#lungdisease — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lungdisease, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/news/24290/ What to know about the suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship #Arizona #AtlanticOcean #BetsyArakawa #CentersForDiseaseControlAndPrevention #DeathRates #DiseaseOutbreaks #GeneHackman #GeneralNews #Headlines #Health #KidneyDisease #LungDisease #NewMexico #News #NMStateWire #TopStories #WorldNews
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What to know about the suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #arizona #AtlanticOcean #BetsyArakawa #centersfordiseasecontrolandprevention #Deathrates #Diseaseoutbreaks #GeneHackman #Generalnews #Kidneydisease #Lungdisease #NewMexico #NMStateWire #Worldnews
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What to know about the suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Health #arizona #AtlanticOcean #BetsyArakawa #centersfordiseasecontrolandprevention #Deathrates #Diseaseoutbreaks #GeneHackman #Generalnews #Kidneydisease #Lungdisease #NewMexico #NMStateWire #Worldnews
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/447764/ New algorithms help surgeons make high-stakes transplant decisions in minutes #ArtificialIntelligence #echocardiogram #Éire #Health #Heart #HeartFailure #IE #Ireland #LungDisease #medicine #Research #Transplant
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/447722/ Cystic fibrosis therapies significantly reduce the need for pediatric lung transplants #children #CysticFibrosis #Éire #fibrosis #Health #Heart #hospital #IE #Ireland #LungDisease #LungTransplant #Transplant
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Would expanding Toronto's island airport be bad for your lung health?
Cars and airplanes are sources of ultrafine particles in the air, which are really bad for your health. This video report shows that increased downtown traffic and the island airport contribute ultrafine particles to #Toronto's air, reducing air quality.
This could be an important #health reason to not expand the Billy Bishop Airport on the island.#lungdisease #Ontario #islandairport #BillyBishop #medmastodon
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ultrafine-particles-should-you-be-worried-9.7164905
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California man successfully sues maker of Pam cooking spray for $25 million. His lawyers argued that his rare lung diease was caused by the spray and that there was insufficient warning from the company about the dangers of inhaling the fumes. His lungs cannot be healed and he requires a double lung transplant.
#lungdisease
#foodtoxicity
#lawsuits
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Chuck Negron, voice of Three Dog Night hits, dies at 83
NEW YORK (AP) — …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #AmiAlbeaNegron #BrianWilson #California #celebritydeaths #ChuckNegron #CoryWells #DannyHutton #DomesticNews #FloydSneed #Generalnews #HarryNilsson #JimmyGreenspoon #JoeSchermie #JohnDensmore #JulieDensmore #Losangeles #Lungdisease #NotableDeaths #PaulWilliams #RandyNewman #SendtoAppleNews #U.S.news #ZachFarnum
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Chuck Negron, voice of Three Dog Night hits, dies at 83
NEW YORK (AP) — …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #AmiAlbeaNegron #BrianWilson #California #celebritydeaths #ChuckNegron #CoryWells #DannyHutton #DomesticNews #FloydSneed #Generalnews #HarryNilsson #JimmyGreenspoon #JoeSchermie #JohnDensmore #JulieDensmore #Losangeles #Lungdisease #NotableDeaths #PaulWilliams #RandyNewman #SendtoAppleNews #U.S.news #ZachFarnum
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/294899/ Blood lipid–hormone ratios predict future asthma attacks years in advance #Asthma #Biomarker #blood #Cell #Chronic #Éire #Eosinophil #Forecasting #Health #Healthcare #Hormone #IE #Ireland #LungDisease #Metabolite #Metabolites #Metabolomics #Research #Respiratory #Steroid
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Government tells Parliament there is no proven direct link between higher AQI levels and lung diseases https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/govt-to-rajya-sabha-no-direct-link-proven-between-aqi-levels-lung-diseases-pgwgjh63?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Government #Parliament #AQI #LungDisease #KirtiVardhanSingh
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/230297/ Genetic differences in surfactant proteins influence retinopathy of prematurity risk #baby #Blindness #blood #BloodVessel #BloodVessels #Éire #eye #EyeDisease #Genetic #Health #IE #inflammation #Ireland #LungDisease #Lungs #medicine #nucleotide #Oxygen #pediatrics #Protein #Research #Retinopathy #RetinopathyOfPrematurity
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@Qldaah
why do they hate us so much? An unremarkable Brisbane day has 560 CO2 ppm. We are gasping for air already.#Qldpol #Auspol #Coal #CoalRoyalties #LungDisease #particulateMatter #Particulates
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DATE: July 15, 2025 at 06:15PM
SOURCE: BioWorld MedTechDirect article link at end of text block below.
