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Cake day: August 16th, 2024
  • Drusas@fedia.iotoscience@lemmy.world•Study finds that industrial chicken farms are accelerating the spread of a major foodborne disease
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    It’s campylobacter.

    The study also suggests that vast, densely populated chicken flocks may act as ecological “pathogen sponges”, absorbing and amplifying bacterial strains from multiple sources. Mathematical modelling showed that once chicken populations reach a critical scale, strains originating in wild birds can become self-sustaining within poultry populations, even when poorly adapted to their new host.

    A previous study from the IOI found that 80% of human Campylobacter infections in Oxfordshire are associated with poultry meat, and that many of these infections are resistant to antibiotics.

  • Drusas@fedia.iotoscience@lemmy.world•In veterans, ALS risk linked with military branch, rank
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    Controlling for variables such as age, race, and ethnicity, the researchers found that, compared to Army veterans, Air Force veterans had a 29% higher rate of ALS; Coast Guard veterans, a 26% higher rate; and Navy veterans, a 15% higher rate. Marine veterans, meanwhile, had a 22% lower rate. They also found that officers had a 64% higher rate of ALS than enlisted personnel, and that across branches and ranks, longer service was associated with lower rates of ALS—a counterintuitive finding that may be explained by unique health risks associated with short-duration military occupations, among other potential reasons.

    Interesting.