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What Are The Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Of Dengue Fever?
A severe flu-like illness with muscle and joint pain, rash, headaches, nausea, and vomiting can be accompanied by a variety of other symptoms which include inflammation of the eye or gums causing pus build-up or tooth loss. Visiting a doctor is advisable if the headache lasts for more than 3 days; there are sudden meteors in vision
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The danger is clear and present: COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise. Unfortunately, Long COVID is now being considered a long-term chronic illness — something many people will never fully recover from. Dr. Phillip Alvelda, a former program manager in DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office that pioneered the synthetic biology industry and the development of mRNA vaccine technology, is the founder of Medio Labs, a COVID diagnostic testing company. He has stepped forward as a strong critic of government COVID management, accusing health agencies of inadequacy and even deception. Alvelda is pushing for accountability and immediate action to tackle Long COVID and fend off future pandemics with stronger public health strategies. Contrary to public belief, he warns, COVID is not like the flu. New variants evolve much faster, making annual shots inadequate. He believes that if things continue as they are, with new COVID variants emerging and reinfections happening rapidly, the majority of Americans may eventually grapple with some form of Long COVID. Let’s repeat that: At the current rate of infection, most Americans may get Long COVID.
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LP: A recent JAMA study found that US adults with Long COVID are more prone to depression and anxiety – and they’re struggling to afford treatment. Given the virus’s impact on the brain, I guess the link to mental health issues isn’t surprising. PA: There are all kinds of weird things going on that could be related to COVID’s cognitive effects. I’ll give you an example. We’ve noticed since the start of the pandemic that accidents are increasing. A report published by TRIP, a transportation research nonprofit, found that traffic fatalities in California increased by 22% from 2019 to 2022. They also found the likelihood of being killed in a traffic crash increased by 28% over that period. Other data, like studies from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, came to similar conclusions, reporting that traffic fatalities hit a 16-year high across the country in 2021. The TRIP report also looked at traffic fatalities on a national level and found that traffic fatalities increased by 19%. LP: What role might COVID play? PA: Research points to the various ways COVID attacks the brain. Some people who have been infected have suffered motor control damage, and that could be a factor in car crashes. News is beginning to emerge about other ways COVID impacts driving. For example, in Ireland, a driver’s COVID-related brain fog was linked to a crash that killed an elderly couple. Damage from COVID could be affecting people who are flying our planes, too. We’ve had pilots that had to quit because they couldn’t control the airplanes anymore. We know that medical events among U.S. military pilots were shown to have risen over 1,700% from 2019 to 2022, which the Pentagon attributes to the virus.
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LP: You’ve criticized the track record of the CDC and the WHO – particularly their stubborn denial that COVID is airborne. PA: They knew the dangers of airborne transmission but refused to admit it for too long. They were warned repeatedly by scientists who studied aerosols. They instituted protections for themselves and for their kids against airborne transmission, but they didn’t tell the rest of us to do that.
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LP: How would you grade Biden on how he’s handled the pandemic? PA: I’d give him an F. In some ways, he fails worse than Trump because more people have actually died from COVID on his watch than on Trump’s, though blame has to be shared with Republican governors and legislators who picked ideological fights opposing things like responsible masking, testing, vaccination, and ventilation improvements for partisan reasons. Biden’s administration has continued to promote the false idea that the vaccine is all that is needed, perpetuating the notion that the pandemic is over and you don’t need to do anything about it. Biden stopped the funding for surveillance and he stopped the funding for renewing vaccine advancement research. Trump allowed 400,000 people to die unnecessarily. The Biden administration policies have allowed more than 800,000 to 900,000 and counting.
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LP: The situation with bird flu is certainly getting more concerning with the CDC confirming that a third person in the U.S. has tested positive after being exposed to infected cows. PA: Unfortunately, we’re repeating many of the same mistakes because we now know that the bird flu has made the jump to several species. The most important one now, of course, is the dairy cows. The dairy farmers have been refusing to let the government come in and inspect and test the cows. A team from Ohio State tested milk from a supermarket and found that 50% of the milk they tested was positive for bird flu viral particles.
