One Day I ’ll Fly Away, COVID Permitting
With Fall in full swing, many of us are asking “when will I begin to live my life again?” Life involves traveling, yet 2020 was the worst year in tourism history, with 1 billion fewer international arrivals than 2019. And now, after an optimistic summer, travel bookings for Labor Day were down 15% from 2019, indicating that the Delta variant dissuades people from traveling. Still, getting away is a human need, and an economic need. In a recent press release, the U.S. Travel Association urges everyone to vaccinate, for their own protection, and “to help put us on the p...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Talya Miron-Shatz Tags: confidence creativity health and fitness philosophy covid experience happiness travel Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 533
This week ' s case is from the very coolBelize Vector& Ecology Center run by Drs. Nicole L. Achee and John P. Grieco in Orange Walk, Belize. These arthropods are being reared to better understand their role as vectors of a human pathogen in this region. What pathogen is this?See them in action! (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - February 26, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 533
This week ' s case is from the very coolBelize Vector& Ecology Center run by Dr. Nicole L. Achee and John P. Grieco in Orange Walk, Belize. These arthropods are being reared to better understand their role as vectors of a human pathogen in this region. What pathogen is this?See them in action! (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - February 26, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Blame Mexico First
There are many aggravating tropes that keep reemerging in the debate over immigration policy but one of the worst is that every problem with the U.S. immigration system is the result of the supposedly perfidious Mexico. Changes in Mexican law and policy certainly have an impact on immigration to the United States but it is not true that our laws would operate wonderfully even if foreign governments had policies to support them. Those who blame Mexico should, at the minimum, get their stories straight. In many versions of this tale, the Mexican government is hypocritical because its immigration laws are strict yet it ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 487
Answer:Cimex lectularis,or as Sheldon Campbell said, " Eew, bedbug! " .Eew, indeed. As someone who has been in hotel beds more than my own recently, I have perfected the ' bed bug check ' of the hotel room. I have been fortunate so far NOT to have found any of these little pests in my hotel room. I am now on my way to Belize for a vector-borne disease capacity-building project and hope that the trend continues.Thanks to William Sears and Florida Fan who shared some nice stories aboutC. lectularis,and its cousins, the bat bugs (check them out in the comments section).Blaine also helpfully pointed out that you *might* be abl...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - March 25, 2018 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Trip to Chaa Creek Lodge in Belize - Day 1
Note - writing this with some help from my daughter.My family and I went on a trip to Belize in early August 2017 and I am posting some notes and pictures from the trip here.We chose Belize for a few semi - random reasons. First, we had wanted to go to Europe but we really only could travel just the week before school started for my kids and we felt like Europe was (1) too far (2) would involve too much jet lag and (3) would involve too many Real Madrid fans. So we started looking around closer to home. We wanted to go out of the country (out of the USA - not just out of California, though it really is it's ...
Source: The Tree of Life - September 1, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
10 Years!
April 3, 2017Current Mood: ReminiscentWell, March 8th marked my 10 year Cancerversary and I wanted to blog about it but wasn ’t sure how I wanted to tackle it or how I wanted to share…I could take the approach, how did Cancer change me? Or what have I accomplished since my D-Day? I guess I ’m doing a little of both in this blog.Sure it ’s been 10 years since I heard those life changing words, “You’ve got cancer”, but I live with reminders every day. Yes, every day I have to take a shower and see my scars and look at what the cancer took from me. Yes, putting lotion on my body has gotten easier over the y...
Source: Sharing My Cancer Crapness - April 3, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Time to set some heads a-rollin'
I still maintain that ebola virus is a very minor public health concern in the United States, it is a very big public health concern in west Africa and possibly eventually elsewhere; and it is a very big threat to the global economy and to U.S. politics. But . . .We will never persuade the American people or the ignoramuses in the corporate media that our attention and our resources should be focused on west Africa, not Kennedy Airport, if it does not appear absolutely and transparently true that our medical and public health infrastructure is fully competent to protect us. And no, it doesn't look like that. The medical di...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 17, 2014 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Living with Diabetes in Belize
Welcome back to our virtual trip around the world with diabetes -- our Global Series that invites PWDs (people with D) everywhere to share what their lives are like compared to ours in the U.S. Say hello today to Jess, a young lady who shares her ... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - September 12, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
“Give me your tired, your poor…”
The rapid influx of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the last few months has spurred a national conversation regarding the United States’ role in offering refuge to these children, the majority of whom are fleeing widespread gang violence and delinquency in their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. A key talking point for some in the debate has become the supposed threat to public health that these children pose.
Pundits and politicians, from city councils to the U.S. Congress, have latched on to the alarmist claim that immigrant children are carrying diseases with t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Consumer Health Care Disparities Global Health Policy Politics Publc Health Source Type: blogs
Border Crisis: Fictions v. Facts (Part 2 of “Children from Central America”)
Despite extensive media coverage, there is probably much that you don’t know about the history of the border crisis—and what we can or should do in response. Too often the headlines are designed to stir passions, rather than inform.
At the end of next week, Congress will leave for its five-week August Recess. Between now and then legislators will be debating the issues, and no doubt many of your friends will be taking positions.
Here are the facts you need when weighing what you hear–whether on television or at a neighbor’s barbecue.
Are you aware that since President Obama took office, it has become...
Source: Health Beat - July 26, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Maggie Mahar Tags: unaccompanied children border Border Crisis Central America illegal immigrants Immigration Reform National Guard Obama and border crisis refugees August recess Congress El Salvador Guatemala Honduras rape Vox Source Type: blogs
Mexican Immigration Policy Lowers the Cost of Central American Migration to the US
Alex Nowrasteh
One persistent American complaint about the Mexican government’s opposition to immigration laws like Arizona’s SB-1070 is that Mexico’s immigration policy is far more restrictive than that of the United States or anything proposed in Arizona. In 2010, Representative Ted Poe (R-TX) articulately pointed out the Mexican government’s blatant hypocrisy. Brutal Mexican immigration laws were not only bad policy for Mexico but exposed an absurd level of hypocrisy.
After Representative Poe’s comments, the Mexican government passed a Migratory Act in 2011 that went into effect on November 1, 2012. This law ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 17, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
