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intersectionalpraxis · 18 days

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"If a pig catches both a human influenza A virus and an avian influenza A virus at the same time, it can spark a process known as viral reassortment — a genetic exchange in which flu viruses swap gene segments." "Those swaps can introduce dramatic changes, producing a new virus with certain properties of a non-human strain coupled with the capacity to infect and spread between people." "The death rate in humans may be upwards of 50 per cent, World Health Organization data suggests, though it's possible that milder infections are getting missed, skewing the case fatality ratio. Still, in a population that's never been exposed, the global impacts could be dire." "More human cases could also be happening under the radar among farm workers who've moved to the U.S. from abroad, don't speak English as their first language, and may be hesitant to seek medical help, he added." "So I think there's probably underreporting on both sides," Armstrong said." "If [H5N1] gets into a population where there's constantly animals going in and out … it might not ever leave."

I've been watching this develop for the past several days, and apart from being terrified most people will not take this seriously (I've seen a handful of people already shout conspiracy on social media and it's alarming to see, as always). What I wanted to point out is that pandemics are going to continue to be our 'normal.' I watched a great video on YouTube a while ago (I believe it was by Vice?) that touched base on how this is going to become our new reality because of multiple factors (such as our proximity to animals, and environments/etc). It was when Covid hit and they did a piece debunking some of the misinformation floating on the internet. If I can find it I will post it here because it was informative and relevant to pretty much any world crisis we will see around any virus that spreads among a human population.

This post isn't trying to fear monger anyone, I just hope more people are aware of what is happening because this is important to talk about. There are already cases (of cows getting this bird flu) in the US, and I won't be surprised if there will be instances in more countries around the world. As usual, keep washing your hands/keeping good hygiene practices, masking up (and if you aren't I hope you consider it), and taking precautions if you do happen to visit/work or go near a pig or poultry farm too:

I'll keep track of this here of course, but please stay informed folks. And also FU to any governments who will try to minimize this or try to diminish the severity until it's too late and community spread happens like Covid because their actions are influenced by capitalistic interests.

Update (April 7th, 2024, 9:32pm EST): to anyone wondering where some of the source information originates from -here is a link to the CDC. They are tracking documented avian virus outbreaks in the US and the public can access it here:

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nando161mando · 18 days

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Footage of interior of Gaza's largest hospital Al Shifa released by the World Health Organization.

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said that the hospital had been reduced to ashes, leaving it an "empty shell with human graves".

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workersolidarity · 18 days

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WHO FOOTAGE FROM AL-SHIFA MEDICAL COMPLEX SHOWS COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL FACILITIES

📹 Footage published by the World Health Organization (WHO) following their mission to Al-Shifa medical complex after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) siege and eventual raid left the hospital in ruins, with what the WHO described as a graveyard of shallow graves left throughout the hospital's grounds.

According to Gaza's media office, more than 400 Palestinians were killed during Zionist army operations at Al-Shifa, with a total of 1'500 Palestinians missing, killed or wounded over the course of the raid.

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vyorei · 6 months

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Info on Al-Quds Hospital, given the impossible order of evacuation by Israeli forces

#free gaza #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #free palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #al quds hospital #Palestine Red Crescent Society #world health organization

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reasonsforhope · 9 months

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gahh, are there any big recent good news stories❔everything i can find seems so . small. which is ok and good but gahhhhhhhhh mental health explode my brain aaaaa

Oh yeah, 100%

Do your mental health a favor and read some of this. It's a giant compilation of good news newsletters that is very good at finding big stories and has a very large-scale and international focus: https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews/

Future Crunch's top story from two weeks ago, for example:

"Humanity has made astonishing progress on access to water, sanitation and hygiene in this century. Between 2000 and 2022, 2.1 billion people gained access to safe drinking water, 2.5 billion gained access to safely managed sanitation, the number of people using unimproved facilities has been halved, from 1.1 billion to 545 million, and the number practising open defecation has fallen by more than two thirds, from 1.3 billion to 419 million. Source: WHO"

#Anonymous #ask #me #drinking water #clean water #sanitation #hygiene #mental health #world health organization #good news #hope #hope posting #progress

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eretzyisrael · 6 months

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The World Health Organization warned that Gaza hospitals are at a breaking point.

That was October 12.

UNICEF warned that incubators were hours away from being shut down due to lack of fuel in Gaza:

That was October 22.

Now, let's look at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City last night, where Hamas held a rally, complete with huge video screen:

Video here.

Notice all the lights, inside and outside the hospital.

Looks like they had plenty of fuel there, three weeks after supplies were supposed to run dry. It's a miracle!