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PA: There’s a serious risk now in allowing the virus to freely evolve within the cow population. Each cow acts as a breeding ground for countless genetic mutations, potentially leading to strains capable of jumping to other species. If any of those countless genetic experiments within each cow prove successful in developing a strain transmissible to humans, we could face another pandemic – only this one could have a 58% death rate. Did you see the movie “Contagion?” It was remarkably accurate in its apocalyptic nature. And that virus only had a 20% death rate. If the bird flu makes the jump to human-to-human transition with even half of its current lethality, that would be disastrous.
#sars cov 2#covid 19#h5n1#bird flu#articles#long covid is def a global issue not just for those in the us and most countries aren't doing much better#regardless of how much lower the mortality rate for h5n1 may or may not become if/when it becomes transmissible between humans#having bird flu infect a population the majority of whose immune system has been decimated by sars2#to the point where the average person seems to have a hard time fighting off the common cold etc...#(see the stats of whooping cough/pertussis and how they're off the CHARTS this yr in the uk and aus compared to previous yrs?#in qld average no of cases was 242 over prev 4 yrs - there have been /3783/ diagnosed as of june 9 this yr and that's just in one state.#there's a severe shortage of meds for kids in aus bc of the demand and some parents visit +10 pharmacies w/o any luck)#well.#let's just say that i miss the days when ph orgs etc adhered to the precautionary principle and were criticised for 'overreacting'#bc nothing overly terrible happened in the end (often thanks to their so-called 'overreaction')#now to simply acknowledge the reality of an obviously worsening situation is to be accused of 'fearmongering'#🤷♂️#also putting long covid and bird flu aside for a sec:#one of the wildest things that everyone seems to overlook that conor browne and others on twt have been saying for yrs#is that the effects of the covid pandemic extend far beyond the direct impacts of being infected by the virus itself#we know sars2 rips apart immune system+attacks organs. that in effect makes one more susceptible to other viruses/bacterial infections etc#that in turn creates increased demand for healthcare services for all kinds of carers and medications#modern medicine and technology allows us to provide often effective and necessary treatment for all kinds of ailments#but what if there's not enough to go around? what happens when the demand is so high that it can't be provided fast enough -- or at all?#(that's assuming you can even afford it)#what happens when doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers keep quitting due to burnout from increased patients and/or illness#because they themselves do not live in a separate reality and are not any more sheltered from the effects of constant infection/reinfection#of sars2 and increased susceptibility to other illnesses/diseases than the rest of the world?#this is the 'new normal' that's being cultivated (the effects of which are already blatantly obvious if you're paying attention)#and importantly: it. doesn't. have. to. be. this. way.
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watching ep 4 of dts and at the end of the episode when james is like "when we looked at the performance I think you were fastest on track" its sending me because you can see on the screen he was saying that in abu dhabi, like girl what the car was slow that whole weekend 😭 no wonder alex sounds like hes about to score a podium in his press interviews every week
everyone like james vowles most supportive team principal he’s so encouraging etc etc. what if he’s just a gaslighter
#FKDJDFJD#ur so right tho alexs press interviews that are like. this track shouldn’t suit us there’s [insert very normal track characteristic here]#and there’s severe wind and we haven’t had an upgrade in six months and i nearly died from the flu last week#but [alex sized sigh] we’ll see. i think we can get q3#asks#anon#dts
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the outsiders fandom is kind of making me feel sick tonight tbh. there is a literal killer in the bernard b jacobs theatre and no one is talking about it?? first kwp attacked, now dan berry killed. is no one going to speak up about the great bear rampage of 2024??? i hate to say it, but... fake fans
#/ref#to kwp's instagram story takeover#listen i got a flu shot and covid booster and then spent several hours putting primer on the walls of a closed room today#i am not to be held liable for anything i do or say#og#the outsiders#the outsiders musical
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fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).
