#tick-borne encephalitis

[melcobelc]

Went to the doctor today to get a my Immunisation against Tick-borne encephalitis refreshed!

I had to spend a lot of time in the Waiting Room, so I sketched something for that occasion.

Looking forward to my Botany practice lessons, now that I have slightly less to worry about there!

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Reminded this morning of that time I had Lyme disease and had noticed the tick on me and pulled it off and a few days later was like ‘nah this bite site is very clearly infected’ so I went to a walk in clinic bc it was a bitch to get an appointment at my Drs. The nurse at the walk in clinic looked at it and was like ‘yup, that’s definitely infected. You don’t have that bullseye rash but not everyone does so I will give you the antibiotics that also definitely work against Lyme and you should go get a blood test.’ So I phoned my GPs explained to the receptionist and booked the appointment and then a doctor from the surgery called me back basically wanting to cancel the appointment because she thought it was so unlikely that I had Lyme. And the only reason she didn’t was bc another medical professional had recommended it and then when the test results came back she phoned me to tell me they were positive, and how surprised she was bc she had never seen a positive case before and like…

Lady. I literally had an infected tick bite and you did not want to run the test. Why the fuck are you surprised you have not seen a positive test before when you won’t order the test even for an infected fucking tick bite???

Anyway, I was fine. Had the antibiotics I needed thanks to an actually sensible nurse instead of having Not The Antibiotics I Needed for over a week while everything got worse!

[inthenimtime]

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[privatemedicalclinic]

Tick-borne encephalitis in Watford

The majority of infections with the virus result from infected ticks whilst undertaking outdoor walks in forested areas.

Occasionally it can result from drinking unpasteurized milk from infected goats, sheep or cows.

[ssolson8550]

Experts issue urgent warning about dangerous infections on the rise: 'There is growing concern'

[burninglights]

Apropos of forest and national parks rangers (the dedicated Shit Has Gone Sideways Handlers) having their jobs axed, and as a former hiker, I think that if you’re outdoorsy, you ought to be aware of the following resources:

- Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner & Carol Thurman, regarded by the WHO as the reference text for remote medicine (Internet Archive PDF link)

- Stop the Bleed training, available in the US & UK, which provides training on how to stop haemorrhage in an emergency situation outside of a clinical environment (website link to local training)

- Manual CPR instruction via Revivr, the dedicated British Heart Foundation manual CPR training programme (website link)

- what3words, which generates three unique words that allow emergency response & public safety bodies to locate users (available on android & Apple app stores)

WHILST NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL HELP IN A TIMELY MANNER, I’d really recommend that folks familiarise themselves with these resources, particularly emergent wound care & how to use what3words, as in an emergency situation, all preparedness is helpful.

In addition to all of this, I really recommend that folks have a first aid kit in their backpacks/vehicles.

You do not need the Batcave in your rucksack or your car boot, but it never hurts to be prepared. You can find stocked first aid kits in most pharmacies and retailers.

Failing that, here is how I stock my personal ‘on the go’ first aid kit for my backpack:

- 1 x card of paracetamol/acetaminophen tablets

- 1 x card of aspirin tablets (substitute for ibuprofen if you’re on blood thinners, have a clotting disorder or have other contraindications for aspirin use)

- 5 x alcohol antiseptic wipes

- 1 x tube of antiseptic cream

- 1 x tube of antihistamine cream (bug bite cream)

- 2 x pairs nitrile gloves

- 30 x plasters assorted size

- 3 x large sterile wound dressings

- 2 x hydrocolloid plasters

- 1 x sterile gauze bandage

- 1 x micropore tape

You may also want to include;

- 3 x large non-adhesive wound dressings

- 1 x roll of comprehensive bandage (self adhesive; useful for fixing wound dressings in place or for stabilising sprains)

- 1 x tube arnica bruise cream

Emergency medications (asthma inhaler/EpiPen/glucagon gel for hypoglycaemia etc) should also be either on your person or in your kits.

Ensure that you’re wearing proper clothing.

In the summer, you need protective sunhats and sunglasses, as well as SPF; you should also ensure that you’re carrying more water than you think you need, as you’ll be dehydrating faster due to a combination of heat loss and exertion. Loose, covering clothing made natural fibres like cotton etc., will shield you from the sun and wick sweat.

If you’re in tick country, sleeves and long trousers that are tucked into socks are non-negotiables. Lyme disease sucks absolute ass and can take months to recover from, as does tick borne encephalitis, tularemia and anaplasmosis. Long hair should be tied up and covered with a hat; after your hike, inspect your clothing and yourself thoroughly for ticks.

