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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Streetart – Lightbody107 @ Kilmarnock, UK

Lightbody107 @ Kilmarnock, UK Title: The Lady’s Walk Location: Kilmarnock, UK Artist: Lightbody107 For: Celebrate Kilmarnock USEFUL LINKS: …

Streetart – Lightbody107 @ Kilmarnock, UK

10 reasons why ecolabels & commodity certification are not a solution to stop the EU importing tropical deforestation — Palm Oil Detectives

71 environmental and human rights groups from around the world – wrote to the EU Commission warning that certification schemes and ecolabels were not…

10 reasons why ecolabels & commodity certification are not a solution to stop the EU importing tropical deforestation — Palm Oil Detectives

Another study ties Alzheimer’s progression to bacteria in your mouth

A common type of oral bacteria associated with periodontal disease has been linked to neuroinflammation and the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The research, from an international team of scientists, builds on a prior body of evidence linking poor oral health with dementia and neurodegeneration. Source: Another study ties Alzheimer’s progression to bacteria in your mouth

The Democrats Remind Us…

GOP really hates women… and privacy, health and freedom!!!

NANMYKEL.COM

I think there are enough facts here to justify quoting from Democrats.org:
Republican lawmakers are not stopping at overturning Roe. Across the country, Republicans are not only passing total abortion bans with no exceptions for rape or incest, but are now introducing legislation that could ban contraceptives.In Ohio, a group of House Republicans introduced a bill that would effectively ban all abortions from the moment of conception, and potentially other forms of birth control like IUDs.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The bill contains just two sentences: ‘The state of Ohio shall recognize the personhood, and protect the constitutional rights, of all unborn human individuals from the moment of conception. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted in any manner that would endanger the life of a mother.’”

The Columbus Dispatch: “Click’s bill, which is being co-sponsored by seven other lawmakers, could also potentially ban other forms of birth…

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Global monkeypox outbreak hits 10,000 cases | CIDRAP

Quest Diagnostics announce today it will become the third major commercial lab in the United States to test for monkeypox virus. The company announced that healthcare providers across the country should have access to the test in the first half of August.

With Quest, Labcorp, and Mayo Clinic all offering tests—as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—the country should have the capacity to perform 60,000 tests weekly by the end of this month. Half of those tests will be performed by Quest.

“We commend the [Department of Health and Human Services] and CDC for spearheading public-private collaboration to mobilize response to the current monkeypox outbreak,” said Jay G. Wohlgemuth, MD, senior vice president, R&D, medical and chief medical officer, Quest Diagnostics in a press release. “Quest’s expertise in infectious disease testing, national scale and relationships with half the country’s physicians and health systems is a vital complement to the efforts of the CDC and other public health labs to combat the monkeypox outbreak in the United States.”

In related developments, Siga Technologies says it has received $28 million in orders for its antiviral for monkeypox. The drug, Tpoxx, is approved in Europe and the United Kingdom to fight monkeypox infections, and in the United States to fight smallpox.

Outbreak may be fueled by new clade

A phylogenomic analysis of available monkeypox virus genomes from the current outbreak reveals that a novel clade appears to have emerged in Europe in early March. That clade, coupled with dwindling previous immunity from smallpox vaccines, likely help the virus spread, the authors say.

In a new epidemiologic report on the outbreak in Spain, 85.8% of the case-patients who had available information said their likely route of transmission was intimate and prolonged contact during sex. Most patients also experienced an anogenital rash and swollen lymph nodes, and 61.1% of patients live in Madrid.

A total of 1,242 initial cases were in men, with 14 in women. The median age of case-patients was 37 years, and all but 1 of the case-patients were adults, the authors said.

Source: Global monkeypox outbreak hits 10,000 cases | CIDRAP