#i.e. when he’s infected with a virus

[chiliger]

He’s never been sick before.

#chiligerart #comics #loathsome coworkers #darth vader #cc 2224 #storm trooper #ensign #vent resident #the head medic #star wars #2224 is a workaholic at the worst of times #i.e. when he’s infected with a virus #Vader’s mostly concerned about himself. his respiratory systems already a mess he can’t afford to be sick #yeeee feels good to draw these doofuses again

[waeirfaahl]

Interesting aspect about Aku's parts

One of the ideas I embodied in my stories and can mention now (and I even developed mechanism of infection and various aspects how it affects etc). Okay, I many times pointed out how deadly and poisonous Aku and hence his blood are. The brightest examples are "Birth of Evil" and "The Aku infection" episodes. It dries out, melts iron, devours its victim out of inside and absorbs, but firstly it takes control on its victim's mind (the authors described it as a virus, but decided to show Jack's fight metaphorically, i.e. in his mind — still one of my favourite scenes). This aspect with mind-controlling and consuming out of inside reminds me about parasitic insects (wasps and worms, for example) and fungus that control other insects or animals and later slowly devour. Simply saying, Aku's blood would take full control over Jack's mind and only after fully devour, absorb and dissolve him, if he wasn't strong enough mentally and physically to oppose (plus, the magical aspect with Jack's soul or whatever). I would argue that the black lake from "Birth of Evil" absorbed and exactly dissolved bodies of dinosaurs, humans and animals, who dared to come very close on its territory. But there's one interesting moment. You could notice in 4 episode of 3 season, how Aku catched Jack, so Jack some time was inside of the demon, but Jack wasn't infected or wounded by Aku's blood (obviously, Aku wanted to kill him exactly with his own sword, but then was utterly shocked).

Hmm, even so he could just choke Jack to death... As well as in other episodes, where Aku is among wild nature, his presense doesn't corrupt the nature.

So, how is it possible, if even the place of his birth literally created lifeless wasteland?

Well, I would tell that it is because Aku's body is covered with a harder, cooler and therefore harmless layer he kinda uses for own comfortable interaction with other objects (and even initially was born this way with this "safe" layer). But if you cut him or pierce or somehow break through this layer with your hands, congratulations, you will get serious burns and get infected. And this aspect actually gave me idea. In this "safe" state Aku's parts actually could be used in medicine as some kind of clay (membrane? patch?) that protects wound until it will be healed or whatever, i.e. it even can help to damaged tissues to be healed faster and even save from blood loss. Although his blood is a mix of acid and petroleum, it is also antimicrobial.

But there's one restriction — these "patches" are harmless and helpful only when the demon takes control over them. For example, if he is seriously wounded and hence weakened, he can lose control over his parts, so they will either stop to protect wounds or try to return to Aku, leaving a wounded person, or start to devour this person. I.e. if Aku's parts are not inside of a living organism, then there's a possibility for something really useful from Aku's side, but if it happens inside... no matter how long organism was infected, there still will be some harm to health. Even if Aku is aware of infection and has control over it, but doesn't want to kill this organism, his blood still like a cancer (or microorganisms of necrotic type) will harm a living organism, just way slower. He can order to his blood to leave this organism, but this organism still will experience pain some time.

So, the thing is in how long the organism was infected. Jack was lucky, since he had this virus a couple of days (and, well, Aku was unaware of the fact that Jack was infected by his blood).

#aku #aku theories #aku samurai jack #samurai jack #samurai jack 5 season

[hypermoyashi]

hiiii moya!!!! Tell us about your favorite detail that youve snuck into any of your fics!! Any detail, big or small!!!

Oh man. Thank you for the ask, Tobi!!! You basically gave me a free ticket to talk about Anything I Want, and I have so many things I could chat about kegmrkemkg It's hard to pick out one detail or another because I tend to like a lot of what I write (it's catered to Me, after all), so I shall. Ramble under a read more, if that's okay lol.

OKAY SO. First thought was. How demons, specially Vash in the demon AU, work--because demon slayer canon has very strict rules on how thing works, but it doesn't often explain why things work the way they do. Which gives me a lot of room to be kind of hand-wavy with canon. (And I'm going to preface this that this is a lot of speculation for the AU and not necessarily reflective of canon in demon slayer rkengjrkengjrkeng.)

I also can't guarantee there won't be lore spoilers here (for both the fic/AU and the source), so read at your own risk!

But basically demonism was invented on accident in an attempt to cure a terminal illness, and it basically gives someone Immortality At A Cost. I think it functions sort of like a virus. Getting exposed to the blood of a demon will infect a human into become a demon, but "viral load" is important--the amount of "demon infection" determines if a demon can turn a human in the first place, and that depends on how diluted the demon's blood is from the original source. Too far, and they can't turn humans. Conversely, if a human gets Too Much demon blood at once and too much from the original source, their body changes too rapidly for it to handle, and they die instead of turning. Technically speaking, the same thing can happen to demons, too.

But all that to say, the main thing that demonism boils down to is rapid change of the body. Got cancer? Becoming a demon sure can cure that, just change faster than the cancer. Got a limb torn off? Let's just grow that right back. Need to develop supernatural powers or senses? Sure thing, buddy.

Demonism allows demons to change rapidly, but they also Need Humans to survive and have to avoid sunlight--obviously from a literary standpoint this is because they're meant to resemble western vampires, but from a functional standpoint? Sunlight I would guess is probably a glitch of rapid change? Like, when you implement coding too quickly, there are bound to be errors. If you force the body to change rapidly, like when it's converted from human to demon, then the weakness to sunlight might be an "error" in the biological code of the original demon that was then passed on to all subsequent demons, since they all came from the same source.

Feeding on humans, though? The implication I've always seen is that animal meat doesn't do it, and rotten flesh isn't as nutritional, either. So there's something about live humans that demons Need to consume to survive and grow their strength--demons can cannibalize one another, but I think they more or less just can steal traits from one another in those cases, and it's less about needing to eat then and more about assuming a trait another demon has developed through rapid change instead of taking the time to develop it oneself. We don't see demon animals, so I think it has something to do with the fact that only humans can become demons--demons can also only feed on humans, in return, so it might have something to do with the demon cells themselves running out of human cells to feed on in their host (i.e., the demon) and needing more to produce that rapid change we see them do.

Alright, but what happens when you deprive a demon of human flesh and blood? Obviously, it doesn't kill them (as we see with Nezuko in demon slayer canon). So it won't kill Vash now that he's decided not to have Anything, but then, how does he avoid the whole "going feral and attacking people anyway" thing?

Well, there is a procedure in demon slayer canon that reduces a demon's dependence on blood--this is not explained at all in canon, but I explained it by the use of introducing "antibodies" or a demon vaccination. These are demon cells that don't act fully like demon cells anymore--they were once demon cells that have changed to the point that, if introduced into a demon, it mitigates some of the impact of regular demon cells and thus lessen the symptoms of demonism (a.k.a., needing to eat people).

