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The eradication of small pox may have the set stage for the mpox outbreak
4 weeks ago

The eradication of small pox may have the set stage for the mpox outbreak

NPR  

The eradication of small pox may have the set stage for the mpox outbreak After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting sick with something rarely seen before - mpox. GABRIELLE EMANUEL, BYLINE: Eugene Bangwen spends his days thinking about mpox formerly called monkeypox. Bangwen decided to …

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Monkey pox outbreak: Bengaluru airport on high alert, staff conduct tests for international passengers
3 months, 1 week ago

Monkey pox outbreak: Bengaluru airport on high alert, staff conduct tests for international passengers

Hindustan Times  

Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport is on high alert after India’s first monkeypox case was detected in New Delhi and screening tests for international passengers are underway. Monkey pox outbreak: Bengaluru airport on high alert, staff conduct tests for international passengers In an announcement, Bangalore International Airport Limited said, “Keeping the global Mpox situation in mind, Bengaluru airport is fully prepared …

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Clade 9: New variant of chickenpox virus detected in India, know symptoms and prevention tips – India TV
1 year, 3 months ago

Clade 9: New variant of chickenpox virus detected in India, know symptoms and prevention tips – India TV

India TV News  

India has recently witnessed the emergence of a new strain that causes chickenpox known as Clade 9. The Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology scientists have discovered the Clade 9 dominant version of the monkeypox-causing varicella-zoster virus during the country's study of chickenpox cases. Prevention Measures Vaccination: Getting vaccinated is the most reliable and safest method of protecting …

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California endures a pox of potholes as storms pummel roads and freeways
1 year, 11 months ago

California endures a pox of potholes as storms pummel roads and freeways

LA Times  

California drivers may not face rain this week, but potholes caused by recent storms pose new dangers. The city has “eight or 10 pothole trucks working per day” in a grid system, Cox said, each dispatched to an area with especially high request volume. “By 7:30 in the morning, we already received 15 calls related just to that pothole.” “Pothole …

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Clear, the TSA line-skipping company, is a pox on America’s airports.
2 years ago

Clear, the TSA line-skipping company, is a pox on America’s airports.

Slate  

Like some 10 million others, I am a member of TSA PreCheck, the federal program through which Americans can access faster airport security lines while keeping their shoes on and their laptops in their bags as they pass through the scanner. Clear Secure’s identity-verification product, CLEAR, is entirely separate from TSA Pre; its members typically pay over $100 per year …

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Alert sounded after cases of lumpy skin disease emerge among vaccinated cattle in Rayalaseema of Andhra Pradesh
2 years, 1 month ago

Alert sounded after cases of lumpy skin disease emerge among vaccinated cattle in Rayalaseema of Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

Officials in Rayalaseema are on alert as efficacy of the goat pox vaccine, which is being given to the cattle affected by lumpy skin disease in the region, is reportedly not satisfactory as some of the vaccinated cattle was affected again. While there is no vaccine yet for lumpy skin disease, experts have advised administering goat pox vaccine to cattle …

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Lumpy skin disease: Over 66,000 doses of goat pox vaccine procured by Punjab
2 years, 4 months ago

Lumpy skin disease: Over 66,000 doses of goat pox vaccine procured by Punjab

The Hindu  

The Punjab government has procured over 66,000 doses of goat pox vaccine from Hyderabad to check the spread of lumpy skin disease among cattle in the state. These vaccine doses will be administered free of cost to the healthy livestock, said Punjab Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar on Sunday. Till Saturday, over 400 cattle have …

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Special team to probe suspected monkey pox death in Thrissur
2 years, 4 months ago

Special team to probe suspected monkey pox death in Thrissur

The Hindu  

The State government will constitute a high-level team to investigate the death of a 22-year-old suspected monkey pox patient. Taking to the mediapersons here on Sunday, Health Minister Veena George said the possibility of death due to monkey pox was very remote. “Though he had tested positive for monkey pox during a test conducted in a foreign country, it was …

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No need to panic as monkeypox disease self-limiting, fatality rate low, say experts
2 years, 4 months ago

No need to panic as monkeypox disease self-limiting, fatality rate low, say experts

India Today  

Delhi heaved a sigh of relief after a suspected monkeypox patient who was admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital tested negative on Thursday. Suspicion was there that this could be another monkeypox case,” Dr Suresh Kumar, medical director of LNJP Hospital, told India Today. However, the experts are saying that there is no need to panic when it comes …

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Experts call for 'ring vaccination' against monkeypox as Centre says no plan yet
2 years, 4 months ago

Experts call for 'ring vaccination' against monkeypox as Centre says no plan yet

India Today  

There is no plan yet to initiate a vaccination programme against monkeypox, a virus that has infected at least four people across the country, the Centre said. Infectious diseases specialist Dr Ishwar Gilada said the smallpox vaccine is the best bet to prevent and treat monkeypox. Those who received smallpox vaccines have 85% protection against monkeypox and the rest will …

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Dave Chappelle Under Fire After Calling Critics 'Trans Lunatics', Monkeypox 'Gay Disease'
2 years, 4 months ago