Synchrony receives #FDA OK for #Libairty airway clearance system
#medtech #lungdisease #respiratory
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Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Much of the Upper Mi…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Airquality #arizona #AZStateWire #Climate #Climateandenvironment #COStateWire #Colorado #Fires #Generalnews #Headlines #JenniferRitterling #Lungdisease #Manitoba #Minnesota #MNStateWire #Montana #MTStateWire #Nationalparks #NDStateWire #NorthDakota #U.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #U.S.news #WIStateWire #Wildfires #Wisconsin
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Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Much of the Upper Mi…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Airquality #arizona #AZStateWire #Climate #Climateandenvironment #COStateWire #Colorado #Fires #Generalnews #Headlines #JenniferRitterling #Lungdisease #Manitoba #Minnesota #MNStateWire #Montana #MTStateWire #Nationalparks #NDStateWire #NorthDakota #U.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #U.S.news #WIStateWire #Wildfires #Wisconsin
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Enhancement of OVA-induced murine lung eosinophilia by co-exposure to contamination levels of #LPS in Asian sand #dust and heated dust
Yahao Ren, et al.
Published: 2014 Jun 9"A previous study has shown that the aggravation of Asian sand dust (ASD) on ovalbumin (OVA)-induced lung eosinphilia was more severe in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-rich ASD than in SiO2-rich ASD. Therefore, the effects of different LPS contamination levels in ASD on the aggravation of OVA-induced lung eosinophilia were investigated in the present study.
Conclusions:
"This study demonstrates that LPS contamination in ASD aggravates allergic lung inflammation in the presence of OVA and H-ASD. The aggravation of the allergic lung inflammation by LPS may be caused through the TLR4-dependent signaling pathway. The results of the current study indicate that the exposure to ASD with LPS may be a significant risk factor for adult and child #asthma. The hazardous effects of #MineralDust and #biogenic agents on human respiratory disease are an increasing public concern. Atmospheric exposure to #bacteria, fungi and virus, and silica-carrying particulate matters may influence human respiratory health on a world-wide scale."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058696/
#DryingLakes #AgriculturalPollution
#Fertilizers #Phosphorus
#SaltonSea #Wildlife #HumanHealth #MonoLake #AralSea #GreatSaltLake #SaltonSea #LungDisease -
At the #Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of #LungDisease
Researchers may have found a cause for #asthma-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have #global implications.
"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the #AralSea, on the border of #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like #MonoLake, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"
By Fletcher Reveley
08.19.2024"When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”
But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'
"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in #SouthernCalifornia that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the #ToxicDust kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.
"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an #N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood #asthma rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."
[...]
"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the #LPS. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for #AgriculturalRunoff, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"
[...]
"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?
"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the #GreatSaltLake — both are #hypersaline, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where #nutrients from #agricultural activity enter and impact the #microbiome. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]
https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#AgriculturalPollution #Fertilizers #Phosphorus #SaltonSea #NonAllergicAsthma #Wildlife #HumanHealth
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At the #Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of #LungDisease
Researchers may have found a cause for #asthma-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have #global implications.
"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the #AralSea, on the border of #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like #MonoLake, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"
By Fletcher Reveley
08.19.2024"When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”
But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'
"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in #SouthernCalifornia that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the #ToxicDust kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.
"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an #N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood #asthma rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."
[...]
"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the #LPS. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for #AgriculturalRunoff, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"
[...]
"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?
"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the #GreatSaltLake — both are #hypersaline, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where #nutrients from #agricultural activity enter and impact the #microbiome. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]
https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#AgriculturalPollution #Fertilizers #Phosphorus #SaltonSea #NonAllergicAsthma #Wildlife #HumanHealth
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At the #Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of #LungDisease
Researchers may have found a cause for #asthma-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have #global implications.
"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the #AralSea, on the border of #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like #MonoLake, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"
By Fletcher Reveley
08.19.2024"When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”
But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'
"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in #SouthernCalifornia that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the #ToxicDust kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.
"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an #N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood #asthma rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."
[...]
"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the #LPS. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for #AgriculturalRunoff, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"
[...]
"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?
"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the #GreatSaltLake — both are #hypersaline, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where #nutrients from #agricultural activity enter and impact the #microbiome. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]
https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#AgriculturalPollution #Fertilizers #Phosphorus #SaltonSea #NonAllergicAsthma #Wildlife #HumanHealth
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At the #Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of #LungDisease
Researchers may have found a cause for #asthma-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have #global implications.