How did these cells come about? Well, through that rapid change of course--you'd just need a demon willing to change their cells and body in such a way as to mitigate some of the effects of the demon cells, and in this case. This is difficult in this case, I think, because to get cells that need less flesh/blood, these would need to be cells that haven't been given their "fuel" for rapid change and been forced to adapt without it. Basically, you'd need a demon willing to abstain from eating for a long time, if you see where I'm going with this.

In Nezuko's case, since she Never Ate Anyone Ever, I think her change under this theory would be forced from the fact that she never let her cells have anything to begin with. The change happened over a few years, because she Had To and she dedicated pretty much all of her energy to it. No speaking, no hard cognitive tasks, only occasional fighting and Blood Demon Art usage--she mostly just slept and only intervened in events when her brother was in danger, for the most part.

For Vash? The change would be a lot slower and a lot harder, because he has eaten at least one person, on top of having been fed blood/flesh (willingly or unwillingly) throughout his life. He also prioritizes keeping his mind sound and with it, and maintains his ability to speak and interact normally (most of the time). He also expends energy fighting, healing, and through his Blood Demon Art. So he's diversifying a bit more, and had less of a jump off point, so it'd take him much longer to get the same results. That being said, it's still definitely possible for him to get what he wants--a body not as reliant on blood or flesh (though he is still technically denying his body something it needs, it just needs less over time as his body starts working with him).

And hey, if demons can change to need less blood... Well, who's to say they can't change in other ways, too?

(demon slayer readers don't spoil it lol)

ANYWAY. Demon lore surrounding Vash in Make it to Daybreak is. Very fun to talk about. Everything above is all stuff that's been vaguely hinted at but not laid out plainly like this, but I think it'll give the non-demon slayer readers more of an edge guessing upcoming developments that demon slayer readers will already have lol. Plus it's just fun to fill in the holes on demon slayer lore with stuff that sounds neat to me.

But!!! Thank you so much for sending the ask, Tobi!!! It really made my day!!

#trigun #about my fanfiction #trigunfanficappreciation #whimsicmimic #again thank you so much for the ask tobi #i am absolutely stoked to ramble on about random demon au lore lol

[quill-of-thoth]

Letters from Watson: The Dying Detective

Crimes in context:

Medical History Sorry in advance for the medical grossness. Please skip to the cut if you never want to see the words open sores ever again. First, to piece together Culverton Smith's crimes against humanity and also the murder. Culverton Smith appears to have gone to Sumatra to make a living planting, with the labor primarily done by indentured servants or low wage workers, possibly slaves, from the local population. (I say slaves because although slavery was not officially legal in England or it's colonies at this time, there have been historically a lot of situations that are essentially slavery with some thin veneer of justification, especially when you're occupying a country, and you can make any law you want about requiring people to work for you for nothing, or the next thing to nothing.) To top this off, he was either experimenting on these workers with his favorite tropical disease, or using them to incubate it so that he could keep a stock of the infectious material on hand.

This is how Smallpox stock used to be carried overseas: A chain of people would be infected with a diluted or weakened virus. When one person's symptoms would start to wane, the fluids from their open sore would be transferred via a cut in the skin to the next person in line, who would carry the infection until they began to recover. In the transfer of smallpox for the purposes of creating vaccinations and inoculations, these were volunteers. The carriers also benefitted in many cases from being inoculated in the process, since these cases of smallpox were milder than the wild variants, and being a carrier would give you about the same immunity as an inoculation of the day. Now, we have refrigeration, glycerol stocks, the ability to use only portions of viruses (usually the proteins in their outer shell) in vaccines and most importantly, sterile fucking needles. I will never be leaving this century, even though we do have covid. All this to say that Culverton Smith can rot in hell, but I also wanted to cover Watson: why did he write this case up?

Watson's Writing

For those of you who have made it this far into my reread without knowing what is to come: The Final Problem, in which Holmes dies, will occur in April of 1891. All Holmes short stories, and the remaining two novels, were published after this date. Presuming that my date of 1890 is correct for this story (which we can, and will, revisit later as it was NOT my initial impression of the timeline), we can presume that Watson had reasons for not publishing it in his initial collection of 24 short stories, likely grief. Thinking back on this time would have been extremely painful from a variety of directions: as the months go on and on he's further convinced that Holmes is not faking it this time, and Watson probably desperately wished that he was.

Then too, despite the fact that Watson closes the story abruptly without describing his emotions at Holmes' deception, we can deduce them. He's insulted - despite Holmes' words that he never doubted his professional abilities, just his ability to lie, Holmes still disparaged him. He's angry - Holmes has shut him out of his plans and made him believe for the better part of three or four hours that he was about to lose his best friend. He's frustrated because despite the illness being an act Holmes is still harming himself with his denial of his body's limits, i.e. that a human can die if they're dehydrated for three days, and also his casual use of poisons. Belladonna, it turns out, is not good for your eyes, which is why we don't use it anymore, aside from the hideous toxicity.

Watson has been a prop in Holmes' stagings of case conclusions before, but there's a vast difference between being framed for breaking a bowl and playing along, and being deceived, berated, insulted, and isolated to ensure that you play the part correctly. There is a definite possibility that they did have a fight over this - even Baring-Gould's timeline has a gap of over a month between this and the next recorded case. It isn't an unusual amount of time, as no doubt Holmes did not always have cases that were cinematic enough to make the cut, and also Watson had a business and a household to attend to, but it's enough time for them to pointedly not see each other, and for Watson to forgive him and come around for a post Christmas visit.

Ask a microbiologist: WTF is Smith doing with his jars of bacteria?

Hello Tumblr, I grow germs for a living. And based on the description of Smith's lab / study I have a few questions, namely, how is he storing his bacteria? Based on the jars and bottles that he refers to as his "prisons" he's keeping them at uncontrolled room temperature. This probably tracks with best practice at this time, as refrigeration was based on putting things in a box with ice, and iirc although bacteria were known to be the drivers of spoilage, the idea that they would grow, and die, slower at lower temperatures was not part of professional microbiology at the time. Also based on Smith's own words, he's storing the bacterial colonies in agar, which matches with modern methods... sort of. Agar is solid at room temperature, and when it's liquid (at about 100 Celsius), it's too hot for most bacteria to survive in. This is important because the description of these jars and bottles appears to imply that they are filled with solidified agar, and there's really no reason Smith needs a full jar of solid agar to keep his bacteria in: when we keep bacteria in a liquid it's called a broth and does not have agar in it, because we want it to remain a liquid. Yes, Smith could be doing a fairly standard setup where he pours a quarter inch of agar into a vessel and, when the agar is solid, "plates" bacteria on top of it. The description does not unambiguously rule it out. But if he's trying to preserve his bacteria by entombing them in solid agar, and then melting the agar to retrieve them, it's a lot funnier. Mostly because it would mean that his pet bioweapon from Sumatra isn't viable anymore.

#Letters from Watson #The Dying Detective #Crimes in Context #crimes against humanity again I'm afraid #human experimentation #self poisoning for reasons of being an extreme dumbass #look another story I coincidentally have professional knowledge vaguely related to

[theculturedmarxist]

It's fun to clown on Musk, but in this case he's actually right.

