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Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

  • Almost 90% of the 180 recognized RNA viruses that can harm humans are zoonotic in origin. But disease biosurveillance of the world’s wildlife markets and legal trade is largely absent, putting humanity at significant risk.
  • The world needs a decentralized disease biosurveillance system, experts say, that would allow public health professionals and wildlife scientists in remote areas to test for pathogens year-round, at source, with modern mobile technologies in order to help facilitate a rapid response to emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks.
  • Though conservation advocates have long argued for an end to the illegal wildlife trade (which does pose zoonotic disease risk), but the legal trade poses a much greater threat to human health, say experts.
  • Governments around the world are calling for the World Health Organization to create a pandemic treaty. Wildlife groups are pushing for such an agreement to include greater at-source protections to prevent zoonotic spillover.

Before the coronavirus pandemic shut down Wuhan’s wildlife markets in 2020, it was common to see dozens of species and hundreds of wild animals crammed into cages, stacked one on top of the other.

A walk through the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market revealed king rat snakes (Elaphe carinata), bamboo rats (Rhizomys sinensis), Amur hedgehogs (Erinaceus amurensis), raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and hog badgers (Arctonyx albogularis) peering out from wire and glass cages. Marmots (Marmota himalayana), sold for food, commanded more than $25 per kilogram ($11 per pound). Hedgehogs cost just $2 per kilo (90 cents a pound). All held the possibility of being a vector for zoonotic disease.

Source: Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

El Día de los Pueblos Indígenas es una festividad que se celebra en los países colonizados para honrar a los pueblos indígenas y celebrar sus historias y culturas, ¡mientras los gobiernos y las empresas continúan saqueando y robando territorios indígenas!

Barbara Crane Navarro

En los Estados Unidos, el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas evolucionó como una alternativa al «día de la invasión», que celebró la llegada de Cristóbal Colón al Nuevo Mundo el 12 de octubre de 1492 y el inicio de la colonización de América del Norte.

Los nativos americanos protestaron por la idea de honrar a un hombre que permitió su genocidio y asimilación forzada.

Hoy en día, en toda América del Norte, las luchas indígenas contra las minas y oleoductos que deberían pasar por lugares sagrados o fuentes de agua en sus comunidades aún continúan. ¡Piden al gobierno que «respete los tratados! » y reconocer que « ¡El agua es vida! »

Entre ellos, el Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) pone en peligro el suministro de agua de la reserva Standing Rock Sioux en el río Missouri.

La Línea 3 es un proyecto de expansión de oleoductos para transportar un millón…

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DIA DE LA RESISTENCIA INDIGENA, NEGRA Y POPULAR — BARRICADA

Barbara Crane Navarro

El 12 de octubre de 1492, el desdichado Almirante Cristóbal Colón, en busca de nuevas rutas para llegar a la India, se encontró con un continente desconocido, el Nuevo Mundo le llamó. Un mundo en plenitud, donde florecían esplendidas civilizaciones en Mesoamérica, Región Andina y Cono Sur. Cultivadores del maíz, frijol, calabaza, papa, tomate,tabaco,…

DIA DE LA RESISTENCIA INDIGENA, NEGRA Y POPULAR — BARRICADA

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AMÉRICA LATINA: CONQUISTA y COLONIZACIÓN — Revista Umbrales Uruguay — mimismo

Barbara Crane Navarro

Una ocupación que mató a 60 millones de americanos en poco más de un siglo. El sacerdote español Fernando Bermudez Lopez ha estado 30 años misionero en Guatemala y México y es profesor universitario de Historia de la Iglesia en América Latina. Recientemente hubo un rechazo del rey de España para pedir perdón por los[…][…]

AMÉRICA LATINA: CONQUISTA y COLONIZACIÓN — Revista Umbrales Uruguay — mimismo

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Projekt Wöchentliche Fotochallenge #33 “Landschaft”

