"Epidemiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis among individuals with self-reported Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in British Columbia, Canada, and their health-related quality of life"
#IDMastodon#publichealth@medrxivpreprint
wastewater-based #epidemiology has been widely applied in many countries and regions for monitoring #COVID19 transmission in the population through testing #SARSCoV2 in wastewater. several studies that have collected paired longitudinal respiratory & fecal samples demonstrated prolonged fecal shedding and higher #viralload in feces compared to the paired respiratory samples collected at the same time period .
"NHLBI has launched an epidemiological cohort that focuses on these populations. It is called MOSAAIC, which stands for Multi-ethnic Observational Study in American Asian and Pacific Islander Communities...It’s also one that’s urgently needed, said Yuling Hong...'Research on these understudied groups can help eliminate disparities and advance health equity in ways never seen before.'"
At this point they can promote me or I'll start applying for jobs outside of research but that process was so ridiculous that I'm more than a little disillusioned with my field. I got some wonderful letters of support and they're much appreciated but why the hell is academia like this?
I enjoyed being an electricians apprentice, it was boring and didn't challenge me at all but it paid the bills. Maybe I should go back to that since my loans are paid off and four years from now my youngest kid will be out of highschool.
Or I could stick around and try to find a treatment that changes the progression of COPD. Either way man.
"What if you could track public health like the weather?"
In our latest blog post, Stamen designer Caroline Carter talks about our work with WastewaterSCAN to make epidemiological charts more usable in our day-to-day lives, like checking a weather report.
#IDMastodon#Viralimmunology#PublicHealth#Epidemiology#CovidIsNotOver Prevalence of Persistent #SARSCoV2 infections may act as viral reservoirs that could seed future outbreaks, give rise to highly divergent lineages & contribute to cases of #LongCOVID.
In particular, infections in immunocompromised patients who cannot clear 🦠 may lead to persistence for months or even years before potentially seeding new outbreaks in the community …
More work in progress for our citizen science game 'Nergal', which creates a safe way to do research about human behaviour when confronted with infectious disease.
We've added speech bubbles, and it's suddenly getting loud in here!
The characters have a memory, and share information when they speak - but that isn't obvious yet!
Does the human body lose "immunity" to germs/etc without exposure to them? E.g. if you've been more isolated (as we have been during the pandemic), are you more likely to get sick from being exposed to other peoples "germs"?
(I suppose I should probably do some lookup on my own first before asking 😅 #lazyWeb )
[...] "Strains of these Methuselah microbes – or zombie viruses as they are also known – have already been isolated by researchers who have raised fears that a new global medical emergency could be triggered – not by an illness new to science but by a disease from the distant past." | #environment#climate#ClimateChange#virology#epidemiology#arctic#health#PublicHealth
FREE for Kindle download Jan 14-18: Nothing To Do With Skin: The Fundamentals of #Epidemiology and Population Health– by Raywat Deonandan PhD
(an introduction to the science of population epidemiology) including a description of study designs, some of the common biases encountered, how to distinguish between correlation and causation.
A full week of wastewater data now shows a steep decline in covid numbers in the Boston area.
One interesting thing is that the wave peaks at January 1st. I would have expected it to be after January 1st due to transmission at New Years parties. This could imply that covid waves now are more influenced by population immunity and seasonal factors and less by human behaviors (like having parties)—though I imagine all of the above are factors.
Can anyone point to a reliable and interesting source on what's happening with the paediatric pneumonia in regions in China? (And perhaps elsewhere in the world?)
I get the impression its bacterial. Is that right?
WHO has made an official request to China for detailed information on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children. #epiverse#Epidemiology#outbreak
In Feb 2023, US FDA and the CDC identified bacteria in EzriCare Artificial Tears. In total, the outbreak affected 81 people across 18 states, including 14 who suffered vision loss, 4 who required removal of an eye, and 4 deaths.
I'm truly sorry these people suffered and died. It is disastrous and terrible.
Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiogist at the New England Complex Systems Institute, with a background at Harvard Medical. In this shory hellsite thread he notes the CDC will stop reporting on excess deaths from COVID, even as the epidemic rages on. Continuing to cause excess deaths as compared to before.
Included is screenshits of the thread and images he posted.
The manuscript I coddled and bumped and steered through revisions finally got to the point where I could recommend Accept and then, a few weeks later, here's the published version!
It's like seeing your kid walk across the stage, shake the principal's hand and graduate!