Category: EH
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PRO/EAFR> Poliomyelitis – Africa: Nigeria (Zamfara), cVPV2
POLIOMYELITIS – AFRICA : NIGERIA (ZAMFARA) CVPV2 ************************************************ A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Date: Sun 14 May 2023 Source: The Sun [edited] https://sunnewsonline.com/13-polio-cases-reported-in-zamfara-2-other-states-in-2023-says-who/ The Country Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed on [Sun 14 May 2023], that 13 cases of circulating Variant…
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PRESS RELEASE: WHO congratulates Benin and Mali for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem
Tuesday, 16 May 2023 PRESS RELEASE WHO congratulates Benin and Mali for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem 16 May 2023, Geneva – WHO has validated Benin and Mali as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making them the fifth and sixth countries in WHO’s African Region to achieve this significant milestone.…
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PRO/EDR> Measles update (23): Africa, SE Asia
MEASLES UPDATE (23): AFRICA, SOUTH EAST ASIA ******************************************** A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org In this update: Africa — [1] Tanzania [2] Lesotho (Maseru) [3] Cameroon SE Asia — [4] India (Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir) ****** Africa — [1] Tanzania Date: Wed 10 May 2023…
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PRO/AH/EDR> Leishmaniasis – Americas (06): Honduras (CR) Nicaragua, cutaneous
LEISHMANIASIS – AMERICAS (06): HONDURAS (CORTES) NICARAGUA, CUTANEOUS ********************************************************************* A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org In this posting: [1] Honduras (Cortés) [2] Nicaragua: increase ****** [1] Honduras (Cortés) Date: Sat 13 May 2023 8:53 AM CST Source: Proceso Digitial [in Spanish, machine trans., edited] https://proceso.hn/reportan-20-casos-de-leishmaniasis-en-villanueva/…
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PRO/SOAS> Dengue – Sri Lanka (04): rise in cases
DENGUE – SRI LANKA (04): RISE IN CASES ************************************** A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Date: Sun 14 May 2023 Source: Outbreak News Today [edited] https://outbreaknewstoday.com/sri-lanka-reports-more-than-33000-dengue-cases-through-mid-may-88777/ The National Dengue Control Unit (NDCU) in Sri Lanka reports a total of 33 656 dengue cases, including…
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Disease Outbreak News (DON) -Myocarditis – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
DISEASE OUTBREAK NEWS Myocarditis – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 16 May 2023 Situation at a glance On 5 April 2023, the National IHR Focal Point for the United Kingdom informed WHO of an increase in severe myocarditis in neonates and infants associated with enterovirus infection in Wales compared with 2021. Between…
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Get used to this word, El Niño, these seasons are only going to get worse.
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Wait! What are you saying TEH? I am saying friends:
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/health/covid-sewage-wastewater-data.html First, spot-on NYT, you are right. I am so confident about WBE I am cashing all my Epi chips and going all in. It is the game changer I prayed for nightly during the first year of our humanity vs SARS-CoV trial along with a vaccine, which we sort of got, not really though…
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Why do I believe in the NYT?
NYT Story www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/dining/arizona-drought-garden-produce.html Comment Okay, fine, I get it. Words can be boring. Personally I find them challenging because I can’t do anything else while reading them. I do not like stopping whatever I am building, coding, planting, inventing myself to stare at them. I don’t like their tricks and ambiguity, and I definitely think…
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We could just learn from Norway and survive the Climate Change Emergency.
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-vehicles.html
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What will not seem possible on that day after the tipping point is reached? Let it be tomorrow for our kids.
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IPCC Resilient Development Opportunities
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Images of Change – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Deforestation in Bolivia — Read on climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/
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Almost Thirty Years later…Today, prospects are even grimmer. We must act. How? Start today by recognizing every innocent soul lost to climate change and inequality there is equivalent to your own here. Internalize this and let your conscience raise the next question.
“I had left the United States wondering whether the human species would survive the next hundred years, but in Africa I encountered huge numbers of people for whom surviving even the next hundred days was no sure thing.” Excerpt FromEarth OdysseyMark Hertsgaardhttps://books.apple.com/us/book/earth-odyssey/id419251777This material may be protected by copyright.
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Brilliant campaign from my NYT heroes!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html
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Yes, about our extinction?What Have We Done This Week to Prevent the Climate Emergency?
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The Boat for Prediction Has Left The Port. Now We Must Act – Everyone Must Dig Deep, Do The Right Things Within Their Control
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Thanks be to God, let’s make tomorrow the World’s D-Day for Saving The Planet from Ourselves While We Still Are Able.
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Okay fine but do you have to keep using Epidemiology jargon, it’s confusing my news alert triggers?
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Another vote for circa 2050 irreversible climate emergencies I guess
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Could someone please page Upton Sinclair — “It’s the new child labor. You’re taking children from another country and putting them in almost indentured servitude.”
www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html
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No they will not end. The hand in terms of who will suffer the most will reshuffle, the abandoned wall of immunity will generate a more virulent retrovirus (if such an outcome is even possible) to blow through it and best case scenario in two years tops we are back to March 2021.
