Kipper the Sheltie 🦋

Beautiful! Good Morning!

Ultraprocessed Food and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Precursors Among Women This study evaluates the association of the consumption of ultraprocessed foods and the risk of early-onset colorectal cancer (<50 years) in participants of the Nurses’ Health Study II.

Ultraprocessed Food and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Precursors Among Women url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

My cats are the same - it like a scratching back massage! No sweet pets or you get a firm nip 😂

It has not become that to me. Its a space where some measure of truth, education and/or science matter. It’s where you wont be hit by deranged bots all day long. Its where opinions are conversations and not dopamine jolts of anger. I don’t call that a digital insane asylum.

Prayers

This is the type of “breaking news” that I can use! Have a great day!

Thanks!

Ticks of Dogs - Dog Owners - Merck Veterinary Manual Learn about the veterinary topic of Ticks of Dogs. Find specific details on this topic and related topics from the Merck Vet Manual.

🐶 One tick bite can expose your dog to multiple dangerous pathogens:
• Ehrlichia
• Anaplasma
• Babesia
• RMSF
• Hepatozoon (if ingested)
• Possibly Bartonella (co-infection risk)

🧬 These can invade blood cells, suppress immunity, even damage organs.

📚 www.merckvetmanual.com/dog-owners/s...

🧬 Many tick-borne pathogens are intracellular—they hide inside the hosts own cells.

• Babesia → inside red blood cells
• Ehrlichia & Anaplasma → inside white blood cells

They hijack immune & oxygen systems to reproduce. Harder to detect & treat; they can cause chronic illness or immune collapse

Emerging tick-borne pathogens of public health importance: a mini-review - PubMed Ticks are the most important vectors of human pathogens, leading to increased public health burdens worldwide. Tick-borne pathogens include viruses (e.g. tick-borne encephalitis and Powassan); bacteri...

📈 Pathogens carried by ticks have increased dramatically over the last 50 years.
• Lyme disease: Identified in the 1970s
• Babesia: A malaria-like parasite
• Ehrlichia & Anaplasma: Blood cell–attacking bacteria
• Powassan virus: Rare dangerous encephalitis virus
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32478654/

Vital Signs: Trends in Reported Vectorborne Disease Cases — United Sta Vectorborne diseases are major causes of death and illness worldwide. In the United States, the most common vectorborne pathogens are transmitted by ticks or mosquitoes, including those causing ...

What’s striking is that two of the most dangerous disease vectors—mosquitoes and ticks—are also:
• Small
• Ubiquitous
• Often underestimated
This contrast between perceived harmlessness and real-world threat is a psychological blind spot, not a biological truth. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

About Ticks and Tickborne Disease General information on diseases spread by ticks and signs and symptoms of tickborne disease.

🔬Ticks are now recognized as the second most dangerous vectors of disease in the world—after mosquitoes.
A single tick bite can transmit up to 5+ pathogens simultaneously, including bacteria, parasites, and viruses.
www.cdc.gov/ticks/about/...

🦠💥 In Memory of Kipper.

The “ nuisance tick” is a cultural memory, not a current biological reality.

We generally think of ticks as a brief gross encounter with nature. But that memory no longer aligns with the virulent multiple pathogens ticks transmit today.

🧵 what’s changed—and why it matters:

He looks like a perfect plush toy; but in reality, he is an all gas, no brake puppy!

Mary Turner Remembrance Day May 19, 1918

#MaryTurner
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Finnegan - to Begin Again

Finnegan, to begin again — new happiness, at a barking trot, creating his own new space in our hearts beside lost love. #peace #newbeginnings #welcomehome #Kipperand Finn

Its *not hard* to feel empathy. We all feel this same pain. Im grateful for the reevaluation and sorry he was hurt. If everyone re-evaluated like this our country would be much place going forward (since we cant go back in time….)

Is that google, ChatGPT or Youtube videos? Gonna guess its not at libraries or through analyzing scientific research papers

Fox isn’t main stream?
Its been around forever and has pretty high viewership?
Its partisan for sure.
So is this infographic about media that not blatantly partisan?

Wait - test scores are impartial arbiters of competence?

We are just seeing the end of result of Starve the Beast, Trickle Down Economics, Red State and the Southern strategies, and conservative lawfare (Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, ALEC, Concord Fund) — um ya, we and their proponents suffer the same

Jake is gorgeous! Thanks, Jake!

So you think Biden’s infrastructure bill - the highways you still see being repaired and expanded, are as problematic
as 1) ending scientific research as we know it- no US new healthcare, drug discoveries, 2) no educational ability to compete internationally with top educational talent in STEM

Great clarityand wonderful picture!

Sound on 😽🤍 #cat #purr

I love your content and this made me laugh!

So sorry to hear this. Wishing you and your the mom the very best and, for her, a complete recovery.

Hatching a Conspiracy: A BIG Investigation into Egg Prices 'More hens, less income!' So said the United Egg Producers' economist Donald Bell in 1994. The industry has gotten more consolidated ever since. And avian flu is just the latest excuse to hike prices.

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a...

You are so dang lucky — and I mean Cait :) cause Adonis is the best!

I’m so sorry. What an adorable and special boy.