my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying
#yall can reblog this#for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities#i better see y’all masking#it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you#but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others#masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask#I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to#prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission#is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing#also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and#what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome)#are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous#and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been#infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of#people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group#coronavirus#my post
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Currently watching Hey Melissa from the nerdy Prudes must Livestream and I'm ngl. What the fuck. Like I tend to come away from darker media wishing they'd made it just a little more fucked up cause I really enjoy super weird out there horror stuff and yeah fucking hell this goes there. I love it don't get me wrong but holy fucking shit its so fucked who came up with this. Anyway haha they made jon meow
#I LOVE FINDING SHIT THAT IS ACTUALLY AS WEIRD AND FUCKED UP AS I ALWAYS WANT IT TOBE#CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT>>>>>>>#the ideal reaction to a bit of media is 'what the actual fuck did i just watch'#it only works if its weird disturbing tho like just upsetting disturbing i dont like much it just makes me sad yk#but i loveit when its just the weirdest shit youve ever hesrd of like who came up with this strange nightmare fever dream#i wanna feel like ive just watched a scary movie while severely ill with the flu :)#anyway thats my rant over i really fucking like nightmare time thank youuu#wet floor sign#nightmare time#hatchetverse#tgwdlm#hatchetfield#paul matthews#hey melissa
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So, the new COVID vaccine is brutal, especially if you combine it with the flu shot. And combining those two with a pneumonia vaccine at the same time was probably ... well, not a terrible idea, I'm glad I got all three, but hoo boy. The point is, don't schedule anything important or that requires thought or movement or anything that isn't languishing in bed for 24 hours afterwards.
#jaime rambles#it was pretty much actually having the flu for a day#at least it was an excuse to use some of my several hundred hours of sick time
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I have COVID and I'm mostly just exhausted with congestion but jfc the paxlovid taste I forgot how awful it is TBH I've been sucking on gum all day but I swear it's getting less effective?
#it's the covid med they give you to make it less severe#and it tastes like sucking on old pennies#but just forever#anyway mask up be cautious get your booster and flu shots#also obligatory i did not get this being stupid my partner works around the public so i figured i was next when he got it
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Ok so…. H5N1 Bird Flu has spread to house mice in New Mexico…. a week after chicken and egg farms in Iowa plan to slaughter ~4 million contaminated chickens… and after bird flu has spread across dairy farms in 9 different states (so far)
But surely no humans have ever caught it—what was that? There have been 4 human cases in the US, 3 in this year alone (all 3 from dairy cows)? Lemme just check the CDCs summary and recommendations on bird flu real quick.. oh. Um . Clap if you’re scared
#there’s a reason why mice are used in labs before human trials#cause their dna is so similar#but we don’t have to worry about a deadly illness jumping that genetic gap in a population that’s been ravaged by several airborne illnesses#what’s killing me is the cdc going ‘uhh don’t drink raw milk please and thanks’ and the right wing chuds drinking raw milk out of spite#this is what happens when you hand over public health and safety to private companies and frame public health as political virtue signaling#bird flu#avian influenza#we’re kinda cooked#like not to be a doomed or anything but it’s kinda giving over fr#I wrote out a post on bird flu earlier in the year but didn’t wanna give in to panic or anything#well#here we are#bitch I’m nervous#tired posts
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i decided last night to not have the flu anymore and now im better! woohoo! thank you jewish genes for the chutzpah to just not be sick anymore <3 much appreciated
#jewblr#jumblr#well. ig it can go in the jewish tags no?#i was severely dehydrated and also had the flu for almost three days. too many days. twas miserable#flu went away but im still dehydrated thanks hashem#time for pedialyte
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what if i say i’m actually possibly probably sick the day right before eid omg