UNICEF and WHO are useful idiots, willing to believe the lies that are told by Hamas and their partners.

And notice that none of the attendees seem at all concerned to go out in the open, publicly, when they accuse Israel of "genocide." If they really thought that Israel was hellbent on murdering all Gazans, why would they go out in the open?

They are all voluntary human shields for Hamas, whose headquarters is directly underneath them.

Notice also that all the attendees are young men of military age.

#chanukah miracle #shifa hospital #hamas #hamas rally #gaza #unicef #who #world health organization

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eraserdude6226 · 3 months

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From Fox News - 'Disease X': World Economic Forum creating contingency plan for infectious virus outbreak

'Disease X': World Economic Forum creating contingency plan for infectious virus outbreak

Coming soon for a summer 2024 release coming to your part of the world!!

But here's what I find most disturbing - this paragraph: "The hypothetical virus, dubbed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as Disease X, HAS NOT YET BEEN FORMED but scientists and attendees at the global confab say they will be chatting about the potential pathogen so that they can prepare properly should it ever strike." Do they have labs preparing this virus right now!!!

Start stocking up on basic essentials, ammo, and guns because it's gonna get bumpy!! Remember that this is the same group that warned about a viral infection and had a TTX about it just MONTHS before COVID hit!!

#wef #who #world health organization #world economic forum

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wontgetfooledagain · 10 months

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#vaccine #pandemic #world health organization

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sophieinwonderland · 5 months

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Repeating again, trying to gaslight people into believing they have trauma is extremely dangerous!

Could you imagine if this was a thing in any other community?

Could you imagine if there were people who decided that chronic depression had to always be caused by childhood trauma, and anyone who was depressed must have had trauma in childhood that caused it.

And you know, I really don't like using the word "gaslight" lightly. But there's not a better term for this.

What are posts like this if not trying to convince people to question their own sanity and their judgement of their own personal experiences?

@thewoodlandsys

Why are you trying to convince strangers they have secret trauma they're not aware of?

More importantly, why are you posting this in endogenic tags?

(This had been posted in the "#endo safe" tag but was removed.)

Anyway, the premise itself is pretty flawed. Most endogenic systems I know don't have DID or the amnesia typically associated with DID, or other symptoms of a dissociative disorder.

I know I repost this all the time, but it keeps needing to reposted... According to the World Health Organization's ICD-11, you don't need a disorder to be plural. It allows for what it describes as multiple "distinct personality states" without any sort of mental disorder.

Non-disordered and endogenic systems exist and are backed by the World Health Organization. Period. No way around it.

Now stay out of our tags!

#syscourse #pro endo #pro endogenic #sysblr #world health organization #endogenic #endogenic system #system stuff #multiplicity #psychology #psychiatry

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constantly-deactivated · 1 year

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Dr. Vincent Carroll giving urgent message on the WHO Pandemic Treaty that is due to be signed off in 2024.

This treaty will hand over health sovereignty to the WHO and governments. We need to make people aware of this treaty so we can stop it.🤔

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ey3bags · 15 days

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WHO delegation inspects al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

"...where you can smell the death itself..."

- WHO delegate

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #israeli occupation #ceasefire now #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine #eyes on gaza #eyes on rafah #ceasefire #al shifa hospital #save rafah #all eyes on palestine #all eyes on rafah #all eyes on gaza #world health organization #palestinian genocide

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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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#feminist #feminism #social justice #free palestine #current events #current news #gaza #covid conscious #covid isn't over #covid 19 #covid #covid is airborne #united states #disability justice #disability #mask up #us politics #world health organization #world news

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nando161mando · 6 months

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"In the occupied West Bank where Hamas has no control Israel restricts water supply for Palestinians to well below the WHO recommended daily limit.

You cannot continue to pretend this has anything to do with Hamas, it's collective punishment David."

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workersolidarity · 19 days

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WHO REPORT CALLS AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL AN "EMPTY SHELL" AND DESCRIBES A GRAVE YARD

A newly published World Health Organization (WHO) report on the Israeli occupation raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex, located in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, calls the hospital an "empty shell" and describes a ruined courtyard with "numerous shallow graves" filled with the bodies of murdered Palestinians.

According to the WHO, the organization tried on six different occasions to organize a mission to visit the hospital in order to evacuate patients, staff and displaced civilian sheltering inside, but were "denied, delayed or impeded" six times between March 25th and April 1st, 2024.