"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the #AralSea, on the border of #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like #MonoLake, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"
By Fletcher Reveley
08.19.2024"When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”
But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'
"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in #SouthernCalifornia that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the #ToxicDust kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.
"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an #N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood #asthma rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."
[...]
"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the #LPS. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for #AgriculturalRunoff, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"
[...]
"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?
"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the #GreatSaltLake — both are #hypersaline, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where #nutrients from #agricultural activity enter and impact the #microbiome. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]
https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#AgriculturalPollution #Fertilizers #Phosphorus #SaltonSea #NonAllergicAsthma #Wildlife #HumanHealth
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At the #Salton Sea, Uncovering the Culprit of #LungDisease
Researchers may have found a cause for #asthma-like symptoms in the region. The discovery could have #global implications.
"The scientists are eager to see if the mice demonstrate a similar disease profile with Great Salt Lake dust. If they do, according to Yisrael, it could potentially have global implications. She points to areas like the #AralSea, on the border of #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like #MonoLake, in central California. 'All of these areas globally are drying up, and around these areas are communities which complain of severe asthma-like symptoms'"
By Fletcher Reveley
08.19.2024"When David Lo first visited the Salton Sea shore in the spring of 2018, he was struck by the sheer oddness of the place: the beach of barnacle shells and pulverized fish bones; the abandoned dock far from the water’s edge; the unremitting smell of decay. It was like a scene from a science fiction movie, recalled the 66-year-old biomedical researcher from University of California, Riverside, familiar yet “just off of normal.”
But it was also pleasant, in a way. The sun glistened off the placid surface of the water, the Chocolate Mountains rose in the distance. At first, he said, 'all those odd parts don’t hit you in terms of potential, like ‘Oh my gosh this is a toxic, nasty sort of thing.' But for him that’s changed, he added, 'having learned more about what’s going on.'
"The Salton Sea is a 316-square mile, shallow glaze of water in #SouthernCalifornia that has been receding in recent years. Scientists believe the #ToxicDust kicked up from the exposed lakebed is contributing to respiratory disease in the region.
"Now, after nearly a decade of research, Lo recommends that anyone visiting the lake wear an #N95 mask. Something in the environment — in the water, the land, the air, or all three — appears to be making people in the region sick with a respiratory disease that presents like asthma. Children have been especially impacted; in some areas more than a quarter of kids have been diagnosed with asthma, more than four times the national childhood #asthma rate. Even more children, whether they have been diagnosed or not, display asthma-like symptoms — more than a third of kids in certain areas. And although residents of the area have long believed the Salton Sea to be toxic, Lo and other researchers at UC Riverside are only now beginning to zero in on a culprit. And it’s one that nobody expected."
[...]
"For Lo and the other researchers, however, the results were remarkable for a different reason — the geographic distribution of the asthma symptoms seemed to map closely onto the geographic distribution of the #LPS. The southern end of the lake was also the main entry point for #AgriculturalRunoff, which is laced with nutrients and feeds explosive biological activity. 'All these things are coming together,' said Lo. “The nutrients driving the bacterial growth, driving the toxin getting into the dust, driving the symptoms.' Lo recalled that at one meeting this year of the Salton Sea Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of UC Riverside scientists that studies the Salton Sea, the findings of the various threads of research began to converge: 'That was the meeting where everybody was, you know their jaws were dropping, like ‘Oh my gosh, it’s all fitting into place.’'"
[...]
"Near the end of May this year, Lo hosted a forum at UC Riverside on the health effects of dust and other particles that can be suspended in air. Many of the presenters were graduate students or faculty from various labs at UC Riverside that study the Salton Sea, but one of the keynote speakers, Molly Blakowski, had flown in from a different state entirely. Blakowski studies the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, and her invitation to the event reflected a growing concern among the UC Riverside investigators: What if this toxic LPS is not unique to the Salton Sea?
"In a recent interview with Undark, Blakowski drew parallels between the Salton Sea and the #GreatSaltLake — both are #hypersaline, terminal lakes that are rapidly shrinking; both contain areas where #nutrients from #agricultural activity enter and impact the #microbiome. Another similarity, she said, is that there are major knowledge gaps regarding the lake and its impact on human health." [NOT JUST HUMAN HEALTH!!!]
https://undark.org/2024/08/19/salton-sea-uncovering-lung-disease/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#AgriculturalPollution #Fertilizers #Phosphorus #SaltonSea #NonAllergicAsthma #Wildlife #HumanHealth
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Just published!
