#Migrant workers face disproportionate risk, compared to general population. According to Amy Liebman, chief program officer Migrant Clinicians Network, these workers make up the bulk of the agricultural and food processing industries. They also are more likely to lack affordable access to health care, and may hesitate to report symptoms if it means not working.
A wave of euphoria hit the audience as Fo Sho Sisters, the Ukrainian-Ethiopian hip-hop trio, dived into their set. What an amazing concert for the closing act of the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION! So overwhelming, that both Jörg Heiser in Republik magazine (https://www.republik.ch/2024/04/26/demo-auf-der-biennale) and the renowned filmmaker Hito Steyerl @hito (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nUnvowFAk4&t=452s) acclaimed FO SHO as worthy of the Golden Lion.
Hang on -- so Thames Water in the UK hasn't done necessary maintenance to prevent sewage spills into rivers and the ocean. Now, after so much public backlash about their environmental damage, they plan to do that work, and then RAISE the customers' bills by 40-44% to recoup the costs???
Bird flu detected in person who had contact with infected dairy cattle in Texas
A person in Texas is being treated for #bird#flu,
the second human case of an illness caused by
a highly virulent virus
that has rampaged through 🔸sickened dairy cows in five states🔸 in recent weeks.
The patient, who experienced eye inflammation as their only symptom, was tested for flu late last week with confirmatory testing performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the weekend.
The patient is being treated with the antiviral drug oseltamivir.
The case does not change the #risk for the general public,
👉which remains low.
The person had direct exposure to dairy cattle presumed to be infected with #avian#influenza, Texas officials said Monday.
The case has alarmed disease trackers monitoring for the worst-case scenario:
♦️human-to-human transmission of the pathogen, which has happened infrequently worldwide and typically among family members engaged in work with animals. ♦️
And it raises questions about whether this pathogen is now more easily transmitted among mammals.
Epidemiologists have been worried about the🔹 growing number of mammals 🔹infected by highly pathogenic avian influenza — commonly known as #HPAI — around the world.
The avian influenza has been spreading around the world since 2020, and has been documented to infect dozens of other mammalian species, but rarely spreads between them.
Last month, HPAI was found in a baby goat in #Minnesota, the first case in U.S. livestock.
Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
#CaptiveDolphins that perform in swim-with programs are kept intentionally hungry so that they are forced to interact with park visitors. Wild dolphins do not usually swim with people and they certainly do not kiss or tow people around because they do not like to.
Swim-with-dolphin programs pose a huge #risk to the public. There are hundreds of documented cases of #injuries from participants, including reports that humans have been rammed or bitten
WHO document drops on #SARS2 transmission, so I opened this up as if it was a tactical nuke needing defusing.
But holy cow...
WHO Airborne Risk Indoor Assessment (ARIA) Technical Advisory Group with LIDIA MORAWSKA as the CO-CHAIR!?!?
CERN?!?!?
WHO Environment and Engineering Control Expert Advisory Panel (ECAP) with Cathy Noakes on it and ASHRAE liason?
An actual model?
I do see the dreaded Dr. IPAC Droplets on the committee... hmm.
<now reading intensely, this is going to take a few minutes>
Indoor #airborne#risk#assessment in the context of #SARSCoV2 : description of airborne transmission mechanism and method to develop a new standardized model for risk assessment
Unlike other #nuclear#states , #France has chosen to reprocess its nuclear #waste on a massive scale, first at La Hague and then partly in... #Russia .While this saves 20% of #natural#uranium in #French nuclear #power#plants ,the #choice is politically highly questionable, since not only has it already accumulated 100 tonnes of #plutonium stored in France, which represents an enormous #risk , but it also contributes to financing the #Russian#state and, consequently, its #war in #Ukraine .
Rep #KenCalvert, top #Republican on #Defense Appropriations. “Every member must understand the impact of not passing this package. The only other option will be a full CR which will devastate our #NationalSecurity & put our country at #risk.”
A bloated #battery in a #TUXEDO does not necessarily represent a safety #risk, but it can affect the #performance of the device and possibly damage the chassis. Read here what you need to do and how you can avoid a bloated battery.
>>Cultivating the actuarial self as a political subject shifts the conversation away from public, structural, effective solutions in favour of tips and hacks that can never address the root of problems.<<
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Classic Krakauer Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer
Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mt. Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of greater Seattle at any moment; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherwordly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars...