A troubling new study shows a link between a common fungus and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists from the Baylor College of Medicine are revealing how the fungus Candida albicans enters the brain, triggers mechanisms that aid in its clearance, and generates toxic protein fragments known as amyloid beta (Ab)-like peptides — a key player in Alzheimer’s disease development.
“Our lab has years of experience studying fungi, so we embarked on the study of the connection between C. albicans and Alzheimer’s disease in animal models,” says study corresponding author Dr. David Corry, the Fulbright Endowed Chair in Pathology and a professor of pathology and immunology and medicine at Baylor, in a university release. “In 2019, we reported that C. albicans does get into the brain where it produces changes that are very similar to what is seen in Alzheimer’s disease. The current study extends that work to understand the molecular mechanisms.”
— Read on studyfinds.org/fungus-alzheimers-disease/
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This common fungus can trigger ‘key player’ in Alzheimer’s disease development
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Skeletons of 1918 flu victims reveal clues about who may have died
The 1918 virus killed the young, but it was no exception to the observation that infectious diseases kill the weak and sick most easily.
Sharon DeVitte, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder and author of the paper, said the finding had a clear message: “We should never expect any accidental cause of death to be blind.”
Analysis of the skeletons was conducted by University of Michigan flu epidemic historian J. Alex Navarro makes “a fascinating article and a very interesting approach to studying this issue.”
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Over 1,100 in quarantine after six cases of Nipah virus in India
Over 1,100 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala were in quarantine as of Monday after coming into contact with patients infected with the Nipah virus, according to Indian media.
In the past week, six cases of the virus have been recorded, with two of the patients succumbing to the illness. Samples from bats in the region have been collected as well to test for the virus.
— Read on m.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-759552in the words of Michael Scott . No no no no no no…
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People Rely on Laxatives So Much, There Aren’t Enough to Go Around!!!
Surging demand is contributing to a shortage of polyethylene glycol 3350, the generic name for laxatives like Miralax and Glycolax, gastroenterologists and suppliers say. Consumers are noticing emptier shelves in drugstores across the country as a result.
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Spike in New Jersey nursing home COVID cases
All signs point this new strain being incredibly infective.. But with that comes the idea that it is also actively spreading. If that is the case, we should be grateful it appears to be a less deadly strain thus far.. It is early in this new autumn nightmare..
MORE..
Bergen County, just northwest of New York City, has by far the highest number of facilities reporting outbreaks, at 25. As of August 29, there were 248 active cases among residents, with 56 staff members also said to have tested positive for the virus. Four residents have died.
BUT THE GOOD NEWS:
Since July, COVID hospitalizations across the New Jersey have more than doubled, but they still remain low, at 359 this week as of August 30. At the same time last year, there were around 1,000 hospitalizations in the state.
Was Alex Jones right??
DEVELOPING..
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Heart attack hospitalizations at record level since pandemic
This news comes from across the pond in the United Kingdom. But the same storyline can be heard across the planet right now: Excess deaths are abundant.
Even personally someone I know very well who is as youthful as me just succumbed to a life changing heart attack. He’s recovering .. but clearly the spike in deaths since Covid showcase something far deeper going on. Something far deadlier as well given the high number of excess deaths occurring..
Government data show almost 100,000 extra deaths among those with heart disease between spring 2020 and spring of this year. In 2019-20, before the pandemic, 82,000 people were hospitalised with heart attacks.
It follows research that found almost half a million people missed out on drugs to prevent heart attacks and strokes during the pandemic.
Heart charities have warned that “extreme disruption to the NHS” in the aftermath, including record ambulance delays, may have worsened death rates and increased the numbers suffering heart attacks that might have been avoided with the right help more quickly.
One of our favorite doctors in social media, John, Campbell, has been following this story post Covid, since the pandemic began to wane. He noticed an upsurge in both deaths unrelated to the virus and also vaccine injuries that were going unreported. His popular YouTube channel has been covering this for over a year.. his latest video spotlights a problem that seemingly is worsening yet being ignored by most legacy media.
