#News: New study finds reducing ultra-processed food intake by half can lead to significant weight loss and improved mood. Reducing #UPF like #palmoil and #meat reduces risk for chronic #disease. #BoycottPalmOil and be #Vegan https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250221125434.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Mysterious Congo outbreak likely linked to contaminated water. #contamination #water #Congo #outbreak #disease https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-congo-outbreak-likely-linked-contaminated-water-researchers-say

Could H5N1 be spread for multiple kilometres by air?

"some reports have proposed that windborne spread plays a significant role in IAV [Influenza A Virus] transmission over longer distances under suitable weather conditions.
➡️ In studies of the severe H7N7 HPAI [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] outbreak in the Netherlands in 2003, one study claimed that wind spread accounted for 18% and another 24% of transmission events up to 25 km.
➡️ Similarly, during the 2007 equine H3N8 influenza outbreak in Australia, 81% of infections within a cluster of 437 horse farms were attributed to windborne spread over a distance of 1-2 km.
➡️ Around the same time, the serological screening of turkeys in Minnesota in 2007-08 revealed that turkey premises within a 1.9 km radius of swine farms were most likely to test seropositive for H3N2 and H1N1 IAVs, thereby suggesting windborne transmission.
➡️ And during the 2014-15 multistate H5N2 HPAI outbreak in the USA, it was estimated that up to 39% of farms in Iowa alone could have experienced windborne infection within a radius of 8.5 km"

1/🧵from this preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637829v1.full.pdf

h/t @JoePajak

#H5N1 #birdFlu #influenza #fluIsAirborne #influenzaIsAirborne #respiratoryDiseasesAreAirborne #pandemic #publicHealth #health #disease

Why are we allowing taxpayer-funded research & communication from our scientific agencies (@NIH @CDCgov @US_FDA @USDA @HHS_ASPR ) to be blocked/censored by the Trump admin? And, who has the power to change this?

Widespread cases of flu & noravirus, an outbreak of measles in TX & bird flu flying around our farms all highlight the importance of the work done by these agencies to control the spread of disease. We need action, now. Viruses don’t wait. #press #disease #politics

In a partial reversal, Trump admin says U.S. is to resume emergency responses to infectious disease outbreaks, such as mpox, Ebola, TB and malaria.

@https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/trump-usaid-malaria-tuberculosis-funding-restored-waiver-granted-foreign-aid-freeze/ #press #disease

Private emails show RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 shots, linking vaccines to autism #UNMC #publichealth #health #disease https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/02/05/private-emails-show-rfk-jr-making-false-claims-about-covid-19-shots-linking-vaccines-to-autism/

Another expose of the #AtlasNetwork.
This is a summary of the webinar from December 2023 held by Sydney University of Technology.
#politics
#auspol #democracy
Even more relevant today with an approaching #australia federal #election.

#disinformation
“The disinformation campaign against offshore wind power in Australia comes out of the same American sources as all the other disinformation campaigns against competition for fossil fuel profits”

#money #fossilfuels
#usa #disease #AtlasNetwork #Advance #CIS

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154113679

HEALTH OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE MYSTERY ILLNESS

An unidentified flu-like illness has killed between 67 & 143 ppl in southwestern Congo in recent weeks. Many are children. Symptoms include: fever, headache, cough, shortness of breath & anemia. Congo is already plagued by a monkeypox epidemic with >47K cases.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/health/mystery-disease-congo?cid=ios_app #health #disease #press

The israeli version more than 800 years after rabid, fundamentalist and bloodthirsty abbot Arnaud de Amalric's tirade while urging his crusaders to a final assault on Béziers: "Kill them [all]. The Lord knows those that are his". Humankind 's history is still producing horrendous monsters in power, free to spread hatred, violence, suffering and death in obscene impunity. #Gaza #warcrimes #genocide #famine #disease #ethniccleansing #terroriststate

#cartoon #RFKjr #pandemic #disease #press #satire #USPol