Footwear is more important than you’d think. Hiking in your Converse is a sure fire way to twist your ankle to fuck, and if you’re a solo hiker, that’s a good way to get in deep shit very quickly. Hiking trainers or boots are ideal, though any well fitting, waterproof trainer with a good tread and a decent grip will also suffice providing you’re not going through harsh terrain.

Finally, marked trails and campgrounds are there for a reason. Going off trail, especially in terrain you’re unfamiliar with, is a spectacular way to get swallowed up by a ravine or unmarked cave system, get lost and die of exposure, or get eaten.

Human exceptionalism is a real phenomenon, and a detrimental one. For all intents and purposes, when in nature, you’re a ham hock with delusions of grandeur. Bears will kill you just as dead as they would a deer. Same goes for wolves, coyotes, exposure, thirst, caves and flash flooding.

Speaking of wild animals; do not approach them. If you’re close enough to pet them, you are close enough to get bitten/gored/trampled/clawed/otherwise killed in a grotesque manner. Make an effort to learn about any wildlife you may encounter before your trip, and what to do if you encounter them.

Enjoy the natural environment, learn about it, and have fun in it, as loving it and learning about it is the best way to get invested in it’s protection and preservation, but do so in a way that means you’re alive to advocate for it when your adventure is done.

[velvetvexations]

Ppl act like gender essentialism (the man/beard brand) is necessary to keep women safe but even that scenario could actually make them less safe bc it downplays the danger of bears, which I think also illustrates the issue I have with true crime. When you're taught as a woman that there are certain dangers that are the worst (be it men or serial killers or rape as the very worst thing that could possibly happen to you), you might underestimate dangers that appear less obvious to you like wild animals, unpreparedness, inappropriate equipment, lack of spatial awareness, going alone when you're inexperienced, heat exhaustion bc, dangers from other animals or bugs bugs (where I'm from in Europe we need to get vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis, my father didn't, got it & almost died).

I'm from a culture that's big on hiking & hiked a lot pre-transition, mostly with a cis male best friend, and I never had a bad experience with other ppl (except maybe when someone didn't say hello, very impolite) but we did get lost pretty badly once on a new trail with no phone signal & that was scary. I was always safer in the woods with men around bc if there are ppl, you know you're on the right path & won't get lost! Also it you get injured & can't walk or god forbid lose consciousness, you want other ppl there to help you. I also worked at a homeless shelter (pre-transition as well, they all knew me as a short, not at all threatening looking woman) and that taught me to shake off the fear I had of homeless people, men especially, because they too are just ppl & it was bigoted of me to have my gut instinct tell me I was in danger when I saw a homeeles man just existing or behaving erratically in public. It was classist, ableist & was not in fact justified just bc I was navigating the world as a woman.

Yes, keep yourself safe, but actually learn to recognize potential dangers & how to handle dangerous situations, don't just rely on your gut instinct.

I also think we can absolutely teach ppl how to keep themselves safe around other folks without resorting to gender essentialism & sex profiling simply by focusing on behaviors instead of gender presentation.

This would serve to protect trans & queer ppl with a masc appearance/presentation including non cispassing trans fems/women, trans mascs/men, non-binary & multigender ppl, intersex folks, even cis gay men, who are also at a higher risk of being assaulted than cis straight men and yes, even straight men, who are also capable of being victimized. Because nobody is truly safe from violence & abuse, we all need to know how about dangers & be able to get protection from others in our communities!

That reminds me of what I've been talking about recently where someone blamed a fixation on punitive justice on people being tricked into it by white supremacist background radiation in Western culture when it's actually just an apolitical fault of the way human brains are wired that goes back to the earliest human civilizations. And like, granted, this is the third time I'm bringing that post specifically up so maybe I'm overexaggerating the issue because I don't follow that kinna discourse closely, but especially in conjunction with transandrophobia discourse I feel like there's this trap of viewing the things you face as cosmic forces rather than mere sociology, you know?

[paskuda-lynx]

Got vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis today! Another shot next month and I've got working immunity in my pocket :D

[eisbecherovka]

got vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis (FSME) and am now completely lost in the sauce (the sauce being inactivated FSME virus)

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[realjaysumlin]

The Mosquito-Borne Virus Keeping People Indoors at Night - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/health/eastern-equine-encephalitis-prevention.html

Global warming is directly linked to the increase in deadly diseases due to various factors. Rising temperatures create favorable conditions for disease-carrying vectors such as mosquitoes, ticks, and rodents to thrive and spread illnesses like malaria, dengue fever, and Lyme disease. Additionally, extreme weather events and changing climate patterns can disrupt ecosystems, leading to the emergence of new infectious diseases.

