Over 90% of Human Rabies Cases in The US Aren't Detected, Study Finds
the story is that they found a person got rabies from an organ transplant. And the donor was never diagnosed as dying of rabies.
I remember a similar case in Texas where we had once sent a person for a heart transplant.
Records show it was only the fourth time in US history that an organ transplant procedure had transmitted the rabies virus (Lyssavirus rabies) from an initially undiagnosed donor.
But what if these kinds of records are wrong?
Even though the Michigan patient fatality represents only the fourth known case of a transplanted fatal rabies infection – the first such instance occurring in 1978 – given how rare organ donation itself is, something just doesn't add up.
if you extrapolate the data to the general population it might suggest hundreds of cases are missed.
researchers from Stanford University and the Broad Institute report that the functional bacteriophages they created using artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly destroyed strains of Escherichia coli that had evolved resistance to naturally occurring phages, but experts call for safeguards to prevent the technology from being used for harm.
Bacteriophages are ubiquitous viruses that target, infect, and kill only bacteria. They are found everywhere bacteria live, including the environment and the human gut, and they can be used to treat bacterial infections.
Using the ΦX174 bacteriophage as a model, the team combined their previously built genomic language models with computational biology to produce 16 complete bacteriophages with substantially different genomes.
“Even the simplest genomes are highly complex and can be rendered nonviable by a single mutation,” the authors wrote. “Design at the scale of whole genomes has remained largely beyond reach.”
Urgent biosafety, biosecurity questions
Some engineered phages performed comparably to naturally occurring relatives, and some combinations overcame two strains of E coli resistant to ΦX174-like phages.
I had listened to the Rest is history podcast on Dr. Johnson, and although I have no admiration for this fellow, one of the side characters of his later life is when he was sort of adopted by a brewer and his aristocratic Welsh wife which made his house sort of salon but also had Johnson living in their house for years.
The wife of the brewer, after caring for his many ills and having 12 pregnancies, including still births and miscarriages and several of her older children die of infectious disease, seems to be more of a nursemaid than a romantic link with the writer, and indeed, after the death of her husband, married an Italian musician who was accused of marrying her for her money but apparently he had made quite a bit of money from his career. However the marriage caused a rift between her and her older children and with Johnson who despite public opinion thinking he would marry her, never did suggest this, and indeed, one suspects poor Mrs Thrale saw him as merely another troublesome child.
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well, any way, the lady did write a lot and published some books so is a minor character in feminist history. But in her diary, there is this about one of her miscarriages that at the end of the Aug 15 diary entry seems to be caused or made worse by a selfish husband.
Tis less a Miscarriage after all than a dead Child:’' a Boy quite formed & perfect; once I wished for such a Blessing — now if my Life is left me no matter for the rest.
The Abortions and the Profluvia however, the Vomitings & Diarrhoea which accompanied them, & rendered the disorder still more Dangerous, are now got over, & this day Sunday 15: of August I go down Stairs like the Ghost of her who was carried up Stairs a Week ago. Oh God who hast been pleased to prolong my Life, render it I beseech thee such as may be useful to my Fellow Creatures, & not unpleasing in thy Sight who art of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity. —
...Never was there such a Year for Flies, for Wasps, for all manner of Insects indeed as this 1779. I suppose the heat of the Weather is the only Cause but tis curious enough & beyond Measure troublesome — quite the Musketo Shore !■+
at this point she discusses her husband's stuborness is traveling from France even though it put everyone in danger then continues
Again the other Day* as I may call it — after long continued Threats of a Miscarriage had confined me to the House & even to my Chamber, some Mismanagement among the Borough Clerks obliged me to go thither, & set Things straight; M^ Thrale wished me to go, nay insisted on it, but seemed somewhat concern’d too, as he was well apprized of the Risque I should run. I went however, & after doing the Business I went to do, beg’d him to make haste home, as I was apprehensive bad Consequences might very quickly arise from the Joulting &c. — ^he would not be hurried —the probable Consequences did begin to arise, I pressed him to order the Coach — ^he could not be hurried — I told his Valet my Danger, & begged him to hasten his Master; no Pain, no Entreaties of mine could make him set out one Moment before the appointed hour — 2 so I lay along in the Coach all the way from London to Streatham in a State not to be described, nor endured ; — but by me : — & being carried to my Chamber the Instant I got home, miscarried in the utmost Agony before they could get me into Bed, after fainting five Times. —Now tho’ M*" Thrale’s heart never much run over with Tenderness towards me Gkid knows, — yet common Humanity might have had a place here; no Feelings however, no Shame could induce him — to put himself in a hurry! —
another point of view of Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson
there are feminist writings about miscarriage, but alas it is too often mixed up with the bias of gay rights and abortion Discussion here.
We discuss pregnancy, birth, maternity, and abortion a lot—but not really miscarriage. And I think that’s because of a kind of nervousness that feminists might have around talking about it, because if you acknowledge miscarriage, you need to acknowledge that lots of people (though not all) do have a grief response. And there's a fear that if we acknowledge this, we’re inadvertently strengthening the anti-abortion cause.
So there's been a tendency to avoid the subject.'
translation: how dare you acknowledge that it is a baby.
