uses and effects of which are of growing interest to Western societies.

Some were direct victims of the fighting in those countries, while a much larger number died from war related hunger and disease.

But these countries relations with the US are ambiguous. They benefit from the US led world order, but are often irritated by American slights and unilateralism.

We should also realize that there are numerous reasons for humanitarian crises. Armed conflicts, natural disasters, epidemics and other factors all play a role.

Mr. Chernenko (Russian Federation) said that, development was threatened not only by the challenges posed by globalization but also by poverty, natural disasters and pandemics.

Humanitarian assistance is making a difference on the ground, but the fear of further suffering resulting from the spread of disease and epidemics cannot be overlooked.

As observed during earlier meetings, millions of people in Africa continue to bear the brunt of famine, extreme poverty and pandemics, and they survive each day in squalor.

(iii) Encouraging it to convene timely meetings, as required, to assess threats to development, such as famines, epidemics and major natural disasters, and to promote coordinated responses to them

In that spirit, and because of the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specializing in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics was established on 19 September 2005.

It is indeed in the interest of all rich and poor peoples to push back poverty and pandemics and to remedy violations of democracy and human rights, which often lead to civil war and terrorism.

Seva got started because we wanted to apply these lessons of surveillance and epidemiology to something which nobody else was looking at as a public health issue blindness, which heretofore had been thought of only as a clinical disease.

This combined with the military losses, epidemics, poor harvests so weakened Russia that the Crimean Tatars were able to sack central Russian regions and burn down Moscow (1571).

To this end, the Council should convene timely meetings, as required, to assess threats to development, such as famines, epidemics and major natural disasters, and to promote coordinated responses to them.

New threats have emerged with the increased threat posed by terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, widespread poverty which still affects too many countries major pandemics, assaults on the environment and organized crime.

Humanitarian crises in Africa, as elsewhere, are multifaceted. They are often the result of different but mutually reinforcing factors, such as conflicts, natural disasters, pandemics, poverty and bad governance.

On the one hand, Governments are grappling with a number of difficult social and economic issues, including poverty eradication, unemployment, poor education systems, health epidemics (including HIV AIDS and the avian influenza) and environmental degradation.

Noting with concern the deleterious impact on humankind of HIV AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major infectious diseases and epidemics, and the heavy disease burden borne by poor people, especially in developing countries,

Only through such commitment can we hope to successfully face terrorism, global pandemics, extreme poverty, natural disasters, weapons of mass destruction, transnational organized crime, massive human rights violations and other scourges of our world.

The United Nations focused considerable effort on promoting sustainable development, including the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the search for responses to global threats and challenges, such as natural disasters, pandemics of new diseases, eradication of poverty, and so forth.

It also affirmed the urgent need to put this consensus into practice at various levels by setting up a genuine partnership for development for Africa, which has long been weakened by the horrors of armed conflict, instability and poverty and pandemics.

But the nation state as a basis for statecraft obscures the nature of humanity s greatest threats. Pollution, terrorism, pandemics, and climate change are global phenomena.

At the same time, it is encountering many global challenges such as international terrorism, the threat of the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the gap between poor and rich, environmental degradation, epidemics, transnational organized crime, drug trafficking and so forth.

Without going into details and figures, I would like to underscore Libya's contribution to various fields of development in African countries. We have provided assistance to combat epidemic diseases and overcome the effects of natural disasters including floods, droughts and infestation by locusts and other pests.

In China, according to a recent article by Teh wei Hu and colleagues in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , depression costs 51 billion renminbi, or more than 6 billion, per year at 2002 prices.

Other difficulties (either unrelated or not in direct relation to the regime) arose in the form of a locust attack (which the settlers were not equipped to deal with), famine and poverty (the result of donations ceasing), epidemics such as typhus, bank closures and inflation.

Corruption has spread over land and sea from what men have done themselves that they may taste a little of what they have done They may haply come back ( to the right path ) .

Chaos appears in the land and the sea because of the evil deeds which people s hands have earned , in order to make them taste the flavour of some of their misdeeds in order that they may come back .

Corruption has appeared in the land and sea , for that men 's own hands have earned , that He may let them taste some part of that which they have done , that haply so they may return .

Corruptness hath appeared on land and sea because of that which men 's hands have earned , so that he may make them taste a part of that which they have worked , in order that haply they may turn .

Evil ( sins and disobedience of Allah , etc . ) has appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of men have earned ( by oppression and evil deeds , etc . ) , that Allah may make them taste a part of that which they have done , in order that they may return ( by repenting to Allah , and begging His Pardon ) .

Corruption has appeared on land and sea , because of what people s hands have earned , in order to make them taste some of what they have done , so that they might return .

Evil has become rife on the land and at sea because of men 's deeds this in order that He may cause them to have a taste of some of their deeds perhaps they will turn back ( from evil ) .

Corruption doth appear on land and sea because of ( the evil ) which men 's hands have done , that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done , in order that they may return .

Corruption has appeared in land and sea because of the doings of the people s hands , that He may make them taste something of what they have done , so that they may come back .

Corruption has appeared on land and sea with what the hands of the people earned . Therefore , they taste some of what they did in order that they return .

Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by reason of what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of the consequence of what they have done that perhaps they will return to righteousness .