Dave Chappelle Under Fire After Calling Critics 'Trans Lunatics', Monkeypox 'Gay Disease'

News 18  

Dave Chappelle courted controversy again by making jokes that were perceived to be transphobic and homophobic. We are literally living in the 80’s with super influential people calling monkey pox “the gay disease.” So yeah I would say it’s absolutely justified for Dave Chappelle to be made uncomfortable as he continues his transphobic and now homophobic rants that he claims …

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‘Shift passengers with monkey pox symptoms to isolation ward’
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Shift passengers with monkey pox symptoms to isolation ward’

The Hindu  

Rajendra on Tuesday instructed Mangaluru International Airport, airlines and Health Department authorities to work in unison and admit flight passengers exhibiting suspected symptoms of monkey pox to the monkey pox isolation ward opened at the Government Wenlock Hospital in the city. Chairing a meeting on precautionary measures to be taken to contain the spread of monkey pox, at the airport, …

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Anti-vaxxers seize on Justin Bieber's facial paralysis as "proof" of a COVID conspiracy
2 years, 6 months ago

Anti-vaxxers seize on Justin Bieber's facial paralysis as "proof" of a COVID conspiracy

Salon  

Last Friday, pop icon Justin Bieber revealed he has a rare neurological disorder that has paralyzed half of his face. "As you can probably see from my face, I have this syndrome called Ramsay Hunt syndrome," the singer told fans in a video posted to social media. "There is a nerve called the seventh cranial nerve that's involved with the …

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3 must-know Mexican spirits worth a spot on your bar cart
2 years, 6 months ago

3 must-know Mexican spirits worth a spot on your bar cart

Salon  

This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes, a shop full of beautiful products, a cooking hotline, and everything in between! Though lesser known in the U.S., pox, sotol, and raicilla are three delicious Mexican spirits worth paying more attention to. Cesar …

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Monkeypox signs and symptoms in kids to watch out for
2 years, 6 months ago

Monkeypox signs and symptoms in kids to watch out for

Hindustan Times  

Monkeypox symptoms in kids: As monkeypox cases in the UK and a couple of other countries are on rise, it is important to be aware of the signs and symptoms of the viral zoonotic disease. Monkeypox in kids: Symptoms to watch out for "Although the risk of monkey pox infection is rare and mild in kids, it can mimic the …

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Suspected monkey pox cases to be isolated
2 years, 6 months ago

Suspected monkey pox cases to be isolated

The Hindu  

Persons suspected to have contracted monkey pox infection should be isolated at designated health facilities and their samples sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, for testing, Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan has said. Health facilities should “keep heightened suspicion” for people who presented themselves with unexplained rash and those who had travelled, 21 days prior to the occurrence of …

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What is monkeypox and how it spreads; know symptoms from expert
2 years, 7 months ago

What is monkeypox and how it spreads; know symptoms from expert

Hindustan Times  

Monkeypox, the viral zoonotic infection, a milder cousin of small pox is making news nowadays after UK reported the first case of human infection with the virus. At the outset a patient infected with monkeypox will have symptoms like fever, headache, chills, body ache, exhaustion and after than a painful rash or open sores might appear on face first and …

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Contemplating a COVID party for your kids? It’s still a bad idea
2 years, 11 months ago

Contemplating a COVID party for your kids? It’s still a bad idea

LA Times  

In the days before a vaccine for chicken pox became widely available, some parents would host “chicken pox parties” amidst an outbreak to try to ensure that their kids wouldn’t be left out of the wave of infections. McDeavitt said Omicron tends to be mild in children, “but sometimes it’s not.” Dr. Dean A. Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases …

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A Son Is Rescued at Sea. But What Happened to His Mother?
3 years, 5 months ago

A Son Is Rescued at Sea. But What Happened to His Mother?

Wired  

The decision was clear about Carman violating the terms of his policy. At the very bottom of page 12 of the decision read the following footnote: “To be clear, the Court is making no determination of whether Mr. Carman intended to sink his boat or to harm his mother.” The investigations of John Chakalos’ murder and Linda Carman’s disappearance remain …

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Dominic Cummings had his chance in government – on his own evidence, it could hardly have gone any worse
3 years, 6 months ago

Dominic Cummings had his chance in government – on his own evidence, it could hardly have gone any worse

The Independent  

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Don’t try this at home: Recharge by Rachel Lopez
4 years, 2 months ago

Don’t try this at home: Recharge by Rachel Lopez

Hindustan Times  

Edward Jenner, as schoolbooks rightly say, developed the first vaccine. He worked out a way to infect healthy humans with a cattle disease, cowpox, so they’d get mildly sick, recover, and enjoy lifelong immunity to the deadlier smallpox. Women would take their kids to the house of an infected child and tie a cloth on the sick child’s arm. The …

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Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now
54 years, 11 months ago

Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now

Slate  

Earlier this month, Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower made it onto the New York Times’ bestseller lists 27 years after its original publication. In Parable of the Sower and Butler’s 1998 follow-up, Parable of the Talents, Olamina leaves the gated compound where she grew up, goes on the road, starts her own community, and becomes a leader of …

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