Where's the petri dish thread?

[Shirley]

meat thermometer anyone?

https://people.com/doctor-shares-scan-o ... rk-8703271

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.

[Shirley]

Be careful out there!

Syphilis is at its highest levels since the 1950s.

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.

[...]

[Shirley]

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.

Growing concern over West Nile virus after teen is paralyzed

[KUTradition]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/health/m ... index.html

[Shirley]

These Four Common Infections Can Cause Cancer

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.

[...]

[jhawks99]

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.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/10/0 ... -outbreak/

[Shirley]

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.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/10/0 ... -outbreak/

smh. A preventable disease, how sad.

Thanks Trump, and all the amateur experts out there like Randi.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Go figure…

https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/loc ... 9-vaccines

[Shirley]

Go figure…

https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/loc ... 9-vaccines

Oct. 15: Moderna continues to be the most shorted S&P 500 healthcare stock in September

Moderna (MRNA)—most shorted—saw short interest rise to 9.14% from 7.48% in August...

[Shirley]

Teen with E. coli is battling kidney failure after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounders

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...

[BiggDick]

Scientists decode when and how kissing evolved in humans – and it’s gross

Behaviour likely emerged from early humans sucking lips to remove parasites while grooming, researchers say

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 38159.html

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Hmmmmmmmm.
Yet another example of X/Twitter proving that it is a fear mongering platform - or an important platform?

Can you spot the difference/s?

First report by CBS on X/Twitter.....
Read what it says on the X/Twitter post including the "show more".




follow up reports by CBS.....

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeys-es ... =646220930

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-caro ... ys-latest/

[KUTradition]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... demic.html

and further handcuffed by the unqualified incoming administration

A lot of people in public health feel like they are being punched in the face repeatedly for their work. It’s important to bear in mind that we had a million people die of COVID in the United States, plus probably 5 to 10 times that many who continue to live with Long COVID. And it was the public health actions that prevented the toll from being worse. Were there mistakes made? Absolutely. Were there places where we underestimated the mental health impact and the amount of education that could be delivered virtually? Absolutely. But it’s a fog of war situation, and you’re going to get things wrong. And people want certainty that simply can’t be provided.

In this case, imagine if you’re public health and you do what is perceived as a heavy-handed intervention to try to stamp out H5 in dairy cattle, and you make farmers incur these economic costs. And you’re successful, and you stamp it out. One of my favorite lines from The Simpsons was from an early season when Homer says something like, “Why are we giving Maggie vaccines for diseases she doesn’t even have yet?” And it’s the same idea, where if we stamped it out and there was no pandemic, people would say, “Look, they did all these things and it was for nothing. There wasn’t even a flu pandemic. And look at all the costs that were incurred.”

this logic, regurgitated here by our epidemiology experts, is so incredibly infuriating

[jfish26]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... demic.html

and further handcuffed by the unqualified incoming administration

A lot of people in public health feel like they are being punched in the face repeatedly for their work. It’s important to bear in mind that we had a million people die of COVID in the United States, plus probably 5 to 10 times that many who continue to live with Long COVID. And it was the public health actions that prevented the toll from being worse. Were there mistakes made? Absolutely. Were there places where we underestimated the mental health impact and the amount of education that could be delivered virtually? Absolutely. But it’s a fog of war situation, and you’re going to get things wrong. And people want certainty that simply can’t be provided.

In this case, imagine if you’re public health and you do what is perceived as a heavy-handed intervention to try to stamp out H5 in dairy cattle, and you make farmers incur these economic costs. And you’re successful, and you stamp it out. One of my favorite lines from The Simpsons was from an early season when Homer says something like, “Why are we giving Maggie vaccines for diseases she doesn’t even have yet?” And it’s the same idea, where if we stamped it out and there was no pandemic, people would say, “Look, they did all these things and it was for nothing. There wasn’t even a flu pandemic. And look at all the costs that were incurred.”

this logic, regurgitated here by our epidemiology experts, is so incredibly infuriating

The root of all of this, of course, is in the religious right's (successful, cynical, deceitful) crusade against mandatory vaccinations in public life. Which is of course part of a much broader program to ensure that whispering the word Jesus means you are exempt from, well, most anything you might find inconvenient, uncomfortable or personally off-putting.

