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Entre le 28 avril et le 4 mai, 3 296 cas d'infections respiratoires aiguës ont été enregistrés à Maurice. Le Dr Fazil Khodabocus, directeur des services de santé, met en garde : plusieurs personnes souffrent actuellement de grippe, de toux, de bronchite et d'autres complications liées aux changements climatiques. Il rappelle que plusieurs virus sont en circulation, dont la Covid-19, le H3N2 et le H1N1, et recommande de consulter un médecin dès l'apparition des premiers symptômes. Il a ajouté qu'une campagne de vaccination est déjà en cours et a lancé un appel particulier aux personnes vulnérables, notamment les personnes âgées, les femmes enceintes et les enfants, leur conseillant de se faire vacciner sans tarder.

A 27ª Campanha de Vacinação contra a gripe está em andamento em Santa Catarina, para os grupos prioritários, com o Dia D de mobilização estadual marcado para 10 de maio. A Secretaria de Estado da Saúde (SES) e os municípios definiram que, após o dia D, a vacinação será estendida à população em geral a partir dos 6 meses de idade. A campanha busca reduzir os impactos das síndromes respiratórias agudas durante o outono e inverno. Mais de 200 mil doses da vacina trivalente contra a gripe foram distribuídas em SC. A vacina estará disponível nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde, policlínicas e outros pontos definidos pelos municípios. Nesta primeira fase, a campanha prioriza 3,3 milhões de pessoas, incluindo idosos acima de 60 anos, crianças, gestantes, pessoas com condições crônicas (como hipertensão e diabetes). A partir de maio, a vacina estará disponível para toda a população. Imunizar o público-alvo neste primeiro momento é fundamental, pois são as pessoas mais suscetíveis ao adoecimento e casos graves, inclusive, à morte. Em 2024, Santa Catarina registrou 128 mortes por gripe (influenza), além da sobrecarrega nos hospitais, com ocupação de leitos de UTI e outros equipamentos de saúde. Vale lembrar que a vacina é segura e já consolidada no calendário vacinal. O imunizante demora de duas a três semanas após a aplicação para conferir a proteção adequada. Em 2024, o estado registrou 1.693 casos da doença, a maior parte por influenza A (H1N1). Arieli Fialho, gerente de Doenças Infecciosas Agudas e Imunização, da Diretoria de Vigilância Epidemiológica (Dive), participou de entrevista, no programa Cruz de Malta Notícias desta quarta-feira (9) e reforçou a importância da vacinação contra a gripe. Grupos prioritários do Calendário Nacional de Vacinação • Crianças de 6 meses a menores de 6 anos de idade (5 anos, 11 meses, 29 dias) • Idosos com 60 anos ou mais • Gestantes Grupos prioritários • Puérperas (mães ate 45 dias após o parto) • Povos indígenas e quilombolas • Pessoas em situação de rua • Trabalhadores da saúde • Professores do ensino básico e superior • Profissionais das forças de segurança e salvamento • Profissionais das forças armadas • Pessoas com deficiência permanente • Caminhoneiros • Trabalhadores de transporte coletivo rodoviário para passageiros urbanos e de longo curso • Trabalhadores Portuários • Trabalhadores dos Correios • População privada de liberdade e funcionários do sistema de privação de liberdade, adolescentes e jovens de 12 a 21 anos de idade sob medidas socioeducativas • Pessoas com doenças crônicas não transmissíveis e outras condições clínicas especiais independentemente da idade

TWiV notes the passing of Klaus Conzelmann, then reviews reverse-zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses and evolution in United States swine, and reduction in dementia incidence in recipients of Zostavax. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 in US swine (PLoS Path) Zostavax reduces dementia (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 1207 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – Certain Roller Coasters May Help Small Kidney Stones Pass Alan – Analog and Asimov's science fiction magazines Vincent – Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond Listener Pick Charles – Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

What if your Google searches could predict disease outbreaks before traditional surveillance methods? That's exactly what happened during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic when researchers discovered online search patterns matched CDC data – but delivered results much faster.Welcome to the fascinating world of infodemiology, where digital footprints become powerful tools for public health. In this eye-opening conversation with experts Dr. Heather Duncan and Dr. Patrick Murphy, we explore how researchers analyze everything from tweets to search queries to understand health trends, track disease spread, and even identify mental health risks.The implications are both promising and concerning. While infodemiology offers unprecedented speed and insights for public health response, it raises critical questions about privacy, ethics, and the responsibility that comes with identifying health risks online. If AI flags someone as potentially suicidal based on their social media activity, what obligations exist to connect them with resources?Perhaps most shocking is the revelation that just 12 individuals were responsible for 60% of the anti-vaccine content circulating on certain platforms. This precision mapping of information flow demonstrates infodemiology's potential to target interventions effectively.As social media increasingly becomes Americans' primary source of health information, understanding these digital dynamics becomes crucial for public health. Dr. Duncan shares her vision of creating accessible, automated tools that would allow even small health departments to harness these powerful insights without extensive resources.Subscribe to Infectious Science for more fascinating conversations at the intersection of technology and public health, and share your thoughts on how digital surveillance might shape the future of healthcare.Thanks for listening to the Infectious Science Podcast. Be sure to visit infectiousscience.org to join the conversation, access the show notes, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter to receive our free materials. We hope you enjoyed this new episode of Infectious Science, and if you did, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Please share this episode with others who may be interested in this topic! Also, please don't hesitate to ask questions or tell us which topics you want us to cover in future episodes. To get in touch, drop us a line in the comment section or send us a message on social media. Instagram @InfectscipodFacebook Infectious Science PodcastSee you next time for a new episode!

