What are human challenge trials. This is where volunteers are purposefully exposed — “challenged” — by a pathogen in controlled conditions. By doing this, you can rapidly test the immune response, vaccines, and treatments without the need to wait for infections out in the wild. One slight problem- volunteers can die when you don’t have a good …
Read moreGrowing the Delta Variant for Human Challenge Trials
Meet this Monday with positive thoughts and you won’t face negative things throughout the week.
COVID-19 will in time fade. Like all previous pandemics, be it bubonic plague, the sweating sickness, SARS, etc., this too will run its course. But when and how the conspiracy theory pandemic will end is not so clear. This too has infected the world. For example, a vendor in Bethlehem refused the vaccine because “I …
Read moreAnti-Vax Movement Has a Long, Deadly History from Smallpox to COVID
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The rapid development of technology could unleash the world’s nature reserves of tropical vegetation and become a treasure trove of new drugs. A team of researchers at JCU’s Institute for Tropical Health Medicine has completed a two-year comprehensive review to improve the way new medical compounds are found in nature to address existing and emerging infectious …
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This is a fascinating account of what Colombus brought to the New World, and what the New World gave back to the Old World. The conquerers who wrote the history like to emphasize that they brought civilization to the poor illiterates. They forget to mention they brought smallpox which decimated the Indian tribes because they …
Read moreThe Columbian Exchange Brought Globalization and Disease
If you feel the blue early in the morning, Then take a deep sigh and say this is just a wonderful day, Where you would have your say, So, stay blessed, Wish you a lovely morning! #Monday #Motivation #CEDavisMD
You know something is serious when the army mandates all active servicemen to get vaccinated! Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to order Friday that all active-duty U.S. military personnel be vaccinated against coronavirus, https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/fort-bragg-ready-for-expected-mandate-that-all-troops-be-vaccinated-against-coronavirus/19811428/ Dr.Connie Says: What took so long! The Delta variant is deadly. Everyone needs to get vaccinated yesterday!
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the ones who treat you right and forget about the ones that don’t. Have a great Monday!