Whether or not risk of myocarditis is greater as a result of contracting covid is irrelevant to whether or not it is also a risk of taking the vaccine. In fact, knowledge of that risk is vital to having the informed consent necessary to administering that vaccine, especially now when it seems to be the case that there is a compounding risk of myocarditis from repeated covid boosters.

And when the current expectation is that people are going to a) get multiple boosters per year and b) get multiple infections per year, every year, for the foreseeable future, yeah, that's an important consideration.

And I remember that when the vaccines first came out that any and all mention of adverse side effects, including the possibility of myocarditis or adverse effect on menstruation, were called misinformation and anti-vaxxer nonsense or conspiracy theories, all because the Biden administration wanted to get as many people vaccinated as possible as quickly as possible in order to force people to "return to normal."

The most embarrassing revelation of the “Facebook Files” released by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan yesterday (described in more detail here) involves the news media:

In one damning email, an unnamed Facebook executive wrote to Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg:

We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the White House and the press, to remove more Covid-19 vaccine discouraging content.

We see repeatedly in internal communications not only in the email above, but in the Twitter Files, in the exhibits of the Missouri v Biden lawsuit, and even in the Freedom of Information request results beginning to trickle in here at Racket, that the news media has for some time been working in concert with civil society organizations, government, and tech platforms, as part of the censorship apparatus.

In the summer of 2021, the White House and Joe Biden were in the middle of a major factual faceplant. They were not only telling people the Covid-19 vaccine was a sure bet — “You’re not going to get Covid if you have these vaccinations” is how Biden put it — but that those who questioned its efficacy were “killing people.” But the shot didn’t work as advertised. It didn’t prevent contraction or transmission, something Biden himself continued to be wrong about as late as December of that year.

If you go back and give a careful read to corporate media content from that time describing the administration’s war against “disinformation,” you’ll see outlets were themselves not confident the vaccine worked. Take the New York Times effort from July 16th, 2021, “They’re Killing People: Biden Denounces Social Media for Virus Disinformation.” You can see the Times tiptoeing around what they meant, when they used the word “disinformation.” In this and other pieces they used phrases like, “the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation,” “how to track misinformation,” “the prevalence of misinformation,” even “Biden’s forceful statement capped weeks of anger in the White House over the dissemination of vaccine disinformation,” but they repeatedly hesitated to say what the misinformation was.

Any editor will tell you this language is a giveaway. Journalists wrote expansively about “disinformation,” but rarely got into specifics. They knew that they couldn’t state with certainty that the vaccine worked, that there weren’t side effects, etc., yet still denounced people who asked those questions. This is because they agreed with the concept of “malinformation,” i.e. there are things that may be true factually, but which may produce political results considered adverse. “Hestiancy” was one such bugbear. Note the language from the unnamed Facebook executive above, which describes the press lashing out “Covid-19 vaccine discouraging content,” not “disinformation.”

This is total corruption of the news. We’re supposed to be in the business of questioning officials, even if the questions are unpopular. That’s our entire role! If we don’t do that, we serve no purpose, maybe even a negative purpose. Moreover, think of the implications. News outlets wail about “disinformation” when they’re aware the public has tuned them out. When people don’t listen to reporters, it’s usually because they suck. You can do the math, as to why the current crop embraces censorship. A more embarrassing outcome for our business would be hard to imagine.

#coronavirus #covid vaccines #internet censorship #biden administration

[callmebrycelee]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY REACTION

This reaction is for season 11, third episode "Smoke Signals" which originally aired on October 26, 2022. The episode was written by Brad Falchuk and Manny Coto and directed by John J. Gray. Spoilers ahead!

SMOKE SIGNALS ...

Last week we got two killer episodes of American Horror Story: NYC and I'm still feeling pretty good about the direction of this season. Adam and Gino continue to be my favorite characters thus far, but Russell Tovey's Patrick is starting to grow on me as well. Before I launch into my reaction to episode number three, I must say, I was initially skeptical about most of this cast being newcomers to American Horror Stories. All those doubts are officially gone because Charlie Carver, Joe Mantello, and Russell Tovey are definitely holding their own acting alongside AHS vets like Leslie Grossman, Denis O'Hare, and Billie Lourd.

Okay, let's talk about the episode. We start off with Fran (Sandra Bernhard) and Dr. Hannah Wells (Billie Lourd) at a diner after the latter's run-in with Big Daddy in Central Park. At the end of last episode, Fran told Hannah the government is responsible for the virus she is currently studying. She further elaborates by mentioning something called Operation Paperclip. Apparently, back in the 1952, the United States used Nazi scientists to create new viruses made from both human and animal diseases to use against the Russians during the Red Scare. They did manage to come up with a good virus but it was too big to be airborne. However, it could be transmitted via mucous membranes.

Naturally, Hannah pushes back against this and asks Fran why the government would wait nearly thirty years later to release the virus. Fran tells her that the Cold War is heating up, so the United States is bringing back the virus that was created back in 1952 and testing it out on people who are considered undesirable, i.e., drug addicts, homeless people, and prisoners. They also used ticks to help transmit the virus but the virus broke free of the island and it's now starting to spread amongst the gay population in New York City. Hannah asks Fran what she's supposed to do with this information. Fran tells Hannah that she believes some of her patients are infected with the virus and she should go to the press about it. Hannah tells Fran that in order to do that she will need proof. Fran tells her she needs to think of something and think of something fast because the government is on to her.

Meanwhile, Stewart (Taylor Bloom) escapes the cage he is being imprisoned in and flees Sam's apartment. It should be noted that when Stewart heads out into the hallway, Big Daddy is standing sentry by Sam's apartment door. Stewart acknowledges Big Daddy's presence, and my theory is that we know Sam has the same virus that several of Dr. Hannah Wells' patients have and if he hooked up with Stewart, chances are he passed on the virus to Stewart. I believe Big Daddy is a manifestation of the virus that will become known as AIDS and those who have the disease are able to see Big Daddy while those who don't have the virus can't see him.

Stewart goes to the police station and Patrick takes his story. Stewart tells Patrick that he answered a payphone outside of a leather bar which is how he ended up at Sam's apartment. Patrick is a wee bit judgmental, but he does go to Sam's apartment to investigate. Sam (Zachary Quinto) is having a party and when confronted by Patrick, they head down to his basement where his sex dungeon is kept. Sam knows that he can't be arrested because according to him, what transpired between him and Stewart was consensual. Patrick insists that something unsavory did take place and he tells Sam that Stewart is worried about his reputation. Sam throws this back in Patrick's face and strongly insinuates that he is well aware of Patrick's own vices and how they could affect his reputation. Patrick backs off because he doesn't want to risk getting outed at work.

Patrick talks to Gino about his encounter with Sam and Gino speculates that perhaps Sam is the one who held him prisoner. Patrick assures Gino that Sam is not the guy. Gino shows Patrick a sketch of the man he believes abducted him but Patrick seems unconvinced. Gino justifiably gets frustrated because he believes this is Patrick yet again not wanting to lead the charge towards finding the person responsible for recent rash of murders. Gino also is having a difficult time trusting Patrick because Patrick lied about his leather fetish. Patrick admits to liking leather bars and tells Gino he used to go to leather bars before they got together. These two could benefit from some couple's counseling. Patrick needs to be more open about what he's thinking and feeling and as much as I love Gino, he needs to be a little less judgmental. It's the classic case of someone having to come to terms with their sexuality early on and not allowing others to have their own journey towards self-discovery. Gino tells Patrick that he should check out the payphone outside the leather bar but Patrick reminds him he's not a private detective and therefore he has to have cause for doing such things and he doesn't think he can rationalize to his coworkers why he needs to stake out a payphone. Gino, in order to motivate Patrick, appeals to his desire to be dangerous and reckless which surprisingly works because the next scene we get is Patrick standing next to the payphone.