Before getting into this new podcast, have you checked out the recent newsletter editions and podcasts of Ground Truths?—the first diagnostic immunome—a Covid nasal vaccine update—medical storytelling and uncertainty—why did doctors with A.I. get outperformed by A.I. alone?The audio is available on iTunes and Spotify. The full video is embedded here, at the top, and also can be found on YouTube.Transcript with links to Audio and External Links Eric Topol (00:07):Well, hello. It's Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I am just thrilled today to welcome Carl Zimmer, who is one of the great science journalists of our times. He's written 14 books. He writes for the New York Times and many other venues of great science, journalism, and he has a new book, which I absolutely love called Air-Borne. And you can see I have all these rabbit pages tagged and there's lots to talk about here because this book is the book of air. I mean, we're talking about everything that you ever wanted to know about air and where we need to go, how we missed the boat, and Covid and everything else. So welcome, Carl.Carl Zimmer (00:51):Thanks so much. Great to be here.A Book Inspired by the PandemicEric Topol (00:54):Well, the book starts off with the Skagit Valley Chorale that you and your wife Grace attended a few years later, I guess, in Washington, which is really interesting. And I guess my first question is, it had the look that this whole book was inspired by the pandemic, is that right?Carl Zimmer (01:18):Certainly, the seed was planted in the pandemic. I was working as a journalist at the New York Times with a bunch of other reporters at the Times. There were lots of other science writers also just trying to make sense of this totally new disease. And we were talking with scientists who were also trying to make sense of the disease. And so, there was a lot of uncertainty, ambiguity, and things started to come into focus. And I was really puzzled by how hard it was for consensus to emerge about how Covid spread. And I did some reporting along with other people on this conflict about was this something that was spreading on surfaces or was it the word people were using was airborne? And the World Health Organization said, no, it's not airborne, it's not airborne until they said it was airborne. And that just seemed like not quantum physics, you know what I'm saying? In the sense that it seemed like that would be the kind of thing that would get sorted out pretty quickly. And I think that actually more spoke to my own unfamiliarity with the depth of this field. And so, I would talk to experts like say, Donald Milton at the University of Maryland. I'd be like, so help me understand this. How did this happen? And he would say, well, you need to get to know some people like William Wells. And I said, who?Eric Topol (02:50):Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.Carl Zimmer (02:53):Yeah, there were just a whole bunch of people from a century ago or more that have been forgotten. They've been lost in history, and yet they were real visionaries, but they were also incredibly embattled. And the question of how we messed up understanding why Covid was airborne turned out to have an answer that took me back thousands of years and really plunged me into this whole science that's known as aerobiology.Eric Topol (03:26):Yeah, no, it's striking. And we're going to get, of course, into the Covid story and how it got completely botched as to how it was being transmitted. But of course, as you go through history, you see a lot of the same themes of confusion and naysayers and just extraordinary denialism. But as you said, this goes back thousands of years and perhaps the miasma, the moral stain in the air that was start, this is of course long before there was thing called germ theory. Is that really where the air thing got going?A Long History of Looking Into Bad AirCarl Zimmer (04:12):Well, certainly some of the earliest evidence we have that people were looking at the air and thinking about the air and thinking there's something about the air that matters to us. Aristotle thought, well, there's clearly something important about the air. Life just seems to be revolve around breathing and he didn't know why. And Hippocrates felt that there could be this stain on the air, this corruption of the air, and this could explain why a lot of people in a particular area, young and old, might suddenly all get sick at the same time. And so, he put forward this miasma theory, and there were also people who were looking at farm fields and asking, well, why are all my crops dead suddenly? What happened? And there were explanations that God sends something down to punish us because we've been bad, or even that the air itself had a kind of miasma that affected plants as well as animals. So these ideas were certainly there, well over 2,000 years ago.Eric Topol (05:22):Now, as we go fast forward, we're going to get to, of course into the critical work of William and Mildred Wells, who I'd never heard of before until I read your book, I have to say, talk about seven, eight decades filed into oblivion. But before we get to them, because their work was seminal, you really get into the contributions of Louis Pasteur. Maybe you could give us a skinny on what his contributions were because I was unaware of his work and the glaciers, Mer de Glace and figuring out what was going on in the air. So what did he really do to help this field?Carl Zimmer (06:05):Yeah, and this is another example of how we can kind of twist and deform history. Louis Pasteur is a household name. People know who Louis Pasteur is. People know about pasteurization of milk. Pasteur is associated with vaccines. Pasteur did other things as well. And he was also perhaps the first aerobiologist because he got interested in the fact that say, in a factory where beet juice was being fermented to make alcohol, sometimes it would spoil. And he was able to determine that there were some, what we know now are bacteria that were getting into the beet juice. And so, it was interrupting the usual fermentation from the yeast. That in itself was a huge discovery. But he was saying, well, wait, so why are there these, what we call bacteria in the spoiled juice? And he thought, well, maybe they just float in the air.Carl Zimmer (07:08):And this was really a controversial idea in say, 1860, because even then, there were many people who were persuaded that when you found microorganisms in something, they were the result of spontaneous generation. In other words, the beet juice spontaneously produced this life. This was standard view of how life worked and Pasteur was like, I'm not sure I buy this. And this basically led to him into an incredible series of studies around Paris. He would have a flask, and he'd have a long neck on it, and the flask was full of sterile broth, and he would just take it places and he would just hold it there for a while, and eventually bacteria would fall down that long neck and they would settle in the broth, and they would multiply in there. It would turn cloudy so he could prove that there was life in the air.Carl Zimmer (08:13):And they went to different places. He went to farm fields, he went to mountains. And the most amazing trip he took, it was actually to the top of a glacier, which was very difficult, especially for someone like Pasteur, who you get the impression he just hated leaving the lab. This was not a rugged outdoorsman at all. But there he is, climbing around on the ice with this flask raising it over his head, and he caught bacteria there as well. And that actually was pivotal to destroying spontaneous generation as a theory. So aerobiology among many, many other things, destroyed this idea that life could spontaneously burst into existence.Eric Topol (08:53):Yeah, no. He says ‘these gentlemen, are the germs of microscopic beings' shown in the existence of microorganisms in the air. So yeah, amazing contribution. And of course, I wasn't familiar with his work in the air like this, and it was extensive. Another notable figure in the world of germ theory that you bring up in the book with another surprise for me was the great Robert Koch of the Koch postulates. So is it true he never did the third postulate about he never fulfilled his own three postulates?Carl Zimmer (09:26):Not quite. Yeah, so he had these ideas about what it would take to actually show that some particular pathogen, a germ, actually caused a disease, and that involved isolating it from patients, culturing it outside of them. And then actually experimentally infecting an animal and showing the symptoms again. And he did that with things like anthrax and tuberculosis. He nailed that. But then when it came to cholera, there was this huge outbreak in Egypt, and people were still battling over what caused cholera. Was it miasma? Was it corruption in the air, or was it as Koch and others believe some type of bacteria? And he found a particular kind of bacteria in the stool of people who were dying or dead of cholera, and he could culture it, and he consistently found it. And when he injected animals with it, it just didn't quite work.Eric Topol (10:31):Okay. Yeah, so at least for cholera, the Koch's third postulate of injecting in animals, reproducing the disease, maybe not was fulfilled. Okay, that's good.Eric Topol (10:42):Now, there's a lot of other players here. I mean, with Fred Meier and Charles Lindbergh getting samples in the air from the planes and Carl Flügge. And before we get to the Wells, I just want to mention these naysayers like Charles Chapin, Alex Langmuir, the fact that they said, well, people that were sensitive to pollen, it was just neurosis. It wasn't the pollen. I mean, just amazing stuff. But anyway, the principles of what I got from the book was the Wells, the husband and wife, very interesting characters who eventually even split up, I guess. But can you tell us about their contributions? Because they're really notable when we look back.William and Mildred Wells Carl Zimmer (11:26):Yeah, they really are. And although by the time they had died around 1960, they were pretty much forgotten already. And yet in the 1930s, the two of them, first at Harvard and then at University of Pennsylvania did some incredible work to actually challenge this idea that airborne infection was not anything real, or at least nothing really to worry about. Because once the miasmas have been cleared away, people who embrace the germ theory of disease said, look, we've got cholera in water. We've got yellow fever in mosquitoes. We've got syphilis in sex. We have all these ways that germs can get from one person to the next. We don't need to worry about the air anymore. Relax. And William Wells thought, I don't know if that's true. And we actually invented a new device for actually sampling the air, a very clever kind of centrifuge. And he started to discover, actually, there's a lot of stuff floating around in the air.Carl Zimmer (12:37):And then with a medical student of his, Richard Riley started to develop a physical model. How does this happen? Well, you and I are talking, as we are talking we are expelling tiny droplets, and those droplets can potentially contain pathogens. We can sneeze out big droplets or cough them too. Really big droplets might fall to the floor, but lots of other droplets will float. They might be pushed along by our breath like in a cloud, or they just may be so light, they just resist gravity. And so, this was the basic idea that he put forward. And then he made real headlines by saying, well, maybe there's something that we can do to these germs while they're still in the air to protect our own health. In the same way you'd protect water so that you don't get cholera. And he stumbled on ultraviolet light. So basically, you could totally knock out influenza and a bunch of other pathogens just by hitting these droplets in the air with light. And so, the Wells, they were very difficult to work with. They got thrown out of Harvard. Fortunately, they got hired at Penn, and they lasted there just long enough that they could run an experiment in some schools around Philadelphia. And they put up ultraviolet lamps in the classrooms. And those kids did not get hit by huge measles outbreak that swept through Philadelphia not long afterwards.Eric Topol (14:05):Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I had never heard of them. And here they were prescient. They did the experiments. They had this infection machine where they could put the animal in and blow in the air, and it was basically like the Koch's third postulate here of inducing the illness. He wrote a book, William and he's a pretty confident fellow quoted, ‘the book is not for here and now. It is from now on.' So he wasn't a really kind of a soft character. He was pretty strong, I guess. Do you think his kind of personality and all the difficulties that he and his wife had contributed to why their legacy was forgotten by most?Carl Zimmer (14:52):Yes. They were incredibly difficult to work with, and there's no biography of the Wellses. So I had to go into archives and find letters and unpublished documents and memos, and people will just say like, oh my goodness, these people are so unbearable. They just were fighting all the time. They were fighting with each other. They were peculiar, particularly William was terrible with language and just people couldn't deal with them. So because they were in these constant fights, they had very few friends. And when you have a big consensus against you and you don't have very many friends to not even to help you keep a job, it's not going to turn out well, unfortunately. They did themselves no favors, but it is still really remarkable and sad just how much they figured out, which was then dismissed and forgotten.Eric Topol (15:53):Yeah, I mean, I'm just amazed by it because it's telling about your legacy in science. You want to have friends, you want to be, I think, received well by your colleagues in your community. And when you're not, you could get buried, your work could get buried. And it kind of was until, for me, at least, your book Air-Borne. Now we go from that time, which is 60, 70 years ago, to fast forward H1N1 with Linsey Marr from Virginia Tech, who in 2009 was already looking back at the Wells work and saying, wait a minute there's something here that this doesn't compute, kind of thing. Can you give us the summary about Linsey? Of course, we're going to go to 2018 again all before the pandemic with Lydia, but let's first talk about Linsey.Linsey MarrSee my previous Ground Truths podcast with Prof Marr hereCarl Zimmer (16:52):Sure. So Linsey Marr belongs to this new generation of scientists in the 21st century who start to individually rediscover the Welles. And then in Lindsey Marr's case, she was studying air pollution. She's an atmospheric scientist and she's at Virginia Tech. And she and her husband are trying to juggle their jobs and raising a little kid, and their son is constantly coming home from daycare because he's constantly getting sick, or there's a bunch of kids who are sick there and so on. And that got Linsey Marr actually really curious like what's going on because they were being careful about washing objects and so on, and doing their best to keep the kids healthy. And she started looking into ideas about transmission of diseases. And she got very interested in the flu because in 2009, there was a new pandemic, in other words that you had this new strain of influenza surging throughout the world. And so, she said, well, let me look at what people are saying. And as soon as she started looking at it, she just said, well, people are saying things that as a physicist I know make no sense. They're saying that droplets bigger than five microns just plummet to the ground.Carl Zimmer (18:21):And in a way that was part of a sort of a general rejection of airborne transmission. And she said, look, I teach this every year. I just go to the blackboard and derive a formula to show that particles much bigger than this can stay airborne. So there's something really wrong here. And she started spending more and more time studying airborne disease, and she kept seeing the Welles as being cited. And she was like, who are these? Didn't know who they were. And she had to dig back because finding his book is not easy, I will tell you that. You can't buy it on Amazon. It's like it was a total flop.Eric Topol (18:59):Wow.Carl Zimmer (19:00):And eventually she started reading his papers and getting deeper in it, and she was like, huh. He was pretty smart. And he didn't say any of the things that people today are claiming he said. There's a big disconnect here. And that led her into join a very small group of people who really were taking the idea of airborne infection seriously, in the early 2000s.Lydia BourouibaEric Topol (19:24):Yeah, I mean, it's pretty incredible because had we listened to her early on in the pandemic and many others that we're going to get into, this wouldn't have gone years of neglect of airborne transmission of Covid. Now, in 2018, there was, I guess, a really important TEDMED talk by Lydia. I don't know how you pronounce her last name, Bourouiba or something. Oh, yeah. And she basically presented graphically. Of course, all this stuff is more strained for people to believe because of the invisibility story, but she, I guess, gave demos that were highly convincing to her audience if only more people were in her audience. Right?Carl Zimmer (20:09):That's right. That's right. Yeah. So Lydia was, again, not an infectious disease expert at first. She was actually trained as a physicist. She studied turbulence like what you get in spinning galaxies or spinning water in a bathtub as it goes down the drain. But she was very taken aback by the SARS outbreak in 2003, which did hit Canada where she was a student.Carl Zimmer (20:40):And it really got her getting interested in infectious diseases, emerging diseases, and asking herself, what tools can I bring from physics to this? And she's looked into a lot of different things, and she came to MIT and MIT is where Harold Edgerton built those magnificent stroboscope cameras. And we've all seen these stroboscope images of the droplets of milk frozen in space, or a bullet going through a card or things like that that he made in the 1930s and 1940s and so on. Well, one of the really famous images that was used by those cameras was a sneeze actually, around 1940. That was the first time many Americans would see these droplets frozen in space. Of course, they forgot them.Carl Zimmer (21:34):So she comes there and there's a whole center set up for this kind of high-speed visualization, and she starts playing with these cameras, and she starts doing experiments with things like breathing and sneezes and so on. But now she's using digital video, and she discovers that she goes and looks at William Wells and stuff. She's like, that's pretty good, but it's pretty simple. It's pretty crude. I mean, of course it is. It was in the 1930s. So she brings a whole new sophistication of physics to studying these things, which she finds that, especially with a sneeze, it sort of creates a new kind of physics. So you actually have a cloud that just shoots forward, and it even carries the bigger droplets with it. And it doesn't just go three feet and drop. In her studies looking at her video, it could go 10 feet, 20 feet, it could just keep going.Eric Topol (22:24):27 feet, I think I saw. Yeah, right.Carl Zimmer (22:26):Yeah. It just keeps on going. And so, in 2018, she gets up and at one of these TEDMED talks and gives this very impressive talk with lots of pictures. And I would say the world didn't really listen.Eric Topol (22:48):Geez and amazing. Now, the case that you, I think centered on to show how stupid we were, not everyone, not this group of 36, we're going to talk about not everyone, but the rest of the world, like the WHO and the CDC and others was this choir, the Skagit Valley Chorale in Washington state. Now, this was in March 2020 early on in the pandemic, there were 61 people exposed to one symptomatic person, and 52 were hit with Covid. 52 out of 61, only 8 didn't get Covid. 87% attack rate eventually was written up by an MMWR report that we'll link to. This is extraordinary because it defied the idea of that it could only be liquid droplets. So why couldn't this early event, which was so extraordinary, opened up people's mind that there's not this six-foot rule and it's all these liquid droplets and the rest of the whole story that was wrong.Carl Zimmer (24:10):I think there's a whole world of psychological research to be done on why people accept or don't accept scientific research and I'm not just talking about the public. This is a question about how science itself works, because there were lots of scientists who looked at the claims that Linsey Marr and others made about the Skagit Valley Chorale outbreak and said, I don't know, I'm not convinced. You didn't culture viable virus from the air. How do you really know? Really, people have said that in print. So it does raise the question of a deep question, I think about how does science judge what the right standard of proof is to interpret things like how diseases spread and also how to set public health policy. But you're certainly right that and March 10th, there was this outbreak, and by the end of March, it had started to make news and because the public health workers were figuring out all the people who were sick and so on, and people like Linsey Marr were like, this kind of looks like airborne to me, but they wanted to do a closer study of it. But still at that same time, places like the World Health Organization (WHO) were really insisting Covid is not airborne.“This is so mind-boggling to me. It just made it obvious that they [WHO] were full of s**t.”