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Is your favorite mug secretly poisoning you?
My latest story uncovers the hidden chemistry of toxic pottery and why “handmade” isn’t always safe.
https://medium.com/science-spectrum/glazed-and-confused-the-chemistry-behind-toxic-pottery-69c70cca1137

#foodsafety #food #science #heatlh #culture #publichhealth #society

Why are so many children getting chronic illness from an uncontrolled infectious disease that causes chronic illness?

#PublichHealth #ShitPost

How many people died from #COVID19? Probably more than 20 million. The World Health Organization #WHO has said member countries reported more than 7 million #deaths from COVID-19 but the true death toll is estimated to be at least three times higher. Data is no longer collected other than #wastewater. In the U.S., an average of about 900 people a week have died of COVID-19 over the past year, according to the #CDC. #publichhealth #pandemic #facts #wearamask please https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/5-years-after-it-appeared-things-we-know-and-still-dont-know-about-covid

Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

#PublichHealth #USA

This #amazing #hospital in #Pakistan #supports, #treats, and #heals people #free of #charge. #Donate to #help them with their #vital #mission. #healthcare #health #healing #HealthEquity #HealthService #PublichHealth
https://foihus.org/appeal/childhood-cancer/?utm_source=EKN&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=CA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj--0v9GgigMVp7bRBB0aeA12EAEYASAAEgJKofD_BwE

The challenges of isolating #COVID19 patients prior to the availability of #vaccines: "Facilities with personal protective equipment and potential staff shortages had larger increases in COVID-19 cases than those without such shortages."

And: "admissions to SNFs[skilled nursing facilities] of COVID-19–positive patients early in the pandemic likely played a role in preventable COVID-19 cases and mortality."
#pandemic #PandemicPreparedness #PublichHealth

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2819476

Might additional advantages be:
Rabbits are not afflicted by devastating diseases like hogs and chickens.
It appears that rabbits don't serve as mixing vessels for influenza and so don't pose a risk to human public health.
# # #
Rabbit meat production and processing in China
"As the biggest rabbit meat producer globally, China has conducted a series of studies on rabbit meat processing and the development of new products...."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174018302390

#Influenza #Zoonosis #PublichHealth #China

A hantavirus?
# # #
"Occupants Are Massively Affected by “Mouse Fever” in Kupiansk Direction
December 19, 2023
Occupants Are Massively Affected by “Mouse Fever” in Kupiansk DirectionDefence Intelligence of Ukraine informs that dissatisfaction is growing in the units of the russian occupying army due to inadequate provision of winter uniforms, as well as complete lack of medical care.
. . ."

https://gur.gov.ua/en/content/na-kupianskomu-napriamku-frontu-okupantiv-masovo-kosyt-myshacha-lykhomanka.html

#mousefever #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #Virology #PublichHealth

America Is Having a Senior Moment on Vaccines

Many of the people most at risk of dying aren’t getting COVID shots

For years now, health experts have been warning that COVID-era politics and the spread of anti-vaxxer lies have brought us to the brink of public-health catastrophe—that a Great Collapse of Vaccination Rates is nigh.

http://tinyurl.com/covid19eldrisk

#COVID19 #PublichHealth #CovidIsNotOver #Getvaccinated #Wearamask

@ferricoxide @w7voa

I expect that there is a fair bit of extrapolation, not county-by-county granularity for the data.

A recent JAMA article cites "268 counties in 22 states from January to September 2022".

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2807632

I'm lucky to be in California's Santa Clara County, which has been publishing COVID-19 detected in wastewater for a while already.

#COVID19 #WastewaterMonitoring #PublichHealth

'The global public health community needs to mobilise to denounce this cynical attack on an innovative law that would have been (and could still be, if the repeal of the laws is halted) the most significant advance in ending the commercial tobacco epidemic.' writes @CoralGartner in yesterday's Croakey Blog
#publichhealth #tobaccocontrol
https://www.croakey.org/new-government-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-launches-attack-on-public-health/

Excess #mortality in #Gaza: Oct 7–26, 2023, Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02640-5/fulltext?rss=yes#%20 #war #WarOnGaza #PublichHealth

Dr. Baric appears to refer to this study in a YouTube presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_H7dTqJXU
What We Know about the Coronavirus
18:40
an equally plausible mechanism for the outbreak is that Chinese living in rural
18:47
areas in farming communities in close proximity to bat hibernacula could have been infected with a bat and the data
18:54
that supports that is that many Chinese that do live near the bat hibernacula actually have
..."
#OriginOfCovid #Virology #PublichHealth #SarsCoV2

It's now thought that Napoleon's invasion of Russia was defeated not by the winter, but by ectoparasite vectors. The Divine Wind saved Japan. For Russia would that be the Devil's Crawling Hordes?

"What we see and catch we leave behind; what we neither see nor catch, we carry away." is true for both lice and the past.

#Parasites #Parasitology #zoonosis #PublichHealth #microbiology

Louse and Flea-borne Diseases: Implications for People Experiencing Homelessness and their Companion Animals

https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/zohu/2023/october.html

#Parasites #Parasitology #zoonosis #PublichHealth #microbiology

Is there some big conference going on now in the vaccine, infectious disease, public health realm? I'm getting automatic 'away' responses from an awful lot of researchers.

#medmaston #PublichHealth #vaccines

"Nevertheless, the United States Agency for International Development made a big announcement: It would spend $125 million to partner with labs around the world to collect unknown animal viruses and prepare for those that could trigger a pandemic."
# # #
I support the research, but isn't the reason given for it sales puff? With ZIka as perhaps the rule proving exception, are there any other examples of a pathogen discovered in animals in a remote location that became a #PublichHealth threat?

"NEW YORK — The understaffed agency charged with monitoring tuberculosis in New York City is struggling to respond to new cases — fueling fears of a resurgence decades after the nation got TB under control.

The city has confirmed about 500 cases of active tuberculosis so far this year, an increase of roughly 20 percent from the same time last year, according to internal preliminary data ..."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/04/tuberculosis-cases-rising-new-york-00119878

#PublichHealth #infectiousdisease #infectiousdiseases #tuberculosis #NYC