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[wachinyeya]

First malaria treatment for babies approved for use

Until now, there had only been drugs for older children which carried an overdose risk for the young.

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[typhlonectes]

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Image from page 20 of "Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat" (1912). Coleman, William Franklin, b. 1838

[nemfrog]

Organisms that cause disease. Nouveau Larousse illustré. 1898.

From left to right:

Golden Staphylococcus

Streptococcus of pus and erysipelas

Bacillus of blue pus

Septic Vibrio

Pneumococcus of pneumonia

Friedländer's Pneumobacillus

Typhoid fever bacillus

Tuberculous bacillus

Leprosy bacillus

Diphtheria bacillus

Tetanus bacillus

Plague bacillus

Cholera bacillus

Gonococcus

Diplobacillus of conjunctivitis

Malarial hematozoa

Spirillum of relapsing fever

Botulism microbe

Intestinal colibacillus

Glanders bacillus

Anthrax bacillus

Micrococcus of bovine mastitis

Swine erysipelas bacillus

Swine pneumo-enteritis bacillus

Horse septicemia bacillus

Symptomatic anthrax

Rabbit septicemia

Fowl cholera

Sarcina

Leuconostoc

Ascococcus

Microbes of wine and beer ropiness (occupies two circles)

Nitrification microbes

Blue milk bacillus

Proteus

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[theonion]

As a mother, I put my parenting decisions above all else. Nobody knows my son better than me, and the choices I make about how to care for him are no one’s business but my own. So, when other people tell me how they think I should be raising my child, I simply can’t tolerate it. Regardless of what anyone else thinks, I fully stand behind my choices as a mom, including my choice not to vaccinate my son, because it is my fundamental right as a parent to decide which eradicated diseases come roaring back. The decision to cause a full-blown, multi-state pandemic of a virus that was effectively eliminated from the national population generations ago is my choice alone, and regardless of your personal convictions, that right should never be taken away from a child’s parent. Never.

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[pale-blue-home]

🤱🩺🩹 Botswana was named the first high-HIV country to end mother-to-child HIV transmission earlier this year! The achievement is a remarkable shift from the start of the century, when one in eight infants were infected at birth and transmission either through pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding ranged between 20 and 40% – a situation so severe the country’s then-president declared the nation in danger of “extinction.” However, through sustained political campaigns in investing in scientific infrastructure, testing and antiretroviral treatments, and public health education programs, mother-to-child transmission rates now lie below 1%, effectively eliminating the public health threat!

Botswana was once ‘at risk of extinction’ from HIV. Now it is a world leader in eliminating the virus in children

The pioneering African country is lauded for slashing rates of mother-to-child transmission to just 1.2% and is holding trials that may now