Patrick continues to wait by the payphone for what feels like hours until he gets a phone call from Whitley (Jeff Hiller). Whitley gives Patrick an address to go to and Patrick is led to an underground party. We see Hans (Casey Thomas Brown) giving a performance. Patrick wanders further into the venue and heads into a darkened passageway. He sees an unmasked patron (played by Zach Meiser) wearing the same kind of leather gear that Daddy wears. This is clearly not Big Daddy because even though this guy is quite muscular, he is not hulking like Big Daddy. Patrick aggressively confronts the bespectacled man and finds a switchblade on him. Rather than further interrogate him in regard to all recent murders, Patrick starts kissing him. He then turns the guy against a wall and uses a cat-o-nine tails to beat him. I believe this scene is here to show us just how deep Patrick's leather kink runs. It's important to point out that it does appear that his behavior is consensual.

We then see the performer Hans heading into a very empty subway. He sees an older, unkempt, heavyset woman standing on the other side of the platform and for some reason he decides to follow her.

Over at the Native, Adam asks Gino if he knows why his captor let him go instead of killing him. Gino tells Adam that the guy saw his United States Marine Corps tattoo on his chest and then thanked him for his service. He then shows Adam the drawing he had made of what the guy looks like. Adam speculates that there are two killers - the guy who abducted Gino and Big Daddy. Adam tells Gino he has a date at a bar and Gino tells him to be careful, especially if he's going around inquiring about the Mai Tai killer. Gino doesn't want Adam to become the next victim. He then asks Adam who he's seeing, and Adam tells him it's Theo. Gino tells him that he's heard some pretty dark stuff about Theo's partner, Sam.

Gino goes to The Ditch and talks with Alana (Rebecca Dayan) who is busy cleaning blood off the sidewalk outside the bar. He shows her the drawing of the man who abducted him, and she confirms that he's been at the bar. She mentions that when she encountered him, he had a dark aura about him. She suggests that maybe he was in Vietnam. Gino tells her that he needs to be captured and begs her to let him put some flyers up in the bar. Alana does acquiesce and she tells him that if he's going to hang up flyers, to be careful not to tear the paint off the walls.

Adam arrives at another local bar called Ascension and is greeted by the hostess, Dunaway (Sis). She tells him it's a member's only establishment, but Adam tells her that he's with Theo Graves (Isaac Powell) and she immediately ushers him inside. Adam asks if he can put up some flyers, and Dunaway tells him 'no'. He asks her if she's heard of Big Daddy, and she answers back that she hasn't but if he ever finds him to send him her way. I love Dunaway! I hope we get more of her this season!

Theo arrives at Ascension and Dunaway takes him to Adam. We do see Big Daddy standing behind Theo in the doorway but neither Dunaway nor Theo acknowledges his presence. There is some flirtatious banter between Adam and Theo. Adam is quite taken by Theo and the feeling seems mutual even though Theo is currently in a relationship with Sam. Adam shows Theo the drawing of the man who abducted Gino. Meanwhile, Gino is at the Brownstone talking to Henry (Denis O'Hare), showing him the same drawing.

Henry recognizes the man in Gino's drawing and tells Gino that he was at the Brownstone the night before. Gino asks him why he didn't call the police and Henry insinuates that the police wouldn't have been much of a help. I loved Henry's story about how he ran away from home at age 13 and ended up in New York City. He talks about how he was nearly murdered three times and how he's lost so many friends, acquaintances, and lovers over the years to violence. He tells Gino that if he had tried to figure out what happened to each of those men, he would've ended up dead himself. I find this story so important because people like Gino tend to see inaction as laziness. For men like Henry, inaction, not getting involved, is a matter of survival.

Gino tells Henry that the last night they spoke, he ended up being drugged, kidnapped, and tortured, but Henry remains unphased by his story. Gino gives up and leaves the bar. Meanwhile, back at their apartment, Patrick goes into his closet and puts on his leather gear. it should be noted in this scene, while Patrick is flexing in front of the mirror, he notices some sores on his shoulder. 

Back at Ascension, Adam interrogates Theo about Sam and Big Daddy. Theo assures Adam that Big Daddy is dead. While the two of them continue to talk, a man in leather gear, who looks a lot like Big Daddy, locks the main doors preventing anyone inside from getting out. What follows is an exciting sequence where Adam is given a Mai Tai by an unknown patron at the bar. He looks up and sees that the guy at the bar is the same man in Gino's drawing. At the same time, Dunaway discovers they are locked in and while Adam tries to go after Whitley, Theo manages to kick open the front door. At that moment, the man in leather gear tosses a Molotov cocktail inside the bar setting the whole place ablaze. The man then adjusts the chains and locks on the door and walks off leaving those inside to burn to death.

Hannah meets with an official at the local hospital and her request to draw blood from patients exhibiting signs of the virus she's been studying are denied. As she is leaving the hospital, she sees several patients arrive from Ascension. Hearing that the patients are coming from a gay bar, Hannah springs into action.

Adam and Theo manage to escape from the inferno with minimal injury. Adam suffers from smoke inhalation while Theo has some burns on his extremities. Other patrons like Dunaway, aren't so fortunate. I felt so bad for Dunaway who appeared to have third degree burns all over her body. When a nurse tries to check out Adam who is suffering from respiratory distress, he starts to freak out. After he is restrained, he begs Theo to call Gino.

Theo calls Gino, and Gino shows up with Patrick in tow. Adam tells Gino that the Mai Tai Killer was at the same bar he and Theo were at before the fire and tells him that he needs to find him. Gino shows a nurse the drawing of Whitley and she tells him that she saw him in one of the triage rooms. When Gino and Patrick arrive at the room, they discover that Whitley is gone. Gino suggests that he and Patrick split up so they can find him.

Hannah talks with Dunaway who tells her that she saw the man who started the fire and that he is not only coming for the gay men, but he’s also coming for everyone. This piece of dialogue stood out to me because it further confirmed my theory about Big Daddy being a manifestation of the AIDS virus which has yet to be named.

The biggest twist of the episode came when Hannah went to see Adam and we learn that they already know each other. We don't get much insight into their relationship, but Adam tells her that he feels good about what he and Hannah did. Now that I know that these two characters have a history, it sort of changes how I feel about Adam. He knows more than he's letting on but a part of me still believes that he is the good guy and whatever he and Hannah are working on is something good.

