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Why are we catching more diseases from animals?
The world is grappling with the new coronavirus, which has spread from China to at least 15 other countries.
Outbreaks of new infectious diseases are typically seen as a "one off".
But the new virus - thought to have stemmed from wildlife - highlights our risk from animal-borne disease. This is likely to be more of a problem in future as climate change and globalisation alter the way animals and humans interact.
How can animals make people ill?
In the past 50 years, a host of infectious diseases have spread rapidly after making the evolutionary jump from animals to humans.
The HIV/Aids crisis of the 1980s originated from great apes, the 2004-07 avian flu pandemic came from birds, and pigs gave us the swine flu pandemic in 2009. More recently, it was discovered severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) came from bats, via civets, while bats also gave us Ebola.
Humans have always caught diseases from animals. In fact, most new infectious diseases come from wildlife.
Why are we catching more diseases from animals
Some pet owners are advocating against rabies vaccines
Hundreds of baby emperor penguins stranded on breakaway iceberg miraculously survive
RATS HAVE ALREADY WON
What we do know is that recorded rat sightings in New York are at an all-time high. In December, Mayor Eric Adams posted, with great fanfare, a job announcement: The city was looking for a “highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty” candidate to take on the newly restored position of rat czar. (A brilliant idea, I thought; I had, after all, suggested that he take such action in an open letter.) Yet, three months later, the position still hasn’t been filled. A few weeks ago, the mayor himself had to pay a $300 fine for failing to control rats at a rowhouse he rents out to tenants.
RATS HAVE ALREADY WON
Rodent droppings found at restaurant
They Lost Their Jobs Because They Put Their Dog Down
Growing number of Mass. communities being overrun by pesky rodents
Rats found infected with virus that causes COVID
Rat soup shuts down popular restaurant
Is Birth Control the Solution?
Rat problem?
Infectious disease spread by rat urine seeps into NYC
Rat urine is causing uptick in rare disease
Young men reveal why they’re single
They’re single but they’re not mingling.
New data from the Pew Research Center has shown that 63% of men under 30 are single – up from 51% in 2019.
COVID isolation and women’s high expectations for something serious are the main reasons they’re avoiding going out and coupling up, young guys say.
“Dates feel more like job interviews now. Much more like ‘What can you do for me and where is this going?'” said Ian Breslow, a 28-year-old high school teacher who lives in Astoria.
Young men reveal why they’re single
11-year-old reads aloud from ‘pornographic’ book
‘I’m a father and I couldn’t do this’
Gay couple beaten in Times Square
A return to chastity?
Man, 26, poses as teen at high schools, now charged with sex crimes
‘I was sucking and cutting at the same time’
Men With These 2 Pets Are Most Likely to Cheat
Infidelity can indelibly alter your relationship, turning what was once a happy coupling into one full of anger and resentment. While certain things can tip you off to a cheating partner—one too many late nights "at the office" or a phone they guard for dear life, to name a few—there's one factor you likely haven't considered factoring into your partner's faithfulness: their pets.
Men With These 2 Pets Are Most Likely to Cheat
Chicago-based record label CEO is fired after he and his wife are accused of setting up hidden cameras
Woman caught breastfeeding her hairless cat
Camels kicked out of beauty pageant for using Botox
Arizona man froze nearly 200 animals in garage freezer
It is illegal to have these seven animals as pets
Man charged after raping family dog
Argument leads to fatal stabbing of pit bull
Drug shortages reach 'public health emergency levels'
Up to 300 drugs are currently in shortage nationwide, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which is a five-year high.
They include everything from chemotherapy and antibiotics to a sterile fluid used to stop the heart in bypass operations and an antidote to lead poisoning.
Drug shortages reach 'public health emergency levels'
New guidelines for treating childhood obesity include medications and surgery
The guidance comes as childhood obesity rates have continued to rise over the past decade and a half, increasing from 17% to 20%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the 1980s, obesity rates have tripled in children and quadrupled in adolescents.
New guidelines for treating childhood obesity
Liposuction overtakes breast augmentation as most popular
Jada Reportedly Body-Shamed Will
Keep your children fat! Pedos hate fat children. They can diet at 18. 16-Jan-2023
Not so magically delicious!
The FDA said Saturday it has received more than 100 complaints related to Lucky Charms so far this year.
Not so magically delicious!
Bride and caterer arrested after wedding guests 'got sick from weed-laced food
Lead in baby food, arsenic in fish and uranium mixed into cheese
Home Depot Has Gone Woke
It asks employees to literally "check" their "privilege," whether it be "white privilege," class privilege," "Christian privilege," "cisgender privilege," "able-bodied privilege," or "heterosexual privilege."
