Where's the petri dish thread?

[TDub]

so Trump says ..sorry ..orders publications to stop reporting about the bird flu and has proposed an order to restrict and ban scientific reports to the public?

very cool

[KUTradition]

so Trump says ..sorry ..orders publications to stop reporting about the bird flu and has proposed an order to restrict and ban scientific reports to the public?

very cool

it seems deeper and more nefarious than just that

i just googled “trump halts bird flu publications” and then filtered by news

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Broken record/Deja Vu time.
Gutter bitching.

Co-worker.
The past year has had everything under the sun. Ranging from Covid, to RSV, to "colds" and "flu/s", to ear infections, to whatever.
When she is in the office, I work with her directly pretty much most of the day. Face to face.
She comes in to the office knowing she's sick - and exposes everyone.
She typically doesn't wear a mask when she knows she is sick, she leaves early to go home because she's sick, she doesn't return to work for a day or two because she is sick, then returns to work way too early and is not at all recovered from her sickness/illness - and exposes everyone.
Frankly, I would care a lot less what the heck she does and doesn't do but I am always "exposed" to her.
Yes, I usually choose to wear a mask when I am near her and know she is sick. Or, I purposely don't work with/near her if/when I don't have to have direct contact with her.

Now she has a new one. Norovirus.
She was diagnosed Sunday. Told me last night she's "better" but NOT "fully recovered" and is planning to be back in the office today. WTF!?!?!?

[japhy]

No worries, the CDC might be on this, or not, no way to know really.

TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Kansas health officials are fighting the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in U.S. history, with 67 confirmed cases since new year began.

The outbreak includes 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). That's the most since the 1950s, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring and reporting TB cases.

Health officials are testing and treating affected individuals.

"While there is a very low risk of infection to the general public in these communities, KDHE is working to ensure that patients are receiving appropriate treatment, which will limit the ability to spread this disease and prevent additional cases from occurring," KDHE spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh told the University of Minnesota's CIDRAP News in an email. "This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could be more cases."

TB is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to the CDC.

It spreads through the air when someone with active TB disease coughs or speaks. People who spend time in close contact with someone who has active TB are at greatest risk of infection.

TB typically affects the lungs but can also harm the brain, kidneys or spine. Here are the two forms:

Latent TB infection: The bacteria are inactive and cause no symptoms. People with latent TB cannot spread the disease to others but may develop TB if untreated.
TB disease: This form is contagious and can cause symptoms such as a persistent cough, chest pain, fatigue, weight loss and night sweats.
Kansas health officials are regularly screening anyone who tests positive to determine whether they have latent TB infection or active TB. Treatment for latent TB typically involves one or more medications, such as isoniazid or rifampin, for up to nine months.

Active TB typically requires a longer treatment course with combinations of drugs, including ethambutol, rifampin and pyrazinamide.

Although a TB vaccine exists (Bacille Calmette-Guérin), it is not commonly used in the U.S., the CDC said.

Local health departments in Kansas are conducting free testing for individuals, regardless of insurance coverage.

SOURCES: Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), news release, Jan. 24, 2025; University of Minnesota CIDRAP News, news release, Jan. 27, 2025, USA Today, media report, Jan. 27, 2025

What This Means For You:

If you live in Kansas, especially in Wyandotte or Johnson County, consider getting tested for TB if you are at risk or have symptoms.

Nothing to see here. Put your "not listening ears" on good and tight.

[JKLivin]

No worries, the CDC might be on this, or not, no way to know really.

TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Kansas health officials are fighting the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in U.S. history, with 67 confirmed cases since new year began.

The outbreak includes 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). That's the most since the 1950s, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring and reporting TB cases.

Health officials are testing and treating affected individuals.

"While there is a very low risk of infection to the general public in these communities, KDHE is working to ensure that patients are receiving appropriate treatment, which will limit the ability to spread this disease and prevent additional cases from occurring," KDHE spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh told the University of Minnesota's CIDRAP News in an email. "This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could be more cases."