Hannah goes to Whitley's room and draws a sample of his blood. Whitely is paranoid and immediately leaves. He heads out the front door and is confronted by Gino. Whitely pushes Gino down and runs back into the hospital. Without waiting for Patrick, Gino pursues him and is led to the morgue. Gino is subdued by Whitley and locked inside one of the freezer drawers. What is it with American Horror Story and burying people alive? We saw it with Madame LaLaurie and Misty Day in "Coven" and then we saw that poor couple in "Cult" get locked inside twin coffins. The episode ends with Gino screaming and begging to be let out while Whitley gets away.

At this point, I'm sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next. Thankfully, I don't have to wait long because while I find it odd that FX is releasing episodes of American Horror Story two at a time, I'm also grateful because there's no way I could have waited an entire week to see if whether or not Gino would be okay.

This episode, like our first two episodes, was pretty amazing. I love the dark tone of this season and I can't say this enough - I'm so happy they chose to go super grounded this season rather than venture into the over-the-top campiness that has been prevalent in the last several seasons of the show. Adam and Gino continue to be my favorite characters, but Hannah and Theo are not too far behind them. The verdict is still out on Patrick and as far as I'm concerned, Sam can go. He's nasty and vile and I don't think he's going to make it out of this season alive. Our OGs - Leslie Grossman, Denis O'Hare, Patti LuPone - aren't given much to do thus far and perhaps that's by design. For the longest time Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, and Evan Peters were the faces of this series and they've gone on to do other projects for Ryan Murphy. New blood (no pun intended) is exactly what this series needed, and we are getting it in spades with top notch performances from Charlie Carver, Joe Mantello, Russell Tovey, and Isaac Powell. After episode four we will officially be halfway through this season. I am still feeling pretty confident about where this season is headed. Stay tuned for my reaction to episode four. Until next time ...

#tv reaction #blw reactions #ahs nyc #ahs reaction #joe mantello #charlie carver #adam carpenter #gino barelli #patrick read #russell tovey #american horror story nyc #hannah wells #billie lourd #ahs season 11 #american horror story

[dreamperson-poll]

mr. raccoon

dreamed by me! mod rem

evil mastermind in an apocalypse whose base is in a candy store. he is, however, not the biggest boss, nor a raccoon

we (me and the other people) wake up in a school in a computer lab

we peek outside and see some people fighting other people near some chairs

turns out people can get possessed

and can pass it onto other people

kind of like a virus

it was pretty much a murder virus (affected people differently)

every time someone walked past the door of the computer lab, all of us dropped to the ground to avoid being seen

there were two tools where i 'spawned':

scanner for infected people

thing that blasts the infection out of people

one of the people (dream-person) was infected

we blasted it out of him

once, some guy knocked on the door for a long time

we opened it after a while and immediately grabbed him and scanned him for the murder virus

he was safe

we realized he was someone we had seen at the beginning of the dream when we had first spawned

he was with some other guy

"what happened to the other guy?"

"yeah i lost him and i think he's dead now"

(camera/view shifts)

it's later revealed that the murder virus affects people differently bc it's not actually a murder virus

it's a tool for mind control

the 'other guy' (see above) is shown to be partnering with the mind control people (the ones controlling the mind controlled)

(they call him mr raccoon)

mr raccoon becomes a major antagonist

he has this organization and sends people to attack us (very rude)

why? he wanted revenge because 'some guy' (see above) had ditched mr raccoon when they were fighting off mind controlled people

mr raccoon and the mind control bosses are speaking in a candy shop, where mr raccoon is based

he complains about it not being near enough to the restrooms

the mind control person snaps at him

mr raccoon backs off

(it's clear who has the power in their partnership)

(camera/view shifts back to main crew)

at some point these things that look like furry endermen start walking around (they were really cute)

(we don't know how they appeared)

one of them phases through the wall of the computer lab and we thought it was a murder virus (i.e. mind control, but we don't know that yet) person

but it was really nice

ended up becoming sort of like a pet

we meet mr raccoon again and find out he's alive

#dreampeople #mr. raccoon #mod rem #long dream era

[carlatsukinamistolemyhamsandwich]

idk if it has something to do with it, but in shin's route the founders believed that it was transmitted through the air

Hi anon! Yes, I have this on my list of "what we know about Endzeit" although to be honest I think the writers included this as a way of showing that Carla knew more about the disease than Shin (and hinting to the fact he used it to kill Giesbach which hadn't come up at that point in Shin's route). This comes from the fact that in Shin's Daylight CD (when he doesn't know Carla has Endzeit), he says they don't know how it spread, although this could just be the writers forgetting things honestly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As for whether Endzeit is caused by a virus, unfortunately this doesn't help much as both viral and bacterial infections can be spread by airborne particles expelled by an infected individual. There are a lot of other reasons why the writers could have had the founders believe Endzeit was airborne:

1) diseases spread by airborne particles can be some of the most contagious (but please note this is NOT always the case) which would explain how all of the founders caught it plus the incubation period (the time between being infected and showing symptoms) for Endzeit is about a month so it would be very hard for them to actually trace where they'd caught it from and they wouldn't necessarily make the link to the actual route of infection: through blood (although, and I intend to elaborate on this at a later point, I wouldn't be too surprised if it couldn't be spread through other bodily fluids as well).

2) Coughing up blood is one of the symptoms of Endzeit and if something affects your lungs then it's not illogical to assume it's airborne.

3) It could be a fun nod to miasma theory, which was the belief that diseases were spread by bad air and was the prevelant theory on disease spread prior to germ theory (i.e. the idea that disease can be spread via pathogenic (which means disease-causing) micro-organisms). The reason I mention this is that germ theory only came to the forefront in the later half of the 19th century and if my theory on how long the Tsukinami brothers were sealed in Bandmaden for is in any way correct (i.e that they were sealed away in the later half of the 18th century), then misma theory would still have been prevalent in the human world and there wouldn't have been any reason for demons to investigate the causes of disease themselves as none, prior to Endziet, affected them.

Anyway in summary I have a lot of thoughts on Endzeit, I hope this was at least an interesting read!

#ask #Endzeit #if I've made any errors I apologise but this was hurriedly typed out on my phone during a coffee break

[madcatdaderpydrawer-blog]

Getting any real answers from Infected Moon was very hard, and being the new technician Y/n had access to a lot of files on him. Such as his training tapes. It felt a bit like snooping, but at the same time they didn’t know how else to help him if they didn’t know what the issue was so they decided to do some snooping. They collected up some of the training tapes and went to watching them on the computer behind the security desk when he was out. 

Seeing Little Moon was so... jarring. It felt like they were seeing a different person entirely. They struggled to believe that the hostile cold monster they had to take care of was the same as the talkative bright one in the training tapes. He was so innocent, it was clear to see how his personality came out even in such a restricted environment. It made Y/n sad to see 1) that clearly both had been neglected so their paint jobs weren’t the same as when they were first made, i.e. the missing pink cheeks and how some of the glow in the dark stars got rubbed off and 2) that something clearly happened before this infection that made him vulnerable to it. Sun described his brother as kind but shy, protective, low energy, so clearly his personality changed way before this virus happened. Clearly the issues go deeper then they thought, and none of the prior technicians thought to check the tapes and investigate that.

Eventually they got caught looking at the tapes and yeah that ended... poorly.

