"Humans and pigs easily swap #influenza #viruses. Worse still, pigs can also pick up influenza strains that circulate among birds, whose viruses aren’t well adapted to infecting and spreading among people. Humans don’t have the receptors in our throats and noses that avian flus can easily attach to. Our isolation from avian flus is what makes them dangerous—since our immune systems rarely encounter them, we have little innate ability to fight them off. Enter pigs. They can catch flu strains from birds (often carrying them without symptoms), mash them up with genetic material from human-adapted flus, and create novel varieties capable of flummoxing human immunity and generating #pandemics. That’s why virologists call hogs “mixing vessels” for novel influenza strains."
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/06/tightly-packed-poultry-and-pig-farms-could-be-incubating-the-next-deadly-flu/
#CAFOs
#influenza #viruses #pandemics #cafos
https://wallstreetpro.com/2022/07/28/pandemics-was-the-greatest-wealth-transfer-in-history-from-the-middle-class-to-the-elites/ Pandemics was the Greatest Wealth Transfer in History From the Middle Class to the Elites. #pandemics #plamdemics #elites #wealth
#pandemics #plamdemics #elites #wealth
CDC
September 2023
Historical Review
Improvements and Persisting Challenges in COVID-19 Response Compared with 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Response, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
#pandemics #IDMastodon #OneHealth
Et si le confinement et les restrictions sanitaires avaient duré 10 ans ? Une fable amusante qui tire dans toutes les directions. Excellent https://www.labouinotte.fr/produit/415/souvenirs-de-nos-jours-a-venir#
#roman #novel #pandémie #pandemics #confinement #lockdown
#roman #novel #pandemie #pandemics #confinement #lockdown
#The link between climate change and #infectiousdisease should raise a call to action for scientists and governments to evaluate the risks of the inevitable effects of climate change on #epidemics and #pandemics. Emergency response to climate disasters should automatically include public health actions to mitigate outbreaks. In addition, health systems should adapt to changing disease transmission patterns and the global mobility of people, animals, and goods. "
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk4500
#the #infectiousdisease #epidemics #pandemics
The #WHO’s Proposed Amendments Will Increase Man-Made #Pandemics https://thewashingtonstandard.com/the-whos-proposed-amendments-will-increase-man-made-pandemics/
New Yorker: Bringing Up Lady Bird https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/bringing-up-lady-bird #NewYorker #Culture/TheWeekendEssay #Pandemics #Predators #NewJersey #Chickens #Pets
#newyorker #Culture #pandemics #predators #newjersey #chickens #pets
Via Euronews: Scientists find air pollution may be driving the rising threat of antibiotic resistance
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/08/scientists-find-air-pollution-may-be-driving-the-rising-threat-of-antibiotic-resistance
How We Used Machine Learning to Investigate Where #Ebola May Strike
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ProPublica spent months teaching a computer to analyze past Ebola #outbreaks linked to #deforestation.
What we found reveals a weakness in the way that governments and #PublicHealth experts are preparing for future #pandemics.
#MachineLearning #Disease #Outbreak #Pandemic #Nigeria #Africa #Spillover #News #Research
#ebola #outbreaks #deforestation #publichealth #pandemics #machinelearning #disease #outbreak #pandemic #Nigeria #Africa #spillover #News #research
Wired: A Crucial Early Warning System for Disease Outbreaks Is in Jeopardy https://www.wired.com/story/a-crucial-early-warning-system-for-disease-outbreaks-is-in-jeopardy/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Science/Health #epidemiology #intelligence #PublicHealth #opensource #epidemics #pandemics #diseases #COVID-19 #Science #CDC
#Tech #wired #technews #it #technology #science #epidemiology #intelligence #publichealth #opensource #epidemics #pandemics #diseases #covid #cdc
Two first autochthonous cases of dengue detected in the Bouches-du-Rhône
Since May 1, more than 227 cases imported from abroad have already been reported domestically.
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/scientists-develop-breath-test-that-rapidly-detects-covid-19-virus/
Breathalyzer-like tests to detect viruses, including COVID, in under one minute are on the horizon
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12356917/Scientists-discover-variant-proof-antibodies-neutralize-strain-Covid-virus-rates-tick-amid-late-summer-wave.html
‘Scientists discover 'variant-proof' antibodies that can neutralize every strain of Covid - as virus rates tick up across US amid 'late summer wave’
The ‘taken-for-granted’ disappears
A look out of the window or at the screen shows a world where our 'ontological security' is disappearing. Our very fundamental sense of being is being broken. Our sense of continuity of our lives is ruptured. Multiple crisis rock the sense of the self. All of a sudden we are all at the ‘front-lines’ of experiencing the polycrisis.
Ontological security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_security
#Giddens #Laing #Agamben #BareLife #experience #Angst #anxiety #ambiguity #stability #security #health #polycrisis #SelfdestructiveBehaviour #FossilFuels #war #pandemics #PermantThreats #SecureWorld #insecurity #climate #extinction #OntologicalSecurity
#giddens #laing #agamben #barelife #experience #angst #anxiety #ambiguity #stability #security #health #polycrisis #selfdestructivebehaviour #fossilfuels #war #pandemics #permantthreats #secureworld #insecurity #climate #extinction #ontologicalsecurity
Couldn't help but chuckle at Eddie Holmes remark "Influenza (the Flu) passes from Humans to Pigs more than from Pigs to Humans, so the Pigs should be wearing #masks "
Pigs! You need to mask up as the humans are infectious
#joke Too soon? Or too insensitive?
This Week in Virology: TWiV 1019: Eddie Holmes on SARS-CoV-2 origins
Episode webpage: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1019/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv/TWiV1019.mp3?dest-id=25528
#masks #joke #sustainability #virology #climate #pandemics
Couldn't help but chuckle at Eddie Holmes remark "Influenza (the Flu) passes from Humans to Pigs more than from Pigs to Humans, so the Pigs should be wearing #masks "
Pigs! You need to mask up as the humans are infectious
#joke Too soon? Or too insensitive?
This Week in Virology: TWiV 1019: Eddie Holmes on SARS-CoV-2 origins
Episode webpage: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1019/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv/TWiV1019.mp3?dest-id=25528
#masks #joke #sustainsbility #virology #climate #pandemics
New Yorker: What COVID Revealed About American Psychiatry https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/what-covid-revealed-about-american-psychiatry #NewYorker #MedicalResearch #Culture/Essay #Psychiatrists #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #Coronavirus #Psychiatry #Pandemics #Brain
#newyorker #medicalresearch #Culture #psychiatrists #Mentalillness #mentalhealth #coronavirus #psychiatry #pandemics #brain