Despite another failure, experts say HIV prevention drug PrEP is still effective
Health officials recently reported the sixth confirmed failure of Truvada, but experts stress the HIV-prevention pill is still nearly 100 percent effective.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/despite-sixth-prep-failure-experts-say-hiv-prevention-drug-working-n920176
“Polio-like” Childhood Muscle-Weakening Disease Reappears
Researchers have traced some cases of acute flaccid myelitis to a known virus, but treatments remain elusive
A poliolike condition that left more than 100 children in the U.S. at least partially paralyzed in 2014 is back, and not much more is known this time around, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say. The CDC is not ruling out any possible triggers—from infections to toxins, autoimmune reactions to bug bites.
“We have not been able to find a cause for the majority of these” cases, Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said Wednesday at a news conference. “And I’m frustrated that despite all of our efforts, we have not been able to identify the cause of this mystery illness.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poliolike-childhood-muscle-weakening-disease-reappears/
CNN’s Bill Weir Hit With Tear Gas During Harrowing Live Report at Mexico-Guatemala Border
CNN Special Correspondent Bill Weir was walking alongside the caravan of migrants approaching Mexico on Friday when he was hit with tear gas.
Weir call into CNN Newsroom Friday afternoon from a bridge that separates Guatemala from the southern tip of Mexico.
He described a harrowing scene as the crowd rushed the gates.
“There’s about 400 riot policemen, federales,” said noting that for some reason the authorities on the Guatemala side left the “huge surge of humanity” in.
WEIR: “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Somebody just threw — maybe it was a water bottle. People literally scattered in panic thinking it was smoke. False alarm. This is really just an exercise in crowd control. Imagine if they threw open the Gates to a concert, as we’ve learned that lesson in years past and people are trampled. That’s what happened when they opened up the Guatemalan side. Oh, tear gas, tear gas. The canister landed literally two feet from me. No, no, no, no, doesn’t throw rocks!
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-bill-weir-hit-with-tear-gas-during-harrowing-live-report-at-mexico-guatemala-border/
Last year's flu shot sucked. Tons of people who got the flu shot still got the flu and died. Other weird illnesses in those who got the flu shot - really bad sequelae with bizarre symptoms in normally healthy people.
No sauce except own observations from the trenches of healthcare in the U.S.
Scary thought.
i couldn't find the video either.
Interdasting - ty for da short slide
Disappointed is likely an understatement.
I say hang out there (order water) and trigger them regularly!