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#infection — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #infection, aggregated by home.social.

  1. When I was living in Sri Lanka during Covid, I remember people didn't want to eat fish, because Indians often put dead bodies into rivers, which end up in the Bay of Bengal near Sri Lanka and into the bellies of fish.

    #srilanka #india #covid #covid19 #infection #health #publichealth #sanitation #fish #food #epidemic

  2. In the West, cyclospora infections are called an 'outbreak', but, in India, where people traditionally use farmland as a public toilet, they're very common. They develop resistance to it and avoid it by cooking most food, but it often causes 'traveller's diarrhoea' in tourists.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

    #west #cyclospora #diarrhoea #diarrhea #outbreak #india #fertiliser #fertilizer #farmland #toilet #tourism #cooking #food #parasite #infection #health #publichealth #sanitation

  3. For anyone nervious or with health anxiety: youtube.com/watch?v=XMSv3zTFF1Y. It's Rebecca Watson's video, "No, Hantavirus is Not the Next Pandemic".

    Advocate & vote for better conditions for working, parenting & disability.

    Join or start a union at your work. You need no-fault sick leave, esp when local infections break out.

    Do managers want:

    Only ONE person this week out sick?
    Or else a half-dozen in coming weeks?

    #Hantavirus #Hantaan #Rodent #Rodents #Zoonosis #Zoonoses #Doctor #Doctors #Medicine #Medical #Sick #Sickness #ill #illness #Disease #Diseases #infect #infection #infectious #Virus #Viruses #Viral #Pathogen #Pathogens #Pathogenic #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #WorldHealthOrg #Science #Scientific #Experiment #Test #Tests #Testing #Epidemiology #Epidemiological #Public #Health #PublicHealth

  4. Also wear masks or respirators. (Except the snood type ones. The rest are all better than nothing or *way* better than nothing.) Don't travel or commute to work when ill.
    Advocate and vote for better conditions when working, parenting, and disabled. Join a union or start one at your workplace. Push for no-fault sick leave, especially when local infectious outbreaks flare up.
    Check what air filtration systems are installed where people gather, mainly indoor spaces. Consider public transport, at work, schools, public buildings, and manufacturing. Ask some organisations what their air quality data and upgrade plans are.

    youtube.com/watch?v=ZncfH7nKX74

    #Hantavirus #Hantaan #Rodent #Rodents #Zoonosis #Zoonoses #Doctor #Doctors #Medicine #Medical #Sick #Sickness #ill #illness #Disease #Diseases #infect #infection #infectious #Virus #Viruses #Viral #Pathogen #Pathogens #Pathogenic #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #WorldHealthOrg #Science #Scientific #Experiment #Test #Tests #Testing #Epidemiology #Epidemiological #Public #Health #PublicHealth

  5. Researchers seeking alternative means to foil antibiotic-resistant bacteria have found that a fatty acid found in ginger and turmeric reduces the ability of *Staphylococcus aureus* to adhere to mammalian tissue, limiting its ability to spread, but not killing it and so, perhaps, not inducing an adaptive response.

    Summary: scitechdaily.com/researchers-d

    Original paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-026

    #Science #Infection #AntibioticResistance #Staph #Ginger #Turmeric

  6. @fabio Also due to these regulations I cannot buy antibiotic ointment when the Czech regime is depriving me of healthcare when I have an infected eczema and am afraid it will produce sepsis and I die, because antibiotic ointment ran out and when I call a dermatologist and tell I need it urgently she gives me an appointment 4 months (!!!) in the future!

    In a corrupt developing 3rd world dictatorship Cambodia it is possible to buy antibiotic ointments without prescription and also dermatologist wait there is only 7-10 days, not 4 months.

    I feel

    e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

    towards the Czech regime.

    #healthdeprivation #deprivation #czech #czechia #czechregime #czechrepublic #failedstate #contempt #regulations #overregulation #bureaucracy #overbureaucratization #healthcaresystem #healthcare #antibiotic #prescription #otc #overthecounter #ointment #eczema #infection #infected #sepsis #death #lethal #dangerous #danger #hazard #risk #eu #deathbybureaucracy #deathbyregulation #kafkaesque #humanrights #humanrightsviolation #humanrightsviolations #righttohealth #humanrighttohealth #basichumanrighttohealth

  7. #SARS-CoV-2 #infection perturbs the #gastrointestinal tract and induces modest #microbial #translocation across the intestinal barrier, J Virol.: journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.11

    These results demonstrate that GI perturbations such as microbial translocation can occur in even mild SARS-CoV-2 infections and may contribute to the #COVID19 #inflammatory state.

  8. First Report of #Sphaerirostris picae #Infection in the Oriental #Magpie (#Pica serica) in #Beijing, #China, Vector Borne Zoo Dis.: liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089

    The findings highlight potential health #hazards posed by Sphaerirostris picae to urban avian populations & public #health. Study suggests that additional research & surveillance efforts are necessary to better understand #risks associated with this #parasite & to develop effective mitigation strategies.

  9. Ukraine war spurs horrifying rise in extensively drug-resistant bacteria - Enlarge / Ukrainian medics of the battalion "Da Vinci Wolves" and "Ulf"... - arstechnica.com/?p=1953090 #antimicrobialresistance #nosocomialinfection #drugresistance #antibiotics #infection #bacteria #ukraine #health #war