The impact of global warming on public health is a serious concern that requires immediate action to mitigate the risks and protect vulnerable populations. We are letting the dumbest mother fucking people on earth who call themselves white continue to destroy everything on earth and we are just letting them do whatever the fuck they want, when we are supposed to be the original protectors of our Beautiful Black Planet.

[pirate-of-the-southern-isles]

Day 16 of writing challenge

294 words, there is still an evening ahead, but I feel terribly sleepy. Probably because I had to go to Actual Grown Up Places and do Actual Grown Up Stuff, like filling an official motion, going and taking a vaccine against tick-borne encephalitis (highly recommended if you enjoy parks, forests or basically any outdoors), talking terms with a contractor... not to mention I like to walk, so I just did 20752 steps, which isn't a lot for me, but combined with other things... yes, I can see why I am a little bit tired.

Also, please enjoy a kitty I met on my way.

[thesoundofsnowfallingfromeaves]

Sooo. I spent the weekend with my friend who had a cold last week where she also lost sense of smell and taste (which came back quickly though). She wasn't 100% healthy on the weekend but it had been like 10 days or so since she initially got ill and she tested negative for covid like 5 times I thought it would be fine. Today, I felt a bit of a sore throat when I woke and my head started feeling a bit not great throughout the morning, but I then went and got vaccinated for tick borne encephalitis, since I'll be spending a bunch of time in high risk areas for that this summer and the timing is already very narrow to get the 2nd shot in time so I really wanted to get it done. And now I feel like garbage and can't tell if that side effects from the vaccine (which match my symptoms) or the cold/potential covid from my friend (which also matches the symptoms lol). I swear to god though, if this is covid again I'm gonna kill my self like I Can Not go through this again. And especially not if its so stupidly my own fault lol.

[rubythecrimsonwriter]

You can see the moment that indoor plumbing and disease control became part of public health and safety in the west. Before 1830, indoor plumbing was something only the wealthy had in the West. In 1850 there was a whole campaign for public awareness about the association between illness and sewage both in Europe and in developing America. By the first World War, most of eastern America had indoor plumbing. Mid-1930s cemented indoor plumbing into a requirement in all modern constructions. 1928 was when penicillin was invented. Vaccines for tuberculosis, diptheria, scarlet fever, tetanus, cholera, rabies, typhoid fever, bubonic plague, and pertussis (whooping cough) were all invented during these hundred years or so. The only vaccine that predates the mid 1800s sanitation revolution is the smallpox vaccine in 1796. By 1950, with the new 27% global child mortality rate, indoor plumbing is common, state sanitation departments are mandatory, and vaccines for yellow fever, typhus, the flu, anthrax, and tick borne encephalitis have been invented.

Half of these vaccines are for things I haven't even heard of.

We've heard of the industrial revolution. Its taught in our history books. Maybe we should explicitly teach the effects of the sanitation revolution, since we are just as, if not more, affected by that period as well.

People keep shouting about overpopulation. We're not overpopulating. We're just not dying like we did a hundred and fifty years ago.

Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.

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[nursingwriter]