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MEDIA FEAR over Russian bat virus
The fear has been palpable! At least if you read some mainstream news sources.
Over the past week we have heard more and more about a Russian bat virus that, experts warn, is going to cause the next pandemic.
While the latest smattering of stories came from just this week, the virus has been studied since 2020 .. In 2020, a team of Russian scientists collected a few horseshoe bats in Sochi National Park in southern Russia. The Russians identified, in those bats, a new virus they called Khosta-2. Behaviorally, the virus seemed to have a lot in common with SARS-CoV-2.
Just this year, there were two additional studies published. The initial results, which the team described in a new peer-reviewed study that appeared last week in the science journal PLOS Pathogens, are worrying. The second bat virus didn’t seem all that infectious. But Khosta-2 appears to like human cells and do well taking them over.
Hence.. the ‘terrifying” adjectives being placed in headlines.
“We tested how well the spike proteins from these bat viruses infect human cells under different conditions,” the scientists wrote. “We found that the spike from the virus Khosta-2 could infect [the] cells, similar to human pathogens using the same entry mechanisms.”
Equally troubling, Khosta-2 proved “resistant to neutralization by serum from individuals who had been vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2.” In other words, our bodies’ defenses against COVID-19 might not protect us from a hypothetical disease caused by Khosta-2.
There is real science here and real facts. But limit your fear when reading.
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‘Very contagious’ tomato flu virus detected in kids
“Tomato flu” was first identified in India on May 6 and has so far infected 82 children, who are all under the age of 5, according to a study by the Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal.
A further 26 kids up to the age of 10 are suspected of having cases of tomato flu.
Aptly named for the red blisters that appear on the skin, the new virus comes armed with fever and joint pain.
“Just as we are dealing with the probable emergence of fourth wave of COVID-19, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in India in the state of Kerala in children younger than 5 years,” the Lancet reported.
— Read on nypost.com/2022/08/19/what-is-tomato-flu-very-contagious-virus-detected-in-kids/It’s going to be a sloppy autumn. Covid still sprouting.. that weird adenovirus liver disease among children.. monkeypox fears especially in colleges.. and now the tomato flu.
It’s not considered as dangerous as other infections but boy oh boy it sure just seems to be constantly overwhelming doesnt it?
School begins in mere hours (or already did)
The melting pot of diseases and viral infections about to do it’s annual boil..
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UK EMERGENCY: POLIO FOUND IN SEWAGE SYSTEM
Traces of polio virus found in London sewage as health officials declare national incident.. more: Officials believe there has been some spread between closely linked individuals in northeast London – probably extended family members.
SKY NEWS REPORTING: Traces of the polio virus have been found during a routine sewage inspection in London, leading the UK Health Security Agency to declare a national incident.Health officials are now concerned about the community spread of the virus after samples were collected from the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works in London, but have stressed the risk to the public is extremely low.
THE UK SUN GOES INTO MORE DETAIL:
Experts have detected the same bug in London sewage samples since April – a clear signal of a community outbreak.
No cases have yet been confirmed in the UK and the UKHSA said samples were found in East and North London.
This, chiefs say ‘suggests it is likely there has been some spread between closely-linked individuals’.
Because of this, they said these cases could be shedding the virus strain in their feces.
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Monkeypox pop: More states
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified nine cases of monkeypox across seven U.S. states, officials said Thursday: in California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
“The U.S. has the resources we need to help us respond to monkeypox in this country right now. We’ve been preparing for this type of outbreak for decades,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a briefing.
Walensky mentioned two vaccines that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for smallpox and stored in the National Strategic Stockpile. The U.S. has 100 million doses of one vaccine, called ACAM2000. The second, called Jynneos, is FDA-approved for use against monkeypox in particular and some doses of it have already been distributed.
Although some of the U.S. patients have a history of travel to areas where monkeypox has been spreading recently, that’s not true for every one. Given that, Walensky said, “we need to presume that there is some community spread.”