—Jose-Luis JimenezGetting It Wrong, Terribly WrongEric Topol (25:56):It's amazing. I mean, one of the quotes that there was, another one grabbed me in the book, in that group of the people that did air research understanding this whole field, the leaders, there's a fellow Jose-Luis Jimenez from University of Colorado Boulder, he said, ‘this is so mind-boggling to me. It just made it obvious that they were full of s**t.' Now, that's basically what he's saying about these people that are holding onto this liquid droplet crap and that there's no airborne. But we know, for example, when you can't see cigarette smoke, you can't see the perfume odor, but you can smell it that there's stuff in the air, it's airborne, and it's not necessarily three or six feet away. There's something here that doesn't compute in people's minds. And by the way, even by March and April, there were videos like the one that Lydia showed in 2018 that we're circling around to show, hey, this stuff is all over the place. It's not just the mouth going to the other person. So then this group of 36 got together, which included the people we were talking about, other people who I know, like Joe Allen and many really great contributors, and they lobbied the CDC and the WHO to get with it, but it seemed like it took two years.Carl Zimmer (27:32):It was a slow process, yes. Yes. Because well, I mean, the reason that they got together and sort of formed this band is because early on, even at the end of January, beginning of February 2020, people like Joe Allen, people like Linsey Marr, people like Lidia Morawska in Australia, they were trying to raise the alarm. And so, they would say like, oh, I will write up my concerns and I will get it published somewhere. And journals would reject them and reject them and reject them. They'd say, well, we know this isn't true. Or they'd say like, oh, they're already looking into it. Don't worry about it. This is not a reason for concern. All of them independently kept getting rejected. And then at the same time, the World Health Organization was going out of their way to insist that Covid is not airborne. And so, Lidia Morawska just said like, we have to do something. And she, from her home in Australia, marshaled first this group of 36 people, and they tried to get the World Health Organization to listen to them, and they really felt very rebuffed it didn't really work out. So then they went public with a very strong open letter. And the New York Times and other publications covered that and that really started to get things moving. But still, these guidelines and so on were incredibly slow to be updated, let alone what people might actually do to sort of safeguard us from an airborne disease.Eric Topol (29:15):Well, yeah, I mean, we went from March 2020 when it was Captain Obvious with the choir to the end of 2021 with Omicron before this got recognized, which is amazing to me when you look back, right? That here you've got millions of people dying and getting infected, getting Long Covid, all this stuff, and we have this denial of what is the real way of transmission. Now, this was not just a science conflict, this is that we had people saying, you don't need to wear a mask. People like Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General, people like Tony Fauci before there was an adjustment later, oh, you don't need masks. You just stay more than six feet away. And meanwhile, the other parts of the world, as you pointed out in Japan with the three Cs, they're already into, hey, this is airborne and don't go into rooms indoors with a lot of people and clusters and whatnot. How could we be this far off where the leading public health, and this includes the CDC, are giving such bad guidance that basically was promoting Covid spread.Carl Zimmer (30:30):I think there are a number of different reasons, and I've tried to figure that out, and I've talked to people like Anthony Fauci to try to better understand what was going on. And there was a lot of ambiguity at the time and a lot of mixed signals. I think that also in the United States in particular, we were dealing with a really bad history of preparing for pandemics in the sense that the United States actually had said, we might need a lot of masks for a pandemic, which implicitly means that we acknowledge that the next pandemic might to some extent be airborne. At least our healthcare folks are going to need masks, good masks, and they stockpiled them, and then they started using them, and then they didn't really replace them very well, and supplies ran out, or they got old. So you had someone like Rick Bright who was a public health official in the administration in January 2020, trying to tell everybody, hey, we need masks.The Mess with MasksCarl Zimmer (31:56):And people are like, don't worry about it, don't worry about it. Look, if we have a problem with masks, he said this, and he recounted this later. Look, if the health workers run out of masks, we just tell the public just to not use masks and then we'll have enough for the health workers. And Bright was like, that makes no sense. That makes no sense. And lo and behold, there was a shortage among American health workers, and China was having its own health surge, so they were going to be helping us out, and it was chaos. And so, a lot of those messages about telling the public don't wear a mask was don't wear a mask, the healthcare workers need them, and we need to make sure they have enough. And if you think about that, there's a problem there.Carl Zimmer (32:51):Yeah, fine. Why don't the healthcare workers have their own independent supply of masks? And then we can sort of address the question, do masks work in the general community? Which is a legitimate scientific question. I know there are people who are say, oh, masks don't work. There's plenty of studies that show that they can reduce risk. But unfortunately, you actually had people like Fauci himself who were saying like, oh, you might see people wearing masks in other countries. I wouldn't do it. And then just a few weeks later when it was really clear just how bad things were getting, he turns around and says, people should wear masks. But Jerome Adams, who you mentioned, Surgeon General, he gets on TV and he's trying to wrap a cloth around his face and saying, look, you can make your own mask. And it was not ideal, shall we say?Eric Topol (33:55):Oh, no. It just led to mass confusion and the anti-science people were having just a field day for them to say that these are nincompoops. And it just really, when you look back, it's sad. Now, I didn't realize the history of the N95 speaking of healthcare workers and fitted masks, and that was back with the fashion from the bra. I mean, can you tell us about that? That's pretty interesting.Carl Zimmer (34:24):Yeah. Yeah, it's a fascinating story. So there was a woman who was working for 3M. She was consulting with them on just making new products, and she really liked the technology they used for making these sort of gift ribbons and sort of blown-fiber. And she's like, wow, you should think about other stuff. How about a bra? And so, they actually went forward with this sort of sprayed polyester fiber bra, which was getting much nicer than the kind of medieval stuff that women had to put up with before then. And then she's at the same time spending a lot of time in hospitals because a lot of her family was sick with various ailments, and she was looking at these doctors and nurses who were wearing masks, which just weren't fitting them very well. And she thought, wait a minute, you could take a bra cup and just basically fit it on people's faces.Carl Zimmer (35:29):She goes to 3M and is like, hey, what about this? And they're like, hmm, interesting. And at first it didn't seem actually like it worked well against viruses and other pathogens, but it was good on dust. So it started showing up in hardware stores in the 70s, and then there were further experiments that basically figured showed you could essentially kind of amazingly give the material a little static charge. And that was good enough that then if you put it on, it traps droplets that contain viruses and doesn't let them through. So N95s are a really good way to keep viruses from coming into your mouth or going out.Eric Topol (36:14):Yeah. Well, I mean it's striking too, because in the beginning, as you said, when there finally was some consensus that masks could help, there wasn't differentiation between cotton masks, surgical masks, KN95s. And so, all this added to the mix of ambiguity and confusion. So we get to the point finally that we understand the transmission. It took way too long. And that kind of tells the Covid story. And towards the end of the book, you're back at the Skagit Valley Chorale. It's a full circle, just amazing story. Now, it also brings up all lessons that we've learned and where we're headed with this whole knowledge of the aerobiome, which is fascinating. I didn't know that we breathe 2000 to 3000 gallons a day of air, each of us.Every Breath We TakeEric Topol (37:11):Wow, I didn't know. Well, of course, air is a vector for disease. And of course, going back to the Wells, the famous Wells that have been, you've brought them back to light about how we're aerial oysters. So these things in the air, which we're going to get to the California fires, for example, they travel a long ways. Right? We're not talking about six feet here. We're talking about, can you tell us a bit about that?Carl Zimmer (37:42):Well, yeah. So we are releasing living things into the air with every breath, but we're not the only ones. So I'm looking at you and I see beyond you the ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Every time those waves crash down on the surf, it's spewing up vast numbers of tiny droplets, kind of like the ocean's own lungs, spraying up droplets, some of which have bacteria and viruses and other living things. And those go up in the air. The wind catches them, and they blow around. Some of them go very, very high, many, many miles. Some of them go into the clouds and they do blow all over the place. And so, science is really starting to come into its own of studying the planetary wide pattern of the flow of life, not just for oceans, but from the ground, things come out of the ground all of the time. The soil is rich with microbes, and those are rising up. Of course, there's plants, we are familiar with plants having pollen, but plants themselves are also slathered in fungi and other organisms. They shed those into the air as well. And so, you just have this tremendous swirl of life that how high it can go, nobody's quite sure. They can certainly go up maybe 12 miles, some expeditions, rocket emissions have claimed to find them 40 miles in the air.Carl Zimmer (39:31):It's not clear, but we're talking 10, 20, 30 miles up is where all this life gets. So people call this the aerobiome, and we're living in it. It's like we're in an ocean and we're breathing in that ocean. And so, you are breathing in some of those organisms literally with every breath.Eric Topol (39:50):Yeah, no, it's extraordinary. I mean, it really widens, the book takes us so much more broad than the narrow world of Covid and how that got all off track and gives us the big picture. One of the things that happened more recently post Covid was finally in the US there was the commitment to make buildings safer. That is adopting the principles of ventilation filtration. And I wonder if you could comment at that. And also, do you use your CO2 monitor that you mentioned early in the book? Because a lot of people haven't gotten onto the CO2 monitor.Carl Zimmer (40:33):So yes, I do have a CO2 monitor. It's in the other room. And I take it with me partly to protect my own health, but also partly out of curiosity because carbon dioxide (CO2) in the room is actually a pretty good way of figuring out how much ventilation there is in the room and what your potential risk is of getting sick if someone is breathing out Covid or some other airborne disease. They're not that expensive and they're not that big. And taking them on planes is particularly illuminating. It's just incredible just how high the carbon dioxide rate goes up when you're sitting on the plane, they've closed the doors, you haven't taken off yet, shoots way up. Once again, the air and the filter system starts up, it starts going down, which is good, but then you land and back up again. But in terms of when we're not flying, we're spending a lot of our time indoors. Yeah, so you used the word commitment to describe quality standards.Eric Topol (41:38):What's missing is the money and the action, right?Carl Zimmer (41:42):I think, yeah. I think commitment is putting it a little strongly.Eric Topol (41:45):Yeah. Sorry.Carl Zimmer (41:45):Biden administration is setting targets. They're encouraging that that people meet certain targets. And those people you mentioned like Joe Allen at Harvard have actually been putting together standards like saying, okay, let's say that when you build a new school or a new building, let's say that you make sure that you don't get carbon dioxide readings above this rate. Let's try to get 14 liters per second per person of ventilated fresh air. And they're actually going further. They've actually said, now we think this should be law. We think these should be government mandates. We have government mandates for clean water. We have government mandates for clean food. We don't just say, it'd be nice if your bottled water didn't have cholera on it in it. We'll make a little prize. Who's got the least cholera in their water? We don't do that. We don't expect that. We expect more. We expect when you get the water or if you get anything, you expect it to be clean and you expect people to be following the law. So what Joseph Allen, Lidia Morawska, Linsey Marr and others are saying is like, okay, let's have a law.Eric Topol (43:13):Yeah. No, and I think that distinction, I've interviewed Joe Allen and Linsey Marr on Ground Truths, and they've made these points. And we need the commitment, I should say, we need the law because otherwise it's a good idea that doesn't get actualized. And we know how much keeping ventilation would make schools safer.Carl Zimmer (43:35):Just to jump in for a second, just to circle back to William and Mildred Wells, none of what I just said is new. William and Mildred Wells were saying over and over again in speeches they gave, in letters they wrote to friends they were like, we've had this incredible revolution in the early 1900s of getting clean water and clean food. Why don't we have clean air yet? We deserve clean air. Everyone deserves clean air. And so, really all that people like Linsey Marr and Joseph Allen and others are doing is trying to finally deliver on that call almost a century later.Eric Topol (44:17):Yeah, totally. That's amazing how it's taken all this time and how much disease and morbidity even death could have been prevented. Before I ask about planning for the future, I do want to get your comments about the dirty air with the particulate matter less than 2.5 particles and what we're seeing now with wildfires, of course in Los Angeles, but obviously they're just part of what we're seeing in many parts of the world and what that does, what carries so the dirty air, but also what we're now seeing with the crisis of climate change.Carl Zimmer (45:01):So if you inhale smoke from a wildfire, it's not going to start growing inside of you, but those particles are going to cause a lot of damage. They're going to cause a lot of inflammation. They can cause not just lung damage, but they can potentially cause a bunch of other medical issues. And unfortunately, climate change plus the increasing urbanization of these kinds of environments, like in Southern California where fires, it's a fire ecology already. That is going to be a recipe for more smoke in the air. We will be, unfortunately, seeing more fire. Here in the Northeast, we were dealing with really awful smoke coming all the way from Canada. So this is not a problem that respects borders. And even if there were no wildfires, we still have a huge global, terrible problem with particulate matter coming from cars and coal fire power plants and so on. Several million people, their lives are cut short every year, just day in, day out. And you can see pictures in places like Delhi and India and so on. But there are lots of avoidable deaths in the United States as well, because we're starting to realize that even what we thought were nice low levels of air pollution probably are still killing more people than we realized.Eric Topol (46:53):Yeah, I mean, just this week in Nature is a feature on how this dirty air pollution, the urbanization that's leading to brain damage, Alzheimer's, but also as you pointed out, it increases everything, all-cause mortality, cardiovascular, various cancers. I mean, it's just bad news.Carl Zimmer (47:15):And one way in which the aerobiome intersects with what we're talking about is that those little particles floating around, things can live on them and certain species can ride along on these little particles of pollution and then we inhale them. And there's some studies that seem to suggest that maybe pathogens are really benefiting from riding around on these. And also, the wildfire smoke is not just lofting, just bits of dead plant matter into the air. It's lofting vast numbers of bacteria and fungal spores into the air as well. And then those blow very, very far away. It's possible that long distance winds can deliver fungal spores and other microorganisms that can actually cause certain diseases, this Kawasaki disease or Valley fever and so on. Yeah, so everything we're doing is influencing the aerobiome. We're changing the world in so many ways. We're also changing the aerobiome.Eric Topol (48:30):Yeah. And to your point, there were several reports during the pandemic that air pollution potentiated SARS-CoV-2 infections because of that point that you're making that is as a carrier.Carl Zimmer (48:46):Well, I've seen some of those studies and it wasn't clear to me. I'm not sure that SARS-CoV-2 can really survive like long distances outdoors. But it may be that, it kind of weakens people and also sets up their lungs for a serious disease. I'm not as familiar with that research as I'd like to be.Eric Topol (49:11):Yeah, no, it could just be that because they have more inflammation of their lungs that they're just more sensitive to when they get the infection. But there seems like you said, to be some interactions between pathogens and polluted air. I don't know that we want to get into germ warfare because that's whole another topic, but you cover that well, it's very scary stuff.Carl Zimmer (49:37):It's the dark side of aerobiology.Eric Topol (49:39):Oh my gosh, yes. And then the last thing I wanted just to get into is, if we took this all seriously and learned, which we don't seem to do that well in some respects, wouldn't we change the way, for example, the way our cities, the way we increase our world of plants and vegetation, rather than just basically take it all down. What can we do in the future to make our ecosystem with air a healthier one?Carl Zimmer (50:17):I think that's a really important question. And it sounds odd, but that's only because it's unfamiliar. And even after all this time and after the rediscovery of a lot of scientists who had been long forgotten, there's still a lot we don't know. So there is suggestive research that when we breathe in air that's blowing over vegetation, forest and so on. That's actually in some ways good for our health. We do have a relationship with the air, and we've had it ever since our ancestors came out the water and started breathing with their lungs. And so, our immune systems may be tuned to not breathing in sterile air, but we don't understand the relationship. And so, I can't say like, oh, well, here's the prescription. We need to be doing this. We don't know.Eric Topol (51:21):Yeah. No, it's fascinating.Carl Zimmer (51:23):We should find out. And there are a few studies going on, but not many I would have to say. And the thing goes for how do we protect indoor spaces and so on? Well, we kind of have an idea of how airborne Covid is. Influenza, we're not that sure and there are lots of other diseases that we just don't know. And you certainly, if a disease is not traveling through the air at all, you don't want to take these measures. But we need to understand they're spread more and it's still very difficult to study these things.Eric Topol (52:00):Yeah, such a great point. Now before we wrap up, is there anything that you want to highlight that I haven't touched on in this amazing book?Carl Zimmer (52:14):I hope that when people read it, they sort of see that science is a messy process and there aren't that many clear villains and good guys in the sense that there can be people who are totally, almost insanely wrong in hindsight about some things and are brilliant visionaries in other ways. And one figure that I learned about was Max von Pettenkofer, who really did the research behind those carbon dioxide meters. He figured out in the mid-1800s that you could figure out the ventilation in a room by looking at the carbon dioxide. We call it the Pettenkofer number, how much CO2 is in the room. Visionary guy also totally refused to believe in the germ theory of disease. He shot it tooth in the nail even. He tried to convince people that cholera was airborne, and he did it. He took a vial. He was an old man. He took a vial full of cholera. The bacteria that caused cholera drank it down to prove his point. He didn't feel well afterwards, but he survived. And he said, that's proof. So this history of science is not the simple story that we imagine it to be.Eric Topol (53:32):Yeah. Well, congratulations. This was a tour de force. You had to put in a lot of work to pull this all together, and you're enlightening us about air like never before. So thanks so much for joining, Carl.Carl Zimmer (53:46):It was a real pleasure. Thanks for having me.**********************************************Thanks for listening, watching or reading Ground Truths. Your subscription is greatly appreciated.If you found this podcast interesting please share it!That makes the work involved in putting these together especially worthwhile.All content on Ground Truths—newsletters, analyses, and podcasts—is free, open-access.Paid subscriptions are voluntary and all proceeds from them go to support Scripps Research. 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In this episode, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins A'ndre for an in-depth conversation about his decades-long career in public health and his experiences leading the U.S. response to some of the world's most pressing infectious disease challenges. Dr. Fauci reflects on his early work during the HIV/AIDS crisis, the evolution of treatments that saved millions of lives, and his role in launching PEPFAR, one of the most significant global health initiatives in history. He  discusses his leadership at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), navigating crises such as Ebola, Zika, H1N1, anthrax, and COVID-19, while working alongside multiple U.S. presidents to shape national and global health policies.Beyond his career in government, Dr. Fauci shares his thoughts on the intersection of public health and national security, the growing challenges of vaccine skepticism and misinformation, and the vital role of institutions like the NIH and CDC in protecting public health. He also highlights the major health threats that remain overlooked in mainstream discourse. Now a professor at Georgetown University, Dr. Fauci reflects on his transition to academia and the importance of training the next generation of medical leaders in an era of evolving global health challenges.You can purchase his recent memoir, On Call, here.

