Nobody Cares about Your Health

[Noodles]

Are you cataloging all the ways it sucks to die?

 

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IM it to Sid.

 

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No longer just a thing to pull comedy bits about unusual diets from.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Is Officially Killing People

Michigan health officials confirmed that there were two deaths linked to the outbreak of an intestinal illness called cyclosporiasis.

futurism.com

 

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This guy certainly didn't care about anybody else's health.

Measles-infected Universal Studios visitor spent whole day at the park

Public health officials warn of possible measles exposure at Universal Studies Hollywood last month.

www.latimes.com

Public health officials are investigating after a person spent 11 hours at Universal Studios Hollywood while infected with the measles, possibly exposing other parkgoers.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department warned that people who visited the amusement park on July 26 between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. could have been exposed to the contagious viral respiratory disease.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Yet a huge population of Florida residences with kids refuse to get them vaccinated ...

Once Extinct & Rare Diseases Roar Back To Life In Florida As Immunizations Continue Declining - NewsBreak

Vaccine coverage drops leave schools and hospitals exposed to measles, whooping cough, and chickenpox & the bill is landing on families, employers, and tax

local.newsbreak.com

It boggles my mind.

 

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IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records

The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.

arstechnica.com

A “human error” in the IT department led to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) losing data from maternity records over an 11-year span.

The data loss occurred on August 18, the English hospitals announced in a blog post on Monday spotted by The Register. The blog said the problem is “the result of human error” during routine technical work while “creating a copy of a radiotherapy database for reporting purposes.”

Oof. I wouldn't want to be on that IT staff.

The post reads:

The process used a set of pre-written computer instructions that had previously been used for a different hospital system. A setting that should have been changed before the process was run was missed. As a result, the process was carried out on a maternity database instead of the radiotherapy database, causing the maternity records database to be overwritten.

The overwritten database held data from NUH’s previous maternity database, which included maternity records for women and babies who received care from NUH from September 2011 to November 2022.

Offsite archival backups. It's a necessity.

 

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Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed

Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.

arstechnica.com

COVID-19 made the weaknesses in our pandemic preparedness at national and global levels painfully clear. But a new study highlights that even at the first, local steps of an outbreak with pandemic-potential, we are worryingly underprepared.

Health officials in New York set up a regional test of healthcare facilities to identify and respond to a patient with a mystery infection that could pose a pandemic-level threat. But things didn’t go well. Overall, responses were slow, appropriate use of personal protective equipment was spotty, and only 60 percent of facilities passed the basics of the test—an overall failing grade.

“These drills identified needs for health care workers and health care facility staff member training to achieve earlier identification, masking, and isolation of potentially infectious febrile patients,” the officials wrote in the study, which was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The only surprising thing here to me is that there's a publication called Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. People are so into the topic they need to put it out weekly!

 

[Casey Pelous]

The only surprising thing here to me is that there's a publication called Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. People are so into the topic they need to put it out weekly!

Wasn't that the magazine they made the movie about? The Devil Wears Walmart Scrubs?

 

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Oh fuck.

Suspected Plague Death at Russian Lab Sparks ‘Anti-Epidemic’ Lockdown

A woman has died of suspected plague in Siberia, triggering a "full range of anti-epidemic measures," according to Russian officials and media reports.

Igor Kobzev, the governor of the Russian Irkutsk region, said on Friday he had met with the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Russia's public health agency, about "a suspected case of a regional resident with a particularly dangerous infection."