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“It’s not too late,” Hopkins told Fortune in December.“It is not a bad time when we’ve got risk in front of us. And I would certainly prefer that people were vaccinated earlier, but I’m not going to make perfection the enemy of the good.” And while the 2024–25 seasonal ...
In another interview with NPR, Kennedy said, “we don’t need fluoride in our water. It’s a very bad way to deliver it into our systems.” But public policy experts say he’s unlikely to make much of a change with fluoride in water. “The issue of whether water is fluoridated is ...
Acupuncture is one of the therapies used at The Gentle Barn. Laks has seen animals with torn ACLs, bad hips, and severe arthritis improve significantly with this treatment. Along with standard veterinary care, the animals also receive holding and massage therapies. "Every single week, they blosso...
We are three months into the bird flu outbreak in US dairy cattle.But the country still hasn’t implemented a sufficient testing infrastructure and doesn’t fully understand how the virus is spreading. (STAT)
It’s hard lately to shake the feeling that we are unwittingly participating in a very bad movie, or wishing that it was only a dream from which we could all wake up. Perhaps my feelings of powerlessness intensified that much more by not being able to go for a walk in the respective ...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
“They go after people who come across as weak and vulnerable, and so it’s in the interest of the individual who has been targeted to present themselves as a bad target. And you do that by being good at your job, by being confident, by activating your social network—surrounding ...
from it was just bad luck. Sort of hoping something was bad luck is not great public health policy. We're sort of assuming the cows are more like horses which means they're a bit more susceptible to bird flu and so it's not a big risk but I'd love to have that assumption tested...
The test used to detect the virus in milk—which uses similar PCR technology to lab-based COVID tests—is also highly sensitive. This means it can detect very low levels of the bird flu RNA. But the test does not distinguish between live or inactivated virus, just that the RNA is presen...