We speak with Emeka Iloegbu, a DrPH student and global health leader with over 15 years of experience in tackling infectious diseases and strengthening health systems. From his early days volunteering with the Red Cross in New York City to playing critical roles in pandemic responses for H1N1, Zika, Ebola, COVID-19, and monkeypox, Emeka has worked at the intersection of laboratory science, public health, and policy. As an assistant professor at CUNY and a United Nations representative, he is engaged in HIV research, antimicrobial resistance, and the integration of molecular diagnostics into public health strategies. He discusses his transition from analyzing cells under a microscope at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital to influencing policy decisions at the UN and Department of Health, emphasizing the importance of adaptive leadership, community-based surveillance, and strengthening global health infrastructure. We also dive into his research in implementation science, his role in advancing sickle cell disease interventions, and how he is using his vast experience to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and real-world impact. To learn more about the NYU School of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit http://www.publichealth.nyu.edu.

CME CreditLink https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10098273 In this episode of Pediatrics Now, host Holly Wayment  welcomes back Dr. J.B. Cantey. With flu season at its peak, Dr. Cantey shares insights into the challenges pediatric practitioners face, particularly with the circulation of both H1N1, H3N2, and the emerging H5N1 strain, or bird flu.   He discusses the importance of vaccination, hand hygiene, and vigilant testing, while addressing common concerns about flu transmission and the role of Tamiflu. Dr. Cantey also emphasizes the significance of maintaining awareness around new strains, such as the avian flu H5N1, and offers practical advice to give to patients worried about the flu's impact on their families. With his expertise, Dr. Cantey provides a comprehensive understanding of how to manage flu risks and protect vulnerable populations, ensuring listeners are well-equipped to handle this year's fierce flu season.

部落格圖文版 https://linshibi.com/?p=48579 1.根據日本國立感染症研究所的資料，1月27日到2月4日這一週全日本約5000間醫療機構通報的流感患者，平均每間是5.87人，比上一周的11.06幾乎減半，繼續下降。明顯從去年底最高峰的64.39人掉下來了。 2.以此推估全日本這週新增約19萬4千人因流感就醫，最高峰時曾一週258萬人。2024年9月2日到現在，這個流感季在日本估計因流感累計就醫總數估計達到971.7萬人。 3.有47個都道府縣相比於前週是減少的，很廣泛性的下降。當然還是有些區域流行狀況較高，目前最高的前幾名：山形縣（16.02）、新潟縣（14.94）、沖縄縣（13.32）、岩手縣（11.35）、宮城縣（9.44）、石川縣（9.27）、群馬縣（8.95）、青森縣（8.64）、富山縣（8.60）、長野縣（8.35）。 東京降到3.79人，大阪則是3.34人，早已經小於10這個注意報的標準。 4.這個感染症研究所的圖點進去還可以看每個都道府縣的細分區，細看哪些保健所區域是比較流行的。目前全日本超過警報標準的還有61個保健所，分布在27個都道府縣。而東京和大阪境內沒有任何一區超過注意報的標準，因此在大圖上是全白的。北海道則是在富良野，帯廣，釧路，中標津這幾個地方流行，但其他地方是白的。 https://reurl.cc/r3jNWy 5.約500間醫療機構通報的流感住院人數，本週是665人，比前週的1308人幾乎減半，從最高峰的5304人大幅下降。分布在各年齡層，但60歲以上佔了大宗，總計435人，占比約七成。 6.最近5週間（2025年第1週～第5週）流感分型：A型流感H1N1占了87%。H3亞型佔了10%，B型佔了4%。有日本專家根據往年經驗表示，要小心B型流感接下來可能再流行一波。雖然另外兩種比例似乎有增加，但那主要是因為H1N1大幅減少，還需要繼續觀察。 7.台灣的話，因為碰到過年多數門診休診數字可能有低估，下週二應該會有比較確定的趨勢可以和大家分享。疾管署4日表示，本(2025)年第4週(1/19-1/25)及第5週(1/26-2/1，春節期間)類流感門急診就診分別約16萬2千餘人次及9萬1千餘人次，其中第4週就診人次為近十個流感季最高。第5週因逢春節連假，多數門診休診，門急診就診人次為91,436人次，預期連假結束後就診人次將回升1-2週再逐漸下降。 8.台灣在本流感季自2024/10/1起截至2025/2/3累計重症667例，年齡層以65歲以上長者為多(占57%)，死亡病例累計132例，確定病例及死亡病例均有9成以上未接種本季流感疫苗。 9.順帶一提自2024/9/1起截至2025/2/3，在台灣新冠併發重症累計467例，其中102例死亡，均以65歲以上長者及具慢性病史者為多，其中自2024/10/1起通報之確定及死亡病例未接種JN.1疫苗者均達97%以上。新聞只是沒有報，但新冠病毒並沒有離開我們。他一直都在。 我在日本的防疫小物 怎麼防流感？ https://linshibi.com/?p=49073 旅平險海外突發疾病 請注意有無給付法定傳染病 https://linshibi.com/?p=48622 我把所有目前的優惠券都上傳到雲端硬碟了，方便大家一整包下載！ https://reurl.cc/r9Ej24 分類別： 日本藥妝店必備優惠券一整包 https://reurl.cc/DjOqqd 日本電器 服飾 運動用品必備優惠券大集合 https://reurl.cc/OMZVa7 日本百貨公司 機場免稅店優惠券大集合 https://reurl.cc/Ren4DG 04b毒友獨家優惠專區 https://reurl.cc/XG1r67

    Embark on a journey through military medicine with Lieutenant General John J. DeGoes, MD, the Air Force and Space Force Surgeon General. Could the path from civilian practice to military healthcare be transformed by a chance encounter? Listen as Dr. DeGoes recounts his serendipitous introduction to the Uniformed Services University and his unique training, which provides rare opportunities not found in civilian medicine. Gain insights into how the profound events of 9/11 reshaped military healthcare and the groundbreaking innovations in aeromedical evacuation that followed, including a remarkable case of diagnosing dermatomyositis in a young soldier.    The late 2000s and early 2010s were pivotal for Air Force medicine, marked by strategic challenges and innovations amid troop deployments to Afghanistan. Discover the untold stories of logistical hurdles during the H1N1 pandemic and the unexpected chaos from the Icelandic volcano eruption of 2010, which complicated casualty evacuations. Dr. DeGoes highlights transformative initiatives, such as equipping pararescue personnel with blood for on-site trauma care, a significant leap forward in military medical protocols. Through strategic aeromedical evacuation, learn how military medicine reduced its medical footprint and evolved to meet the demands of modern warfare.      Explore the intricate dynamics of leadership in a vast military healthcare system, stressing the importance of strategic planning and effective communication. As military operations have evolved since the 1990s, so have the medical innovations, with critical care air transport leading the way in battlefield medicine. Dr. DeGoes discusses the transition to the Defense Health Agency and the vital role of the Air Force Medical Command in supporting the missions of both the Air Force and Space Force. With insights into leadership, technology integration, and future healthcare, this episode offers a comprehensive view of the dedication to health and readiness for airmen, guardians, and their families. Chapter Timestamps 00:04 Military Medicine Journey 14:55 Medical Challenges and Innovations in Afghanistan 20:59 Air Force Medical Command Transition 29:25 Healthcare Leadership and Strategic Planning 40:13 Leadership, Technology, and Future Healthcare   Chapter Summaries: (00:04) Military Medicine Journey     Dr. DeGoes shares his journey into military medicine, discussing leadership, strategic planning, and memorable clinical cases. (14:55) Medical Challenges and Innovations in Afghanistan    Air Force Medicine faced challenges and innovations during troop deployment, pandemics, and advancements in trauma care. (20:59) Air Force Medical Command Transition     Evolution of military medical operations, critical care advancements, Air Force Medical Command's role in supporting missions. (29:25) Healthcare Leadership and Strategic Planning      Managing military healthcare delivery, emphasizing leadership and strategic planning, and enhancing resilience and support for combat wings. (40:13) Leadership, Technology, and Future Healthcare     Leadership lessons, new technologies, and collaboration in Air Force medicine for the health and readiness of airmen and guardians.   Take Home Messages: Serendipitous Beginnings and Unique Opportunities: The journey into military medicine often starts unexpectedly, leading to unique experiences that differ significantly from civilian medical practice. The path can be shaped by unforeseen encounters and opportunities, such as exposure to complex cases and diverse medical challenges often found in military settings. Innovations in Military Medicine: Military medical services have seen transformative changes over the years, especially in response to significant events and crises. Innovations such as aeromedical evacuation and the introduction of trauma care protocols have significantly enhanced the efficiency and effectiveness of military medical operations. Strategic Challenges and Adaptability: Adapting to evolving challenges is crucial in military medicine. The strategic deployment of medical resources and the development of innovative solutions to logistical hurdles, such as those faced during troop deployments and global pandemics, are essential for maintaining operational readiness. Leadership and Communication: Effective leadership in military healthcare relies on humility, approachability, and credibility. Leaders must communicate complex medical data in operationally relevant ways to ensure alignment with mission goals and to foster trust and collaboration within the organization. The Future of Military Healthcare: As technology rapidly evolves, integrating new tools and systems is key to advancing military medicine. 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Father Nigel Mumford has had 2 most unusual and profound NDEs! The first happened while serving in the Royal Marines as a Green Beret. During a scuba diving outing he was saved from drowning, but not before seeing a tunnel, traveling, then seeing a slideshow of his life. In addition to a life review during his near death experience, Nigel saw many other 'good' things, nothing bad. He felt no guilt. Nigel's second NDE happened years later when he contracted swine flu or H1N1 virus. He fell deathly ill, couldn't breath, spent 3 weeks in a coma and 3 months in the ICU. While unconscious, he had a near death experience in which he literally felt his spirit leave his body and go out through the ceiling of the hospital. He saw a blade of grass, granite steps, 3 white tulips, mansions, and even his house which was made of glass. Ultimately, he saw Jesus on the cross. This NDE episode dives into spiritual insights and asks a barrage of questions. _______________ Video versions of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@roundtripdeathRoundTripDeath.comhttps://www.fathernigel.com/Donate to this podcast @ https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/

China is experiencing a relatively high rate of influenza, though it is lower than the same period last year and is expected to decrease, according to the National Health Commission on Sunday. Vaccines and treatments remain effective, the commission added.1月12日，国家卫生健康委表示，中国近期处于流感相对高发期，但相较于去年同期已有所下降，且预计将继续降低。卫健委还补充说，疫苗和治疗对当前流感仍然有效。"The main cause of the recent increase in acute respiratory infection visits to medical institutions is influenza, as shown by monitoring results," said Wang Liping, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, during a news conference held by the health commission.国家卫生健康委新闻发布会上，中国疾控中心研究员王丽萍表示：“监测结果显示，流感是近期医疗机构急性呼吸道感染患者就诊量上升的主要原因。”"With the imminent closure of primary and middle schools (for the upcoming holiday), influenza activity is expected to decline in the middle and latter part of the month," Wang said.王丽萍说：“随着各地中小学（因即将到来的假期）临近停课，预计本月中下旬流感活动水平将有所下降。”Although various respiratory infections alternate or overlap in prevalence, all the current pathogens are known, including human metapneumovirus, which has existed for decades. No new infectious diseases have been identified, the researcher added.尽管当前呈现多种呼吸道传染病交替或叠加流行态势，但均是已知病原体，包括已存在数十年的人偏肺病毒。研究员还补充道，未出现新发传染病。The current dominant strain of influenza is the H1N1 subtype. Antigenic analysis of this strain indicates a good match with this year's influenza vaccine, confirming the effectiveness of vaccination, according to Wang.当前流行的优势株是甲型H1N1亚型。王丽萍表示，对该毒株的抗原性分析显示其与今年流感疫苗株匹配度良好，表明疫苗接种有效。Wang recommended that everyone over 6 months old without vaccine contraindications, such as allergies to vaccine components, receive an annual flu vaccine. For those who have not yet received this year's flu shot, it remains beneficial to get it. The vaccine provides protection throughout the flu season, reduces the risk of infection, lessens the severity of illness if infected and decreases the likelihood of complications.王丽萍建议，所有6月龄以上的人群，没有疫苗接种禁忌（如对疫苗成分过敏），应每年接种流感疫苗。对于今年尚未接种流感疫苗的人来说，现在接种仍然有益。疫苗在整个流感季都具有保护作用，降低感染流感病毒的风险，减轻感染发病后症状的严重程度，减少并发症的发生。Current analyses show that the prevalent influenza virus is sensitive to antiviral medications, indicating that drug treatments are effective.当前分析显示，目前流行的流感病毒对抗病毒药物敏感，表明药物治疗有效。Most people typically recover from influenza within one to two weeks. However, individuals experiencing symptoms such as high fever, severe cough, difficulty breathing, altered mental state or severe vomiting and diarrhea should seek immediate medical attention, Wang emphasized.大多数流感患者通常1到2周可以康复。然而，王丽萍强调，如果出现高热、剧烈咳嗽、呼吸困难、神志改变、严重呕吐和腹泻等症状应立即就医。Xu Baoping, chief physician at Beijing Children's Hospital, advised that children with a fever but who are otherwise in good spirits and eating and sleeping normally can be observed and treated at home. However, if high fever persists along with lethargy, rapid or labored breathing, severe vomiting or convulsions, parents should consult a doctor promptly.北京儿童医院主任医师徐保平建议，如果儿童发热但精神状态良好，进食和睡眠正常，可以在家中观察和治疗。然而，如果儿童出现高热不退，并伴有嗜睡、呼吸急促或困难、严重呕吐或抽搐，家长应立即带其就医。With the upcoming 2025 Spring Festival travel rush and expected gatherings, travelers should prepare masks, disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizers, Wang said. Elderly individuals and those with chronic illnesses are encouraged to get vaccinated against COVID-19, influenza and pneumococcal disease.王丽萍表示，随着2025年春节出行高峰的临近以及聚集性活动的增多，旅客应备好口罩、消毒湿巾、免洗手消毒液。建议老年人、慢性病患者积极接种新冠、流感、肺炎球菌疫苗。During travel, wear masks correctly, avoid touching your face and sanitize your hands after touching public facilities. Upon arrival, change clothes and wash your hands and face immediately. If respiratory symptoms develop, stay home and avoid group activities, Wang advised.王丽萍建议，旅途中，应正确佩戴口罩，避免用手触摸面部，接触公共设施后要消毒双手；抵达目的地后，应立即更换衣物并洗手、清洗面部。如果出现呼吸道感染症状，应居家休息，避免参加聚集性活动。respiratoryadj.呼吸的alternatev.轮流，交替lethargyn.没精打采，懒散