Sad because the politicization by the woke who have taken over feminism essentially has ruptured it's original roots of women who want a family and husband but also to be equal. Which is why the modern feminists threw out Betty Frieden for not hating men and family enough.
Here's why they were so desperate to cover up the lab leak:
The 2003 SARS outbreak exposed how outdated WHO's disease rules were, since the old International Health Regulations only covered a few named diseases. In response, the World Health Assembly launched a revision…
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When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage
Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eat
Sima says: “After the Taliban entered the country, I had just finished the sixth grade and was supposed to start the seventh. But two months later, my father pressured me immensely to marry my cousin.
,,,workers at one public hospital in northern Afghanistan revealed that 42 underage girls gave birth in the first five months of this year. Six were in their second pregnancy. Five had ectopic pregnancies – a leading cause of maternal deaths – and 18 had caesarean sections. Two died, though their babies survived.
Mothers who are still children themselves often haven’t completed their physical or psychological growth and face higher risk of severe bleeding, anaemia, miscarriage, obstructed labour and premature birth, along with a greater likelihood of a low-weight or unhealthy infant.
Shabnam says families often resist caesarean section, believing they limit future pregnancies. Two young mothers in her care recently died in childbirth because their husbands refused to permit one.
Afghan girls who have been barred from education above the sixth grade (about 12 years) since the Taliban returned to power. Many are now forced into marriage and premature motherhood. The Afghanistan Human Rights Center reports that one teacher estimated 70% of girls pushed out of school had been driven into forced marriages, while a smaller survey of 15 such girls found 66% of them were under 18.
The older high estrogen pills not so much but the newer high progesterone ones and the BCShot does.
And don't get me started on the hormones they use for infertility and endometriosis, which we see in older ladies who haven't had babies in their twenties.
Yes the same medicines they use to transition kids.(and treat certain cancers).
The concept of ‘quarantine’ is embedded in health practices, attracting heightened interest during episodes of epidemics. The term is strictly related to plague and dates back to 1377, when the Rector of the seaport of Ragusa (then belonging to the Venetian Republic) officially issued a 30-day isolation period for ships, that became 40 days for land travellers.
During the next 100 years similar laws were introduced in Italian and in French ports, and they gradually acquired other connotations with respect to their original implementation.
Measures analogous to those employed against the plague have been adopted to fight against the disease termed the Great White Plague, i.e. tuberculosis, and in recent times various countries have set up official entities for the identification and control of infections.
Even more recently (2003) the proposal of the constitution of a new European monitoring, regulatory and research institution has been made, since the already available system of surveillance has found an enormous challenge in the global emergency of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In the absence of a targeted vaccine, general preventive interventions have to be relied upon, including high healthcare surveillance and public information. Quarantine has, therefore, had a rebound of celebrity and updated evidence strongly suggests that its basic concept is still fully valid.
|Gee, maybe instead of senging passengers back to their home countries they should have put them into quarentine: Either keep them on the ship or put them on land into an area (e.g. military base) where they could be isolated.
Instead, the news is being pushed to push the WHO and Bid Pharma making vaccines, but as Dr C notes: People don't trust these organizations. And as Dr C notes: The disease is unlikely to spread. of course, given the fact that many cities are not getting rid of mice the disease could spread to local mice.
A Monument to an American’s Selflessness in Iran
by Davar Iran Ardalan
Weekend Edition Saturday, June 7, 2008 ·
Imagine finding out that a nomadic tribe has named a mountain after your grandmother.
My mother and I learned just that when a relative phoned to say the storied Bakhtiari tribe had so honored my grandmother, Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar, to commemorate her public health work there in the 1950s.
It’s quite a legacy for a woman born in Weiser, Idaho, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Located in the central Zagros Mountains of Iran, near the ancient city of Isfahan, the area around Kohe Helen or Helen’s Mountain, is home to a wide variety of species, including brown bears, leopards, wildcats and eagles. Iranian environmentalists have marked the mountain and the surrounding forests as a protected area.
In the 1950s, Helen was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. She traveled to Iran to serve as a public health nurse as part of President Truman’s Point Four Program. The rural improvement project sent American experts in agriculture, health and education to work in villages in less-developed countries.
Traveling by jeep to remote villages, the daughter of conservative Baptists from Boise lobbied tribal elders on the need to educate women about health care. In one instance, Helen single-handedly convinced a reluctant village cleric to allow local women to attend her prenatal class.
She also spent time in a village called Koshkerood, or “dry river.”
In a 1958 interview, Helen recalled, “When we finally left the village, the people said to me, ‘You have given us hope.’ And when our engineers put a shallow well in this village so the people would have proper drinking water, they said, ‘And with water, you have given us life.’”
My grandmother worked primarily with the people of the Bakhtiari tribe in the mountains of southwestern Iran between the cities of Ahwaz and Isfahan. The Bakhtiari are made up of two main, loosely organized nomadic clans: the Chahar Lang and Haft Lang.
One of her life’s highlights was accompanying the Bakhtiari on their biannual migration across snow-capped mountains and the icy waters of the Karun River to find pastures for their flocks of sheep and goats.…
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