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Global Museum

Medical wax museum in #Spain showcasing 19th-century #diseases is set to close.
Spain’s wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in the late 19th century, it contains hundreds of life-sized models of people infected with cutaneous and venereal diseases.
theworld.org/stories/2025/07/1 #globalmuseum #museums

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Nonilex

…Some Americans know the reality of these #preventable #diseases all too well. For them, news of #measles outbreaks & rising #WhoopingCough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – & a longing to spare others from similar pain.

[I can speak to this personally. The Spanish Influenza (which BTWs did not originate in Spain — much like #Trump labeled #COVID “the China virus”) orphaned my grandmother as a toddler killing both her parents & her baby sister.]

#vaccines#RFKJr
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Nonilex

#RFKJr, who founded an #AntiVaccine group, has long called for an investigation into the number of #vaccinations #children receive. Medical #experts say that Kennedy has falsely linked that increase to a rise of chronic disease, noting that more #vaccines are available now to combat #diseases & that his link has no basis in #evidence. Medical experts & the federal govt recommend the #HepatitisB #vaccine, because it prevents the #LiverDisease, which can be passed along at #birth.

#PublicHealth
Soh Kam Yung

"Measles is often seen as a routine childhood illness — a fever, a rash, and recovery — but complications are common. Even when it doesn’t kill, measles can cause lasting damage. It weakens the immune system, making people vulnerable to other infections for months or years. That means children who seem to recover may still face serious health risks long after the illness is gone."

ourworldindata.org/measles-inc

Our World in DataMeasles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for yearsMeasles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.
#Measles#Diseases#Childhood
Flipboard Science Desk

The way you breathe through your nose can identify several things about you, a team of scientists recently learned after fitting people with a wearable device that monitored their nasal breathing. This "respiratory fingerprint," says a team led by brain scientist Timna Soroka of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, could lead to new ways understanding and treating physical and mental ailments. @ScienceAlert has more:

flip.it/f42mER

ScienceAlert · Your Breathing Pattern Is as Unique as a Fingerprint, Study FindsEvery single human on this planet is as distinct as a snowflake; a combination of traits and genes and microbes that, as far as we can tell, is not replicated exactly in any other single human.
#Science#Health#Diseases
Susan Ville

🗨️👩🏽‍💻 Fund more rockets to prevent #outbreaks of #diseases and #wars on Earth. Not.

#research #humanitarianaid #ihl #civilprotection #humanrights

🔹 More than 1,600 cholera related deaths recorded across #sudan

🔹 Cholera resurgence confirmed in Khartoum’s Sharq-elnel, Jabal-Oleia, and Umbadah

🔹 Cholera, measles, hepatitis, and malaria spreading amid conflict and #displacement

📑 Report rescue.org

rescue.org/press-release/sudan

Sudan: IRC expands cholera response in Khartoum state as outbreak affects over 60,000 people across the countrySudan: IRC expands cholera response in Khartoum state as outbreak affects over 60,000 people across the country | The IRCSudan is experiencing a cholera outbreak affecting over 60,000 people
Soh Kam Yung

"[E]vidence from a number of medical studies now shows that UV light, the highest-energy part of the solar spectrum that reaches Earth’s surface, has a surprising ability to calm an immune system that has bolted out of control. The new studies offer tantalizing hints that UV therapy might also work for other autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and colitis."

scientificamerican.com/article

A number of suns floating with Red Blood cells
Scientific American · Surprising Ways That Sunlight Might Heal Autoimmune DiseasesBy Rowan Jacobsen
#Light#UltraViolet#Immunity
Soh Kam Yung

Warning: images of preserved body parts in the article.

"- Universiti Malaya's Tan Sri Lim Wee Chai Medical Museum provides a starkly educational view of human anatomy and disease through preserved specimens for public and student learning.
[...]
- Presenting normal and diseased specimens together, the museum aims to foster holistic understanding and empower individuals to make informed health choices."

malaymail.com/news/malaysia/20

Malay Mail · Universiti Malaya opens public access to one of Asia’s most unique medical collectionsBy R. Loheswar
#Malaysia#Museums#Anatomy
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