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TransitBiker

Ever since they stopped monitoring multiple different #Foodborne #Pathogens a few months ago, I have gotten regularly sick definitely it being food poisoning basically every other week. Refrigerator is totally fine. The items that I purchase are packaged and handled properly. There isn’t a single specific food item that seems to stand out in a pattern. It seems to be multiple things. Some milk was definitely bad in unopened cartons, but that’s the only thing that had some telltale signs.

LilMikeSF

#Drumpf era #CDC has stopped monitoring for several factors it once tracked for foodborne illness outbreaks. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is ordered to only monitori for two pathogens instead of the previous eight.

Currently only two #pathogens: #salmonella and #Shiga toxin-producing E. coli are being tracked federally, now ignored are #campylobacter, #cyclospora, #listeria, #shigella, #vibrio and #Yersinia.

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

NBC News · The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnessesBy Aria Bendix
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Animal #diseases leapt to #humans when we started keeping #livestock
When #huntergatherers began living close to animals, the #pathogens that cause the #plague and #leprosy got closer too.
The #genomic study identified 5,486 #DNA sequences from #bacteria, #viruses and #parasites in blood remnants from bones and teeth spanning 37,000 years. #Zoonotic pathogens were detected only in remains 6,500 years old or younger.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comAnimal diseases leapt to humans when we started keeping livestockWhen hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Live-animal markets across #SoutheastAsia continue operating as natural laboratories for deadly #pathogens despite warnings from #publichealth experts about their role in #disease transmission, according to research published in Nature.

Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next #pandemic
Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comExclusive: Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemicLive-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.
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BellingenNSW

Ancient DNA reveals farming led to more human diseases

"Humans' close cohabitation with domesticated animals—and large-scale migrations of pastoralists from the Pontic Steppe—played a decisive role in the spread of these diseases...We've long suspected that the transition to farming and animal husbandry opened the door to a new era of disease—now DNA shows us that it happened at least 6,500 years ago. These infections didn't just cause illness—they may have contributed to population collapse, migration, and genetic adaptation."
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phys.org/news/2025-07-large-sc

"Today, zoonoses account for more than 60% of newly emerging infectious diseases."
Martin Sikora, The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia, Nature (2025).
nature.com/articles/s41586-025
#pastoralism #farming #diseases #zoonosis #pathogens #livestock #cattle #domestication #civilisation #animal #husbandry #SettlerSociety #meat #pandemics #IndigenousPeoples

Phys.org · Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease historyBy University of Copenhagen
Markus Witzler

🌱 International Day of Plant Health🌱

Today, we highlight an often-overlooked topic: plant health – vital for food security, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture.

In our current research at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and Julius Kühn-Institute, we’re tackling a key question:
How can we detect plant diseases and pests before visible symptoms appear?

🔬 The answer: With the nose of chemistry!
We analyze volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that plants emit when under stress or attacked by
🦠 bacteria,
🍄 fungi, and
🪲 insect pests.

Using advanced GC-MS technology (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry), we aim to identify these unique molecular “scent signatures” and use them as an early-warning system to detect harmful organisms before they cause damage.

🧪 Our goal: to “sniff out” plant diseases and pests.

#PlantHealth#InternationalPlantHealthDay#VOCs
O=C=O

How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases

"...Then you have this convergence of crises—the #ClimateCrisis overlapping with the #PollutionCrisis. So you get this intersection between air pollution and respiratory #diseases, and then infectious diseases more broadly, all layered on top of a changing #climate.

When it comes to waterborne and foodborne diseases, the link to #ClimateChange is even more direct. As temperatures rise, you create more favorable conditions for #bacteria and other #pathogens to multiply. They thrive in warm environments—soil, water, contaminated areas—so warming can increase their abundance.

#ExtremeWeather events are also a big factor here. Aedes #mosquitoes need water to complete their life cycle—from egg to larva to pupa, it all happens in #water. When #floods occur, all the discarded #plastic and #trash lying around fill with water and becomes the ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes.

What’s interesting is that these diseases aren’t just associated with floods—they’re also linked to #droughts. That might seem counterintuitive at first, but in many parts of the world, people don’t have safe, reliable access to clean water, especially during drought conditions. So they store water in containers that aren’t properly sealed or protected, which too can become the perfect breeding sites for mosquitoes.

Infections—particularly vector-borne diseases—are increasingly reemerging and emerging in new areas around the world for a lot of different reasons. Climate change is definitely part of that, with rising temperatures and more extreme weather events like floods and droughts. But the way we live our lives and interact with the environment also plays a huge role. I mean, first and foremost, most of us now live in urban areas rather than rural ones..."

insideclimatenews.org/news/260

#Health
#ClimateChange

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

New #antibiotic that kills #drugresistant #bacteria discovered in technician’s #garden
It targets bacteria’s protein-making factory, the #ribosome, in a way that other antibiotic drugs don’t. Ribosome is an attractive antibiotic target because bacteria don’t easily develop resistance to #drugs targeting the structure. In studies, #lariocidin slowed the growth of a range of common bacterial #pathogens, including many multidrug-resistant strains.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025
archive.ph/NHtJh

www.nature.comNew antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s gardenThe molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t.
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