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☆ She Was Depressed and Forgetful. It Was the Worm in Her Brain.
  + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | More About Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Roundworms infect hundreds of millions of people globally, according to the Cleveland Clinic, but the researchers in Australia said this was the first report of the Ophidascaris worm species infecting a human. The woman may have been infected by the worm the same way small animals typically are: by accidentally consuming worm eggs. Carpet pythons were at a lake area near where the woman lived, the article said. She had no direct contact with the snakes but often gathered warrigal greens, which are similar to spinach, from around the lake to cook. The article said that she could have inadvertently consumed worm eggs by eating the greens or because her hands or her kitchen were contaminated by them.
Persons: Scott Gardner, ” Dr, Gardner, we’re immunocompromised, ” Organizations: Cleveland Clinic, Manter, Parasitology, University of Nebraska Locations: Australia, Lincoln
☆ Australia: Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman's brain in world first
  + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
The finding unleashed a mad scramble to find out what exactly the parasite was, Canberra Hospital infectious disease expert Sanjaya Senanayake told CNN. “We were able to send the live wiggling worm to him, and he was able to look at it and immediately identify it,” Senanayake said. In this case, the patient was likely an accidental host of the worm, Senanayake said. “There’s more opportunities for humans, domestic animals and wild animals to interact with each other and the vegetation that’s out there. And of those emerging infections, about 75% were zoonotic, meaning there has been transmission from the animal world to the human world – including coronaviruses.
Persons: Dr, Hari Priya Bandi, ” Bandi, Sanjaya Senanayake, “, ” Senanayake, ”, Senanayake, Hossain M, Kennedy KJ, Wilson HL Senanayake Organizations: CNN, Australian National University, Canberra Hospital, Wilson, US Centers for Disease Control, Prevention Locations: Canberra, New South Wales, Australia
☆ A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes
  + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But she also made and began showing abstract paintings, encouraged by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden. Her turn to sculpture began in New York. The artists Ana Mendieta, who helped organize the show, and Howardena Pindell, whom it also featured, were among her friends. By then, however, she had resettled in small-town Georgia — first Macon, then Athens — beginning a fade from view in the New York scene that was later compounded by ill health. But the South held her heart and concerns, and in Georgia her sculpture added scales, materials and methods, in tune with the land and its stories.
Persons: Buchanan, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, frustulas, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell Organizations: Columbia University, Bronx and, —, Georgia Locations: New York City, Bronx, Bronx and New Jersey, New York, United States, A.I.R, Macon, Athens, Georgia
☆ The CEO of a nonprofit that gathers sound to catch illegal activity in the rainforest says 5G technology can get high-quality audio into the hands of those who need it — fast
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Sarah Sloat | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Bourhan Yassin became the CEO of Rainforest Connection in 2022 after years of working in tech. Rainforest Connection gets a tech upgradeA few years ago, Rainforest Connection switched from cellphones to a custom-made device called the Guardian. To access a 3G or 4G signal, Rainforest Connection points the Guardian's antennas toward the cellphone tower of a nearby town. For example, Rainforest Connection has previously collaborated in Puerto Rico with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where 5G coverage is expanding. Before he worked with Rainforest Connection, Yassin said he measured success through metrics such as funding.
Persons: Bourhan Yassin, Yassin, —, — Yassin, we've Organizations: Rainforest Connection, Guardian, Google, Connection, Guardian ., US Fish and Wildlife Service, Rainforest Locations: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Costa Rica, Kenya, Brazil, Tanzania, Indonesia, Ecuador, Poland, Puerto Rico
☆ 2,500-year-old toilets reveal that the people of ancient Jerusalem were afflicted by painful stomach cramps and diarrhea
  + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Archeologists excavated the cesspits below two toilets from Iron Age Jerusalem. At the time, Jerusalem was the capital of Judah — a vassal state under the control of the Assyrian Empire. "Toilets with cesspits from this time are relatively rare and were usually made only for the elite," Mitchell said. The study suggests the "long-term presence" of the disease across the Near East. Indeed, medical texts from the first and second millennium BC describe diarrhea afflicting the Near and Middle East populations.
☆ Ancient toilets unearthed in Jerusalem reveal a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease
  + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —The Iron Age users of two ancient toilets in Jerusalem were not a healthy bunch, according to an analysis of poop samples from the 2,500-year-old latrines. Ancient poop contains a trove of fascinating informationA stone toilet seat was excavated in 2019 south of Jerusalem in the neighborhood of Armon ha-Natziv. Archaeologists excavating the latrines took samples from sediment in the cesspit beneath each toilet seat. They found one seat south of Jerusalem in the neighborhood of Armon ha-Natziv at a mansion excavated in 2019. Cities such as Jerusalem likely would have been hot spots for disease outbreaks, and illnesses would have spread easily by traders and during military expeditions, according to the study.
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