Vivaldi translation of first two paragraphs: This week Roland from “Royusch-Unterwegs” invited to show a photo on the topic of “landscape”. I chose the image of one of the unique natural wonders of the earth, which shows the landscape of the subtropical rainforest with the waterfalls of Iguazú. The falls lie in the middle of the twin national parks of Argentina and Brazil in a magnificent landscape that is nowhere else in this way. That is why the two national parks, the Argentine “Parque Nacional Iguazú” and the Brazilian “Parque Nacional do Iguaçu”, also belong together to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The waterfalls are located on the border between the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones. They arise from the fact that the Rio Iguazú in southern Brazil flows over a basalt plateau, which ends abruptly before the confluence with the Rio Paraná. In the language of the Tupi Guarani Indians, the name means “large water”, which is quite justified given the more than 250 individual waterfalls, which plunge down into two steps over a length of 2700 m and a height of sometimes over 80 meters is.

Senioren um die Welt

In dieser Woche hat Roland von „Royusch-Unterwegs“ dazu eingeladen, ein Foto zum Thema “Landschaft” zu zeigen. Ich habe dafür das Bild eines der einzigartigen Naturwunder der Erde gewählt, das die Landschaft des subtropischen Regenwalds mit den Wasserfällen von Iguazú zeigt. Die Fälle liegen inmitten der Zwillings-Nationalparks von Argentinien und Brasilien in einer grandiosen Landschaft, die es in dieser Art sonst nirgendwo gibt. Deshalb gehören die beiden Nationalparks, der argentinische “Parque Nacional Iguazú” und der brasiliansiche ,”Parque Nacional do Iguaçu”, auch gemeinsam zum UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe.


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Covid: Lateral flow tests more accurate than first thought, study finds – BBC News

When the researchers used a new formula for calculating the test’s accuracy, they found LFTs were more than 80% effective at detecting any level of Covid-19 infection and likely to be more than 90% effective at detecting who is most infectious when they use the test.

This is much higher than previously thought, they say, adding that rapid tests are “a very useful public health tool” for stopping the spread of the virus.

Prof Michael Mina, from Harvard School of Public Health, also part of the research team, said the LFTs could “catch nearly everyone who is currently a serious risk to public health” when viral loads are at their peak.

“It is most likely that if someone’s LFT is negative but their PCR is positive, then this is because they are not at peak transmissible stage,” he said.

Source: Covid: Lateral flow tests more accurate than first thought, study finds – BBC News

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Democratic Republic of the Congo starts Ebola vaccination

Democratic Republic of Congo, October 13, 2021/APO Group/ —

Ebola vaccination began today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu Province where a case was confirmed on 8 October. People at high risk, including contacts of the confirmed case and first responders will receive the doses as the health authorities move to curb the spread of the virus.

The confirmed case was a two-year old boy who died on 6 October in a local health facility. He lived in the same community where three members of the same family died in September after experiencing Ebola-like symptoms.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Democratic Republic of the Congo starts Ebola vaccination

Black Georgia Students Suspended After Planning Protest

Black students along with white and Hispanic students went to the front office, as requested, to talk to administrators about the protest plans and hand over any flyers promoting it. Students tell CBS46 that they began to argue with administrators about the lack of disciplinary action taken against students using racial slurs.

The Black students say they were suspended. Some white students tell CBS46 they were disruptive and argumentative with administrators but they were not suspended, only Black students, according to the student protestors. By Friday, they joined together to protest outside the school throughout the day, most of them were suspended. Others chose to skip, with the permission and support of their parents.

Students of various ethnicities participated in the demonstration on Friday. Parents and student organizers claim that only Black students were suspended for their involvement.

“All the African Americans they suspended them, and they didn’t suspend them,” Lilyan Huckaby said to CBS46 while pointing toward white and Hispanic students. “They didn’t suspend me and I was yelling and loud. It’s because I’m white,” she said.

A few Black parents told CBS 46 that sheriff’s deputies came to their homes to tell them their children had been suspended. One parent said an officer actually pulled her over while she was driving. Another parent claimed that she complained to the administration about prior racist incidents at the school and nothing has been done about it while all three of her children were suspended for the protest.

Source: Black Georgia Students Suspended After Planning Protest