I wasn’t sure how to say this before. Last year, I posted a thread about The question of travelers’ diseases - General - iNaturalist Community Forum . What I didn’t say was that these are a fascination of mine. Eleven years ago, in Namibia, I got sick and was hospitalized. Whatever it was must have …

I think I can understand why what happened to you migth have influenced your point of view. Anyway, to be honest, I really think that there are some dangerous sides of nature that are far more fascinating than infectious diseases. I mean volcanoes, the highest mountains, vertical rocky cliffs, sea d…

[image] lothlin: Vaccines are miracles of medical science and there are so many people in the world suffering from diseases whose lives would be changed completely if they had vaccine access. I’ve only been back in the Dominican Republic a few days, but already I have seen someone who appeare…

I may be to able to provide some trackable data when this is all over @jasonhernandez74 . Or not. I cannot tell anymore. Laboratories here work a few ways. State (public) laboratories automatically report to the state and are included in reports. Private laboratories a person can opt out (elect not …

I recently got some blood work on doctors orders done to test for evidence of a Covid infection because possibly I’ve developed some form of long Covid. At least a new species for my profile is a silver lining

I can understand that “silver lining.” I might feel the same way eventually, if I get a positive test. My elderly dad just passed away. He was fully vaccinated but got Covid late last year, plus a secondary infection, and it nearly killed him then. He never really fully recovered from that. So I’m…

[image] jnstuart: So I’m not so “fascinated” by the disease or the virus. In some ways, I am sorry that I posted this thread. Lucy’s situation with her son is not an academic study. If he doesn’t make it, “trackable data” will not be any comfort to anyone. But in other ways, it is understand…

[image] jasonhernandez74: If he doesn’t make it, “trackable data” will not be any comfort to anyone. He will make it. I know this because the doctors tell me so. He is in hospital now, his dengue having turned hemorrhagic quite suddenly Friday midmorning. My husband is there now and I am leav…

Just know you have people half a world away hoping for his recovery <3

His morning’s draw having shown an upward tick to 100, he is considered to have passed to the third stage of dengue, recuperation! Because hospitals here are saturated and he is no longer in danger, he has been discharged to continue his recovery at home. (We can have laboratory draws in home and ev…

[image] ItsMeLucy: What are your thoughts? I value your insights. My thoughts are that I am sorry to have brought up this topic. I did so not thinking about the human stories behind it. World-O-Meter or the WHO website presents statistics – impersonal numbers – on disease incidence, but behi…

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