#now hold on a min 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#it’s def the effects of me getting a sore throat and flu a few days ago so not that severe but it still feels 😵#see this happened the day right after i came to my mom’s family’s iftaar event#that i even didn’t really want to go in the first place either 😭😭😭 (glad i did though bc i do love them but still)#i think i’m just going to do a lot of sleeping in bed today after finishing some thingd 😭#nadine.mp3
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I swear I'm not working on more art of my Inquisitor.......okay, maybe I am but who's gonna stop me >:3
#give me like...a week lmao#im exhausted and ive got quite a severe set of symptoms rn#including tummy hurt and headache and cough#i love having chronic illnesses......#like straight up it feels like hunger but worse and i feel like throwing up...head is pounding...throat feels scratchy#like the worlds worse flu but not bc this is the usual for me during flare ups#me talking#i might do some small sketches while working on this
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[230924] bubble live
#cutie!!#he looks so nice in yellow#also fox hat <33#also hi hi lyons are u#im only just now posting this and also just posted the twt posts from the past several days bc ive been battling the flu 😔😔#onlyoneof#ooo#jung wookjin#nine#ooo bubble
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My mom was poking fun of me (lightheartedly) because I haven’t been out of bed except for bathroom trips since Monday, and she said now that I’m a man, I have to experience being sick like a man
#yk the whole ‘man flu’ joke where men are incapacitated by minor illness#diversity win! the person making fun of you for having a severe illness genders you correctly#trans journey
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plot twist update on my gf catching my cold: turns out i caught her cold, and it’s definitely something a little worse than a cold but maybe not quite as severe as the flu
#continuing to test negative and i don’t wanna waste my time on a trip to urgent care bc i don’t /think/ it’s the flu idk#though it would put my silly little heart at ease if my gf went to urgent care and got checked out because she’s been sick longer than me#ugh#yearning hours honestly#also coughing and sniffling and itchy hours#kinda self obs#i forgot i have negative luck when it comes to getting sick LMAO#whatever#she’s worth it and i don’t feel that bad at all#which makes me wonder if maybe it is the flu and i just have immunity or something from having it last month ????#i made that up somebody is gonna tell me exactly why that is stupid and how it actually works#but at first my brain was like i can’t have the flu again like six weeks later right….#at least not the same strain#and she doesn’t usually get sick easily or this sick#while i’m the opposite but the poor baby is definitely worse off than me#rambling again see how i wander#who knows…who knows#realized i forgot to finish that thought up there ^ but by ‘immunity’ i mean like#maybe that’s why it’s not as severe lol little booster to the flu shot i got a month too late
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today i'm going home so i can get my flu shot and vote with my family... hopefully both go well
#melonposting#the last time i went home was for my covid booster and to spend rosh hashanah with my family#...neither really went well honestly haha#i won't go into detail on the family stuff#but i half-fainted half-dissociated after getting the covid booster#i had gone to the cvs with my dad and i was already feeling bad cuz of the family stuff#and then we got there and i got the shot. eeeugh terrible#i sat down in one of the chairs nearby to rest a moment#like i am after any vaccination i was nonverbal and mentally disturbed#my dad tried to give me water but i didn't move to take it#after a bit he said we should head home sooner rather than later so i could rest#then i suddenly got up and walked in a random direction without him for some reason#i bumped into a shelf and fell over#weirdly i had no emotional reaction to it at the time#i just felt pain in my face where i hit the shelf and could hear voices asking if i was okay#then i got up and my dad took my hand and led me out of the cvs#he asked me why i'd gone off by myself. of course i wasn't in a position to answer verbally anyway but i genuinely didn't know#my memory of the event was fuzzy immediately after it happened...#so we went home and i went upstairs to my parents' room so i could have time alone to rest#needless to say i cried :') i was uncomfortable and in pain and confused and distressed#i recovered over the next few days at home for rosh hashanah but i felt weird the entire time#physically... feeling feverish and woozy...#and also mentally... staying cooped up on the couch in the living room for hours#playing with blocks... in a strange childish and detached sort of mood...#like i was a terminally ill child in a hospital bed#it was very strange#i'd been well aware at that point that i react badly to covid boosters but this whole experience was just bizarre#i'm able to cope with flu shots better. they're still disturbing but my physical/mental reaction is less severe
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