Plague

“High Times in the Plague Year: Booze & Cannabis Retailers Shine - WOLF STREET” plus 1 more High Times in the Plague Year: Booze & Cannabis Retailers Shine - WOLF STREET Posted: 31 Oct 2020 05:28 PM PDT Landlords already know this: People are getting more toasted than Wonder Bread. By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis Partners , for WOLF STREET : Happy Hour starts at 3 o'clock. Tenants selling reality-relief are killing it. I called a number of retailers to double-check my desultory anecdotal evidence. One, the owner of a first-rate supermarket chain, said his alcohol sales are up 25 percent since March. That came as no surprise, but the identity of his best-selling beer — Corona — did. Along with half of America, I assumed that Corona was destined to become the Adolph of beer labels. Wrong. Drinkers love it — some think calling a hangover a "corona virus" is funny. This merchant said the only limitation on hi...

A play for a plagueThe Nonprofit Journal Project - Concentrate A play for a plagueThe Nonprofit Journal Project - Concentrate Posted: 30 Oct 2020 05:44 PM PDT This isn't the first plague to shut down venues. Live theatre as an art form has survived thousands of years and history shows us that the art lives. Even when circumstances of a particular production change, the overall idea of "the show must go on" isn't new. But the struggle is real and nothing about theatre is easy right now. Coming into 2020, our theatre was finally at a point where we were consistently selling houses and not having to stress every month of how to pay rent, utilities, insurance, and artists. For a small black box theatre only a few years old, that was really impressive! In February, we were selling out houses for The Hobbit, as well as the next couple months of Steel Magnolia's and Three Musketeers . We held auditions and cast our summer sh...

“#KeysToTheGame: Attention to detail is crucial for Mountaineers against Kansas State - WBOY.com” plus 1 more #KeysToTheGame: Attention to detail is crucial for Mountaineers against Kansas State - WBOY.com Posted: 30 Oct 2020 02:40 PM PDT As the Mountaineers head into the second half of their schedule at just 3-2, there is no doubt that the last five teams they'll face are better than the first five they've already played, starting with Kansas State. So taking care of the details will be important.  Like holding onto the ball, dropped passes continue to plague this WVU wide receiving corps, who unofficially had 7 more drops a week ago in their one score loss to Texas Tech. While it wasn't a dropped pass, Sam James's fumble resulted in the game winning touchdown for the Red Raiders.  Turnovers will also be a key against the Wildcats, who are first in the Big 12 in turnover margin at +6. WVU, on the other hand, is near the bo...

“Plague transmission rates increased from the Black Death to the Great Plague - UPI News” plus 1 more Plague transmission rates increased from the Black Death to the Great Plague - UPI News Posted: 19 Oct 2020 12:00 AM PDT Oct. 19 (UPI) -- From the 14th to the 19th centuries, Europe and Asia were struck by successive waves of the plague. New research -- published Monday in the journal PNAS -- suggests that over the course of the pandemic, from the Black Death of 1348 to the Great Plague of 1665, transmission rates increased four-fold. In recent years, genomic analysis has offered scientists a variety of insights into the nature of bubonic plagues that decimated much of Europe and Asia during the Late Middle Ages, but details related to disease transmission mode and dynamics have been hard to come by. Advertisement Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , which can be transmitted via flea bites, the typical...

Plagues Speed Up With Each New Outbreak - MedicineNet Plagues Speed Up With Each New Outbreak - MedicineNet Posted: 19 Oct 2020 12:00 AM PDT Latest Infectious Disease News TUESDAY, Oct. 20, 2020 Medieval plague outbreaks in England picked up frightening speed in the 17th century, Canadian researchers report. Their analysis of historical documents covering 300 years showed that outbreaks of the plague doubled every 11 days in London during the 1600s, compared to every 43 days in the 14th century. "It is an astounding difference in how fast plague epidemics grew," said lead author David Earn, an investigator with the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. No published death records were available for London before 1538. So statisticians, biologists and evolutionary geneticists analyzed personal wills, parish registers and data used to monito...

“Plague - MSF UK” plus 2 more Plague - MSF UK Pneumonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China - The New York Times Outbreaks Spread Four Times Faster From Black Death To Great Plague - International Business Times Plague - MSF UK Posted: 20 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT The Yersina pestis bacteria can be found in about 200 species of mammals. Mammals with the bacteria live on every continent except for Oceania. As the bacteria lives in an animal host it is virtually impossible to eradicate. Bubonic plague Bubonic plague is transmitted to humans through infected fleas, most commonly carried on rats. It infects your lymphatic system (the immune system), causing inflammation. Untreated, it can move into the blood and cause septicemic plague, or to the lungs, causing pneumonic plague. Pneumonic plague Pneumonic plague is highly contagious and can be transmitted from person to person. It is contracted when the bacte...