Sum Dayz be like.....
You're almost there Naomi.... Almost there.
I think she will be good at providing a balancing viewpoint in the future. Echo chambers are never good
Kek. True, I mean this "American" is from Guatemala...
His sudden seizures were a mystery. Then doctors saw a tapeworm in his brain from 20 years ago.
"The infection was long gone, but part of his brain was scarred — and that scarred area was leading to the seizures."
November 17, 2021
When a 38-year-old man fell from his bed during a violent seizure, his wife found him shaking and “speaking gibberish” on their bedroom floor at 4 a.m. After he arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the man, who was reported to be in good health and had no history of related symptoms, suffered another seizure.
Doctors were stumped as to what the diagnosis could be – that is, until a CT scan of his head showed that the man’s brain had unwanted company. After finding three brain lesions, doctors diagnosed the man with neurocysticercosis after they concluded that larval cysts from a tapeworm had migrated to his head 20 years ago and embedded into parts of his brain, according to a new case study.
The findings, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, show that the 38-year-old, who was not publicly identified by researchers, had lived in a rural part of Guatemala before emigrating to the United States. It remains unclear how the man ended up hosting a parasite in several parts of his brain, but doctors noted that he probably ate a meal made by someone who had a tapeworm. Parasite-related illness is endemic in the area of Guatemala where he lived, the study says.
“On the basis of the features of the patient’s presentation, the fact that he had been healthy the day before the seizure, and his history of living in a rural area of Guatemala, neurocysticercosis is the most likely diagnosis in this case,” wrote Andrew Cole, the study’s lead author.
Moar:
https://www.boston.com/news/health/2021/11/17/his-sudden-seizures-were-a-mystery-then-doctors-saw-a-tapeworm-in-his-brain-from-20-years-ago/
This will be the one that is spread by infants thereby driving the emergency need to vaxx those 0 to 1 years old.
From article:
It has a "very unusual constellation" of mutations, which are concerning because they could help it evade the body's immune response and make it more transmissible, scientists told reporters at a news conference.
Well hmmmm, if this new fangled strain evades the bodies immune response, then we'll surefire need a vaxx to do the fightin' for us
It's also interesting to note that this is a finding in South Africa being reported a week after Africa is noted as a Covid-free anomaly.
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https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-united-nations-fcf28a83c9352a67e50aa2172eb01a2f
https://archive.md/soa3N
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.
“COVID-19 is gone, when did you last hear of anyone who has died of COVID-19?” Ndou said. “The mask is to protect my pocket,” he said. “The police demand bribes so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.” Earlier this week, Zimbabwe recorded just33new COVID-19 cases andzero deaths, in line with a recent fall in the disease across the continent, where World Health Organization data show that infections have been dropping since July.
When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of the continent.
Scientists emphasize that obtaining accurate COVID-19 data, particularly in African countries with patchy surveillance, is extremely difficult, and warn that declining coronavirus trends could easily be reversed.
But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.
Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.
So mysterious, what could it be, what could it be???