The WHO said the hospital, which had been Gaza's "largest and most important" referral hospital in the Gaza Strip and said it is now "nothing more than an empty shell," with no patients, no doctors and a majority of the hospital's equipment and facilities completely or partially destroyed, including the hospital's emergency department and its maternity ward, both of which were destroyed by "explosives and fire."

The Israeli occupation army also destroyed the hospital's oxygen plant, which the WHO says leaves only Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, which was also damaged during a previous weeks-long Israeli siege and eventual raid back in December, 2023.

However, the horrific part of the WHO report comes when WHO personnel describe what they witnessed outside on the hospital grounds, writing in the report how, "numerous shallow graves have been dug just outside the emergency department, and the administrative and surgical buildings."

"In the same area, many dead bodies were partially buried with their limbs visable. During the visit, WHO staff witnessed at least five bodies lying partially exposed to the heat. The team reported a pungent smell of decomposing bodies engulfing the compound. Safeguarding dignity, even in death, is an indespensible act of humanity."

Further, survivors of the raid described to the WHO teams horrific treatment at the hands of the Zionist army, telling the WHO they'd endured "severe lack of food, water, healthcare, hygiene, and sanitation, and were forced to relocate between buildings at gunpoint."

"At least 20 patients have reportedly died due to the lack of access to care and limited movement authorized for healthcare personnel," the WHO added.

Despite the horrendous scenes the WHO teams were met with, they'd endured several delays, and even the illegal detention of a driver, before gaining access to the site and they also said more than half of all their missions to Gaza have been met with delays, impediments and postponements.

Worse still, the WHO says the loss of the Al-Shifa medical complex has "broken the backbone of the already ailing health system" in Gaza. This after the WHO worked to restore basic services at Al-Shifa after a previous Israeli raid inflicted damage to the hospital's functionality, saying in the report that all those efforts are "now lost."

Out of 36 hospitals functioning in Gaza on October 7th, 2023, only 10 remain at this time to serve over 2 million Palestinians, most of them displaced, and nearly 5% of Gazans dead, wounded or missing.

Meanwhile, with a looming Israeli invasion of Rafah, the WHO fears Gaza could be facing "unimaginable health consequences" from Israel's war and its "systematic dismantling of health care" in the Gaza Strip.

The report finishes by warning that, "as famine looms, disease outbreaks spread, and traumatic injuries increase, WHO calls for unimpeded access of humanitarian aid into and across the Gaza Strip, and a lasting ceasefire."

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redshift-13 · 22 days

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#tedros adhanom ghebreyesus #who #world health organization #environmental health #planetary health #public health

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reasonsforhope · 8 months

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"A new World Health Organization (WHO) report highlights that 5.6 billion people – 71% of the world’s population – are now protected with at least one best practice policy to help save lives from deadly tobacco – five times more than in 2007.

[Note: Going by the math, that means just (roughly) 14% of people were covered by tobacco control policies in 2007. Talk about a huge increase!]

In the last 15 years since WHO’s MPOWER tobacco control measures were introduced globally, smoking rates have fallen. Without this decline there would be an estimated 300 million more smokers in the world today.

This WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, is focused on protecting the public from second-hand smoke, highlighting that almost 40% of countries now have completely smoke-free indoor public places.

The report rates country progress in tobacco control and shows that two more countries, Mauritius and the Netherlands, have achieved best-practice level in all MPOWER measures, a feat that only Brazil and Türkiye had accomplished until now.

[Note: In late 2021, the former Turkey changed official its name to Türkiye, shedding the English/Anglicized spelling.]

“These data show that slowly but surely, more and more people are being protected from the harms of tobacco by WHO’s evidence-based best-practice policies,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General...

Smoke-free public spaces is just one policy in the set of effective tobacco control measures, MPOWER, to help countries implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and curb the tobacco epidemic.

Smoke-free environments help people breathe clean air, shield the public from deadly second-hand smoke, motivate people to quit, denormalize smoking and help prevent young people from ever starting to smoke or use e-cigarettes.

“While smoking rates have been going down, tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable death in the world – largely due to relentless marketing campaigns by the tobacco industry,” said Michael R. Bloomberg, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries...

Eight countries are just one MPOWER policy away from joining the leaders in tobacco control: Ethiopia, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, and Spain...

This report demonstrates that all countries irrespective of income levels can drive down the demand for deadly tobacco, achieve major wins for public health and save economies billions of dollars in health care and productivity costs."

-via World Health Organization, July 31, 2023

#smoking #cigarette #tobacco #cw smoking #nicotine #big tobacco #smokers #world health organization #brazil #turkiye #turkey #netherlands #mauritius #public health #preventable diseases #mortality rate #good news #hope

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