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Drawing of my character Plos in her anthro form. She was previously an F-Zero human Oc.
Background The emergence of COVID-19 overwhelmed tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control, resulting in a decrease in TB detection rate and
Since TB is breaking out throughout the United States in several states and the CDC is muzzled by Trump, figured this open source research article from 2022 published in PLoS might be relevant to everyone.
If you had COVID before, you're more likely to reactivate latent TB. About 2 to 3 billion people (1/4 to 1/3 of the world's population) is latently infected with TB; and we know that they becomes activated in immuno-compromised individuals.
Im curious.... what do you think my nationality is?
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American 🇺🇸
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I'm putting the duration for a week but might change it idk.
"Allowing only ‘safe’ ideas to be explored not only holds society back by limiting what we are allowed to think and know, but also taints the public’s faith in the academic process". Reblog with caption 🙃
Plos: With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!
Traumatic brain injuries linked to dementia risks
A person who has suffered a brain injury is more likely to develop dementia. The worse the injury the greater the risk, shows a new Swedish study.
The connection between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and dementia has been investigated extensively. Some studies have indicated a clear connection but researchers have not ascertained that the blows to the head are what increased the risk for dementia.
People get such injuries from falling, participating in contact sports, getting in traffic accidents or being the victims of violence.
Swedish researchers now think they have found a clear link.
Researchers at Umeå University have used data from Statistics Sweden and the National Patient Register and they could look at the entire Swedish population. The register was searched for all cases of brain trauma and dementia from 1964 to 2012.
In other words, access to the register enabled the researchers to evaluate all cases of persons who sought medical treatment for light, moderate and severe head trauma for nearly 50 years.
These were compared with persons who did not suffer such head injuries.
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Photo: Participating in sports is great but certain health risks need to be weighed against the advantages, thinks Swedish researcher Anna Nordström. She has found a link between head trauma and dementia in a study of records for 164,000 Swedes diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. The higher risk continues 30 years after the injury. Shutterstock/NTB scanpix
Article for the week “The costs of Saving Nature”
My article for the week is “The Costs of Saving Nature: Does it Makes Cents?” by Andrew J. Tanentzap. I decided to look at this article because, while you may not like it, economics does play a role in environmental efforts. Economics is the study of the distribution of resources and as Tanentzap points out economics effects what land will be developed or maintained. The paper goes in depth of the cost and benefit of different uses of tropical forest land. The paper also mentions how more research and better models will be needed to be made in order to make the best decision. It is a good discussion starter and great place to start if you want to research more about conservation. Link: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003292
More scientific proof bees are super smart buggers ... Repost from today's #PLOS : "When searching to understand human behavior, it can help to think small. A recent study in PLOS Biology shows that bumblebees are also capable of social learning and cultural transmission—a first for invertebrates. String-pulling is a common puzzle for testing vertebrate cognitive ability, but scientists did not know if bees were up to the challenge. Researchers found that bumblebees could be trained to pull strings for fake-flower sugar rewards (videos). While most bees could not learn the task on their own, they could learn the technique after observing trained bees. The string-pulling skill then spread through a colony, even after the teacher was removed, similar to how innovations spread through human communities. This work challenges whether sophisticated learning and culture require large, highly developed brains. Author Lars Chittka pointed to "more and more evidence, both from experiments on small-brained insects and computational neuroscience, that small circuits can deal with exceptionally complex challenges." #bees #beesmart
