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Avian Flu Diary: Denmark SSI: COVID Cases Increasing Again After 5 Weeks of Declines
What happens in Denmark is often reflected in North America 3 to 6 weeks down the line, making them a useful barometer for the pandemic. So it is worth noting that – after 5 weeks of steady declines in COVID cases – yesterday they reported an 18% jump in cases over the previous week.
Interestingly, BA.5 remains fully in control (est. 95%), and for now, BA.4 continues to lose ground.
The number of Covid-19 infections is increasing for the first time in five weeks
The number of Danes infected with covid-19 is increasing for the first time in five weeks. It is now among the middle-aged that the infection is highest. This is shown in this week’s trend report from the Statens Serum Institut.
Last edited on August 18, 2022
There is an increase in the number of new cases of covid-19 of 18% between week 31 and week 32, corresponding to the incidence in week 32 being 207 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The positive rate has increased to 27% in week 32 from 25% in week 31, while the number of PCR tests has increased by 5% between week 31 and week 32.
The infection increases in all age groups from week 31 to week 32, but is highest among the 40 to 59-year-olds. This is shown in this week’s trend report for covid-19 and other respiratory infections from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI).
“The increasing infection must be seen in the light of the fact that people are now returning from summer holidays. Activity in our society is increasing, and people may also be more aware of getting tested for symptoms in connection with starting work and education” Professional Director Tyra Grove Krause
Especially in Region Central Jutland and North Jutland, the infection is increasing. There are the most infected people in Region Central Jutland (262 per 100,000 inhabitants) followed by Region Zealand (216 per 100,000 inhabitants).
Source: Avian Flu Diary: Denmark SSI: COVID Cases Increasing Again After 5 Weeks of Declines
Evidence of monkeypox virus found on household surfaces | CIDRAP
Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, however, put the findings in perspecitive. “The epidemiologic data we have so far in this outbreak support that people are not contracting monkeypox through touching contaminated surfaces. The preponderance of data indicates it’s being transmitted through direct physical contact, whether sexual or non-sexual.”
Osterholm is the director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, publisher of CIDRAP News.
The contamination occurred despite the patients reporting showering once or twice each day, performing hand hygiene approximately 10 times daily, laundering bedding and clothing weekly, and performing routine household cleaning, such as mopping and daily use of a multi-surface spray on most high-contact surfaces, the authors said.
“Persons living in or visiting the home of someone with monkeypox should follow appropriate precautions against indirect exposure and transmission by wearing a well-fitting mask, avoiding touching possibly contaminated surfaces, maintaining appropriate hand hygiene, avoiding sharing eating utensils, clothing, bedding, or towels, and following home disinfection recommendations,” the authors concluded.
Source: Evidence of monkeypox virus found on household surfaces | CIDRAP
iPhones….iPads….Mac–Oh My!
Manually update! Now!
This is one of those times when I try to be an FYI blogger.
Are you a user of Apple products?
If so then this news may well effect you and your devices…..
Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices, the AP reports. Apple released two security reports about the issue on Wednesday, although they didn’t receive wide attention outside of tech publications. Apple’s explanation of the vulnerability means a hacker could get “full admin access” to the device. That would allow intruders to impersonate the device’s owner and subsequently run any software in their name, said Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security.
Security experts have advised users to update affected devices—the iPhone6S and later models; several models of the iPad, including the 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air…
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Has Given Away 186 Million Free Books to Kids, Boosting Literacy Worldwide | Open Culture
Dolly Parton created her Imagination Library, a non-profit which gives books to millions of children every month, with her father, Robert Lee Parton, in mind.
“I always thought that if Daddy had an education, there’s no telling what he could have been,” she mused in her 2020 book, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics:
Because he knew how to barter, he knew how to bargain. He knew how to make everything work, and he knew how to count money. He knew exactly what everything was worth, how much he was going to make from that tobacco crop, what he could trade, and how he could make it all work
Despite his business acumen, Parton’s father never learned to read or write, a source of shame.
BBC Russian Service and Mediazona uncover the names of more than 5,700 Russian soldiers who died in Ukraine — Meduza
‘The commanders don’t give a shit about us’ In one Russian brigade, around 700 soldiers have refused to fight. But their superiors won’t let them leave. — Meduza
Military servicemen from Russia’s 64th Motor Rifle Brigade told the investigative outlet iStories that around 700 contract soldiers have tried to resign from the service — but their command hasn’t let them.
The soldiers reached out to journalists after iStories published an article that described how Russian soldiers stole from and murdered civilians in Andriivka, a village in Ukraine’s Kyiv region. After the outlet learned the soldiers’ names and contacted them, one of them — 21-year-old Daniil Frolkin — confessed to journalists that he killed a civilian on orders from his commander.
Other soldiers from the brigade who spoke to iStories after the investigation was published confirmed Frolkin’s account. The outlet didn’t reveal their names for safety reasons.
One of the soldiers, who claimed to be in Ukraine, said that he was recently transferred in the direction of Kherson as part of the 64th Brigade. According to him, 80 percent of the brigade, including himself, want to resign from the army, but their commanders won’t let them. “I’ve written multiple refusals [to fight]. Each time, they tell me to go fuck myself,” he said.
Leading grain traders ‘sourcing soy beans from Brazilian farm linked to abuse’ | Brazil | The Guardian
Earthsight named the companies as Bunge and Cargill and said they sourced soy produced on a farm located on ancestral land of the Kaiowá indigenous group.
The Kaiowá were forcibly evicted by landowners more than half a century ago but the group have continued to stake their claim to land they know as Takuara.
The land was subsequently deforested to make way for cattle and soy plantations. A member of the Kaiowá, Marcos Verón, a septuagenarian chief, was beaten to death in violent clashes there in 2003 when he led a group of people seeking to take back their territory.
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Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land, report says
- Commodity-trading giants Cargill and Bunge source some of the soy used in products like chicken feed and pet food to land where Indigenous communities have suffered violence and displacement, according to a new report from Earthsight, an organization investigating environmental and social injustices.
- The companies have ties to a 9,700-hectare (24,000-acre) soy farm in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul that operates on the ancestral land of the Guarani Kaiowá, an Indigenous group that has spent the last several decades fighting forced eviction.
- Earthsight has documented supply chain links between soy from the Brasília do Sul farm and chicken retailers like KFC, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi and Iceland, as well as German supermarket chains like Rewe Markt, Netto Marken-Discount, Lidl, Aldi and Edeka.
- Earthsight said Cargill and Bunge need to take a firmer stance on Indigenous rights rather than passing off responsibility to intermediaries or deferring to legal loopholes.
Source: Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land, report says
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