Cell Biology and Translational Medicine, Volume 21
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-56832-9
Enjoy!
#CellBiology #Cancer #Immunology #WoundHealing #Exercise #Obesity #LungDisease #Kidney #DomesticAnimals #OneHealth
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Denny Laine (1944–2023), cofounder of Wings and the Moody Blues
#arts #music #rock #dennylaine #rip #restinparadise #lungdisease #obits #obituaries #deaths #whodied
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The 82-year-old who plays cricket wearing an oxygen tank. This is a lovely story. But it reminds me how much weaker my dad was when diagnosed suddenly with the same terminal disease in late 2019. He was too weak to have portable oxygen. He spent the last 2.5 years of his life hooked up permanently to an oxygen machine at home. But it's lovely to see this gent happy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66727270 #Dundee #StAndrews #PulmonaryFibrosis #LungDisease #Respiratory #Terminal #Cricket #Scotland #Medicine #NHS
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@plaguepoems I still am for reasons unseen. Microplastics and nano particles of pesticides suspended in dust particles. #Masking #LungDisease #EasterSeal
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So, any of my followers know any PWD who live in New Mexico who wouldn't mind chatting with a #Deafblind #spoony with #serviceDogs who is thinking about perhaps moving there? #ClimateChange is making it hard almost impossible for me to continue living here so I'm looking at leaving in a year or 2. I have #LungDisease and need to live where the winters don't get too cold but also I don't want to live where there are hurricanes because thats why I'm leaving #NewOrleans.
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"The #EURO7 proposal [aims] to force the industry to deploy tech that will reduce everything from #nitrogen oxides to #ParticulateMatter, fine dust that gets trapped in human tissue and is associated with everything from #LungDisease to dementia and premature #mortality.
But the #auto industry, along with big #car countries, argue the standards are unnecessary given that the EU has already agreed to essentially end the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035."
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#Woodburners in effect banned in new and refurbished homes in #London https://theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/08/wood-burners-in-effect-banned-new-refurbished-homes-london? #Pollution #RenewableEnergy #Green #CleanTech #Greenenergy #Greentech #Renewable #cleanenergy #CleanAir #Healthrisk #Health #CancerResearch #Cancer #wood #woodstove #Facts #FactsNotFear #Lungdisease #mentalillness
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Pulmonary diseases are less-than-zero fun. I'd not wish my yesterday on more than a scant handful of people.
So far, today is better. My chest is a little tight, but I can breathe without undue discomfort or the use of my nebulizer. I'll likely need it this afternoon, but I hope not, as I'm still pretty wiped out from three Albuterol vials and the coughing/choking fits that came with it.
Here's to a quiet day of easier breathing & #CreatingART.
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Pulmonary diseases are less-than-zero fun. I'd not wish my yesterday on more than a scant handful of people.
So far, today is better. My chest is a little tight, but I can breathe without undue discomfort or the use of my nebulizer. I'll likely need it this afternoon, but I hope not, as I'm still pretty wiped out from three Albuterol vials and the coughing/choking fits that came with it.
Here's to a quiet day of easier breathing & #CreatingART.
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Pulmonary diseases are less-than-zero fun. I'd not wish my yesterday on more than a scant handful of people.
So far, today is better. My chest is a little tight, but I can breathe without undue discomfort or the use of my nebulizer. I'll likely need it this afternoon, but I hope not, as I'm still pretty wiped out from three Albuterol vials and the coughing/choking fits that came with it.
Here's to a quiet day of easier breathing & #CreatingART.
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New Study Links EVs With Real-World Reductions In Air Pollution & Respiratory Problems https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/new-study-links-evs-with-real-world-reductions-in-air-pollution-respiratory-problems/ #cars #pollution #LungDisease #asthma #CleanAir #GoodNews
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This is a powerful feature about a #Newfoundland #mining town left with #contamination after an #asbestos #mine operated & closed there. Quote from article: "The prospect of long-term exposure to free-floating asbestos, over the last half-century, still hangs over the town today, Philpott says. Most people want it gone. Many fear they’re still breathing in what killed their parents, their neighbours." https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/toxic-towns-baie-verte #toxic #tailings #cancer #lungdisease #fibrosis
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Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says - Enlarge / A person exhales vapor while using an electronic cigarette device in San Francisco, Calif... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1556177 #e-cigarettes #publichealth #lungdisease #marijuana #science #illness #smoking #vaping #cdc #fda #thc