Send us a textDr. Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD is a board-certified infectious diseases physician who is the Founding Director of BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases ( https://www.bu.edu/ceid/about-the-center/team/nahid-bhadelia-md-mald/ ) as well an Associate Professor at the BU School of Medicine. She served the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID-19 Response for the White House COVID-19 Response Team in 2022-2023, where she coordinated the interagency programs for global COVID-19 vaccine donations from the United States and was the policy lead for Project NextGen, $5B HHS program aimed at developing next generation vaccines and treatments for pandemic prone coronaviruses. She also served as the interim Testing Coordinator for the White House MPOX Response Team. She is the Director and co-founder of Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON), an open source outbreak surveillance program. Between 2011-2021, Dr. Bhadelia helped develop and then served as the medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit (SPU) at Boston Medical Center, a medical unit designed to care for patients with highly communicable diseases, and a state designated Ebola Treatment Center. She was previously an associate director for BU's maximum containment research program, the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. She has provided direct patient care and been part of outbreak response and medical countermeasures research during multiple Ebola virus disease outbreaks in West and East Africa between 2014-2019. She was the clinical lead for a DoD-funded viral hemorrhagic fever clinical research unit in Uganda, entitled Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Intervention Clinical Capability (JMEDICC) program between 2017 and 2022. Currently, she is a co-director of Fogarty funded, BU-University of Liberia Emerging and Epidemic Viruses Research training program. She was a member of the World Health Organization(WHO)'s Technical Advisory Group on Universal Health and Preparedness Review (UHPR).  She currently serves as a member of the National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and previously served as the chair of the National Academies Workshop Committee for Potential Research Priorities to Inform Readiness and Response to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) and member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Current State of Research, Development, and Stockpiling of Smallpox Medical Countermeasures.Dr. Bhadelia's research focuses on operational global health security and pandemic preparedness, including medical countermeasure evaluation and clinical care for emerging infections, diagnostics evaluation and positioning, infection control policy development, and healthcare worker training. She has health system response experience with pathogens such as H1N1, Zika, Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease, and COVID-19 at the state, national, and global levels. #NahidBhadelia #BostonUniversity #CenterOnEmergingInfectiousDiseases #HIV #EmergingInfections #Policy #Preparedness #HealthSecurity #SpecialPathogensUnit #BSL4 #Ebola #HotZones #DataScience #DiseaseSurveillance #OneHealth #H1N1 #Zika #LassaFever #MarburgVirus #Covid #InfectiousDiseases #Outbreaks #Zoonoses #Epidemics #Pandemics #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #ViralPodcast #STEM #Innovation #Technology #Science #ResearchSupport the show

En entrevista para MVS Noticias con Manuel López San Martín, el Dr. Alejandro Macías, infectólogo y excomisionado nacional para el control de la influenza H1N1 en 2009, aclaró que el metapneumovirus humano (HMPV), no es una antesala de una nueva pandemia, destacando que este virus “ha existido durante siglos”. ¿Qué es el virus HMPV? Aclaró que el virus en cuestión (metapneumovirus) no es nuevo, sino que ha existido durante siglos. Explicó que es una infección vírica del aparato respiratorio común, que puede complicarse en grupos de riesgo. “Es un virus catarral generalmente, ahora como cualquier virus se puede complicar en personas demasiado jóvenes, menos de cinco, mayores de 60 años, gente crónica (…) No es un virus nuevo, es una tempestad en un vaso de agua”; explicó.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

更多卡卡老师分享公众号：卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信：kakayingyu001送你一份卡卡老师学习大礼包，帮助你在英文学习路上少走弯路 最近很多地方都进入了流感高发季节,目前的流感绝大多为甲流。甲流有很多症状，比如发烧等。如何用英文描述这些症状呢？今天卡卡老师分享超实用的描述甲流症状的英文。1. I'm experiencing chills even though I'm covered in thick blankets.即使盖着厚毯子，我还是觉得发冷。2. I'm so fatigued that I can barely get out of bed.我疲惫不堪，几乎都下不了床。3. I've got a high fever.我发高烧了。4. I've been vomiting and having diarrhea since last night.从昨晚开始我就一直呕吐、腹泻。5. My head is pounding and I feel dizzy.我的头剧痛，还感觉头晕。6. I'm feeling feverish and my body aches all over.我感觉发烧了，浑身酸痛。7. I have a stuffy nose and can't breathe properly.我鼻塞，呼吸不畅。8. I feel like I'm burning up. I need to take my temperature.我感觉自己像在发烧。我得量量体温。9. The hospital is filled with patients suffering from H1N1 flu.医院里满是甲流患者。10. Wearing a mask can help reduce the risk of getting infected with H1N1 flu.戴口罩有助于降低感染甲流的风险。

Michael Monks joins Wayne Resnick who is filling in for Bill all week for Handel on the News. Human bird flu case confirmed in Los Angeles County. High surf warnings and advisories in effect along the coast, from Ventura County to Los Angeles County. Part of Santa Cruz Wharf in California collapses in high surf. House Ethics Report: Matt Gaetz files unsuccessful last-ditch lawsuit to stop release. Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder and weapons charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO's death.

In the final AMA Update episode of 2024, American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger looks back on another year of stories about the work that physicians are doing across the country and how the AMA is fighting to support them.

