Keith D Johnson · @KeithDJohnson
1290 followers · 3906 posts · Server sfba.social

"Humans and pigs easily swap . 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 . That’s why virologists call hogs “mixing vessels” for novel influenza strains."
motherjones.com/environment/20

#influenza #viruses #pandemics #cafos

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Flávia Feijó · @flavia_feijo_epi
365 followers · 10922 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

CDC

September 2023

Historical Review
Improvements and Persisting Challenges in COVID-19 Response Compared with 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Response, New Zealand (Aotearoa)

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/9



#pandemics #IDMastodon #OneHealth

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Nicolas Gambardella · @nicgambarde
107 followers · 156 posts · Server genomic.social

Et si le confinement et les restrictions sanitaires avaient duré 10 ans ? Une fable amusante qui tire dans toutes les directions. Excellent labouinotte.fr/produit/415/sou

#roman #novel #pandemie #pandemics #confinement #lockdown

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Luis M. Rocha · @lmrocha
199 followers · 328 posts · Server qoto.org

link between climate change and should raise a call to action for scientists and governments to evaluate the risks of the inevitable effects of climate change on and . 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. "
science.org/doi/full/10.1126/s

#the #infectiousdisease #epidemics #pandemics

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Jeff Hertzog · @jeffhertzog1961
42 followers · 2376 posts · Server brighteon.social
Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
351 followers · 12537 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca
ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 628 posts · Server earthstream.social
ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 620 posts · Server earthstream.social

Via Euronews: Scientists find air pollution may be driving the rising threat of antibiotic resistance
euronews.com/next/2023/08/08/s

#climatejustice #pandemics

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ProPublica · @ProPublica
89511 followers · 1170 posts · Server newsie.social
Tech news from Canada · @TechNews
925 followers · 24415 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca
ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 614 posts · Server earthstream.social

lemonde.fr/planete/article/202]

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.

#pandemics

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ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 603 posts · Server earthstream.social
ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 602 posts · Server earthstream.social

medicine.wustl.edu/news/scient
Breathalyzer-like tests to detect viruses, including COVID, in under one minute are on the horizon

#pandemics

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ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 593 posts · Server earthstream.social

dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar
‘Scientists discover 'variant-proof' antibodies that can neutralize every strain of Covid - as virus rates tick up across US amid 'late summer wave’

#pandemics

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
100 followers · 527 posts · Server mastodon.au

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
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontologi

#giddens #laing #agamben #barelife #experience #angst #anxiety #ambiguity #stability #security #health #polycrisis #selfdestructivebehaviour #fossilfuels #war #pandemics #permantthreats #secureworld #insecurity #climate #extinction #ontologicalsecurity

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ClimateJusticeLX · @Lumzq
6 followers · 566 posts · Server earthstream.social
Empiricism · @empiricism
247 followers · 812 posts · Server sustainability.masto.host

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 "

Pigs! You need to mask up as the humans are infectious

Too soon? Or too insensitive?

This Week in Virology: TWiV 1019: Eddie Holmes on SARS-CoV-2 origins

Episode webpage: microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1019/

Media file: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv

#masks #joke #sustainability #virology #climate #pandemics

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Empiricism · @empiricism
247 followers · 812 posts · Server sustainability.masto.host

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 "

Pigs! You need to mask up as the humans are infectious

Too soon? Or too insensitive?

This Week in Virology: TWiV 1019: Eddie Holmes on SARS-CoV-2 origins

Episode webpage: microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1019/

Media file: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/twiv

#masks #joke #sustainsbility #virology #climate #pandemics

Last updated 1 year ago

Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
288 followers · 10607 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca