#Outbreaks/Epidemics

[cookiep-cat]

Chapter 3 aftermath:

[vyorei]

Michael Ryan of the World Health Organisation speaking on the dire conditions civilians in Gaza face as the genocide continues

[unofficial-sean]

A woman in Tacoma, WA was diagnosed with an active infection of tuberculosis. She has already infected several medical staff and refuses to quarantine and receive treatment for her infection. Courts are presently working on litigation to either force her into receiving treatment or jail time.

While the legal process is at work, it is really important for everyone to take preventative measures to stop the spread of tuberculosis. It can lay dormant for a long time. This has the potential to spread worldwide to nations that have otherwise kept a lid on TB infections.

Please be safe. Please do the right thing.

[winter-jay-official]

!!!! Got totally normal things for Christmas sooo normal I am so normal trust me

[quotesfrommyreading]

We know a remarkable amount about the quotidian drinking habits of the Golden Square neighborhood on those oppressive days of August 1854. We know that the Eley brothers dispatched a bottle to their mother on Monday, and that she shared it with her visiting niece later that week. We know that a young man visiting his chemist father enjoyed a glass of pump water with his pudding at a restaurant on Wardour Street. We know of an army officer who visited a friend on Wardour Street for dinner and drank a glass of Broad Street water with his meal. We know that the tailor Mr. G sent his wife several times to grab a pitcher of water from the pump outside his workplace.

We also know of the holdouts who did not drink water from the pump that week, for a variety of reasons: the laborers at the Lion Brewery who had their malt liquor supplemented by water supplied by the popular New River Company; a family who normally relied on their ten-year-old girl to fetch water from the pump went dry for a few days as the little girl recovered in bed from a cold. A regular pump-water drinker – and noted ornithologist – named John Gould had declined a glass on that Saturday, complaining that it had a repulsive smell. Despite living a few feet from the pump, Thomas Lewis had never favored its water.

There is something remarkable about the minutiae of all these ordinary lives in a seemingly ordinary week persisting in the human record for almost two centuries. When that chemist's son spooned out his sweet pudding, he couldn't possibly have imagined that the details of his meal would be a matter of interest to anyone else in Victorian London, much less citizens of the twenty-first century. This is one of the ways that disease, and particularly epidemic disease, plays havoc with traditional histories. Most world-historic events – great military battles, political revolutions – are self-consciously historic to the participants living through them. They act knowing that their decisions will be chronicled and dissected for decades or centuries to come. But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. And of course, if they do recognize that they are living through a historical crisis, it's often too late – because, like it or not, the primary way that ordinary people create this distinct genre of history is by dying.

Yet something has been lost in the record as well, something more intimate and experiential than stories of pudding and malt liquor – namely, what it felt like to contract cholera in that teeming, fraught city, at a time when so little was understood about the disease. We have remarkably detailed accounts of the movements of dozens of individuals during that late-summer week; we have charts and tables of lives and deaths. But if we want to re-create the inner experience of the outbreak – the physical and emotional torment involved – the historical record comes up wanting. We have to use our imaginations.

  —  The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (Steven Johnson)

[ricisidro]

Presently, the CDC states that MPox is not airborne. However, as with all viruses, they have the ability to mutate. It is unknown if this has occurred with the current outbreak of MPox. Further information and testing on the spread of this illness is necessary.

#MPoxTransmission #Mpox #Mpox2024 #epidemic #MpoxOutbreak #CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/0509-monkeypox-transmission.html

[epidemicpreparednessday]

The world must prepare for the next pandemic and act on lessons learned.

The world must prepare for the next pandemic and act on lessons learned from COVID-19, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message on Wednesday to mark the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected hundreds of millions of lives, caused millions of deaths and inflicted devastating impacts on humanity. After three years of unprecedented global efforts, on 5 May the World Health Organization (WHO)  declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, stressing however, that it does not mean the disease is no longer a global threat. 

