#Outbreaks

[gwydionmisha]

It would be so much cheaper to just vaccinate people with measles then to let them get measles. It would also cut down on things like long term health effects, measles related disabilities, and children dying.

I'm not against diabetes research. I'm just saying we could have both.

Re Autism Disinformation from RFK Jr.: https://www.tumblr.com/hyperlexichypatia/781765301357379584?source=share

We are now infecting other countries:

[friendraichu]

"Public health functions best when its experts are allowed to communicate the work that they do in real time, and that's not happening," said Kevin Griffis, who served as the director of communications at the CDC until March. "That could put people's lives at risk."

[apoemaday]

Outbreaks

by Kitchen McKeown

i search for god but the sun is a penny. looper moths form halos beneath the streetlamps. summer’s ghostly curtains. check the weather. haze. i search for god but the moon is gone. i search for comfort, and the eels come. they cross my meadow every twilight, up to seven feet in length, traversing mountain napes with open eager mouths. the fires heaved them from the rivers, now they curve themselves across the precipice of life, toward black oceans. haunted yellow eyes. looper moths become a gentle cloud. i become an eel, then rethink it. i cough. reveal a wet moth. some gray little heart. it’s all hazy now. pale as sunbleached wood, i go forth. in a slant of moonlight, i search for comfort. the neon 24-hour fried chicken sign gleams behind the pines. i crawl in the moss. it is easy to find god. she is a cluster of eels beneath my palms. i ask of her, am i doing any of this life right? and she, with her many mouths, says nothing.

[aemperatrix]

[actualphysicalviolence]

“I crawl in the moss. It is easy to find God. She is a cluster of eels beneath my palms. I ask of her, am I doing any of this life right? And she, with her many mouths, says nothing.”

Kitchen Mckeown, Outbreaks

[thepastisalreadywritten]

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗡 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗬

On this day in 1374, the first major incident of the dancing epidemic (dancing mania) occurred in Aachen, Germany, which quickly spread across Europe in the next several years.

This contagious 'disease' makes people dance for several hours to days until they die of exhaustion or thirst.

According to reports, when a village is 'infected,' the people 'exposed' begin dancing uncontrollably and are quickly joined by others.

They barely stopped to eat or sleep for days or even weeks. Despite their constant movement, it was evident they didn’t want to be dancing.

Witnesses noted their faces were twisted in agony, their bodies visibly fatigued, and they trembled and convulsed as they kept dancing.

Over the following centuries, outbreaks recurred across Europe, including the dramatic 1518 Strasbourg episode, where a woman named Troffea danced wildly and was soon joined by hundreds.

There were instances when dancing was once banned publicly due to this strange phenomenon.

Modern scholars remain divided on what truly triggered the dancing mania. Some theories point to ergot poisoning from contaminated rye, which can cause LSD-like hallucinations.

Yet this explanation falls short, as not all affected regions cultivated rye, and ergot poisoning typically restricts movement by reducing blood flow.

The most widely accepted theory today is mass hysteria, or mass psychogenic illness, likely fueled by extreme stress and deep-rooted superstitions.

The Strasbourg outbreak (1518), for example, occurred during a period of famine, disease and social turmoil, conditions ripe for collective psychological distress.

[organicmatter]

[umbrellacorphq]

Due to the increasing risk of viral outbreaks, climate change, workers rights abuses, pandemics and other potentially damaging events, Umbrella will no longer be commissioning risk assessments.

[foxiapp]

The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks

The U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases Friday, even as Texas posted one of its lowest counts of newly confirmed cases since its large outbreak began three months ago. Texas still accounts for the vast majority of cases in the U.S., with 709 confirmed as of Friday in an outbreak that also spread measles to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged children died from…

[tinyowlthoughts]

[thelovebudllc]

International travel and health care networks drive Candida auris outbreaks

In just a decade, the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris (C. auris) has emerged as one of the most formidable threats to health care settings worldwide. Nowhere in the United States is this threat more pronounced than the New York-New Jersey (NY-NJ) metro area, which accounts for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s cases. A recent study published in Microbiology Spectrum by researchers at…

[realjaysumlin]

Fact Sheet: HHS Actions to Support Response to Marburg Outbreak in Rwanda | HHS.gov

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/10/07/fact-sheet-hhs-actions-to-support-response-marburg-outbreak-in-rwanda.html

Without biodiversity everything is in chaos and we can see this is every part of the world where humans are dealing with all types of viruses and outbreaks. The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda is seriously causing all types of havoc and chaos.

Even here in America COVID-19 new variants are even bigger than the first COVID cases in America. We have insects hosting all types of pathogens and viruses here. Please follow the instructions posted on the CDC website and get the latest information on what types of outbreaks are happening in your regions.

[a-typical]

The risk perception gap is especially harmful when it comes to science and health topics.

The risk perception gap: excessive concern about things that pose little risk and insufficient concern about things that pose greater risk

Vaccine Hesitancy and Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric:

One of the most prominent examples of the risk perception gap is with vaccine hesitancy, where the perceived risk of vaccine side effects or the impact of vaccine ingredients is often much higher among the public than what is supported by scientific evidence.

In contrast, the benefits of vaccination and their ability to prevent deadly diseases (remember, measles is back) are underestimated. That is true with nearly all vaccines nowadays, with many people diminishing the substantial positive impact that vaccine have on individual and collective health (I discussed the harm of prominent figures, like Andrew Huberman, doing this here). As a result of this gap, vaccination rates for preventable illnesses are declining, and increased outbreaks of diseases that were previously eliminated or well-controlled are rising.

Food safety:

Conversely, risks associated with trace levels of chemicals used to grow crops are vastly exaggerated. This creates fear around more affordable conventional food items based on misinformation and misunderstanding of chemistry and toxicology when there is no credible scientific evidence to support these claims.

[reading-writing-revolution]

Just FYI...

[sunanthrope]

Every time I see an obviously-queer middle schooler wearing a walmart Nirvana shirt try and discreetly stare at me, i remember why I dress like this. Every time I see some 7th grader with a pixie cut and a 'how to pass pre-t trans men' outfit trying to glance at me without seeming too obvious, or every time some 9th grader sees me in goodwill looking through the men's black T shirts for band tees, with a leather jacket or a pair of ripped jeans over my arm, and they come up and say they like my outfit. Every time I see a kid I could have easily been, who will easily grow up to be me.

It's not just for me. It's showing people who I used to be so similar to, that they can be themselves too. The same way 17 year olds showed me when I was 14, acting the same way they act, trying to be slick about watching what the cool goth girl in the thrift store was getting, so I could dress just like her when I grew up.

I got there. Now it's my turn to turn around and help others get here.

[sl33py-g4m3r]

Got a question cause I phased in an outbreak

How do outbreaks work? Do they only increase the odds for the target? Or do they increase shiny rates for everything?

I’d assume it’s just the target you’re actively in the outbreak with.

Which takes me to another question. What do the pop ups of text mean? ‘The outbreak is getting slightly smaller’, ‘the outbreak is getting even thinner’, etc. do those correlate to how many you’ve knocked out?

I don’t keep track of my odds or how many I’ve defeated, and was using them as a ‘you’ve knocked out enough to get max shiny odds’ with the second message. But idk.

Serebii also said that resetting the outbreak by respawning the pokemon ‘via respawn via picnic or moving too far away’ I think…. (?) don’t work, so they must be knocked out or caught.

So how do outbreaks work?? I’m confused now.