The Flu Vaccine: Science at its Worst   Richard Gale and Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, December 20, 2024   Joshua Hadfield was a normal, healthy developing child as a toddler. In the midst of the H1N1 swine flu frenzy and the media fear mongering about the horrible consequences children face if left unvaccinated, the Hadfield family had Joshua vaccinated with Glaxo's Pandermrix influenza vaccine.  Within weeks, Joshua could barely wake up, sleeping up to nineteen hours a day. Laughter would trigger seizures. Joshua was diagnosed with narcolepsy, “an incurable, debilitating condition” associated with acute brain damage.[1]  Looking back, Pandermrix was a horrible vaccine.  Research indicates that it was associated with a 1400% increase in narcolepsy risk. A medical team at Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare recorded 800 cases of narcolepsy associated with this vaccine.  Aside from the engineered viral antigens, the other vaccine ingredients are most often found to be the primary culprits to adverse vaccine reactions. The Finnish research, on the other hand, indicated that the vaccine's altered viral nucleotide likely contributed to the sudden rise in sleeping sickness.[2] Although Pandermrix was pulled from the market for its association with narcolepsy and cataplexy (sudden muscle weakness), particularly in children, it should never have been approved and released in the first place.  The regulatory fast tracking of the HINI flu vaccines is a classic, and now common, example of regulatory negligence by nations' health officials. The failure of proper regulatory evaluation and oversight resulted in Joshua and over 1,000 other people becoming disabled for life. Settlements to cover lawsuits exceeded 63 million pounds in the UK alone.  No one should feel complacent and assume flu vaccine risks only affect young children. Sarah Behie was 20 years old after receiving a flu shot.  Three weeks later her health deteriorated dramatically. Diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a not uncommon adverse effect of influenza vaccination, four years later Sarah remains paralyzed from the waist down, incapable of dressing and feeding herself, and rotting away in hospitals and nursing homes.[3]  Flu vaccines are perhaps the most ineffective vaccine on the market.  Repeatedly we are told by health officials that the moral argument for its continued use is for “the greater good,” although this imaginary good has never been defined scientifically. Year to year, how effective any given seasonal flu vaccine will be is a throw of the dice. Annual flu vaccine efficacy rates in the US have demonstrated significant variability. Data from the CDC reveal efficacy estimates of approximately 39% for the 2020–2021 season, 37% for 2021–2022, 52% for 2022–2023, and a preliminary estimate of 50% for the 2023–2024 season.  Preliminary CDC estimates for this flu season estimates 34% likely efficacy. Although these are CDC's figures, independent figures are consistently much lower. At their best, flu vaccines in recent years are around 50% effective according to official health analysis. During some seasons, vaccine efficacy is a bust. For example, the 2014-2015 flu season strain match was such a failure that the CDC warned the American public that the vaccine was only 23% effective.[4]  Nevertheless, these rates underscore the vaccine's inconsistent protection. Studies such as those by Skowronski and Belongia further highlight flu vaccines' variability and force to question whether the vaccine is capable of providing any reliable protection.[5,6] Moreover, Cochrane Collaboration reviews, known for their rigorous analyses, consistently find that flu vaccines reduce influenza-like illness by only about 1% in healthy adults and have negligible impact on hospitalizations and mortality rates. This limited efficacy raises critical concerns about the vaccine's utility, particularly when weighed against its risks.  Perhaps the most useless flu vaccine that should have never been approved was Medimmune's live attenuated flu vaccine (LAIV) FluMist, which the CDC later had removed from the market because it was found to so ineffective—only 3 percent according to an NBC report.[6] However the real reason may be more dire, and this a fundamental problem of all live and attenuated vaccines: these vaccines have been shown to “shed” and infect people in contact with the vaccinated persons, especially those with compromised immune systems.  Consequently, both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated are at risk.  The CDC acknowledges this risk and warns “Persons who care for severely immunosuppressed persons who require a protective environment should not receive LAIV, or should avoid contact with such persons for 7 days after receipt, given the theoretical risk for transmission of the live attenuated vaccine virus.”[7]  According to the FDA's literature on FluMist, the vaccine was not studied for immunocompromised individuals (yet was still administered to them), and has been associated with acute allergic reactions, asthma, Guillain-Barre, and a high rate of hospitalizations among children under 24 months – largely due to upper respiratory tract infections.  Other adverse effects include pericarditis, congenital and genetic disorders, mitochondrial encephalomyopathy or Leigh Syndrome, meningitis, and others.[8]  The development and promotion of the influenza vaccine was never completely about protecting the public. It has been the least popular vaccine in the US, including among healthcare workers. Rather, similar to the mumps vaccine in the MMR, it has been the cash cow for vaccine makers.  Determining the actual severity of any given flu season is burdened by federal intentional confusion to mislead the public.  The CDC's first line of propaganda defense to enforce flu vaccinations is to exaggerate flu infections as the cause of preventable deaths.   However, validating this claim is near impossible because the CDC does not differentiate deaths caused by influenza infection and deaths due to pneumonia.  On its website, the CDC lumps flu and pneumonia deaths together, currently estimated at 51,000 per year. The large majority of these were pneumonia deaths of elderly patients. Yet in any given year, only 3-18% of suspected influenza infections actually test positive for a Type A or B influenza strain.[9]  As an aside, it is worth noting that during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary and unprecedented phenomenon occurred: influenza infections, which have long been a seasonal health challenge, seemingly disappeared. Federal health agencies such as the CDC attributed this sharp decline in flu cases to the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like mask-wearing, social distancing, and widespread lockdowns. However, this explanation raises critical questions about its plausibility. If these measures were effective enough to virtually eliminate influenza, why did they not similarly prevent the widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2? This contradiction highlights the need to critically examine the possible explanations behind the anomaly, questioning whether the disappearance of the flu was truly a result of public health measures or due to other factors such as diagnostic practices, viral interference, and disruptions to seasonal flu patterns. If these interventions were indeed effective, their impact should not have been so starkly selective between two similarly transmitted viruses. This contradiction undermines the plausibility of attributing the disappearance of flu cases solely to NPIs. A more plausible explanation for the disappearance of flu cases lies in the diagnostic focus on SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic. Individuals presenting with flu-like symptoms were overwhelmingly diagnosed for COVID-19 with faulty PCR testing methods rather than influenza, as public health resources were directed toward managing the pandemic. This prioritization inevitably led to a significant underreporting of flu cases. Furthermore, the symptoms of influenza and COVID-19 overlap significantly, including fever, cough, and fatigue. In the absence of influenza testing, many flu cases were wrongly diagnosed as COVID-19, further inflating SARS-CoV-2 case numbers while contributing to the perceived disappearance of the flu.  One of the more controversial findings in recent flu vaccine research involves the phenomenon of viral interference, wherein vaccinated individuals may become more susceptible to other respiratory pathogens. To date there is only one gold standard clinical trial with the flu vaccine that compares vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, and it is not good news for the CDC, the vaccine makers, and the push to booster everyone with the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. This Hong Kong funded double-blind placebo controlled study followed the health conditions of vaccinated and unvaccinated children between the ages of 6-15 years for 272 days. The trial concluded the flu vaccine holds no health benefits. In fact, those vaccinated with the flu virus were observed to have a 550% higher risk of contracting non-flu virus respiratory infections. Among the vaccinated children, there were 116 flu cases compared to 88 among the unvaccinated; there were 487 other non-influenza virus infections, including coronavirus, rhinovirus, coxsackie, and others, among the vaccinated versus 88 with the unvaccinated.[10]  This single study alone poses a scientifically sound warning and rationale to avoid flu vaccines at all costs. It raises a further question: how many Covid-19 cases could be directly attributed to weakened immune systems because of prior flu vaccination? A 2019 study conducted by the US Armed Forces investigated the relationship between influenza vaccination and susceptibility to other respiratory infections, including coronaviruses. Analyzing data from over 9,000 individuals, the researchers found that people who received the flu vaccine were more likely to test positive for certain non-influenza respiratory viruses. Notably, influenza vaccination was associated with an increased likelihood of contracting coronaviruses and human metapneumovirus.[11] These findings suggest a complex interaction between influenza vaccination and susceptibility to different respiratory pathogens, and challenges the belief that flu vaccines provide greater benefits over risks. The same researchers' follow up study in in 2020 furthermore concluded that “vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus and human metapneumovirus.[12] Additional recent studies, such as those by Bodewes, which identified immune interference due to repeated annual flu vaccinations,[13] and Shinjoh, which highlighted increased viral interference in vaccinated children, provide further evidence of this relationship.[14] These findings challenge the prevailing assumption that flu vaccination has only positive effects on immune health and raise important questions about the broader implications of repeated annual vaccination. In a follow up study after the H1N1 swine flu scare, Canadian researcher Dr. Danuta Skowronski noted that individuals with a history of receiving consecutive seasonal flu shots over several years had an increased risk of becoming infected with H1N1 swine flu.  Skowronski commented on the findings, “policy makers have not yet had a chance to fully digest them [the study's conclusions] or understand the implications.”  He continued, “Who knows, frankly? The wise man knows he knows nothing when it comes to influenza, so you always have to be cautious in speculating.”[15] There is strong evidence suggesting that all vaccine clinical trials carried out by manufacturers fall short of demonstrating vaccine efficacy accurately. And when they are shown to be efficacious, it is frequently in the short term and offer only partial or temporary protection. According to an article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Infectious Diseases, the only way to evaluate vaccines is to scrutinize the epidemiological data obtained from real-life conditions. In other words, researchers simply cannot -- or will not -- adequately test a vaccine's effectiveness and immunogenicity prior to its release onto an unsuspecting public.[16] According to Dr. Tom Jefferson, who formerly led the Cochrane Collaboration's vaccine analyses, it makes little sense to keep vaccinating against seasonal influenza based on the evidence.[17] Jefferson has also endorsed more cost-effective and scientifically-proven means of minimizing the transmission of flu, including regular hand washing and wearing masks. There is also substantial peer-reviewed literature supporting the supplementation of Vitamin D.  Dr. Jefferson's conclusions are backed by former Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine scientist Peter Doshi, PhD, in the British Journal of Medicine. In his article Doshi questions the flu vaccine paradigm stating:  “Closer examination of influenza vaccine policies shows that although proponents employ the rhetoric of science, the studies underlying the policy are often of low quality, and do not substantiate officials' claims. The vaccine might be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza appears overstated.”[18]         A significant body of research proves that receiving the flu shot does not reduce mortality among seniors.[19] One particularly compelling study was carried out by scientists at the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Not only did the study indicate that the flu vaccine did nothing to prevent deaths from influenza among seniors, but that flu mortality rates increased as a greater percentage of seniors received the shot.[20] Dr. Sherri Tenpenny reviewed the Cochrane Database reviews on the flu vaccine's efficacy. In a review of 51 studies involving over 294,000 children, there was “no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than placebo. In children over 2 years of age, flu vaccine effectiveness was 33 percent of the time preventing flu. In children with asthma, inactivated flu vaccines did not prevent influenza related hospitalizations in children. The database shows that children who received the flu vaccine were at a higher risk of hospitalization than children who did not receive the vaccine.[21]  In a separate study involving 400 asthmatic children receiving a flu vaccine and 400 who were not immunized, there was no difference in the number of clinic and emergency room visits and hospitalizations between the two groups.[22]  In 64 studies involving 66,000 adults, “Vaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6 percent and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day. There was a change in the number of hospitalizations compared to the non-vaccinated. In further studies of elderly adults residing in nursing homes over the course of several flu seasons, flu vaccinations were insignificant for preventing infection.[23] Today, the most extreme wing of the pro-vaccine community continue to diligently pursue mandatory vaccination across all 50 states.  During the flu season, the debate over mandatory vaccination becomes most heated as medical facilities and government departments attempt to threaten employees and schools who refuse vaccination. Although this is deeply worrisome to those who advocate their Constitutional rights to freedom of choice in their healthcare, there are respectable groups opposing mandatory flu shots.  The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons “objects strenuously to any coercion of healthcare personnel to receive influenza immunization. It is a fundamental human right not to be subjected to medical interventions without fully informed consent.”  The good news is that the majority of Americans have lost confidence in the CDC after the agency's dismal handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Positive endorsement of the CDC would plummet further if the public knew the full extent of CDC officials lying to Congress and their conspiracy to commit medical fraud for two decades to cover=up evidence of an autism-vaccine association.  When considering the totality of evidence, the benefit-risk ratio of flu vaccination becomes increasingly problematic. The poor and inconsistent efficacy rates, combined with the potential for serious adverse reactions and the phenomenon of viral interference, clearly indicates that the vaccine does not deliver the public health benefits it promises. Public health strategies must balance the benefits of vaccination against its risks, particularly for vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women.  Imagine the tens of thousands of children and families who would have been saved from life-long neurological damage and immeasurable suffering if the CDC was not indebted to protecting the pharmaceutical industry's toxic products and was in fact serving Americans' health and well-being? One step that can be taken to begin dismantling the marriage between the federal health agencies and drug companies is to simply refuse the flu vaccine and protect ourselves by adopting a healthier lifestyle during the flu season.    NOTES [1] http://yournewswire.com/boy-awarded-174000-after-flu-vaccine-causes-permanent-brain-damage/  [2]  http://www.globalresearch.ca/finnish-scientists-identify-link-between-glaxosmithklines-swine-flu-vaccine-pandemrix-and-narcolepsy/5423154 [3] http://sharylattkisson.com/woman-paralyzed-after-flu-shot-receives-11-million-for-treatment/ [4]  http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/3/flu-vaccine-ineffective.html  [5]Skowronski DM, Leir S, et al. Influenza vaccine effectiveness by A (H3N2) phylogenetic subcluster and prior vaccination history: 2016–2017 and 2017–2018 epidemics in Canada. J Infectious Diseases, 2021; 225(8), 1387–1397. [6] Belongia EA, Skowronski DM, et al. Repeated annual influenza vaccination and vaccine effectiveness: review of evidence. Expert Review of Vaccines, 2023; 16(7), 743–759. [7]  Barbara Lo Fisher, The Emerging Risks of Live Virus and Virus Vectored Vaccines.  National Vaccine Information Center, 2014  [8]  http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM294307.pdf  [9] Barbara Lo Fisher, “CDC Admits Flu Shots Fail Half the Time.”  NVIC, October 19, 2016 [10] http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/2013-06-02/flu-vax-causes-5-5-times-more-respiratory-infections/  [11] Wolff GG. Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017–2018 influenza season. Vaccine. 2019 Oct 10;38(2):350–354.   [12] Wolff GG. (2020). 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"Influenza: Marketing Vaccine by Marketing Disease." BMJ 2013;346: F3037.  [19] Simonsen L, Reichert T, et al. . Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population. Arch Intern Med Archives 2005;165(3): 265.  [20] Glezen WP, Simonsen L. Commentary: Benefits of Influenza Vaccine in US Elderly--new Studies Raise Questions. Internat J Epidemiology2006;35(2): 352-53. [21] 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Sociey, May 15-20, 2009 (quoted in , Sherri Tenpenny.  “The Truth about Flu Shots”.  Idaho Observer, June 1, 2009)  [22] ibid  [23] Ibid.

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Dr. Sam Lee, Co-CEO of Cocrystal Pharma, is an expert in developing small-molecule antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19, Norovirus, influenza, avian flu, West Nile virus, Dengue, Zika, and other RNA viruses. Cocrystal uses its structure-based drug discovery platform to identify promising drug targets for potent broad-spectrum oral and inhaled antiviral therapeutics. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for vaccines and effective therapeutics to respond to viral outbreaks and prevent further transmission. Sam elaborates, "Before we talk about avian flu, let's just step back up about the strains. Influenza, as you know, includes influenza A strains, influenza B, and the C. But the public health point of view is the influenza A strains are important. These cause the pandemic flu, as well as the seasonal flu. Influenza B is roughly less than 20% of flu patients that have this influenza B. It's seasonal. It doesn't cause a pandemic influenza infection." "So we're talking about avian flu. Avian flu is mostly an influenza A strain. So, it's often classified as H5N1 or H7N9, depending on the antigen. So, why is it so important? We know this year that people isolate the avian H5N1 from cow and cow milk and humans. Avian flu is normally avian influenza that stays with the birds, the wild birds. What we see here is already past the host barrier. So instead of staying with avian, the birds, or domestic animals, now it's passed to a human. So it's a serious issue that the avian flu, H5N1, actually we see here, not only cow and farm workers are infected with it. That's a really serious concern." "We believe we have a pretty good understanding. If you look at the 1918 Spanish flu, that was actually classified as an H1N1, but several years ago, with a beautiful molecular analysis, people completed the sequencing analysis with the patient sample from 1918 Spanish flu victims. They isolated the gene. They showed that even those with H1N1 contained the avian flu sequence." #CocrystalPharma #AvianFlu #Influenza #WestNileVirus #AntiviralTherapeutics #RNAViruses #COVID19 CocrystalPharma.com Download the transcript here

Dr. Sam Lee, Co-CEO of Cocrystal Pharma, is an expert in developing small-molecule antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19, Norovirus, influenza, avian flu, West Nile virus, Dengue, Zika, and other RNA viruses. Cocrystal uses its structure-based drug discovery platform to identify promising drug targets for potent broad-spectrum oral and inhaled antiviral therapeutics. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for vaccines and effective therapeutics to respond to viral outbreaks and prevent further transmission. Sam elaborates, "Before we talk about avian flu, let's just step back up about the strains. Influenza, as you know, includes influenza A strains, influenza B, and the C. But the public health point of view is the influenza A strains are important. These cause the pandemic flu, as well as the seasonal flu. Influenza B is roughly less than 20% of flu patients that have this influenza B. It's seasonal. It doesn't cause a pandemic influenza infection." "So we're talking about avian flu. Avian flu is mostly an influenza A strain. So, it's often classified as H5N1 or H7N9, depending on the antigen. So, why is it so important? We know this year that people isolate the avian H5N1 from cow and cow milk and humans. Avian flu is normally avian influenza that stays with the birds, the wild birds. What we see here is already past the host barrier. So instead of staying with avian, the birds, or domestic animals, now it's passed to a human. So it's a serious issue that the avian flu, H5N1, actually we see here, not only cow and farm workers are infected with it. That's a really serious concern." "We believe we have a pretty good understanding. If you look at the 1918 Spanish flu, that was actually classified as an H1N1, but several years ago, with a beautiful molecular analysis, people completed the sequencing analysis with the patient sample from 1918 Spanish flu victims. They isolated the gene. They showed that even those with H1N1 contained the avian flu sequence." #CocrystalPharma #AvianFlu #Influenza #WestNileVirus #AntiviralTherapeutics #RNAViruses #COVID19 CocrystalPharma.com Listen to the podcast here

The industry has managed different strains of influenza for a long time, specifically H3N2 and H1N1. Influenza A (H5N1) is not in the U.S. swine herd, although it has been recently detected in livestock and humans.  Dr. Heather Fowler, director of producer and public health at the National Pork Board, talks about symptoms to watch for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

YouTube Description:In this inspiring episode, we introduce Dr. Carla Little, a remarkable scientist and public health leader who has dedicated her career to safeguarding the people of Illinois. With a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Purdue University, Dr. Little has been at the forefront of public health preparedness, ensuring that Illinois is ready to respond to any health crisis. As the inaugural chair of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Countermeasures Committee and a key figure in the H1N1 response, her work has protected countless lives.In addition to her professional achievements, Dr. Little is deeply committed to empowering the next generation of women in STEM through her involvement in educational programs and as a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Learn more about her incredible journey, her impact on public health, and the importance of diversity in STEM and emergency preparedness. Timestamps: - Introduction to Dr. Carla Little, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology - Dr. Little's Role in Public Health Preparedness and Countermeasures - Her Leadership in the H1N1 Response and Contributions to Illinois - Dr. Little's Commitment to STEM Education and Community Engagement - Overview of the African Diaspora Association of Public Health Professionals - The Importance of Local Preparedness and Community Education - Challenges and Opportunities for Veterans in Public Health - The Role of Education in Public Health and Emergency Management - Reeducating Ourselves on Historical Contributions to Science and Public Health - Closing Remarks and Dr. Little's Lifelong Commitment to Public Service Keywords: Dr. Carla Little, Public Health Preparedness, Molecular Biology, STEM Education, Illinois Department of Public Health, H1N1 Response, Emergency Management, African Diaspora, Public Health Professionals, Diversity in STEM, Delta Sigma Theta.

