More signs found that Mediterranean eating reduces brain disease risk

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More signs found that Mediterranean eating reduces brain disease risk

Friday, 27 March 2026, 14:51 Greek yoghurt, fresh tomatoes and greens, fish so fresh it drips seawater, little by way of saturated fa…
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My beautiful Aunt died of multiple sclerosis when she was still a young woman. Our country needs to devote more research money to finding treatments for this debilitating disease. #multiplesclerosis #multiplesclerosisfunding #multiplesclerosisresearch #endmultiplesclerosis #disease #preventingdisease #debilitating #debilitatingdisease #debilitatingillness #illness #chronic #chronicillness #chronicdisease #medicine #modernmedicine #medicalresearch #research #medicinal

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

   Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
   All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

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Russell, Bertrand - Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 "The Aims of Education" (1926) | WIST Quotations

Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest…

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No worries RFK Jr. has you covered!

"New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries "

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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-covid-variant-immune-escape-potential-confirmed-us-22-other-countries

New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries

BA.3.2 represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, genetically distinct from the JN.1 lineages that have circulated in the US since January 2024.

Montreal's Sainte-Justine hospital flagged as measles exposure site in latest outbreak
Quebec has declared another measles outbreak, with two new confirmed cases and multiple exposure sites identified across various health-care settings in Montreal and the Laurentians.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-montreal-measles-outbreak-sainte-justine-hospital-9.7140064?cmp=rss

#disease #viruses

"You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your brain. If that’s not startling enough, researchers reported this week that there may be a new way for this virus to activate—one that affects up to 10 percent of adults worldwide.

The virus is the human polyomavirus 2, commonly called either the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, named after the poor patient from whom it was first isolated in 1971. It shows up in the urine and stool of infected people and spreads via the fecal-oral route. Many people are thought to be infected early in life, and blood testing surveys have suggested that 50–90 percent of adults have been exposed at some point.

Researchers hypothesize that the initial site of infection is the tonsils, or perhaps the gastrointestinal tract. But wherever it happens, that initial infection is asymptomatic. At that point, a person is infected with what’s called the archetype JC virus, which quietly sets up a persistent but utterly silent lifelong infection.

For the vast majority of people, that is all their JC virus infection will be—silent. But for an unlucky few, the JC virus will seemingly awaken, rearrange its genetic material, and morph into a brain-demolishing nightmare that causes a disease called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy or PML."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/youre-likely-already-infected-with-a-brain-eating-virus-youve-never-heard-of/

You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of

Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.

Ars Technica
Alberta poultry farmers brace for spring migration after last year's surge in avian flu cases
Spring is heralded by the return of geese, but to many in Alberta's poultry industry, migration means something different. With last year's avian flu season considered the worst in years, farmers are being mindful to avoid their flocks contracting the disease.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-spring-migration-avian-flu-9.7137476?cmp=rss
Alberta poultry farmers brace for spring migration after last year's surge in avian flu cases
Spring is heralded by the return of geese, but to many in Alberta's poultry industry, migration means something different. With last year's avian flu season considered the worst in years, farmers are being mindful to avoid their flocks contracting the disease.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-spring-migration-avian-flu-9.7137476?cmp=rss