I’ve made peace with myself… https://arstechnica.com/health/2023...-diseases-and-dead-mice-busted-in-california/ Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice Local and federal authorities have shut down what seems to be an illegal medical lab hidden in a California warehouse that contained nearly 1,000 laboratory mice, hundreds of unknown chemicals, refrigerators and freezers, vials of biohazardous materials, including blood, incubators, and at least 20 infectious agents, including SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and a herpes virus. According to NBC News affiliate KSEE of Fresno, local authorities were first tipped off to the unlicensed facility when a local code enforcement officer noticed that a garden hose was illegally attached to the back of the building. That led city officials to obtain a search warrant to inspect the warehouse, which was supposed to only be used for storage. According to court documents obtained by NBC News, city officials inspected the warehouse, located in Reedley, southeast of Fresno, on March 3. County health officials then inspected the facility on March 16. What they found reportedly shocked them. "This is an unusual situation. I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba told KSEE. There were rooms with "vessels of liquid and various apparatus," court documents said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material." There was also a room full of mice. According to the court documents, the mice were kept in inhumane conditions. More than 175 were found dead, and the city took possession of the remaining animals in April and euthanized 773. Substances collected from the lab were given to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing. The agency detected at least 20 potentially infectious agents, the documents read. Assistant Director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health Joe Prado said that all the biological agents had been destroyed as of July 7. Although officials were still working on removing equipment from the warehouse, Zieba said that there is "nothing hazardous at this point." A criminal investigation is ongoing. The tenant of the warehouse is listed as Prestige Biotech. Prado told KSEE that the company's president, Xiuqin Yao, was not forthcoming with information. According to the court documents, Yao told officials that his company had moved assets belonging to a defunct company called Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), to the Reedley warehouse from another Fresno location where UMI had operated before it was evicted. Prestige was identified as a creditor to UMI. But, Prestige allegedly failed to provide any licensing or permit that would explain the laboratory activity at the warehouse.
Let's salute the true medical heroes of the Covid era, the two scientists who created the basis for mRNA vaccines. Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66983060 Professors Drew Weissman (left) and Katalin Kariko The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has now been given to millions of people around the world to protect them against serious Covid-19. The same mRNA technology is now being researched for other diseases, including cancer. The Nobel Prize committee said: "The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times." Both were told they had won by telephone this morning and were said to be "overwhelmed". Vaccines train the immune system to recognise and fight threats such as viruses or bacteria. Traditional vaccine technology has been based on dead or weakened versions of the original virus or bacterium - or by using fragments of the infectious agent. In contrast, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines use a completely differently approach. During the Covid pandemic, the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines were both based on mRNA technology. Professor Kariko and Professor Weissman met in the early 1990s when they were working at the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States, when their interest in mRNA was seen as a scientific backwater. it attacks and has learned how to fight the virus, and therefore has a head start when future infections occur. The big idea behind the technology is that you can rapidly develop a vaccine against almost anything - as long as you know the right genetic instructions to use. This makes it far faster and more flexible than traditional approaches to vaccine development. There are even experimental approaches using the technology that are teaching patients' bodies how to fight their own cancers. Scientists analyse a patient's tumour, look for abnormal proteins being produced by the cancer that are not in healthy tissue and develop a vaccine to target those and inject that into the patient. Profs Kariko and Weissman made the crucial breakthroughs that made mRNA vaccines happen. The principle taps into normal human biology. RNA's role in our body is to convert the instructions that are locked away in our genetic code, or DNA, into the proteins that our body is built from. However, there were challenges. But by refining the technology, the researchers were able to produce large amounts of the intended protein without causing dangerous levels of inflammation that had been seen in animal experiments. This paved the way for developing the vaccine technology for use in people. Katalin Kariko is now a professor at Szeged University in Hungary and Drew Weissman is still working as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. (More at above url)
Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/why-covid-19-vaccines-are-a-freaking-miracle/
I thought @gwb-trading might appreciate this. A friend sent this he got from another friend, I have the impression this is a current communication, not an old meme though I can't say for sure.. Seems legit: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/tech/emergency-alert-wireless-test-fema-fcc/index.html
And people are surprised I've never bothered to claim US citizenship... You guys have special coping mechanisms to handle being surrounded that are beyond my ken.
Queen's college head boy mrudred by fakecines. Collapse death at basketball practice. AGAIN. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2023/oct/02/tributes-after-shock-death-qc-head-boy/?news