TB is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to the CDC.

It spreads through the air when someone with active TB disease coughs or speaks. People who spend time in close contact with someone who has active TB are at greatest risk of infection.

TB typically affects the lungs but can also harm the brain, kidneys or spine. Here are the two forms:

Latent TB infection: The bacteria are inactive and cause no symptoms. People with latent TB cannot spread the disease to others but may develop TB if untreated.
TB disease: This form is contagious and can cause symptoms such as a persistent cough, chest pain, fatigue, weight loss and night sweats.
Kansas health officials are regularly screening anyone who tests positive to determine whether they have latent TB infection or active TB. Treatment for latent TB typically involves one or more medications, such as isoniazid or rifampin, for up to nine months.

Active TB typically requires a longer treatment course with combinations of drugs, including ethambutol, rifampin and pyrazinamide.

Although a TB vaccine exists (Bacille Calmette-Guérin), it is not commonly used in the U.S., the CDC said.

Local health departments in Kansas are conducting free testing for individuals, regardless of insurance coverage.

SOURCES: Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), news release, Jan. 24, 2025; University of Minnesota CIDRAP News, news release, Jan. 27, 2025, USA Today, media report, Jan. 27, 2025

What This Means For You:

If you live in Kansas, especially in Wyandotte or Johnson County, consider getting tested for TB if you are at risk or have symptoms.

Nothing to see here. Put your "not listening ears" on good and tight.

Good thing we let in millions of random people so these kinds of diseases could crop up again. Thanks, Brandon!

[jfish26]

These turrets you want posted along the border must be a lot more powerful and precise than I thought. Down to the bacterial/viral level! Of course, we’ll have to put them at every single port of entry (airports, harbor terminals, the northern border, etc.).

But you do you.

[Overlander]

No worries, the CDC might be on this, or not, no way to know really.

TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Kansas health officials are fighting the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in U.S. history, with 67 confirmed cases since new year began.

The outbreak includes 60 active cases in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). That's the most since the 1950s, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring and reporting TB cases.

Health officials are testing and treating affected individuals.

"While there is a very low risk of infection to the general public in these communities, KDHE is working to ensure that patients are receiving appropriate treatment, which will limit the ability to spread this disease and prevent additional cases from occurring," KDHE spokeswoman Jill Bronaugh told the University of Minnesota's CIDRAP News in an email. "This outbreak is still ongoing, which means that there could be more cases."

TB is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to the CDC.

It spreads through the air when someone with active TB disease coughs or speaks. People who spend time in close contact with someone who has active TB are at greatest risk of infection.

TB typically affects the lungs but can also harm the brain, kidneys or spine. Here are the two forms:

Latent TB infection: The bacteria are inactive and cause no symptoms. People with latent TB cannot spread the disease to others but may develop TB if untreated.
TB disease: This form is contagious and can cause symptoms such as a persistent cough, chest pain, fatigue, weight loss and night sweats.
Kansas health officials are regularly screening anyone who tests positive to determine whether they have latent TB infection or active TB. Treatment for latent TB typically involves one or more medications, such as isoniazid or rifampin, for up to nine months.

Active TB typically requires a longer treatment course with combinations of drugs, including ethambutol, rifampin and pyrazinamide.

Although a TB vaccine exists (Bacille Calmette-Guérin), it is not commonly used in the U.S., the CDC said.

Local health departments in Kansas are conducting free testing for individuals, regardless of insurance coverage.

SOURCES: Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), news release, Jan. 24, 2025; University of Minnesota CIDRAP News, news release, Jan. 27, 2025, USA Today, media report, Jan. 27, 2025

What This Means For You:

If you live in Kansas, especially in Wyandotte or Johnson County, consider getting tested for TB if you are at risk or have symptoms.

Nothing to see here. Put your "not listening ears" on good and tight.

Good thing we let in millions of random people so these kinds of diseases could crop up again. Thanks, Brandon!

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

[japhy]

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

They are shutting down the CDC and its notification system? Those fuckers!

