Worth thinking about in terms of communication. You can write about global temperatures or sea levels, but that’s not the outcomes for people – there it’s local or regional events far in excess of historic norms.
Some good news about H5N1 on a Friday afternoon for once: our rapidly mobilized Pan-Canadian Milk Network tested retail milk across the country and found no evidence of H5N1 infection in 🇨🇦 dairy cows. Our paper just dropped in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology! cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has been associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Given recent detections of HPAI H5N1 in dairy cattle and RNA detections in pasteurized retai...
💉 I know I’m a broken record on this, but I’ll keep saying the HPV vaccine is a great gift to give a kid – preventing cancer years down the track. (Give them all their other vaccines too! 😊)
"[Scotland] has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13." That's honestly so amazing.
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
"Scientists at the University of Washington have re-created the distinctive spiral shapes of shark intestines in 3D-printed pipes...with no need for flaps to control that flow and performed significantly better than so-called "Tesla valves" arstechnica.com/science/2024...
In my experience Dunedin is *hopeless* at traffic management for any large events, save perhaps events at the stadium as there they have a set plan.
1. Rwanda's first detected #Marburgwww.afro.who.int/countries/rw...
Brazzaville/Kigali – Rwandan health authorities are intensifying outbreak control efforts following the detection of Marburg virus disease, with 26 cases confirmed and six deaths reported currently.
I wasn’t really trying to be serious, even if it is sensible in so many ways. I don’t know enough to say what it’d need.
Have to admit I wouldn’t mind seeing this ruling in #NZ. Aside from reducing emissions and improving safety, it’d give me pleasure to think it pisses of some ego-head drivers. Obviously catch being pissed-off ego-drivers might not be good drivers…… 😑
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that required new cars to beep at drivers if they exceed the speed limit. 🤬 The law would have impacted all new cars in the U.S. since the California market is so large that manufacturers would just make all their vehicles comply.
California’s governor has vetoed a bill that would have required all new cars to beep at drivers when they speed.
