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Not many details, but events like this have historically been framed as examples of "sociogenic illness", even though the details are murky and it makes no sense anyway. They call it "Dinga dinga". Dancing seems like a stretch here, this looks more like rhythmic spasms or something like it and...

Flu viruses can use a second entry pathway to infect cells (msn.com) H2N2 MHC class II proteins mediate sialic acid independent entry of human and avian H2N2 influenza A viruses Abstract Influenza A viruses (IAV) pose substantial burden on human and animal health. Avian, swine and human IAV...

Free full text: https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/phrs.2024.1606966/full An Unwanted but Long-Known Company: Post-Viral Symptoms in the Context of Past Pandemics in Switzerland (and Beyond) REVIEW Public Health Rev, 08 April 2024 Volume 45 - 2024 |...

Investigating the ‘Bolsonaro effect’ on the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic: an empirical analysis of observational data in Brazil Mireille Razafindrakoto; François Roubaud; Marta Reis Castilho; Valéria Pero; João Saboia Brazil counts among the countries the hardest hit by the Covid-19...

(Oh the irony) More than 30 people who attended a conference organized by the CDC's "disease detectives" likely were infected with COVID-19 at the event last week, the agency said. The CDC hosted the 4-day conference that started April 24 at a Crowne Plaza hotel just outside Atlanta, which is...

No abstract, behind paywall. Full title: A Zoonotic Henipavirus in Febrile Patients in China There is a news article here: https://www.the-sun.com/health/5961203/china-sounds-alarm-new-langya-virus/ Excerpt:

To follow from Trish's post (https://www.s4me.info/threads/ltse-long-term-symptom-exacerbation-type-2-me-or-new-diagnosis.27945/#post-422324): The BPS Brigade have been accused of hijacking ME and replacing it with CFS emphasizing the symptom of fatigue and ignoring PEM. However from what I've...

Free full text: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0333102420965132 Keywords New daily persistent headache, viral pandemic, Russian flu, SARS-CoV-2, neurasthenia, headache

Free full text: https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/early/2020/11/02/clinmed.2020-0204 Long-term sequelae following previous coronavirus epidemics I'm not sure whether this tells us much that hasn't been discussed before, though I haven't read it closely.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/turning-straw-gold/202007/how-stay-home

I watched 'Awakenings', the film from the 1990's starring Robert de Nero and Robin Williams. The film is based on the book 'Awakenings' by Dr Oliver Sacks published in 1973. (The names in the film have been changed) 'It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s...

"In the following discourse I shall endeavour to shed light on how, and perhaps why, a serious disease has not been taken seriously for nearly half a century. The disease is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Many people think it is the same thing as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome but I shall also explain why...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/09/spanish-flu-pandemic-centenary-first-world-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This thread has been split from https://www.s4me.info/threads/bmj-pressure-grows-on-lancet-to-review-“flawed”-pace-trial.5444/page-6 They seem to play these word games all the time. I have been trying to work out the attitude to "hysteria". In their book Wessely, Hotopf and Sharpe say @p232...