They hadn’t seen many of the tapes, or at least the more... traumatic ones. Ohohoho, THOSE ones went very differently :)

#fnaf security breach au #redemption au #y/n x moon #y/n x moondrop #platonic #daycare attendant #fnaf moon #moondrop

[tornsurvivors]

just a couple things about alice & her infection: 

◈ she has a rare blood type, which allowed the virus to fill the missing blueprint of her DNA and turned her into superhuman instead of a mutation like a licker or even nemesis. however, it IS possible for her to mutate and one of the many ways to do that is if she repeatedly uses her abilities / powers. basically just abusing tf out of them. another way is if the virus takes complete control, which is why alice is constantly fighting an internal war against it every day. the newer strain that she was infected with at a later time,  when wesker deceived her by stating he was ‘taking it back’ and falsely claiming she’s human again,   just makes it even more exhausting for alice to combat.

◈ the virus seems to have it’s own mind, almost as if there is an actual monster living underneath her skin and it is exactly what alice views it as. every time she ends up having to fend off a horde of basic infected, it would constantly pick on her and whisper to her. beckoning her to give in. it was difficult for her to deal with at first, but she gets used to it over time. however, fighting a B.O.W. is an entirely different story-- the virus will get so loud in her head and will FIGHT for control like a rabid beast let off the leash. just screaming at her to be the dominant one, the last one standing. when this happens, alice has to stay away from other humans / survivors. because when the virus is actively fighting her for control, it gets thirsty for fresh blood. 

◈ the virus has enhanced her senses.   she can see easily in the dark as if one would see things during the day, like how a cat can see in the dark. when she uses her powers, her vision can change sometimes depending on how much of her powers she used... like everything will become a pale color, except for her target’s vital spots (that will glow brightly). like their heart or their brain.  but if she’s lost in rage while using powers, red will just bleed in her vision and everything will just appear red to her.    she can detect infected from more than a mile away, depending on how strong the infection is.  the weaker and basic infected, she can only sense within half a mile. bigger infected like B.O.W.s or massively infected beings like herself, she can sense from further than that.   when that happens, she will start to hear a buzzing noise that would slowly become louder the closer she gets to them. it’s so irritatingly loud and unbearable when she’s faced with a B.O.W. like an alarm wailing.   she also, unfortunately, can smell them from far away and it’s absolutely sickening. pretty much just rotted flesh and decay. gets even stronger the closer she gets to them. the smell of death.  with humans / survivors, when the virus is awake and testing her... she can sense their emotions, smell their blood and everything else.  i.e. -- if someone’s pissed, she’ll know it before they can even begin to express it.  her body can also adapt to temperatures, no thanks to the virus. if it’s too cold, the virus will make her warmer.  if it’s too hot, it’ll make her cooler-- her skin would feel cool to the touch. 

◈ as mentioned in the first part, the newer virus making it all more difficult for alice. what that means:  it constantly finds a way around alice’s defense mechanisms to try break her down-- thus forcing her to find another way to defend her self-control from it. she’s just constantly fighting it, every single day. it’s why she rarely sleeps, because she fears that it would give the virus leeway to take over. it was proven so after one night in nevada, when she slept... her nightmares triggered her telekinesis powers... just lifting everything around her up in the air. the rocks and her motorcycle.   this is why she refuses to sleep when she’s around other survivors. especially with claire. if she were to get any sleep, she would lock herself away somewhere far away and safe from claire.

◈ she still can get scars, but if it’s very minor wound... it will disappear. however if it’s a large and deeper one caused by another infected / B.O.W... it will stay. when she heals, she actively tries not to allow the virus to do the work. because it just makes her feel very nauseated and she just HATES the thought of healing within minutes or an hour when a normal human being takes a few days. it just makes her feel more of a freak and less of a human. it also makes her feel like she’s losing control to the virus when it heals and it triggers her. 

◈ speaking of control, her emotions are another way for the virus to take advantage of when fighting for control. if alice’s feeling blinding rage, it will try to convince her to take advantage of it and make her give in. i.e.-- if a survivor is being a scumbag and violating others, the virus will stroke her rage to make her tear them apart... telling her how they deserve it. but that’s because it’ll want to taste their blood and increasing the risk of her mutating if it gains more control. alice has to combat it by not murdering the said violator and walk away, no matter how tempted she is to tear into them and make them suffer.

[this is all i can think of for now, but if more comes to mind... i’ll probably add to this, or make another post. but yeah, if you’re curious / have any questions regarding alice and her infection... please feel free to ask! I love rambling about her.]

#ALICE HC » buried deep within there’s a human

[memento-mortuorum]

Information Hub

Desperate to survive, and hellbent on vengeance, a mortally wounded Dr. William Birkin injects himself with the fruits of his dedicated-- nay obsessive labor. The G virus was flawed however, while healing his injuries as expected, it quickly began to mutate out of control as the virus began to take over both his body and mind... Survival was not something thought possible, but at great cost the impossible can be achieved...

8 years later, William works alongside Rebecca Chambers as a fellow researcher, seeking to unlock the secrets of the recently discovered uroboros virus coming in from Africa. While the higher ups aren’t particularly thrilled about having William remotely anywhere near a virology lab, let alone out of prison, they’re well aware he’s likely the only man who has any chance of helping them with a breakthrough.

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This Au primarily focuses on William Birkin and the hypothetical thought ‘what if Birkin had somehow managed to survive the G virus?’. While set primarily between the 4th and 5th Resident Evil games, prior events both before and during the Raccoon City infection may be explored. Similarly, other characters and their relations, such as Hunk and Kevin Ryman, may also be explored.

More information including tags and character information can be found under the ‘keep reading’.

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#Memento-Mortuorum - Blog tag, functions primarily so others can find it by using the tumblr search.

#Unlikely Survival Au - Au tag, this is the tag that content relating to the au will be tagged under.

#My Creation - The art tag! This is where artwork goes.

#Radio Noise - Ooc / mun speaking tag, generally used for misc. posts in which I may begin to just ramble about things whether it be updates, off topic chatter, or headcanon word vomit.

#Incoming Transmission - the ask tag, this tag will be used whenever an ask is answered.

#Character Profiles; [ character name ] - A tag used specifically for various posts involving a characters profile; headcanons, and various other tidbits of information. In play, it would look something like #Character Profiles; Rebecca Chambers.

#Resident Evil - Tag merely identifying what fandom / media the content relates to. Self explanatory, but here because somebody is ultimately going to ask.

Character Tags - Character tags will be used to identify and track various characters. All character tags will be labeled as the characters name; I.E anything involving Leon would be tagged using the tag #Leon S. Kennedy, William under #William Birkin, Hunk under #Hunk, etc. There may be small exceptions to this when dealing to specific groups of characters like the various USS squads in which case they’ll be tagged under something akin to #USS Alpha Team.

Other tags may be needed over time should the need arise.

#Memento-Mortuorum #Radio Noise #Resident Evil #Information Hub

[bestcataracttreatment]

Is Cataract Surgery Safe To Do During COVID?

