Science News puts some important context around the January 6 death of a 65-year-old Louisiana man who caught the virus from his backyard chickens:
… Read the rest “The first American to die of H5N1 avian flu”Since early 2024, there have been 66 confirmed
KFF Health News has a not-so-cheerful outlook on the US national health services in an article about livestock farms with a headline that starts “How America lost control of the bird… Read the rest “Ready for the next pandemic? Check with your local farmers.”
The Guardian reports on a study of knock-on effects. Bat populations have been decimated in the U.S. and beyond by the white-nose fungus. Because bats eat mosquitoes (which carry disease)… Read the rest “Bat deaths to fungus result in more than 1,300 human children dying.”
The Conversation finds a scientific reason for an often-observed phenomenon – that some people seemed strangely immune to COVID-19, while others would come down with it more than… Read the rest “Why did some folks never get covid, and others *always* got it?”
Science Alert has some encouraging research for those who keep up with their immunizations, with evidence that covid boosters offer increased protection against other strains of coronavirus,… Read the rest “Covid boosters protect against other viruses.”
That’s how the CBS headline starts, and I can only improve upon it by adding the drugs in the interest of accuracy. The story is about a sexually-transmitted fungal disease expected… Read the rest “Hyper-sexual zombie cicadas… on speed.”
“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence… Read the rest “Ancient viruses gave us our brains.”
SONG: “Lady at the Generator”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Amsterdam UMC, 4 Jan 2024, “Tiredness Experienced by Long Covid Patients Has… Read the rest “SONG: Lady at the Generator”
University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Reporting and Policy (CIDRAP) has some scientific findings from colleagues at U Michigan that will surprise no one who … Read the rest “Secretly sick.”
Amsterdam-based researchers have isolated a physical mechanism behind the fatigue that strikes some people for months after a covid infection. It comes down to the mitochondria in muscle… Read the rest “Here’s why long covid makes you tired.”
STAT reports on a new study that might be getting to the root of the long-covid brain fog, finding that the symptom appears to go hand-in-hand with a lack of free-floating serotonin in the … Read the rest “Unlocking brain fog: is it serotonin?”
Eurosurveillance reports on an ongoing epidemic that has seen a contagious strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1, jump from birds to mammals, where it’s spread from wild seagulls… Read the rest “There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)”
Eric Topol, on Ground Truths, does a dive into the history of our understanding of what bacteria has to do with cancer – from the old dogma that “cancer tumors are sterile”… Read the rest “Engineering bacteria to take on cancer.”
SONG: “14.8 Million”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID,” as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: 14.8 Million”
Nature reports on the gaps in information that mean the official counts of people who died as a result of COVID-19 are much, much lower than the real numbers:
… Read the rest “More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.”The [Nature and WHO] data suggest
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