history of the Black death

 Most accounts are written from a European standpoint and ignore that it also affected Asia.

Hepatitis A Strikes again in California (this time LA)

 from the Phil Inquirer:

there has been an increase in hep A detected in waste water, but the officials do note that it is probably not a risk to the general public:

they rcommend shots of course, but note that the best way not to get it is to wash your hands (and food).

The department said it is working with homeless service providers to inform unhoused people about the outbreak, and assist those with symptoms. The department has confirmed 29 hepatitis A cases in the first five months of 2025. Last year, county officials reported 165 cases — triple the number of cases in 2023. Public Health officials noted that although unhoused individuals face a higher risk of hepatitis A due to limited access to handwashing and restrooms, most of the 29 reported cases have involved people without travel or housing-related risk factors.

un housed individuals? That is not the same as the homeless population but I guess the term is politically correct.

it also mentions the San Diego epidemic, that was ignored for months until they finally decided to stop it with a multi pronged approach of cleaning up homeless areas and giving out shots,,,. and no mention of drugs being behind the increase in the homeless population. Must be polite you know.

IT'S MAY

Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue 

Lovely Lady dressed in blue 

 Teach me how to pray! 

 God was just your little boy, 

 Tell me what to say! 

 Did you lift Him up, sometimes, 

 Gently on your knee? 

 Did you sing to Him the way 

 Mother does to me? 

Did you hold His hand at night? 

 Did you ever try 

 Telling stories of the world? 

 O! And did He cry? 

 Do you really think He cares 

 If I tell Him things ------- 

 Little things that happen? 

And Do the Angels' wings 

 Make a noise? 

And can He hear Me if I speak low? 

Does He understand me now? '

Tell me -------for you know. 

 Lovely Lady dressed in blue ------- 

Teach me how to pray! 

 God was just your little boy, 

 And you know the way.

Mary Dixon Thayer

..........

All things rising, all things sizing Mary sees, sympathising With that world of good, Nature's motherhood. Their magnifying of each its kind With delight calls to mind How she did in her stored Magnify the Lord.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,]

it's May

good news

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has announced that the NIH Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on 12/31/25 will now be effective 7/1/25. Read more in his statement: https://t.co/iktaa5tlcO pic.twitter.com/iUTbh676w9

— NIH (@NIH) April 30, 2025

MPOX in Philippines

DOH confirms Mpox case in Cotabato province https://t.co/NL3Ozej6Jh

— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) April 26, 2025

Inquirer link

In South Cotabato, the IPHO is closely monitoring two cases of suspected Mpox infection.,,,Serame said one of the two patients was from nearby province but sought consultations in South Cotabato while the other is from the province but had travel history

so I asked Grok, and even they said there was no information on where the infection came from

however, back in Sept 2024 there were two cases in Minadano and 14 cases in Manila.

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this is spread via close contact: so did they visit Africa? Was it spread via sex tourism? Or did it enter the Philippines with imported monkeys? This is how Ebola Reston entered the Philippines and later spread to pigs and their human caretakers in a nearby town a couple years ago.

but this study

from Thailand suggests yes there is a spread via sex tourism:

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023 May 30;54:102597. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102597 The silent, rapidly unfolding threat of mpox spread via international travel to Southeast Asia: Are we ready?

At the time of this writing, over 84,000 laboratory-confirmed cases and 75 deaths have been identified in 110 countries. Additionally, despite the downward trend in the past months, a 7-day increase of 48.7% has been observed in early December 2022 before decreasing in following weeks. Singapore declared the first imported case in Southeast Asia during the present outbreak, with 38 mpox cases detected in the region as of 5 January 2023 (Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand) (https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html). Interestingly, the first autochthonous case in Singapore was identified 2 weeks after detection of the first imported case, with no direct epidemiological link between these two cases. This phenomenon reflects the looming threat of a potential outbreak that could easily spill over to the entire Southeast Asia region. Although recent mathematical modelling suggests no direct association of mpox outbreaks with air travel, these models could be used to assess the probability of an indirect association with air travel [9]. The situation throughout Southeast Asia is fluid, which raises public health concerns regarding the possibility of importing mpox via international travel, subsequently leading to community transmission, especially in places where tourism has resumed during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

health interview

 for watching later:

【生配信】時間がない！WHO総会間近 パンデミック条約の正体は生物兵器開発インフラ構築 James Roguskiインタビュー4月24日19時〜 https://t.co/77M7ivx20R

— 我那覇真子 Masako Ganaha (@ganaha_masako) April 24, 2025