[jfish26]

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

They are shutting down the CDC and its notification system? Those fuckers!

To be fair, if we woulda just followed the big guy's plan, there wouldn't have been a million Americans dead from Covid.

Of course, there would have been several million Americans dead from what would be regarded as the most vicious form of the common cold ever seen.

[JKLivin]

No worries, the CDC might be on this, or not, no way to know really.



Nothing to see here. Put your "not listening ears" on good and tight.

Good thing we let in millions of random people so these kinds of diseases could crop up again. Thanks, Brandon!

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

You need some new material, Scut. Even Grover’s not yuckin’ it up like to old days.

[Overlander]

Good thing we let in millions of random people so these kinds of diseases could crop up again. Thanks, Brandon!

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

You need some new material, Scut. Even Grover’s not yuckin’ it up like to old days.

"Even Grover’s not yuckin’ it up like to old days"
Are you ok?

[Overlander]

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

They are shutting down the CDC and its notification system? Those fuckers!

Trumpista dipshits are thrilled.
THIS is what they wanted all along.

[KUTradition]

who needs epidemiology when you can just blame whomever you like?

winning

[JKLivin]

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

You need some new material, Scut. Even Grover’s not yuckin’ it up like to old days.

"Even Grover’s not yuckin’ it up like to old days"
Are you ok?

Victim of autocorrect. Thanks for asking.

[JKLivin]

Seems anything can be blamed on brown people.
Great job!

They are shutting down the CDC and its notification system? Those fuckers!

Trumpista dipshits are thrilled.
THIS is what they wanted all along.

Oh, no! Who’s gonna tell us we have to stay home and can’t go to church next time?!? What will become of us all?

[Overlander]

They are shutting down the CDC and its notification system? Those fuckers!

Trumpista dipshits are thrilled.
THIS is what they wanted all along.

Oh, no! Who’s gonna tell us we have to stay home and can’t go to church next time?!? What will become of us all?

Frankly, I hope that 48.3% of this country does inject bleach and shove lightbulbs up their asses when the next virus erupts.

[JKLivin]

Trumpista dipshits are thrilled.
THIS is what they wanted all along.

Oh, no! Who’s gonna tell us we have to stay home and can’t go to church next time?!? What will become of us all?

Frankly, I hope that 48.3% of this country does inject bleach and shove lightbulbs up their asses when the next virus erupts.

Cool story, bro. Too bad he never said people should do those things. But, please, keep on acting as if he did if it makes you feel better.

[KUTradition]

Oh, no! Who’s gonna tell us we have to stay home and can’t go to church next time?!? What will become of us all?

Frankly, I hope that 48.3% of this country does inject bleach and shove lightbulbs up their asses when the next virus erupts.

Cool story, bro. Too bad he never said people should do those things. But, please, keep on acting as if he did if it makes you feel better.

goddamn, your a fucking liar

he absolutely said those things, and then when called out for it, both he and the white house tried to say he was being sarcastic

do better

[Overlander]

Oh, no! Who’s gonna tell us we have to stay home and can’t go to church next time?!? What will become of us all?

Frankly, I hope that 48.3% of this country does inject bleach and shove lightbulbs up their asses when the next virus erupts.

Cool story, bro. Too bad he never said people should do those things. But, please, keep on acting as if he did if it makes you feel better.

Yeah, I know. He didn't mean it.
He was just teasing while announcing to the American People that there was no real danger from a virus that was ripping through the world.

For a guy that claims to possess superior intellect, you sure say some stupid shit.

[JKLivin]

Frankly, I hope that 48.3% of this country does inject bleach and shove lightbulbs up their asses when the next virus erupts.

Cool story, bro. Too bad he never said people should do those things. But, please, keep on acting as if he did if it makes you feel better.

Yeah, I know. He didn't mean it.
He was just teasing while announcing to the American People that there was no real danger from a virus that was ripping through the world.

For a guy that claims to possess superior intellect, you sure say some stupid shit.

You’re the one who fell for it. Talk about stupid.