A possible cluster of bird-flu infections in Missouri has grown to include 8 people in what may be the 1st examples of person-to-person transmission in the U.S. If confirmed, the cases may demonstrate that the virus acquired the ability to infect people more easily www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/h...

Antivaxxerism is on the rise. So is whooping cough. Over the past decade, there's been a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases: measles, mumps &now pertussis—whooping cough. Pertussis was once on the brink of elimination. Now it's rebounding thanks to wackos www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | Vaccine Hesitancy Is on the Rise. So Is Whooping Cough.

Clear and respectful communication is key to preventing outbreaks like this

#H5N1—Withmedicalxpress.com/news/2024-09...

With avian flu now in 34 California dairy herds, health experts watch closely

Faced with a surge in the number of California cows infected with H5N1 bird flu, state officials have quarantined 34 dairies and are urging other farms to take protective biosecurity measures.

Nothing's straightforward!

DRdricks.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 5:12pm

Warming climates are speeding up the aging process of mosquitoes even as they reproduce more prolifically amid a growing #climatecrisis. Mosquito-borne diseases are being transmitted in once-cooler regions. But new research shows warmer temperatures accelerate mosquito aging phys.org/news/2024-09...

Big kitchen-table issue this election should be that Trump wants to tax like 1/2 the stuff that ends up on kitchen tables

This again shows that vaccination, besides eliciting IgA responses, can contribute to Trm cell formation as well: at least contributing to mucosal protection. In addition, infection will contribute to this process, and does not negatively effect immunity. 6/6

Apart from the Beer Party in Austria and the Two-Tailed Dog party in Hungary, are there other joke parties in Europe that draw 2% of the vote? And is it a coincidence that these ones are in Austria-Hungary?

So the purge His big criminal justice idea is essentially purge night Should be fine

QJqjurecic.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 8:32pm

sovereign is he who decides on the exception

also, i am fascinated by how conservatives across the board have simply given up on the idea that people can be persuaded. seems commensurate with the return of scientific racism to mainstream circles. people are simply inherently one thing or another according to whatever group they were born into

you know i don’t pay much attention to musk but this is…completely unhinged. like, if someone said this to you in person you’d be speaking to their family about how they need to get help

ALlutzfernandez.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 7:03pm

These mainstream pronatalist pieces are being published while Musk is ranting on X using pronatalist conspiracy theories to argue America needs to elect an authoritarian: