Archive for July, 2018
Off the northern coast of Cyprus: At least 19 people are dead after a ship carrying around 150 presumed migrants capsized in the Mediterranean, but 103 have been rescued so far.
Thursday, July 19th, 2018A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Sandiego infections linked to Spring Pasta Salad purchased at Hy-Vee grocery stores.
Thursday, July 19th, 2018At A Glance
- Reported Cases: 21
- States: 5
- Hospitalizations: 5
- Deaths: 0
- Recall: Yes
| State | Ill People |
|---|---|
| Iowa | 8 |
| Minnesota | 7 |
| Missouri | 1 |
| Nebraska | 4 |
| South Dakota | 1 |
| Total | 21 |
A recent World Bank report concluded, rising temperatures in SE Asia could diminish the living standards of 800 million people.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
“……a recent analysis of climate trends in several of South Asia’s biggest cities found that if current warming trends continued, by the end of the century, wet bulb temperatures — a measure of heat and humidity that can indicate the point when the body can no longer cool itself — would be so high that people directly exposed for six hours or more would not survive……..”
7/18/64: Did Nero fiddle while Rome burned?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018“……Three of Rome’s 14 districts were completely wiped out; only four were untouched by the tremendous conflagration. Hundreds of people died in the fire and many thousands were left homeless.….”
Nuffield Bioethics: BACKGROUND PAPER on PANDEMICS
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018Nuffield Bioethics Document on Pandemic Ethical Considerations
Forward Look 19-20 May 2011
Pandemics
Background Paper
Giovanni De Grandis, University College London Jasper Littmann, University College London / Health Protection Agency
“This paper highlights the main ethical problems raised by strategies aiming at pandemic prevention and control. It outlines what issues nations, policy makers, health care professionals and the public are faced with both during a pandemic and in the attempt to stave it off.”
Nuffield Bioethics
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has achieved an international reputation as an independent body advising policy makers and stimulating debate in bioethics.
“The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is an independent body that examines and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine. It was established by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation in 1991, and since 1994 it has been funded jointly by the Foundation, Wellcome and the Medical Research Council.
The Council has achieved an international reputation for advising policy makers and stimulating debate in bioethics.
Terms of reference
- To identify and define ethical questions raised by recent developments in biological and medical research that concern, or are likely to concern, the public interest;
- To make arrangements for the independent examination of such questions with appropriate involvement of relevant stakeholders;
- To inform and engage in policy and media debates about those ethical questions and provide informed comment on emerging issues related to or derived from the Council’s published or ongoing work; and
- To make policy recommendations to Government or other relevant bodies and to disseminate its work through published reports, briefings and other appropriate outputs.”
7/18/1984: An active shooter situation develops in a crowded McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 and wounding 19 others
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, but in May, the WHO declared that Nepal had eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the sixth country to do so; Ghana is the 7th.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018“…..The bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, can be transmitted from person to person by, for example, sharing a towel. But in rural areas, it is more commonly transmitted by flies that crawl over children’s faces to eat the discharge from runny eyes and noses, and then flit back to human feces to lay their eggs.
Victims are first infected as toddlers, but permanent eye damage takes decades and usually sets in after age 30. To break that chain, the W.H.O. recommends a four-pronged strategy: surgery for advanced cases; annual antibiotic doses for everyone in hard-hit areas; teaching mothers to wash their children’s faces frequently; and use of pit latrines, which reduce fly populations……”
India: 17 of the 19 infected people might have contracted the Nipah virus from the first victim
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018“…..Mohammed Sabith first took treatment as an ‘out patient’ at the Perambra hospital for high fever and body pain on May 2.
As his condition worsened on May 4, Mohammed Sabith was shifted to the Medical College hospital for a CT scan, where he died on May 5. Ten people got infected at the medical college on the single day he was there….”