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This is sadly legit and H5N1 is scary
www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html
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TEH Prayers and Solidarity to Turkey 7.8 Earthquake
www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake/turkey-earthquake
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Mr President, 500 A Day Is Not Ok
apple.news/AOiy5PqnfR4O_RRCJQXQWlA According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 1.1 million people in the United States have died from COVID-19 since 2020, including roughly … 3,700 last week / 7 ≈ 528 A Day in US Alone
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I am an Epidemiologist if you hadn’t heard and POTUS Biden bless his heart really dropped ball on this one.
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US Healthcare Should Be Run By The Fire Department
I will never forget the story. About a Century ago my grandfather was a baby and his young parents lived in Bakersfield, CA. His dad became a firefighter in WWI on the old iron ships and when he came home he became a firefighter for oil drilling company. Keep in mind it would 50 years…
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I see a great Ceiba tree on fire…
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/climate/ecuador-drilling-oil-amazon.html I see a great Ceiba tree on fire with many rings of indifference worth interpreting. First there is the indifference of the Highly Developed Nations (HDN) that unashamedly built the existing disparities between ourselves and Lower Developed Nations by kidnapping their leaders, ransoming their treasuries, eradicating their civilizations, erasing their history, and exploiting their…
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“If you say certain things out loud, you won’t be able to go back to Cité Soleil,” Mamaille said.
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/world/americas/haiti-gang-violence.html
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Sister Paesie in Haiti is a Saint for Our Times
www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/world/americas/haiti-gang-violence.html
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Haitian Government Pleads for Protection Says People’s Suffering Worst in Decades and We Completely Ignore Them
apple.news/AuMHahJ29Q462cd7mLGcMpg Gang violence out of control in Haiti: UN – AFP News
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Don’t get TEH wrong…
We talk a lot about Climate Emergencies and Disease and other scary truths here at TEH but the message should never be give up, drop out, run away. It’s like that famous NASA astronaut quote, Michelle Obama said it spot in an interview with Connan O’Brien too: “Fear can be rocket fuel” if we use…
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Haitians Deserve So Much More Than This
www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/world/americas/haiti-gangs-foreign-intervention.html If you have ever stood before a glacier or lava flow you know the fury and stress extreme physical forces impose on the human body. Infact exposure to these natural hazards doesn’t even need to be felt for a sentient brain to grasp their sheer indifference to the life forms in their path. Well…
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We love Space at TEH, but what a truly terrifying sentence given the current state of the mother ship: “We are on the cusp of the full commercialization of space as the businesses and factories of the Orbital Age establish a permanent human presence in LEO.”
spacenews.com/the-next-and-most-profound-industrial-revolution-in-human-history-is-underway-in-low-earth-orbit/
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TEH ❤️ “When we confess our sins,” I said, “God casts them into the deepest ocean, gone forever.”
Favorite verse of Corrie Ten Boom
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Who Amongst Us Would Not Be Honored to Replace Current COP27 Leaders If They Fail Again to Truly Commit to at Least The Simple Principals We All Know Could Work, Must Work Now, To Survive The Climate Emergency 🚨 Already Starting — 🌎🌍🌏 Three Worlds Aligned In Solidarity Committed to Seeing Their Kids Thrive Too?
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Jimmy crack corn and we don’t care — here’s what GOP’s Anti-Science Schemers don’t Understand
apple.news/AjtGeeDa1QWOcZmwWB0usdA So you can read here the GOP wants to spend our final years on earth scrutinizing President Biden’s COVID-19 strategy. Ofcourse no-one is shocked by this announcement given their nature. Here’s what they don’t understand though. # Science isn’t scared of scrutiny because when done right science is nothing but the art of good…
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Sure Do But Take it from One Beleaguered Epi — People Won’t Wear Them Voluntarily Anymore
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Our consumption now leading to a new class of Climate Catastrophe in Kenya — The Unforseen Fusion of Salt and Fresh Water Lakes
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Nature’s Metropolis Circa 1833
Another great book, just once though it would be nice to learn about a new US city without an early chapter documenting how the origin of the land was another shameful American treaty used to displace and destroy the original Native American inhabitants to capitalize on the freely doomed and therin spoils of our Manifest…
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Even America is Susceptible of Reaping What It’s Voters Decide to Sow
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Millions of good, innocent Haitian people are starving and dehydrated less than 90 mins by plane from the Eastern seaboard. Every min we wait and do nothing is a another layer of cancer metastasizing in our Democratic World Order. Good citizens do not let their neighbors die this way Mr. President Biden.
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🐝“My Garden of a Thousand Bees” is The Art of Storytelling Supreme
Before this remarkable PBS Documentary I could say respectably “well I have never wept over a 🐝, mate”. Now I cannot. There is more brilliance in the slightest of “Nicky” than any smartphone app can deliver, as I use my smartphone to deliver. See this film. Save this world. I have a farm to tend…
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This is Sick — If we can’t help the Vulnerable of Haiti now, When?
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