Ah, missed it... Michigan now on the measles board.
Michigan Health & Human Services:
March 14, 2025
OAKLAND, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Oakland County Health Division have confirmed an adult case of measles in Oakland County. This is the first confirmed case of measles in Michigan this year and the first case since July 2024.
The infected adult had recent overseas travel and their vaccination status is unknown.
#infection : any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused
- French: infection
- German: der Infekt
- Italian: infezione
- Portuguese: infecção
- Spanish: infección
------------
Thank you so much for being a member of our community!
Ugh. I just had to update this article to report that one unvaccinated child has now died of measles in this outbreak.
Measles is preventable with the safe and effective MMR vaccine.
#measles #infection #outbreak #USA #Texas #news #science #health #vaccination #vaccine #MMR
https://www.labroots.com/trending/microbiology/28601/texas-measles-outbreak-widens-nearly-100
X is terrible, but after the Meta news on explicitly allowing transphobia / transmisia, overall it's just been a tough week.
Idk what I have but my asthma attack started last week. Elevated neutrophils indicate bacterial infection, my GP said? So either it was "probably viral" like the OoH 111 GP said and became bacterial as well, or I was unlucky that it was bacterial to begin with.
I've been on Prednisolone, a corticosteroid since the 9th; then last night I started Doxycyline, an antibiotic, and Montelukast.
Montelukast is a leukotriene receptor antagonist, so it blocks leukotrienes, my patient pamphlet says.
Got a chest X ray out of it, at least. (Had back pain behind my ex-gallbladder since its removal anyway.)
Let this be a lesson not to lessen your mask discipline or stubbornness when other people peer pressure you to take risks with your health.
This is my first asthma exacerbation in a decade and I do not want to continue experiencing this. I do not recommend it. The people telling me I was 'paranoid', 'over-thinking it', 'worried about nothing' and more do NOT have to feel what I am feeling.
Teenage boys in public who choose to whine at me and intentionally coughing towards me (what?!!?) is super aggressive, creepy, entitled, and harmful to everyone witnessing that. Still, my upper and mid back has not stopped aching. I don't get fevers and I don't have a cough. Only you know your body.
Some people choose to care about harm reduction; others don't. Do right by yourself and do your sustainable best by others. I believe in you!
"Maybe you already know how your immune system works, but you’d like someone to sum it all up in a way that helps you articulate the details when your friends and relatives bash you for protecting yourself.
So, where did this idea come from—it’s good to get sick?
It has a history.
Let’s start with a basic question: Where exactly did this idea come from that you have to train your immune system?"
@dgentry
Yes yes yes omggg
Can you (theoretically) 3D design / print an off-brand filter case for See Us 95?
Theirs are so dainty they break mid-use, leaving you with one side flopping off while walking about.
Or even just an ergonomic ring shape with smooth hook nubs at the edge for straps to tie or loop onto.
That way, you use any surgical or actual KN99 or FFP3 respirator as the filter.
Then you fit this plastic edge press over it, pressing the (new) seal firmly against your skin.
Tada! Your fit test is now actually likely to pass!
I say:
1. handwashing facilities at every public building entrance, including malls;
2. less-sensory demanding / muffling respirators;
3. some kind of cyberpunk glove manufacturing technique; and
4. air purifiers in schools, libraries, offices, malls, and on public transport. (Because laboratories should already have this!)
"To give some idea of what banning #fluoride might look like, Calgary, Canada, banned fluoride in 2011. In the eight years afterward, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy for children to avoid death from #infection skyrocketed 700 percent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital."
Aside: This is because bacteria in untreated, infected #cavities can sometimes spread to other body parts, including the bloodstream, and lead to #sepsis.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188095/donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-plan-health-fda
#rfkjr #trump #dental #publichealth
#Intraductal #infection with #H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b #influenza virus
Source: BioRxIV, AbstractThe ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 of the clade 2.3.4.4b in dairy cows has led to numerous questions including how the virus transmits amongst cattle given the limited respiratory infection. One hypothesis is that the virus is spreading through fomites from udder to udder. In these studies, we demonstrate that…
“Most antibiotics inhibit a process,” said senior study author Dr. Walid A. Houry, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Toronto. “With this approach, we are dysregulating a process, and this allows us to develop this new class of compounds that we eventually hope to get into a clinic.”
#bacteria #antibiotics #medicine #science #research #cells #infection #health
https://www.labroots.com/trending/microbiology/27965/type-antibiotic-makes-bacteria-self-destruct
@eniko
As somebody that is vaccinated 5 times and just recovered from the 2nd #corona #infection I can say no mask for me. My infection
I friend of mine is only vaccinated 3 times but has more severe problems with the #Virus
Bloody doctors that tell you that you are no high risk group and refuse vaccination.
Another case of EEE (which is nasty, nasty, nasty) in New York.
The people who merely think they are immune to bad consequences of #Covid far outnumber the ones who actually are. This works very well for the evolutionary success of the #SARS2 #virus, which is flourishing in the fertile ground of overconfident and delusional human hosts, as well as those they have power over to coerce into forced #infection.
Researchers on Wednesday reported the first known infection of an exotic eye worm in a black bear in the U.S., which was killed in Pennsylvania in November 2023, Ars Technica reports:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/exotic-eye-worm-rapidly-invades-us-by-spreading-from-testes-of-fruit-flies/
World Health Organization, Geneva: Ten percent (10%) of the planet is currently COVID infected, but Europe is over twenty percent (20%). Recently reported numbers could be twenty times the actual infection rates.
Me, social media: It seems half of my friends feeds talk about family infections. Yet I see no one on the train/ bus is masking...
#CovidIsNotOver #covid #rates #USA #EUR #WHO #infection #MaskUp #masks #work #summer #surge #world #health #organization https://www.unognewsroom.org/story/en/2284/covid-19-situation-update-who-06aug2024/0/Jxbo2QBagw
Yesterday I let down my guard ever so slightly for no good reason because I was just sick and tired of having a wad of melt-blown polyethylene stuck to my face and it was just one brief outdoor encounter. I assessed the situation and decided, fuck that, and interacted with someone without looking like some paranoid weirdo.
I almost certainly did not get #Covid from that encounter. But let me explain why it was a very poor choice, given my goal of never getting an #infection.
Zombie Fungi infection - it is not just a fictional plot in The Last Of Us. Beware the fungus among us.
Are Humans the New Target for Fungi?
Attack of the Zombie Fungus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6GOs6vJO3k
If this real-life horror story doesn’t get people to close the toilet lid, we don’t know what will. A man in Canada found a rat lurking in his toilet bowl and was hospitalized with a serious bacterial infection after the critter bit two of his fingers. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/8cFufY
#Science #Health #Infection #Bacteria #Rats