Introduction

In a cataract, the vision of the eyes become blurry due to the opacification of the lens. Cataract is a second major cause of visual impairment and preventable blindness. Cataract surgery is one of the most common procedures to improve vision and prevent blindness across the world. Average monthly cataract surgeries performed in India are over 5 lakhs. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sudden cancellation in surgical procedures has created significant backlogs in cataract surgery.

Does Cataract Surgery Have A Risk Of Covid-19 Exposure?

It is necessary to understand how the coronavirus can infect you. A virus can infect you in two ways. One way is by inhaling the aerosols produced during coughing or sneezing by an infected person. Another way of spreading the virus is when a person touches the nose, eyes or mouth with infected hands. Wearing masks, avoiding touching the face and practising hand hygiene can lower the risk of contracting COVID-19. In cataract surgery, there is no or minimal aerosol production. The patient’s face is covered with a sterile drape during the surgery. Further, the surgeons take all the precautions as per the surgical protocol of COVID-19, such as wearing personal protective equipment. The surgery takes around 10-15 minutes, and thus, the exposure time to acquire infection is low. Hence, the risk of getting infected through the covid 19 virus is less during surgery.

When To Have Cataract Surgery In Current Pandemic

Cataract is a progressive condition which means the clouding of your lens will increase over time. The timing of surgery would depend on the functional level of the lens. Unless the vision of the patients gets severely compromised, delaying surgery has no increment in risk. Your doctor will evaluate the condition of your lens in context with your risk that may occur due to your daily activities such as driving, reading and cooking etc. . The doctor will do a complete vision examination and decide when is the right time to do the surgery and how much a surgeon can restore the vision by removing the cataract. In some cases, delaying the cataract may result in permanent vision loss leading to blindness. Take the advice of an expert ophthalmologist whom you can trust. People can delay cataract progression by wearing sunglasses to prevent eyes from ultraviolet rays. The patient should stop smoking and start consuming green vegetables, fruits and food that have antioxidant properties. A person should have controlled diabetes and Blood pressure. A regular eye examination can also help to avoid surgery during the covid 19 pandemic.

Measures To Follow While Taking Cataract Treatment

You should always follow the COVID-19 precautionary measures, i.e., at the doctor’s clinic and before and after the cataract surgery. You may also have the option for telemedicine to consult with your doctor. At the doctor’s clinic The patient should fix an appointment for a consultation to reduce the time for waiting. He should wear a mask and gloves to prevent physical contact to any surface in the clinic. The patient should use digital payment modes to avoid unnecessary physical contact. He should avoid talking to other patients. Reduce the baggage to the clinic prevents exposure to the infected surface. The patient should maintain social distancing while seated in the clinic. After surgery, the patient can consult with the consulting doctor through telemedicine to reduce the chance of getting exposure to other patients in the outpatient clinic. Before and after the cataract surgery The patient should wear a mask before entering the diagnostic room. He should use a hand sanitiser provided by the hospital. Its use is compulsory for both patient and health care worker. Only one patient should be allowed along with an attendee into the diagnostic room. Cleaning of all instruments in the diagnostic area is necessary before the examination .The patient is advised not to touch any surface in the premises of the clinic. Option for telemedicine Telemedicine is an excellent option to maintain social distancing and seeking advice from your ophthalmologist. It results in decreasing physical contact and reduces cross-infection among patients and health care personnel. It reduces unnecessary gatherings and reduces the risk of infection.

Conclusion

Cataract surgery is an elective surgery. However, sometimes, the prolonged, untreated cataract may result in compromised vision. Cataract surgery, if done with all the COVID-19 safety protocols, is safe, and in cataract operation the generation of aerosols is negligible. Patients should consult over the phone with the ophthalmologist, whenever possible,  to reduce the risk of COVID-19. Patient after cataract surgery should avoid contact with other people and minimize travel.

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[urbanworldofsiri]

Freshman Year + COVID

This week, I want to recount my Freshman Year experience as the incoming college class coming in with COVID in full swing. Since UPenn is situated (somewhat) in the heart of Philadelphia, I want to explore how UPenn and how University City responded to COVID and how it relates to our class discussion on Cities, segregation, and COVID.

For my freshman year, school was largely online. In fact, completely online. The epitomized freshman experience—at least for me—had to be put on the backburner as Penn said that housing would not be provided and encouraged us to stay at home at least for the Fall Semester. I distinctly remember many of my peers being so hung-up over this fact that they ended up rooming with friends they made online and living in off-campus housing near/around Philly. When I first saw this happening, I was honestly a bit shocked. Looking back, the notion to go out to Philly and live in something that resembles dorms/college makes sense. I guess many of my peers knew that they needed the social aspects of college and learning to do well in school and to adjust, so they took matters into their own hands as they found ways to live on campus and mimic the freshman experience. I, however, was never that way at all. Unlike Noguera’s daughter (as he describes in the with Frederick Hess), I enjoyed staying at home and being with my family and my close friends from high school. The social aspect of school/learning had no influence on me whether it would’ve been a positive influence or a negative one. But aside from the impacts COVID had on school, COVID had major influences in city life and the entire nature of urban centers. And that extends to Philly and University City as well. With University City in such close proximity to West Philly, it seemed like Penn’s decision to bring students back onto campus in the Spring Semester of 2021, negatively impacted the West Philly community tremendously. Since many West Philly residents work at Penn, they now had to come into “work” (i.e: put themselves into contact with college students) and they had no other way around that. And since, many college students had no regard in spreading the virus, they all partied and contributed in some capacity to the mass spreading of COVID. Many college students, though, even if they get COVID, are adequately able to deal with it. They have access to resources and have the ability to pause their lives so they can work on recovering. Many in West Philly do not have the luxury to do the same. They cannot pause their lives to get better and recover. They need to keep coming in to work (or do everything in their power to come in) so that they can get paid and maintain their households. Penn and University City—via their decision to bring students back onto campus—put many of the residents of West Philly in harm’s way and the influence of racial and ethnic segregation on COVID infection rates was put into plain sight. Penn could have done better.

[wellnesssurgerycenter]

What Can Cause Sudden Hearing Loss?

Hearing loss is a serious health condition that affects millions of people every year. It can be caused by many different factors, but sudden or unexpected hearing loss is often due to an underlying cause that needs treatment right away. 

If you notice some sort of change in your hearing and have questions about what might be causing it, then read on for some potential causes!

Pressure-induced hearing loss 

Pressure-induced hearing loss (PID) occurs when fluid builds up inside the inner ear, which can cause temporary hearing impairment by interfering with nerve signals. This type of hearing loss usually results from an EMERGENCY situation like a fast-moving car accident or water on your eardrums during a swimmer's ear infection treatment (which happens to 20% of adults).

Earwax Buildup

Earwax is a naturally occurring substance that helps keep your ears clean and healthy. It’s produced in the outer ear canal, which is where you can find a lot of bacteria. When these bacteria grow too much, they can cause an infection known as swimmer's ear.

If you have an earwax problem, you may notice symptoms such as itching or pain when using cotton swabs to remove wax from the outer part of your ear canal—or even just touching it! In severe cases, this condition can lead to hearing loss due to fluid build-up inside the inner ear (also known as otitis media).

Viral Infections

Viral infections can cause sudden hearing loss.