[KUTradition]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... demic.html

and further handcuffed by the unqualified incoming administration

A lot of people in public health feel like they are being punched in the face repeatedly for their work. It’s important to bear in mind that we had a million people die of COVID in the United States, plus probably 5 to 10 times that many who continue to live with Long COVID. And it was the public health actions that prevented the toll from being worse. Were there mistakes made? Absolutely. Were there places where we underestimated the mental health impact and the amount of education that could be delivered virtually? Absolutely. But it’s a fog of war situation, and you’re going to get things wrong. And people want certainty that simply can’t be provided.

In this case, imagine if you’re public health and you do what is perceived as a heavy-handed intervention to try to stamp out H5 in dairy cattle, and you make farmers incur these economic costs. And you’re successful, and you stamp it out. One of my favorite lines from The Simpsons was from an early season when Homer says something like, “Why are we giving Maggie vaccines for diseases she doesn’t even have yet?” And it’s the same idea, where if we stamped it out and there was no pandemic, people would say, “Look, they did all these things and it was for nothing. There wasn’t even a flu pandemic. And look at all the costs that were incurred.”

this logic, regurgitated here by our epidemiology experts, is so incredibly infuriating

The root of all of this, of course, is in the religious right's (successful, cynical, deceitful) crusade against mandatory vaccinations in public life. Which is of course part of a much broader program to ensure that whispering the word Jesus means you are exempt from, well, most anything you might find inconvenient, uncomfortable or personally off-putting.

i see this as a big part of a broader “fight” against scientific (and otherwise) expertise

not that i think you’re wrong. i just don’t think it’s exclusively a religious thing

[jfish26]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... demic.html

and further handcuffed by the unqualified incoming administration

A lot of people in public health feel like they are being punched in the face repeatedly for their work. It’s important to bear in mind that we had a million people die of COVID in the United States, plus probably 5 to 10 times that many who continue to live with Long COVID. And it was the public health actions that prevented the toll from being worse. Were there mistakes made? Absolutely. Were there places where we underestimated the mental health impact and the amount of education that could be delivered virtually? Absolutely. But it’s a fog of war situation, and you’re going to get things wrong. And people want certainty that simply can’t be provided.

In this case, imagine if you’re public health and you do what is perceived as a heavy-handed intervention to try to stamp out H5 in dairy cattle, and you make farmers incur these economic costs. And you’re successful, and you stamp it out. One of my favorite lines from The Simpsons was from an early season when Homer says something like, “Why are we giving Maggie vaccines for diseases she doesn’t even have yet?” And it’s the same idea, where if we stamped it out and there was no pandemic, people would say, “Look, they did all these things and it was for nothing. There wasn’t even a flu pandemic. And look at all the costs that were incurred.”

this logic, regurgitated here by our epidemiology experts, is so incredibly infuriating

The root of all of this, of course, is in the religious right's (successful, cynical, deceitful) crusade against mandatory vaccinations in public life. Which is of course part of a much broader program to ensure that whispering the word Jesus means you are exempt from, well, most anything you might find inconvenient, uncomfortable or personally off-putting.

i see this as a big part of a broader “fight” against scientific (and otherwise) expertise

not that i think you’re wrong

I think it's all of a piece.

People with historically-influential positions in society don't like being diminished.

Scientific (and other objective) expertise diminishes the influence of religion.

Religious people fight back against scientific (and other objective) expertise.

And cloaking their grievances in the positionless magic trick of "religious beliefs" has proven to be quite effective in that regard!

[Overlander]

The root of all of this, of course, is in the religious right's (successful, cynical, deceitful) crusade against mandatory vaccinations in public life. Which is of course part of a much broader program to ensure that whispering the word Jesus means you are exempt from, well, most anything you might find inconvenient, uncomfortable or personally off-putting.

i see this as a big part of a broader “fight” against scientific (and otherwise) expertise

not that i think you’re wrong

I think it's all of a piece.

People with historically-influential positions in society don't like being diminished.

Scientific (and other objective) expertise diminishes the influence of religion.

Religious people fight back against scientific (and other objective) expertise.

And cloaking their grievances in the positionless magic trick of "religious beliefs" has proven to be quite effective in that regard!

Kinda goes back to dinosaurs can't be a thing.