Organ Transplant Patients Can Die When Donors Aren't Screened for This Parasitic Disease
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Bob Naedele died after receiving a heart from a donor with Chagas disease.

His death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested. The group that governs U.S. transplant policies is considering mandatory screening of at-risk donors.

New, by @carolinechen

#Health #HealthCare #OrganDonation #OrganDonors #Transplant #Patients

https://www.propublica.org/article/transplant-patients-risk-chagas-unscreened-organ-donors?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Scientist and the Bats
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Funders thought watching #bats wasn’t important. Then she helped solve the #mystery
of a deadly #virus.

Novel infectious #diseases will keep coming at us, #wildlife
ecologist Peggy Eby warns. Investing in scientific work like hers “seems like a poor approach now,” she said, “but 20 years from now, we’ll look back & wonder why we didn’t do it.”

The latest in our Roots of An Outbreak series from @carolinechen

#Health #Disease #Research
https://www.propublica.org/article/australia-bats-hendra-research-pandemic-prevention?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

☞ New thing! We show you, using maps, charts and a playable simulator how forest loss and fragmentation has increased the risk of another Ebola spillover in Guinea. w/ @irenatfh @carolinechen

https://projects.propublica.org/spillover/

They set out to save rainforests — and stumbled upon a way to help prevent the world’s next deadly pandemic. (@carolinechen for @ProPublica)

#COVID #climate #deforestation #madagascar

https://www.propublica.org/article/pandemic-spillover-madagascar-health-in-harmony