Viruses like the flu and measles, mumps and chickenpox can all lead to sudden hearing loss. Viral infections are also known as viral encephalitis (herpes simplex virus) or viral meningitis (influenza).

Sudden hearing loss caused by viral infections may be temporary or permanent. If it's temporary, you'll probably recover on your own within several weeks to months of getting sick with a virus that causes sudden deafness. 

In many cases where there isn't any damage done by the bacteria present in our bodies that cause ear infections such as otitis media or middle ear inflammation (otitis media effusa), treatment usually consists of taking antibiotics for two weeks before starting antibiotic eye drops every day for three days so that both ears can heal properly without having them filled up with pus again!

If this is the condition, it is better to get it checked by an ENT specialist so that he can prescribe a suitable medicine for your condition. There are many ENT surgery clinics in Abu Dhabi where you can get an appointment with some of the best ENT doctors in Abu Dhabi.

Genetics

Genetic factors are also involved in the development of sudden hearing loss. In fact, genetic hearing loss can be passed down from parents to children. This happens when a mutation occurs in one of your body's genes that codes for a protein that is involved in hearing.

There are two types of genetic hearing loss: recessive and dominant. Recessive disorders have an increased risk of being passed on because they don't affect everyone who carries them; instead, only some individuals within a family may be affected by these disorders (i.e., people with one copy of the mutated gene).

The other type—dominant forms—affect everyone who carries it but isn't necessarily more severe than recessive forms; however, they do tend to result in higher rates of disability due to their greater severity compared with recessives

Loud Noise

Loud noises can damage your hearing. The louder the sound, the more damage it causes. For example, if you're in a car and hit your head on the window or hear an explosion nearby (yes, this happens), these sounds will cause temporary hearing loss because they're so loud.

If you'd like to avoid permanent damage to your hearing, don't wear earplugs while participating in loud music events or concerts; instead, use headphones that block out as much sound as possible while still allowing you to hear what's going on around you clearly enough not to miss any details—even if those details may be less than ideal for those around them!

If you have sudden hearing loss, you should see your ENT doctor as soon as possible.

If you have sudden hearing loss, it's important to see your ENT doctor as soon as possible. Your ENT doctor will be able to determine the cause of your sudden hearing loss and help figure out what steps you should take next.

Hearing test: The first step in getting diagnosed is taking a hearing test. This can be done by an audiologist at a clinic or through an online service such as [Hearing Aid Compatibility] 

CT scan: There are two types of CT scans used for diagnosing various medical conditions: computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A CT scan uses X-rays to create images that show blood flow throughout your body tissues; while an MRI uses magnets instead of X-rays to create detailed images of soft tissue structures within your body like bone marrow or brain matter

Make sure you get an appointment at the best ENT clinic in Abu Dhabi so that you get a proper diagnosis and the right treatment regimen for your condition.

In conclusion

Sudden hearing loss can be caused by any of these factors. While there are no specific treatments for sudden hearing loss, it is important to seek medical attention as soon as possible. If you experience any hearing loss or ringing in your ears after loud noises or exposure to harsh chemicals, see an ENT doctor immediately!

[hanalbrechtsen]

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Melting Glaciers Could Unleash Long-Frozen Viruses Onto New Hosts

Graham Colby, one of the study scientists, took this photo of researchers drilling into Lake Hazen’s ice to collect sediment samples in 2017.

Photo: Graham Colby (Getty Images)

In the Canadian High Arctic, climate change is bringing together viruses and potential hosts in new combinations, according to recently published research. Every novel interaction increases the risk of “viral spillover,” i.e., pathogens jumping to different hosts. And every instance of spillover is an opportunity for a virus to become more dangerous.

Viruses rely on their hosts to replicate and spread, yet most viruses are intricately co-evolved with the organisms that support them. Hosts develop defenses that viruses must work to overcome. But in instances of spillover—where a virus jumps ship to a new life form—hosts lack evolved immunity. As with the covid-19 pandemic, when a virus finds a new host for the first time, the results can be catastrophic.

In a glacier-fed lake in the High Arctic, more meltwater means more chance of viral spillover, says the new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers sampled sediment from Lake Hazen, the world’s largest High Arctic lake, and sequenced the viral RNA as well as DNA from animals, plants, and fungi inside.

They found that, in areas of the lake where glacial run-off is highest, the evolutionary overlap between viruses and possible host organisms is lowest, indicating less shared history and more opportunities for unfortunate cross-overs. And climate change is increasing run-off nearly everywhere glaciers exist on Earth.

Glaciers are ancient ice. As they formed thousands or tens-of-thousands of years ago (or even a million years ago), they became time capsules of their environment—trapping organic material, rocks, and pathogens in their matrix. And, as glaciers (or permafrost) melt under climate change, they’re releasing those same things back into our rapidly shifting world.

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“This is more evidence that climate change is leading to more problems,” said senior study scientist Stéphane Aris-Brosou, a computational biologist at the University of Ottawa, in a video call. The researcher said he was surprised that he and his co-researchers found such a correlation between glacial run-off and spillover risk. But now that they have, he wouldn’t be surprised to see a new pandemic virus—be it fungal, plant, or animal—emerge from glacial melt.

Though, Aris-Brosou was careful to emphasize, “we are not predicting the next pandemic” and especially not the next big human viral explosion. The single study of lake sediments is not a crystal ball. “We’re not predicting when, where, in which host, or which viruses are going to lead to the next pandemic—not anything like that,” he said.

Spillover events don’t necessarily mean a pandemic, and the overwhelming majority of viruses don’t infect people. Plus, Aris-Brosou and his colleagues didn’t capture spillover actually happening or even identify the specific viruses present in the glacial sediment. Instead, they took a broad approach, assessing how much melt has muddled together various genetic histories within Lake Hazen.

Previous research has similarly found that climate change is boosting the chance of spillover events, such as by forcing animals into different habitats. But the new study is the first of its kind to quantify spillover risk by sequencing all of the genetic data present in an environment, according to the study authors. “To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to assess the complete virosphere of both DNA and RNA viruses, and their spillover capacity,” they wrote in their paper.

Because it’s a new approach, Aris-Brosou pointed out that there are big limitations to their findings. For one, there’s no information out there for comparison. The researchers were able to determine that spillover risk increases with glacial melt in lake sediment, but they can’t say how high the risk of viral spillover is in Lake Hazen relative to any other place in the world. “We don’t have a sense of scale for this, right now,” Aris-Brosou said.

Further, because they sequenced such a large pool of genetic information, their findings lack specificity. Right now, the scientists can’t say exactly what viruses are lurking at the bottom of the lake, or even what proportion are still infectious. But in follow-up work that’s already underway, Aris-Brosou is hoping to determine how closely related the viruses they found are to present-day pathogens and if any are new to science entirely.

Nonetheless, the results highlight a little-studied side effect of climate change. Through the burning of fossil fuels, we’re altering everything about our world, down to the interactions between life and viruses at the bottom of a glacial lake. “We are the essential drivers of this situation,” said Aris-Brosou. And so, “we need to think carefully about the ways we conduct our lives.” Otherwise, the rising risk of spillover and any resulting, future pandemics are a consequence we’ll have to live with.