Home Depot Has Gone Woke
75% of voters say Democrats are 'out of touch' and 'condescending'
Trans organization recruiting Ukrainian refugees for sex work
Woke turns on lesbian author
Gay Ohio Teacher Fired
LGBTQ activist displaced from his home
School nurse suspended after voicing concern for 11-year-old
'Stupidly woke'
Iowa library temporarily closes after complaints about 'liberal agenda'
‘They’re everywhere’
Rattlesnakes are thriving here, according to a recent joint Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and University of Michigan study, which reveals that the seven species of rattlesnakes found in California are among the fastest growing animal population in state.
‘They’re everywhere’
States with the most gun violence share one trait
Sheep sentenced to 3 years in prison for killing a woman
Fish off the coast of Florida are testing positive for ANTIDEPRESSANTS
Nine-year-old wakes up from coma after being brutally attacked by a cougar
Sloth bear kills and eats couple
Child Stabbed In The Chest By A Catfish
San Diego Humane Society to Quarantine Animals
Bear pops beach ball, leading to an ‘attack’
465 people have gotten sick after interacting with pet poultry
Xanax Will Now Come With a More Serious Warning Label
Xanax will soon come with a new warning label, the New York Times reports. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced it will now require benzodiazepines, a class of common psychiatric drugs, to feature labeling that reflects the drugs’ high risk for abuse and addiction.
Xanax Will Now Come With a More Serious Warning Label
Florida parents are getting high and exposing themselves during kids’ virtual classes
It’s a lesson in reading, writing and reefer.
Florida moms and dads have been spotted smoking weed, drinking and walking around half-naked in the background of their kids’ online classes, frustrated teachers said at a school board meeting.
“Parents, please make sure that you have on proper clothing when you are walking behind your child’s computer because we’ve seen them in their drawers, their bras, and everything else,” Boca Raton Elementary teacher Edith Pride vented Wednesday, according to KATV.
Florida parents are getting high and exposing themselves during kids’ virtual classes
Will There Ever Be a Cure for Addiction?
From drinking hand-sanitizing gels to using synthetic marijuana, our society is constantly inventing new ways to get high. When one substance is banned, another quickly takes its place. What drives this never-ending hunt for the next high?
One important motivator is the pleasure principle. The quest for pleasure is a fundamental part of being human. It helps us meet our basic needs by pushing us to work towards specific goals.
Drugs provide an instant shortcut to our brain’s pleasure center. They flood our brains with dopamine and condition us to seek the next high. As a result, our bodies begin reducing their natural dopamine output. With repeated drug use, pleasure dissipates but the cravings remain. Thus, drugs hijack our natural drive for pleasure. Addicts pursue drugs despite the fact that the pleasure they experience from them progressively diminishes.
Will There Ever Be a Cure for Addiction?
Low-dose aspirin linked to bleeding in the skull, new report says
Taking low-dose aspirin to prevent heart disease and stroke is associated with an increased risk of bleeding in the skull in people without a history of those conditions, according to a new report.
Researchers analyzed data from 13 previous studies in which over 130,000 people ages 42 to 74, who didn't have a history of heart disease or stroke, were given either low-dose aspirin or a placebo for the prevention of these conditions.
An aspirin is typically defined as low-dose if it is between 75 and 100 milligrams, but most over-the-counter pills are around 81 milligrams.
CNN
Scientists Discover Gene Mutation That Prevents Obesity
Researchers in the United Kingdom say they’ve discovered a genetic mutation that mutes appetite, a scientific advancement that could potentially be used to develop new drugs to prevent obesity.
The mutation stems from a gene called MC4R, which researchers previously discovered can impact hunger — it acts as a switch to alert your brain when you are full, encouraging you to stop eating.
For some people with MC4R mutations, the “switch” is always off, meaning they never feel full and eat more. For them, the risk of diabetes and heart disease is 50 percent higher than those without the mutation.
But researchers from the University of Cambridge found the opposite effect as they pored through data from 500,000 volunteers from the U.K. Biobank, ages 40 to 69.
People
Anesthesia can help patients forget a disturbing memory
Giving patients an anesthetic can help them forget a disturbing memory, according to research published today in the journal Science Advances. It’s the latest study to investigate the conditions that might prevent memories from sticking, and it could be a step toward finding a technique that helps people deal with harmful memories related to anxiety, trauma, or addiction.
The Verge