How to Address the Emergence and Spread of Zoonotic Diseases — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Barbara Crane Navarro

Human Wrongs Watch New international expert panel to address the emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases Pixabay / 20 May 2021 Geneva/Paris/Rome/Nairobi, 20 May 2021 (UNEP)* – International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert Panel to improve understanding of how diseases with the potential to trigger pandemics, emerge and[…]

How to Address the Emergence and Spread of Zoonotic Diseases — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Terry Sunderland, University of British Columbia As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this transformation has been the extreme simplification of ecological systems, with complex multi-functional landscapes converted to vast[…]

How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses — Palm Oil Detectives

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‘It’s going to happen again’: Fears wet markets could lead to another deadly disease — spiritandanimal.wordpress.com

Barbara Crane Navarro

Nigeria: Undercover investigation by UK television shows that wet markets operate as normal; and that this is another Covid pandemic waiting to happen. Disturbing footage, as are all wet markets that involve live animals. https://www.itv.com/news/2021-03-16/its-going-to-happen-again-fears-wet-markets-could-lead-to-another-deadly-disease THANK YOU, VENUS AND SERBIAN ANIMAL FRIENDS FOR SHARING THIS IMPORTANT PIECE! ITV News (UK) has secretly filmed in Oluwo[…]

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Não ignore

Microsoft translation:
Don’t ignore the importance of small things

Without them there would be no echo of the voices

The pleasure of a sweet kiss

And daily effort for the last minute of lucidity

Sometimes the only thing that fills the soul

It is the draft of the minimum before what has turned to dust.

This is where you find some value,

Some conclusive nobility about life.

It’s in the interval between your last action

And the longing that spiritualizes your abstract gaze

Making you feel unprotected

Before the memory of who was

That the flame of hope that “builds its way back” is reborn

Don’t be an echo

Look at life with tenderness

This is the secret of our infinite crossing.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Não ignore a importância das coisas pequeninas

Sem elas não haveria o eco das vozes

O prazer de um beijo doce

E esforço diário pelo último minuto de lucidez

Às vezes, a única coisa que preenche a alma

É o rascunho do mínimo diante daquilo que se transformou em pó .

É nisto, que se encontra algum valor,

Alguma nobreza conclusiva sobre a vida.

É no intervalo entre a sua última ação

E a saudade que espiritualiza o seu olhar abstrato

Fazendo com você se sinta desprotegido

Diante da lembrança de quem foi

Que renasce a chama da esperança que “constrói o seu caminho de volta”

Não seja um eco

Olhe a vida com ternura

Esse é o segredo de nossa infinita travessia.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 9 de Agosto de 2021

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Jolly Monday — 138 Days ‘Til Christmas!

Filosofa's Word

Good Monday morning, my friends … {yawn}.  Yes, you read that right … just 138 days, just over 1/3 of the year left until Christmas.  And I have yet to buy the first Christmas gift, don’t even have a tree yet!  HORRORS!!!!  Seriously, though, the stores are already filled with Hallowe’en stuff, more than two months before Hallowe’en, which may well be largely ignored this year in light of the pandemic.  Ah well, time marches on and doesn’t let such silly things as a pandemic stop it, yes?  Did you all have a wonderful weekend?  Mine was … meh.  Daughter Chris picked up dinner on Saturday from our favourite Chinese place, so that was nice, but otherwise I have been battling the doldrums and a headache that seems resistant to ibuprofen, so nothing too exciting here.  But, today is Monday, the start of a new week, and we should…

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Covid: Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant on delta variant, vaccinations

The pandemic is not coming to an end soon — given that only a small proportion of the world’s population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known epidemiologist. Brilliant, who was part of the WHO team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant is “maybe the most contagious virus” ever. The doctor said vaccinated people aged 65 and have a weakened immune system should get a booster shot “right away.”

Source: Covid: Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant on delta variant, vaccinations

Rosh Chodesh Elul, and reflecting upon the past year

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

 Today is the first day of the last month of the Hebrew year, and I’ve been reflecting on this past year for some time, now.  Last year was a shock, starting with the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom I’d honestly expected (wishful thinking, I know) to live until president Biden could pick her replacement.  After everything else she’d lived through, it seemed unbelievable that she could die at such a crucial moment for all of us.  And then, while most of my fellow Americans helped prevent some worse occurrence, the general election in November was still a bitter disappointment, for me, in my fellow Californians.  Coming to a state where I’d always heard of the progressive and community oriented ways of thinking, of the clean air laws and the Intentional Communities nurtured in this state, I was shocked to find that this was not so.  And this past…

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Long Covid and Kids

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

Long Covid involves symptoms that persist ,months after a person ceases to test positive for the disease. We don’t in fact know how long these symptoms can persist — the disease hasn’t been around long enough for us to know what an end date might be, if there is one.

By the way, for formal name for this condition is post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC).

The symptoms of Long Covid can be both physical and neurological.

Symptoms of Long Covid were first thought to include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache, insomnia, respiratory problems and heart palpitations. Now, support groups and researchers say there may be up to 100 other symptoms, including gastrointestinal problems, nausea, dizziness, seizures, hallucinations and testicular pain.(2)

Early determination of Long Covid symptoms were based on adults. This is in part because of the lengthy process involved in obtaining consent and approval for studies among…

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