Yellow fever is a tropical disease that is spread to humans by infected mosquitoes, and although most infections are mild, the disease can be severe and life threatening (Yellow pp). Found in Africa and South America, yellow fever is preventable by immunization and travelers to those countries are advised to get the vaccine (Yellow pp). In South America sporadic infections occur mostly in forestry and agricultural workers from occupational exposure in or near forests (Yellow-1 pp). There are two kinds of yellow fever which are spread by two different cycles of infection (Yellow pp). Jungle yellow fever is mainly a disease of monkeys that is spread from infected mosquitoes to monkeys in the tropical rain forest (Yellow pp). It is then spread to people who are bitten by mosquitoes that have been infected by monkeys (Yellow pp). Jungle yellow fever is rare and usually occurs in persons who work in tropical rain forests (Yellow pp). Urban yellow fever is a disease of humans and is spread by mosquitoes that have been infected by other people, usually by the aedes aegypti mosquito (Yellow pp). These mosquitoes have adapted to living among humans in cities, towns, and villages and are known to breed in discarded tires, flower pots, oil drums, and water storage containers close to human dwellings (Yellow pp). It was Walter Reed and his assistants James Carroll, Aristides Agramonte, and Jesse Jazear, while at experimental stations outside Havana, Cuba that proved the Aedes aegypti mosquito was the "vector" for the yellow fever virus (Yellow-3 pp). This work destroyed the popular myth that yellow fever was spread by direct contact with infected people or "contaminated" objects and thus, focused efforts on the eradication of the Aedes mosquito (Yellow-3 pp). Urban yellow fever is the cause of most yellow fever outbreaks and epidemics (Yellow pp). Although a disease of the tropics, from 1793-1822, yellow fever was one of the most dreaded diseases in the port cities of the United States (Rush pp). It is thought to have entered America "primarily as a scourge claiming the lives of sons and brothers who voyaged to the West Indies," the nation's principal trading partner (Rush pp). Yellow fever is recognized in historic texts stretching back some four hundred years (Yellow-2 pp). The term "yellow" is comes from the jaundice that affects most patients (Yellow-2 pp). The first outbreak occurred in the New World in 1648 (Yellow-4 pp). Yellow fever is a member of the flavivirus family, group B. arborvirus, the genus of which is comprised of more than sixty-eight arthropod transmitted viruses, thirty of which are known to cause human disease (Yellow-4 pp). Other flaviviral infections include "dengue, Japanese encephalitis, and tick-borne encephalitis" (Yellow-4 pp). "It is important to consider this group of viruses in the clinical differential of CNS infection, hemorrhagic fever, and acute febrile illnesses with arthropathy" (Yellow-4 pp). A vaccine has been available for sixty years, yet during the last two decades, the number of people infected has increased and the disease is once again a serious public health issue (Yellow-2 pp). The virus remains silent in the body for an incubation period of three to six days, then there are two disease phases (Yellow-2 pp). Although some infections have no symptoms, the first, "acute" phase is generally characterized by "fever, muscle pain with prominent backache, headache, shivers, loss of appetite, nausea and/or vomiting ... The high fever is paradoxically associated with a slow pulse" (Yellow-2 pp). Usually after three to four days most patients improve and the symptoms disappear (Yellow-2 pp). However, 15% enter a "toxic phase" within 24 hours, when fever reappears and several body systems are affected (Yellow-2 pp). Patients rapidly develop jaundice and complain of abdominal pain with vomiting, and bleeding can occur from the mouth, nose, eyes and/or stomach with blood also appearing in the vomit and feces (Yellow-2 pp). "Kidney function deteriorates; this can range from abnormal protein levels in the urine, albuminuria, to complete kidney failure with no urine production, anuria (Yellow-2 pp). Roughly half the patients in this toxic phase die within ten to fourteen days, the remainder recover without significant organ damage (Yellow-2 pp). During the early stages, yellow fever is difficult to recognize and can easily be mistaken for malaria, typhoid, rickettsial diseases, haemorrhagic viral fevers, arboviral infections, leptospirosis, viral hepatitis and poisoning, thus a laboratory analysis is needed to confirm a suspect case (Yellow-2 pp). Blood tests can detect yellow fever antibodies, and other techniques are used to identify the virus itself in blood specimens or liver tissue collected after death, however, these tests require highly trained laboratory staff using specialized equipment and materials (Yellow-2 pp). There are approximately 200,000 cases of yellow fever, with 30,000 deaths, per year, yet due to underreporting, only a small percentage of these cases are identified (Yellow-2 pp). There is no specific treatment for yellow fever, however, dehydration and fever can be corrected with oral rehydration salts and paracetamol (Yellow-2 pp). Any superimposed bacterial infection should be treated with an appropriate antibiotic, and intensive supportive care may help the outcome for seriously ill patients (Yellow-2 pp). Vaccination is the single most important measure for preventing the disease, as well as mosquito control measures to prevent virus transmission until vaccination has taken effect (Yellow-2 pp). The vaccine is safe and highly effective, with immunity occurring within one week in 95% of people vaccinated, and provides protection for ten years, and probably for life (Yellow-2 pp). Over 300 million doses have been given, with rarely any serious side effects (Yellow-2 pp). In March 2001, several thousand cases of yellow fever were reported in central Brazil (Urban pp). Liberia, which lies in the yellow fever belt of West Africa, had at least six outbreaks between 1995 and 2002, leading international health agencies in 2004 to join forces with the Liberian government to combat a yellow fever emergency (Health pp). Work Cited "Health agencies announce emergency campaign against yellow fever in Liberia." M2 Presswire; 2/25/2004; pp. Rush, Benjamin. "Yellow Fever and the Birth of Modern Medicine." http://www.geocities.com/bobarnebeck/history.html "Urban Yellow Fever Threatens to State Return." Inter-Press Service English News Wire; 3/3/2001; pp. Yellow Fever http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/yellow.html Yellow Fever-I - Disease and Vaccine http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/yellowfever/index.htm Yellow Fever-2. World Health Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ Yellow Fever-3: Reed Commission Exhibit. University of Virginia Health System. http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/yelfev/pan1.html Yellow Fever-4. E-Medicine. http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic645.htm Read the full article