There once was a time when indoor smoking was allowed in workplaces all across the United States, when trans fats were ubiquitous, and when fast food restaurants didn't have to post calorie information on their menus. That wasn't so long ago, and it's in large part thanks to the pioneering efforts of Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, Health Commissioner of New York City from 2002 to 2009, that these changes were made. Dr. Frieden's city-wide initiatives during this time included steps to reduce tobacco use (by banning indoor smoking, increasing tobacco taxes, and aggressive anti-tobacco ads), to ban trans fats and mandate proper nutrition labeling in restaurants, and to rapidly expand screening for diabetes and HIV. All of these efforts have since been adopted nationwide and have gained practically universal acceptance by the public. Prior to this, Dr. Frieden spearheaded tuberculosis control measures in New York City and India, drastically slashing rates of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. He was also director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during which time he led the CDC's response against the H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the Zika virus epidemic. Most recently, he leads Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative aiming to prevent cardiovascular disease primarily through advocacy of lifestyle interventions. Over the course of our conversation, Dr. Frieden shares his personal path to a career in infectious disease and public health, lessons learned from his work on tuberculosis control, striking the balance between curbing personal liberties and protecting community health, key insights into effective public health communication particularly when dealing with incomplete information or data, the evolution of the political and partisan nature of health policy, why preventing heart disease is so critical, and more.In this episode, you'll hear about: 3:00 - How a conversation with his father drew Dr. Frieden to a career in public health5:40 - Dr. Frieden's early work tackling tuberculous as a “management problem”9:05 - Balancing individual rights with the health of the public17:55 - The formula Dr. Frieden has used to choose which particular public health issues to focus on 28:08 - Strategies for effective health communication with the public33:08 - The mission of Dr. Frieden's organization Resolve to Save Lives39:16 - Dr. Frieden's thoughts on how to navigate public health communications in the light of changing scientific knowledge45:50 - The important lessons that Dr. Frieden learned from his patients about public health during his time as a clinician Dr. Tom Frieden is the President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. Dr. Frieden can be found on Twitter/X at @DrTomFrieden. People and Work discussed in this episode: Dr. Karel Styblo Dr. Nancy Messenior's February 2020 COVID addressVisit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2024

Alguns destaques do Jornal da Manhã dessa segunda-feira (22): Joe Biden desiste de candidatura à reeleição nos Estados Unidos. O presidente anunciou a decisão ontem, após semanas de pressão, e declarou apoio a Kamala Harris como candidata à presidência pelos Democratas. Kamala Harris elogia Joe Biden por ato altruísta e patriótico e diz que a intenção é ganhar a nomeação do partido. A vice-presidente também recebeu apoio da bancada negra e de lideranças como o casal Clinton e alguns governadores, mas Barack Obama e Nancy Pelosi ainda não se posicionaram. Donald Trump diz que Joe Biden não estava apto para disputar a presidência e nem para servir. O candidato republicano se manifestou sobre a desistência do democrata em mensagem na internet, afirmando que irá remediar o dano causado por ele aos americanos rapidamente. Aqui no Brasil, assessores de Lula e políticos elogiam desistência de Joe Biden. Nas redes, os ministros Paulo Teixeira, do Desenvolvimento Agrário, e Simone Tebet, do Planejamento, e o líder do governo na Câmara, José Guimarães, destacaram a grandeza do ato. Silvio Santos recebe alta em São Paulo, após tratamento para a H1N1. O apresentador, de 93 anos, estava internado desde a terça-feira no Albert Einstein. Passou por uma série de exames antes de voltar para casa ontem. Servidores da Abin acusam o governo Lula de desmonte e ameaçam com paralisação. Israel afirma ter abatido míssil disparado a partir do Iêmen. Estudo na NASA aponta o Brasil como um dos cinco lugares do mundo que pode se tornar inabitável em 50 anos. Cientistas usaram imagens de satélite para analisar a atual onda de calor e destacar áreas do planeta em que a temperatura pode tornar a sobrevivência humana impossível. Opositores pedem união aos venezuelanos há uma semana da eleição presidencial no país. Essas notícias e muito mais você confere nessa edição do Jornal da Manhã.

Alguns destaques do Jornal da Manhã dessa quinta-feira (18): Alexandre Ramagem presta quase 7 horas de depoimento à Polícia Federal sobre a Abin Paralela. A corporação investiga o suposto uso da estrutura da agência para monitorar autoridades, jornalistas e desafetos políticos de Jair Bolsonaro na época em que o deputado era diretor da agência. Ministério Público e Advocacia Geral da União sugerem suspender acordos firmados na crise hídrica, o que inclui empresas dos irmãos Batista. Após falas controversas, Lula lê discurso em evento e reclama de frases tiradas de contexto. O presidente disse que parte da mídia usa declarações dele para criar intriga e evitou, a princípio, o improviso no encerramento da 5ª Conferência Nacional dos Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência. Silvio Santos é internado em São Paulo para tratamento de H1N1. O apresentador e dono do SBT de 93 anos passou a noite no Hospital Albert Einstein para receber medicações e, segundo familiares, está bem. Preço da gasolina se aproxima de R$ 6,00 após aumento da Petrobras. O combustível subiu 2,2% na semana passada e atingiu o R$ 5,97 por litro, o maior valor desde outubro de 2023, já descontada a inflação. Operação entra no 4º dia no Rio de Janeiro e avança para mais 4 comunidades da Zona Oeste, totalizando 14. Polícia do Rio apreende passaporte, mas motorista de BMW que atropelou e matou homem recém-casado segue foragido. Homem que morreu após ‘peeling' de fenol sofreu parada respiratória recorrente de edema pulmonar. Adam Schiff, influente congressista democrata, pede a Joe Biden que desista da candidatura. Pedido que ocorreu no mesmo dia em que o presidente americano se viu obrigado a cancelar eventos de campanha, após testar positivo para Covid-19. Israel amplia ataques em Gaza, após promessa de Benjamin Netanyahu de intensificar pressão sobre o Hamas.  Essas notícias e muito mais você confere nessa edição do Jornal da Manhã.

What is the cause of bird flu? How does bird flu spread to humans? Is bird flu contagious? What are the symptoms of avian flu in humans? Is milk safe to drink? Our guest is Jay Butler, MD, deputy director for infectious diseases at the CDC. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

How is bird flu transmitted? Is bird flu dangerous to humans? Are mushroom gummies safe? Why don't edibles list ingredients? What is the new AMA policy on public health? Our guest is AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Today Dr. Clayton Baker and I will discuss Avian Flu and the HYPED up fear porn driving the coverage around of this latest, gain of function cocktail cooked up for us by our own government.Also …

Dr. Paul Alexander Liberty Hour – The H5N1 avian bird flu 'pandemic' is another fraud, just like H1N1 and COVID. Using over-cycled PCR tests, they manufacture false positives to create fake pandemics. Respiratory viruses cannot truly cause pandemics due to their instability. This time, we must not be deceived by the hysteria. Trust critical thinking and be prepared to see through the lies propagated by authorities and health agencies.

Science writer Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug and Big Chicken, joins to discuss the feeble attempts to rein in antibiotic use in animal agriculture. As the World Health Organization and others blare out the warnings about a post antibiotic medical landscape, American livestock producers can't quite seem to fully wean their herds off prophylactic antibiotics. Incremental progress has been made over the last decade plus, but we are running out of time.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast.

Science writer Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug and Big Chicken, joins to discuss the feeble attempts to rein in antibiotic use in animal agriculture. As the World Health Organization and others blare out the warnings about a post antibiotic medical landscape, American livestock producers can't quite seem to fully wean their herds off prophylactic antibiotics. Incremental progress has been made over the last decade plus, but we are running out of time.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast.

On today's show, Todd McGreevy takes a post-COVID19 look back at 2009's outbreak of H1N1 (swine flu) in context of the current fearmongering over H5N1 (bird flu) in an election year. Later, Zach Vorhies shares the good news of how his recent in-person testimony at a hearing was successful in convincing the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs to unanimously vote in favor of authorizing subpoenas to big tech firms. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Todd McGreevy is Founder and Chief Editor of River Cities' Reader, an independent newspaper based in the Quad Cities area. His commentary and work reflect a diverse range of interests, from art and history to politics and media. You can follow him on X at @toddmcgreevy and visit his website at: rcreader.com GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Zach Vorhies is best-known for being a whistleblower who leaked documents from Google. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube/Google for over 8 years. In 2019, he disclosed over 950 pages of Google's internal documents to the Department of Justice and Project Veritas, highlighting Google's censorship mechanisms. These documents reportedly detailed Google's “Machine Learning Fairness” project and other censorship-related activities. He has since co-written a book about it titled, "Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship" (2021, Skyhorse Publishing). Zach has also been an outspoken critic of the official COVID-19 pandemic narrative. You can find him on X at @Perpetualmaniac and visit his website at: zachvorhies.com

Is bird flu spreading in US dairy cows? Is it safe to drink milk? Is COVID going around again? How dangerous is the new COVID variant? Is diarrhea a symptom of COVID? Our guest is AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's exercise in vanity has failed. The Biden administration moves to reclassify marijuana as less dangerous. Dr. Jim Keany, Co-Director of the Emergency Room at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about an AI tool that can detect cancer with a drop of blood, whether intermittent fasting is bad for your heart, and the bird flu going from milk to beef and whether we can get sick from it.

Jim Keany, Co-Director of the Emergency Room at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about an AI tool that can detect cancer with a drop of blood, whether intermittent fasting is bad for your heart, and the bird flu going from milk to beef and whether we can get sick from it.

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 2009. Show notes: In 2009, Phil had a newborn and was expecting another We had a global pandemic in '09 (H1N1 swine flu) Biggest selling album in the world was by Susan Boyle Black Eyed Peas had a big year U2 had an album out, but didn't make much of an impression on us Phil's non-top 5s: The Dead Weather, Son Volt, Wilco, Jason Isbell, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, A.C. Newman, Titus Andronicus, Deer Tick  To smarm or not to smarm To be continued Completely Conspicuous is available through Apple Podcasts. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

La semaine mondiale de la vaccination se tient du 22 au 28 avril, à l'initiative de l'OMS. Depuis sa découverte, fin du XVIIIème siècle à aujourd'hui, l'Histoire de la vaccination a été marquée par de nombreuses avancées, comme par de multiples polémiques. Avec la pandémie de Covid-19, les chercheurs ont réussi à mettre au point et à diffuser en un temps inédit un sérum basé sur l'innovation thérapeutique de l'ARN messager.Ces campagnes de vaccination anti-Covid ont donné lieu à une forte défiance qui, toutefois, n'était pas inédite : le lancement de la vaccination contre l'hépatite B et la grippe H1N1 avaient par exemple donné lieu en France, à des ratés en termes de communication et d'organisation. En dépit d'une visibilité grandissante des mouvements antivax, pourtant, le taux de vaccination mondial reste stable. Cependant, des disparités existent entre les pays du Nord et du Sud et des flambées infectieuses (coqueluche, rougeole) alertent régulièrement les autorités de santé. Gaëtan Thomas, historien des Sciences, membre du Cermes3 et du Médialab, enseignant à Sciences Po Paris et auteur de Vaccination, histoire d'un consentement, aux éditions du Seuil. Dr Mamady Traore, responsable du Pôle de réponses aux épidémies et référent vaccination pour Médecins Sans Frontières.► En début de l'émission, nous parlerons avec Bastien Morvan, directeur de cabinet de l'ARS Mayotte, de la réponse sanitaire mise en place à Mayotte après la découverte de cas autochtones de choléra.Programmation musicale :► Richard Bona – Il y avait quoi avant ► Major League DJz et Abidoza – Dinaledi.

