#disease control

[mybackgroundnoize]

IF ICE agents don't gun US down in our own streets, MAHA man, RFK Jr., is just gonna bring back childhood diseases like measles & polio and kill US off.

POTUS Trump - You thought of everything, haven't you? Except … how can one be king when there are NO CITIZENS? Plan to re-import the deportees?

#YouAreAnInsaneMan

(via Vaccine policy protects individual rights, not public health, top CDC adviser says)

[stone-cold-groove]

Chinese meningitis/meningococcal disease prevention, control and notification poster - 1952.

[floortile34]

coercing people to go to work and school when sick should be punished

like the prevalence of just having to go be near dozens/hundreds of people when overtly sick must be a disease control nightmare. and it's probably killed tens of millions

like you should be allowed to actually do the "wait 5 days after all symptoms have stopped to go back to school/work" thing, but you really just arent allowed to after like kindergarten, in any country that i know of (except for specialty situations like lab work ig)

[bpod-bpod]

Love is Deaf

From birdsong to love songs, sound can play an important role in any romance. In some species removing that ingredient can even stop a relationship in its tracks, according to researchers investigating the impact of deafness in mating of disease-carrying mosquitoes. A study examined neurons (brain cells) that express a particular gene essential for hearing in the dengue- and zika-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito. The neurons (shown in green) protrude into the brain's auditory centre (pictured), and help transmit sound-induced movement from the antenna. When the gene was silenced, rendering the mosquitoes deaf, males were unable to mate at all, failing to modulate their patterns of wingbeats in sync with females as they normally would during mating. Hearing is therefore not just important, but essential, to mosquito reproduction, which could present a new route to population management and attempts to slow the spread of deadly diseases.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Yijin Wang, Dhananjay Thakur and Emma Duge, and colleagues

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), November 2024

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[heraldrydiculous]

369 CDC

[xxredridinghoodxx]

If businesses would just provide accomodations and set policies that give those avoiding SARS-CoV-2 infection and spread some safety, they'd get a flood of new customers. So many just want the same access to medical care, food and community spaces just like other people have.

[its-a-date]

By the late nineteenth century, chemical interventions were increasingly used. Fungicides and insecticides were perfected and commercialized. It is telling that biological and chemical mechanisms of disease control were a dominant topic at the Paris Congress in 1889.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[wikipediapictures]

Pertussis vaccine