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3. Diseases

3. Diseases

3. Diseases

“Plenny peopo goin get real sick.”​—LUKE 21:11.

● In one African country wea get war, Bonzali, one guy who try keep da town healthy, he do wat he can fo try help da mine workas who stay dying from Marburg virus. * He try get help from one big city but nobody come help. Four months layta dey finally come help but Bonzali, he mahke. He wen get da Marburg virus from da guys he wuz tryin fo help.

WAT IZ DA FACTS? Infections dat mess up da breathing, (like pneumonia), diarrhea kine diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, an malaria iz some of da worsest kine diseases out dea. Dese kine diseases wen kill 10.7 million guys in one year. Das jalike da diseases wen kill one guy ery three seconds, all year long.

WHY PEOPO NO BELIEVE TINGS GETTIN WORSE? Dey say dat get moa disease now cuz get moa an moa peopo on da eart. So can get moa peopo dat can get sick.

DEY RIGHT O WAT? Yeah get moa peopo now, but get moa ways fo find out if peopo get da disease fo control um an help um get betta. So make sense den should get less disease right? But dat not happenin. Ony gettin moa worse.

WAT YOU TINK? Peopo gettin supa sick like da Bible wen tell?

Eartquakes, no moa enuff food, all dat bussin up choke peopo. But plenny odda guys suffa cuz wat odda guys do to dem—even from da guys who suppose to malama dem. Try check out wat da Bible sed wuz goin happen.

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^ Dass one virus jalike Ebola.

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‘Iz supa bad fo have one lion eat you up. But iz jus az bad fo have one bug eat you from da inside out, an fo see um happenin all around you.’​—EPIDEMIOLOGIST MICHAEL OSTERHOLM.

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