“Economic damage inflicted by the pandemic endures. Many healthcare systems are struggling. Millions of children are threatened by disease after missing out on routine childhood vaccinations,” said Mr. Guterres.  

Lessons to learn

The UN chief noted that three years after the first COVID-19 vaccines were developed, billions of people remain unprotected - overwhelmingly in developing countries.   “When the next pandemic arrives, we must do better. But we’re not yet ready. We must prepare and act on the lessons of COVID-19,” he urged.  “We must renounce the moral and medical disaster of rich countries hoarding and controlling pandemic healthcare supplies, and ensure everyone has access to diagnostics, treatments and vaccines,” he stressed, adding that WHO’s authority and financing must also be strengthened.

Joint efforts

He said the way forward lies through global cooperation. The world must improve surveillance of viruses, strengthen health systems, and make the promise of Universal Health Coverage a reality.  

The Secretary-General said these efforts are making progress. He recalled that the High-level meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response, held in September, concluded with a robust political declaration which complements negotiations underway towards a pandemic accord.

This first-ever global agreement aims to enhance collaboration, cooperation, and equity in responding to pandemics of the future, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his end-of-year message published on Tuesday.

The pandemic accord will help to create a safer and healthier world with a universal system of response to disease eruptions, he added.   

Mr. Guterres urged countries to build on this momentum by delivering a strong, comprehensive accord, focused on equity.

“Together, let’s act on the lessons of COVID-19, prepare, and build a fairer, healthier world for all,” he said. 

[ecomehdi]

Uncovering the Hidden Threat: Typhus Outbreak Strikes LA After 30 Years

Introduction to the Typhus Outbreak in Los Angeles Los Angeles, a vibrant city known for its glitz and glamour, is now facing a hidden threat that has taken everyone by surprise – a typhus outbreak. After three decades of relative calm, the city is grappling with a resurgence of this dangerous bacterial infection. As the number of cases continues to rise, it is crucial to understand the causes,…

[transmutationisms]

ive been saying this for Literally Years Now but the most direct medical comparison to covid probably is never going to be HIV on any metric, overall it's probably the SARS outbreak of the early aughts (related viruses, similar transmission, what appear thus far to be similar rates/experiences of post-viral conditions and disability) and politically i do understand why people reach for HIV but like you really need to understand that our current situation is similar to how EVERY SINGLE pandemic / epidemic / outbreak has 'ended' in recent / capitalist history. these are political designations, that tend to get made once the ruling class considers itself safe, and it is typical that workers, global southerners, racialised people, &c continue to bear the brunt of diseases that would be treatable or preventable, were imperial countries and their ruling classes to care. we should be furious every time this happens and in every case where it is still happening: flu, TB, malaria, ebola, zika, plague, on and on, even the smallpox eradication campaign championed as a definitive triumph for public health occurred unevenly and the US and europe allowed the disease to continue to exact its most brutal toll on people in the Horn of Africa and southeast Asia until it was finally eradicated. covid is not unique in its medical OR political properties or ramifications, if you think it is you sorely need to do some more reading and this is why it is both unhelpful and yes, often homophobic to see how often 'covid communicators' jump straight to making alarmist and poorly contextualised comparisons to HIV, Specifically.

[newbussinessideas]

CVS beats on earnings and revenue but lowers profit outlook

CVS Health on Wednesday reported first-quarter results that beat earnings and revenue expectations, but the company lowered its full-year profit guidance due to costs related to recent acquisitions. The company’s shares fell more than 2% on Wednesday. Here’s what CVS reported compared with Wall Street’s expectations, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv: Earnings per share: $2.20 adjusted,…

[eluminium]

sometimes i think about how absolutely BANGER Gem's villain aesthetic was in Secret Life. Like, she's got this whole vibe of infection and disease around her and it slaps so hard. First you got the End portal stuff with her arm and eye when she goes Yellow (alongside the implication of her ripping out her own eye to use for the End Portal) and later you have her as Patient Zero for the boogeyman/zombie outbreak. And she kills just as indiscriminately as an epidemic would, including her own allies when they offer themselves to her. Hell, she kills Scott TWICE and technically kills Impulse twice too, once by her own hands and once when Bdubs kills him right in front of her to continue the spread of the curse.

