Wow, what a CT! Cysticercosis is one of those diseases you learn about in med school, that used to happen, but almost never does anymore because people know to cook their meat.
Note to self: Don't stop not eating raw meat and shellfish.
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
It was spring 2023, and Dr. Irene Stafford had been called to the ER for what should have been a routine delivery.
But Stafford, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, quickly realized something was wrong: She couldn’t find a heartbeat. The unborn baby boy had already died in the womb.
Soon after, the mother’s syphilis test — given to all women before delivery — came back positive. The infection had been silently passed from mother to son.
It’s a death, Stafford said, that could’ve been prevented with early detection and a shot of penicillin.
Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, was nearly eliminated in the U.S. at the beginning of the 21st century but has made a dramatic comeback. In 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 200,000 syphilis cases — the highest counts since 1950. Congenital syphilis has similarly increased tenfold over the past decade, the CDC says, even though 90% of cases are fully preventable.
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“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
An 18-year-old Missouri man was paralyzed from the neck down after his family say he was infected with the West Nile Virus. And health authorities in Wisconsin say two people have died from the virus. The cases come as experts say climate change is extending the mosquito season.
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
A new report says that 13 percent of cancers are linked to bacteria or viruses. Vaccines and treatments offer powerful protection.
Most cases of stomach cancer are caused by bacteria. A majority of cervical cancers, as well as some genital and oral cancers, are caused by a virus. And certain chronic viral infections can lead to liver cancer.
Infections like these account for an estimated 13 percent of all cancer cases globally, according to a new report published Wednesday by the American Association for Cancer Research. But knowing which infections can lead to cancer means scientists also have a good idea how to prevent them from ever getting that far: There are effective vaccines and medications to prevent and treat these infections, and they can be detected early on through screening.
Dr. Michael Pignone, a professor of medicine at the Duke School of Medicine and member of the steering committee that oversaw the report, said the progress made in preventing and treating these four infections, among others that can cause cancer, was one reason for highlighting them. We are now close to “turning what would have previously been some common cancers into rare diseases,” he said.
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“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
An ongoing measles outbreak in and around Hennepin County has sickened at least 51 people, according to the latest Department of Health data. Most are unvaccinated children, and nearly one quarter of the people had to be hospitalized.
jhawks99 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 11:31 am
An ongoing measles outbreak in and around Hennepin County has sickened at least 51 people, according to the latest Department of Health data. Most are unvaccinated children, and nearly one quarter of the people had to be hospitalized.
Kamberlyn Bowler, a high school freshman from Colorado, has been diagnosed with a rare and potentially life-threatening complication of the foodborne pathogen.
...Kamberlyn has been diagnosed with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS — which can arise if E. coli bacteria attack the kidneys. She has received multiple rounds of dialysis in the hospital...
"Kamberlyn" ? Never heard that one before...
“The Electoral College is DEI for rural white folks.”
Derek Cressman
