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  1. Smallpox was eradicated in the 1970s. Vaccination campaigns ceased. So people under fifty are not immune to #mpox.
    Rapid treatment reduces lethality from 10% to 1%.

    Mining for electricity transition is particularly conducive to the creation and export of new diseases. #Syndemics can be defined as optimal social and ecological environment for generating and propelling epidemics.

    Dr Camille Besombes: ‘There is an epidemic of epidemics. We've entered a new era, with a proliferation of emerging infectious diseases. […] Ebola emerged in the same economic and social context as Kivu.
    (in fr) radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p 📻🎧

    #transition #extraction #civilWar #militias #sexualViolence #prostitution #famine #copper #lithium #mining #wood #epidemics #pandemic #healthCrisis #monkeyPox #Kivu #Congo #Africa #Nigeria #Ebola #HIV #AIDS #COVID19 #virus #diseases #health #ecology #medicine #vaccines #globalization #mobility #exports #freeTrade #bugs #mosquitoes

  2. Hi all! I'm part of the #TwitterMigration. As an #Introduction, I'm a #Pulmonary and #CriticalCare physician and #Epidemiologist in #Pittsburgh. My research focuses on #Sepsis, #Syndemics, #GlobalCriticalCare #GlobalHealth with collaborations mostly in #Kenya, and relationships between community-level features and risk for sepsis. I'm a mama #WomenInSTEM, U5 soccer coach, lover of the #forest, skier, #Peloton rider, and music fan #soca #afrobeats #dancehall #bluegrass.