And then you combine all this with the idea of her being a deer and it just gets better. Not only are deer prone to uncanny valley vibes, but they're also extremely susceptible to Chronic Wasting Disease, aka Zombie Deer Disease. Which is scary as shit, like all prion diseases. It literally eats away at the brain and leaves the animal a husk. And it's completely incurable, 100% fatal, and spreads easily (not to humans though, thank fuck.)

Now imagine this diseased horned prey creature hunting and killing whatever gets in its way while infections far beyond its ability to comprehend ravage its body and mind. And everything it kills comes back just as screwed up and terrifying. Very few can fight back against it, let alone slay it. No one is safe, the ones who survive either do so because they're Something Not Human (Grian the Watcher), Already Biologically Dead (ZOMBIECleo) or just got lucky and never got caught (Scott). However, there is one last piece of horror unaccounted for. The carrier, no matter how thin, no matter how much drool leaks from her mouth, no matter how erratic and unholy her behavior, is still aware. Still in control.

There's an independent will behind the spread.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Thinks Situation Now Under Control,” Kingston Whig-Standard. March 3, 1933. Page 3. ---- Doctor Does Not Think Diphtheria Will Spread on Grindstone Island --- GANANOQUE, March 3 - In a telephone conversation with Dr. J. P. Fowkes of Clayton, N. Y., last evening regarding the diphtheria epidemic on Grindstone Island, The Whig-Standard learned that the doctor had treated the ten patients who are down with the disease and immunized twenty others who had been exposed to it. Asked if he had the situation under control, he replied that he believed he had, and that it was not likely to spread, being on an island. The patients now suffering from the disease are conceded a good chance of recovery, and no fatalities, other than the child which died on Tuesday, are anticipated. Dr. Fowkes will visit the island again in-a day or two, and expects an improvement in the situation on that occasion. He made the trip on foot across the ice yesterday, a distance of about six miles.

When he visited the island on Wednesday evening, Dr. Edward Bird found things in a sorry state. He had been told by those who came for him that the people requiring attention were ill with the flu and had sore throats, and consequently took no antitoxin with him. He did, however, carry a number of swabs, and was able to establish the disease as diphtheria. 

Arrives At Island On arrival at the island Dr. Bird was met by Kenneth Garnsey, who asked him to have a look at his seven-months' old boy. The child's throat looked suspiciously like a case of diphtheria, and four others in the vicinity exhibited similar symptoms, Mrs. Ben Garnsey, her daughter-in-law, and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Garnsey. All were subsequently found to be suffering from the dread disease. The child, who died previous to Dr. Bird's arrival, was a son of Kenneth Garnsey.

At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dano, the doctor found the parents and three children ill. Two children, Margaret and Alice. and the mother, were in bed, while the third child was living on a couch in the kitchen. The father, although ill, was attempting to do the chores on the farm. Two other children, Gerald and Gladys, were doing the nursing. Gerald was slightly affected.

Dr. Bird took swabs of the affected residents, and on his return to Gananoque, when he had established the fact that it was indeed diphtheria, immediately notified the American authorities. The sympathy of the town is extended to the stricken community across the border, the families affected being known to a number of local residents.

[ricisidro]

W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency Over New Mpox Outbreak

The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in 13 other African countries.

#Mpox #Mpox2024 #epidemic #MpoxOutbreak #MPoxVaccine

#Congo #Africa

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/health/mpox-who-emergency-africa.html

[worldspotlightnews]

CDC to warn some travelers to watch for Marburg virus symptoms as it investigates outbreaks in Africa | CNN

CNN  —  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending personnel to Africa to help stop outbreaks of Marburg virus disease and is urging travelers to certain countries to take precautions. The CDC is also taking steps to keep infections from spreading to the United States. Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are facing their first known outbreaks of Marburg virus, a viral fever with…