La semaine mondiale de la vaccination se tient du 22 au 28 avril, à l'initiative de l'OMS. Depuis sa découverte, fin du XVIIIème siècle à aujourd'hui, l'Histoire de la vaccination a été marquée par de nombreuses avancées, comme par de multiples polémiques. Avec la pandémie de Covid-19, les chercheurs ont réussi à mettre au point et à diffuser en un temps inédit un sérum basé sur l'innovation thérapeutique de l'ARN messager.Ces campagnes de vaccination anti-Covid ont donné lieu à une forte défiance qui, toutefois, n'était pas inédite : le lancement de la vaccination contre l'hépatite B et la grippe H1N1 avaient par exemple donné lieu en France, à des ratés en termes de communication et d'organisation. En dépit d'une visibilité grandissante des mouvements antivax, pourtant, le taux de vaccination mondial reste stable. Cependant, des disparités existent entre les pays du Nord et du Sud et des flambées infectieuses (coqueluche, rougeole) alertent régulièrement les autorités de santé. Gaëtan Thomas, historien des Sciences, membre du Cermes3 et du Médialab, enseignant à Sciences Po Paris et auteur de Vaccination, histoire d'un consentement, aux éditions du Seuil. Dr Mamady Traore, responsable du Pôle de réponses aux épidémies et référent vaccination pour Médecins Sans Frontières.► En début de l'émission, nous parlerons avec Bastien Morvan, directeur de cabinet de l'ARS Mayotte, de la réponse sanitaire mise en place à Mayotte après la découverte de cas autochtones de choléra.Programmation musicale :► Richard Bona – Il y avait quoi avant ► Major League DJz et Abidoza – Dinaledi.

Leena Zafary says NDE's happen whether you understand them or not, whether you believe them or not. In fact, this was her own experience. She grew up not believing in these kinds of spiritual happenings and had a difficult time wrapping her mind around her own near death experience. It took her nearly 10 years to finally talk about it. Now she realizes how freeing and therapeutic it can be to discuss what happened to her with others of the same mindset. In 2014 Leena found herself in the ICU with 2 collapsed lungs as a result of the H1N1 virus. While in a coma she sat up right out of her body and experienced a love that can only exist in the spirit world. She saw loved ones praying for her, and how her love and gratitude ignited the light within them. In this episode we discuss love, frequency of emotions, advice for other near death experiencers, and much more!PLEASE THINK OF ONE FRIEND TO SHARE THIS NDE WITHhttps://leenazafary.com/RoundTripDeath.comThank you for donating to this show! https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/

Today we shall be talking about Pneumonia! What an exciting topic. According to Dr William Osler considered to be the “father of modern medicine” and who trained at McGill, pneumonia is known as “the old man's friend” he wrote, “"Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, not often painful illness, the old man escapes those 'cold gradations of decay' so distressing to himself and his friends.” Dr. Olser himself died from complications of pneumonia. Pneumonia has a fascinating history as it has been with humanity for many centuries. Symptoms of pneumonia were first described by Hippocrates around 460 BC, but it wasn't until the 19th century that doctors were aware pneumonia was its own condition and not a symptom of another disease. Interesting tidbits of pneumonia related history, Dr. Edwin Klebs was the first person to observe bacteria causing pneumonia under the microscope in 1875 and the bacterial genus klebsiella was named after him. Strep pneumonia, commonest cause of CAP was the first bacteria to be gram stained to distinguish gram positive from gram negative bacteria by Hans Christian Gram in 1884. Hence the name “Gram” stain. The Spanish Flu in 1918, which was an H1N1 influenza A pandemic, killed more people than the first world war in combat, resulting in approximately 20-50 million deaths, and was the second most deadly pandemic on record. In comparison, Covid19 worldwide deaths stand at around 7 million according to the WHO in November 2023. Alright, we could talk all day about pneumonia history, but its time to focus on CCFP objectives for pneumonia!

If you, dear listener, much like our hosts, have been bombarded with images of sweat soaked men who have the hue of Red 40 espousing the virtues of raw meat diets and how seed oils will destroy the nuclear family, you are in good company. In the first episode of their series "100% Grass-Fed Traditional Masculinity and Big Government are Coming for Your Seed Oils," Kenny and Virgil walk through the grocery aisles and discuss the history of the United States' involvement in intervening in the diet of the public. Why would the government want you to think bacon is epic, mere months after an H1N1 virus outbreak devastates the pork industry? Won't someone think of the poor Smithfield Foods CEO? Together, we will dive into the government funded cheese caves and come out with enough seed oils for every boy and girl and nonbinary child to consume to their heart's content.Join our Discord!PatreonWebsiteMerchTwitterVirgil's TwitterKendall's TwitterLain's TwitterWorks CitedCDC 2009 H1N1 ReportSwine Flu Originated in Mexico, Researchers Report (ScienceDaily)The Global Trade of Live Animals in Eight Charts (The Guardian)In New Theory, Swine Flu Started in Asia, Not Mexico (New York Times)Bacon Trends: Sustained Demand (Meat + Poultry)

Tonight was a little unhindged. The doc for the week was chaotic to say the least. We delivered though and you're going to get the news and the head fakes that mass media is pumping out. Iran, the US, and Israel are in the news again because Israel took a big swing at Iranian higher ups. Earthquakes galore were felt around the world but the folks in Jersey freaked out. Greta got fake arrested again, but there was a twist this time. We talked about dead penguins, Bird Flu, and a salt areosal test in SF that's trying to cool the earth! Oh yeah and horny zombie cicadas that are into watersports. If you know what I mean.  Think Critically Act AccordinglyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/whiskey-hell-podcast--5683729/support.

We'll be unpacking lessons from the COVID 19 pandemic for many years to come. Dr. Tomás Aragón, who leads public health for the State of California, joins us to discuss what he learned guiding America's most populous state through this challenging and disruptive period. We discuss:That public health's deepest power lies in the ability to help diverse groups reach consensus under great uncertaintyHow California redeployed an army of census workers to support the COVID responseThe biggest opportunities to use AI for public healthThree great book recommendations: “How Emotions Are Made” by Lisa Feldman Barrett, “High Conflict” by Amanda Ripley and “Fifth Discipline” by Peter M. SengeDr. Aragón shared insights about leadership: “The other thing is to really appreciate the importance of human psychology. It is so incredibly important … You're going to come up against people who are going to “resist”. I don't think of it as resistance. I just think they're being human. That's just all it is. People have variability in how they process information … And so rather than seeing things as resistance, you really just see it as part of the diversity of ingenuity that exists in an organizational culture.” Relevant LinksDr. Tomás Aragón's UC Berkeley Public Health profileDr. Tomás Aragón's GitHub blogArticle on Bay Area pandemic response: The epidemiology and surveillance response to pandemic influenza A (H1N1) among local health departments in the San Francisco Bay Area“How Emotions Are Made” by Lisa Feldman Barrett“High Conflict” by Amanda Ripley “Fifth Discipline” by Peter M. SengeAbout Our GuestDr. Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH, has served as the director of the California Department of Public Health and the State Public Health Officer, since January 4, 2021. Prior to coming to CDPH, he was the health officer for the City and County of San Francisco and director of the public health division. Dr. Aragón has served in public health leadership roles for more than 20 years (communicable disease controller, deputy health officer, health officer, community health and chronic disease epidemiologist), including directing a public health emergency preparedness and response research and training center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.Connect With UsFor more information on The Other 80 please visit our website - www.theother80.com. To connect with our team, please email claudia@theother80.com and follow us on twitter @claudiawilliams and LinkedIn.

In this week's episode, Jessalynn welcomes Alex Vigue, host of the "Let's Not Sugarcoat It" podcast, who shares her incredible story of resilience and recovery. In 2009, Alex faced a life-threatening battle with the H1N1 virus, leading to a hospital stay of 169 days and a daunting recovery process. With only a 25% chance of survival, she endured a significant physical and emotional toll that left her with both physical and invisible scars. Alex opens up about the impact of her traumatic health scare on her mental well-being, as well as her tumultuous relationship with alcohol and her journey with sobriety. Alex's story is one of overcoming adversity through self-reflection, the importance of addressing trauma, and the transformative power of self-love and accountability. We are so grateful for her honesty and vulnerability, and we can't wait for you to listen!    Be sure to follow and keep up with Alex on Instagram and listen to her podcast here!    If you or someone you know is suffering from the effects of trauma, please know you are not alone in your healing journey. If you would like to speak with a professional therapist, you can reach out to Hello@invisiblescarspodcast.com to book an appointment.  Don't forget to follow Jessalynn on Instagram @invisiblescarspodcast, and visit her website! 

In this week's episode, Jessalynn welcomes Alex Vigue, host of the "Let's Not Sugarcoat It" podcast, who shares her incredible story of resilience and recovery. In 2009, Alex faced a life-threatening battle with the H1N1 virus, leading to a hospital stay of 169 days and a daunting recovery process. With only a 25% chance of survival, she endured a significant physical and emotional toll that left her with both physical and invisible scars. Alex opens up about the impact of her traumatic health scare on her mental well-being, as well as her tumultuous relationship with alcohol and her journey with sobriety. Alex's story is one of overcoming adversity through self-reflection, the importance of addressing trauma, and the transformative power of self-love and accountability. We are so grateful for her honesty and vulnerability, and we can't wait for you to listen!    Be sure to follow and keep up with Alex on Instagram and listen to her podcast here!    If you or someone you know is suffering from the effects of trauma, please know you are not alone in your healing journey. If you would like to speak with a professional therapist, you can reach out to Hello@invisiblescarspodcast.com to book an appointment.  Don't forget to follow Jessalynn on Instagram @invisiblescarspodcast, and visit her website! 

Have you ever heard of Andrographis? Most people haven't, and it's time that changed! On this episode of Vitality Radio, Jared invites Cheryl Myers back to the show to dig deep on the clinically proven benefits of Andrographis - everything from helping with fatty liver, preventing and reducing the length of a cold, and its role with auto-immune disease. Next, they'll break down why CuraMed is the most powerful form of curcumin on the market and how it can help with inflammation, oxidative stress, and detoxification. You'll learn how and when to use these medicinal herbs and why they should be in your medicine cabinet.Cheryl Myers is Chief of Scientific Affairs for EuroPharma, Inc. She is an author and healthcare professional with certifications in cancer, pain control, and issues of aging. She is an expert in dietary supplements and natural medicines who has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and television shows, as well as interviews with the New York Times, Prevention Magazine, the Wall Street Journal.Products:Terry Naturally AndrographisTerry Naturally CuramedAdditional Information:#325: Boswellia's Incredible Impact on Lung and Gut Inflammation, and the Powerhouse Antioxidant that is Grape Seed Extract, with Cheryl Myers#176 Natural Ways to Address Pain and Systemic Inflammation with Cheryl MyersVisit the podcast website here: VitalityRadio.comYou can follow @vitalityradio and @vitalitynutritionbountiful on Instagram, or Vitality Radio and Vitality Nutrition on Facebook. Join us also in the Vitality Radio Podcast Listener Community on Facebook. Shop the products that Jared mentions at vitalitynutrition.com. Let us know your thoughts about this episode using the hashtag #vitalityradio and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. Thank you!Please also join us on the Dearly Discarded Podcast with Jared St. Clair.Just a reminder that this podcast is for educational purposes only. The FDA has not evaluated the podcast. The information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The advice given is not intended to replace the advice of your medical professional.

Sure, everyone is beautiful and all, but being fat just isn't healthy! Right?? We get into it with molecular biologist Fran aka @fat_positive_fran on TikTok, who explains the factors that determine your body size and unpacks the associations between weight and medical conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. ***CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of disordered eating, including calorie numbers.*** H1N1 study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23744235.2016.1201721 Sperm tsRNA study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27340033/ Insulin therapy study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757533/#:~:text=Basal%20insulin%20therapy%20confers%20improved,maximizes%20the%20potential%20to%20nearly Fran's resource doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xV5kmxaMzMqk9AKSFsMRrGbpXJ8DuV11_gyQywMrmms/edit?usp=sharing Fran's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fat_positive_fran?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc Support us on Patreon:⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/morethantracyt⁠⁠ Find us on ⁠⁠Instagram, ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads,⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ @morethantracyt! Abby's Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/abbyrosemorris/⁠⁠ Luz's Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sillygooseluz/⁠

TWiV reviews the latest virology news, how infection with a plant virus causes insect to grow long wings, and reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza viruses in US swine. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Midwife gave children pellets instead of vaccines (NY Times) Vaccine derived poliovirus circulation in Indonesia (WHO) 9th case of measles in Philadelphia (City of Philadelphia) Measles exposure warning northern Virginia (Virginia DOH) China lab sequenced SARS-CoV-2 genome 2 weeks before release (WSJ) Wisconsin bill to restrict gain of function experiments (Science) Virus infection of insects causes long wings (PNAS) Reverse zoonoses of influenza H1N1 virus in swine (PLoS Path) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Concerto for Horn and Hardart, P. Schickele Angela – ChatGPT4 Brianne – How mRNA Vaccine Works, Why We Need Two Doses of mRNA Vaccine Rich – Evolutionary basis for the human diet: consequences for human health by P. Andrews, R.J. Johnson Vincent – Virology Lectures 2024 Listener Picks Geoff and Anonymous – Dickson Despommier wants our cities to be like forests Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Beverly Sher has been teaching her “Emerging Diseases” seminar since 1996. From AIDS in the 1990s, SARS in 2003, the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 and the modern COVID-19 pandemic, students realize what public health crises reveal about the psychology and sociology of a nation. And: Since it was first identified in the United States in 1975, Lyme disease has become the world's most common disease to spread from animals to humans through the bite of infected ticks. The sooner it's treated, the better the possible outcome for the patient. This is good news. Except that current testing for Lyme disease takes weeks. Brandon Jutras and his team are working on a rapid, at-home Lyme detection test. Later in the show: COVID-19 isn't over. Sara Reed Houser says that the proof is in the wastewater. Plus: You may or may not have been infected by a parasitic nematode in your life. Not to worry, though. It was just that ringworm in kindergarten. Why Mandy Kyle Gibson is deliberately introducing parasitic nematodes to an environment to help solve a problem.