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Not a lot to say about myself. Worked as GP in valleys, then public health something to do with data of health events. Ignored mainly, you're advised to do the same. Meanwhile if you fancy seeing what I'm thinking this is quite a good place happy to be corrected as I don't know as much as I think I do. It's a common male fault. 🤣

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appassionato, to palestine
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Gaza on brink of deadly epidemic outbreak

Oxfam’s staff in Gaza are describing piles of human waste and rivers of sewage in the streets. They said people are also drinking dirty water while children are being bitten by insects swarming around the sewage. All of this makes conditions ripe for the outbreak of epidemics, including Hepatitis A and cholera, the charity warned.

@palestine


epistatacadam,
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@appassionato @palestine and infectious diseases do not recognise political borders or front lines. It might be wiser for IDF to withdraw and let aid and electricity back in.

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
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Maternity care is in crisis:

Zoe Williams concludes:

'It’s not a story of one bad apple, or one bad chief executive, or one bad institutional culture, or one underprivileged area. In 2022, 80 of the country’s 193 maternity units were deemed unsafe by the Care Quality Commission. That definitely wasn’t the austerity promise, not even in the small print: creating a country not safe to give birth in'!

One more dimensions of the Tories wrecking of the NHS


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/the-birth-trauma-scandal-is-not-about-one-bad-apple-one-bad-culture-or-one-bad-area-its-about-the-mess-of-austerity

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 it's also part of the tick box approach healthcare. If you train professionals to act as providers of care/advice to individuals tailored their needs, but then insist that they deliver (bog) standard care aimed at a mythical Mean patient, then as day follows night the probability that any person receive excellent care is very close to zero. So costs rise as outcomes deteriorate.
Healthcare is complex and humans keep it safe, if permitted to; procedures may prevent them doing that.

glynmoody, to random
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Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/13/superbugs-antibiotics-drugs-antimicrobial-resistance-infections-pandemics-sally-davies farmers mainly to blame, of course: "More than two-thirds of antibiotics go into farm animals"

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody I suspect we should consider the centralised sewage system as at least partly to blame, too! Where do all the antibiotics go after all mammals have taken them? And don't we put lots of bacteria to grow there too? Evolution will pressure the quick survival of those bacteria best fitted to the sewer environment.....with constant supply of low levels of antibiotics.

Not sure what the solution is but always remember if you point a finger at anyone there are three pointing back at you!

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody and the outflow from sewage goes into ... Which is used by animals that get infected so need treatment by antibiotics so yes farmering is a problem but is it a consequence of our profligate use, rather than the source of the problem.
I'm also unimpressed by the mass incarceration of animals as the most profitable way to rear them. And act as incubators for infectious diseases....again the fault is the human end.....

cstross, to random
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  • Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *

Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …

epistatacadam,
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@cstross my small town has a thriving high street umpteen coffee shops, plus Fromagerie, an ice cream parlour and numerous restaurants, and a greengrocer and three butchers, two bakers! Plus the usual chains. We walk to town most days, to see what's going on. Unfortunately housing is expensive so young people are driven away. Would love to see housing drop in price. But I'm old and decrepit so no one cares what I thin. 😆

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday

#DontVoteLabour #UKPolitics #FreePalestine #ToryContinuityParty

epistatacadam,
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@Thebratdragon @gruff @fkamiah17 on the basis of the latest recruit JRM is hard left compared to her! And very keen on destroying Trade Unions.
I am always told you can judge a person by the company they keep. Fortunately, here in Wales we have two progressive parties, neither of which are HMG or HMLO.

Wen, to environment
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Bird flu outbreaks in cattle will not affect supply, Americans told

http://archive.today/2024.05.02-184845/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bird-flu-outbreak-us-virus-spread-cattle-cows-mgbnwwn9f

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Scientist and animal/human health workers are worried, but the public is told ‘nothing to see, nothing to worry about, move on’.

The massive power of agribusiness is threatening the world we live in and also (for those who don't really care), our health by incubating new and dangerous illnesses.

epistatacadam,
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@Wen I expect their intensive inhumane feedlot system of mass produced beef is almost certain to reduce animal health and the density of the 'herds' almost guarantees any infections will pass swiftly through the herd.
And their given hormone supplements to grow faster.
Why anyone thinks US beef is good, totally baffles me. The pollution it causes is enormous. Free ranging big herbivores are an environmental plus, but force fed dense collections are a disaster waiting to happen.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Tomorrow morning the Home Office starts to round up the migrants they expect to try to send to Rwanda... I saw round up, but actually they're expecting to pick up (some of) their victims when they attend regular/scheduled meetings with officials.

These currently 'free' migrants will then be detained ahead of flights to Rwanda.

(again) if the money spent on this viscous & inhumane policy was spent on integrating migrants into British society, it would be much more cost effective!

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 and beneficial to us all. This policy has no merit at all. It costs us tax payers plenty, for which we see no short term or long term benefits. Spending the same to integrate them all would improve public services, and give us both financial and social benefits of unimaginable value. It's an evil policy, born of gross stupidity, and totally without merit.

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