Media should ask public health how measles virus transmits
With all the attention on #measles#outbreaks recently, the media should ask public health how the measles #virus can catch a ride in #aerosols to help it stay #airborne for hours and infect people but somehow no other virus like #COVID or #respiratory viruses (#Flu, #RSV) can use the exact same transportation method and fall to the ground. 🤔🧵 1/
As #respiratory illness surge on the European continent with #Covid, #flu & other conditions producing spikes in hospital admissions in many countries, as yet this surge isn't happening in the UK.
The Q. now is whether we have managed to avoid (through lunch and/or design) this combination of respiratory infections, or whether this wave is heading our way soon?
If it is heading our way then the #NHS (which continues to be in crisis) will be on course for some serious difficulties this spring!
Why do people seem to be getting #sick more often now?
For yet another year we are already seeing earlier and significantly higher #hospital#admissions for #respiratory#illness than pre-pandemic levels. Are there new mysterious #pathogens starting to attack us now? 🧵 1/
A developer of messenger RNA therapies for respiratory and rare diseases says it received clearance to begin a clinical trial in the U.K. for an inhaled treatment for viral lung conditions.
It doesn't take much for #vaping to start creating permanent damage to the lungs -- regardless of what you're vaping. And you won't feel the changes until the damage is fairly extensive.
A new company spun-off from a university lab consortium is advancing gene therapies delivered through the lungs to treat rare inherited respiratory diseases.
Hey, world. Just so you know, #H5N1 has mutated on Finnish fur farms to spread between mammals. #Finland will not stop the practice of farming mink, fox in steel cages etc despite this. This should not be a surprise, since we value neither animal nor human life. Feel free to apply pressure. #respiratory#pandemic#policy#policyfailure
Over only a 6 week period in 2022 during a period of sustained #respiratory#viral activity in #Ottawa, Canada kids being absent was reduced enough to gain almost 2,000 #school days with masking policies. This was with mostly low quality #masks, imagine how much better if everyone had proper #N95 or better.
NIH Funding Single Home Test for Covid-19, Influenza, RSV
A developer of diagnostics for infectious and other diseases is receiving a National Institutes of Health contract to advance a single at-home test for multiple respiratory diseases.
For Patient Safety, It Is Not Time to Take Off Masks in Health Care Settings | Annals of Internal Medicine https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-1190# “Although gold-standard evidence is not available, we argue that, despite the lack of clinical efficacy trials (as with the widely accepted practice of #HandHygiene), #masking in interactions between # patients and #HealthCare personnel should continue to receive serious consideration as a patient safety measure.”
“Laboratory studies have done what clinical research has not and demonstrated that #SurgicalMasks—and to a greater extent, filtering facepiece #respirators—are effective in limiting the spread of #aerosols and #droplets from individuals infected with #influenza, #coronaviruses, and other #respiratory viruses. Although not 100% effective, they substantially reduce quantities of virus expelled during coughing or talking, thereby mitigating risk.
"Much of the reluctance to do what #ClimateChange requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for #austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we’re well rid of, from deadly #emissions to nagging feelings of doom and complicity in destruction?
What if the austerity is how we live now — and the #abundance could be what is to come?"
"Currently 7 million people die prematurely EACH YEAR from #AirPollution, more than the death toll during the entire #pandemic.
Lung #cancer and #respiratory-related deaths linked to air pollution are up 160% over the past 30 years and it causes genetic mutations in some lung cancer-linked genes."
We will stop paying this price as soon as we give #FossilFuels the boot: let's do it!
Although I arrived in here a couple of weeks ago, I immediately succumbed to Covid, and I have not yet done my #Introduction toot. So this is it. I am one of the many migrants from the BirdSite, although at present I am keeping a precarious foot in both camps. If my twittering past is any guide to the future, my Mastodon toots are likely to swing wildly from sensible #respiratory / #physiotherapy information to ironic comment on political issues, interspersed with my personal trivia. And dogs.