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is bacterial eye infection contagious :: Article Creator Pink Eye Can Be Painful And Unsightly. But How Contagious Is It, Really? Pink eye is among the most unwanted and common infections around. The swollen red eyes, dried pus, and sticky discharge is enough to make anyone suffering with the condition want to avoid being seen in public. Most of the six million people who experience it each year also want to avoid some of its other more uncomfortable symptoms. These include increased sensitivity to light, an acute burning sensation, or an itchiness that can be so intense for some people that they rub off or loosen some of their eyelashes. But beyond personal discomfort or public embarrassment, most of us especially don't want to pass the infection onto a loved one or even a stranger. Better understanding of how different forms of pink eye commonly spread can be helpful in this endeavor. What is pink eye? Pink eye - also known as conjuncti...

Staffing shortages, violence plague Oklahoma prisons - ABC News

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HOLDENVILLE, Okla. -- Working as a prison guard in Oklahoma is becoming an ever more dangerous job as the state, with one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States, struggles with violence and understaffing at detention facilities. Long hours, dangerous conditions and remote, rural locations have meant fewer guards and a system plagued with increased killings and violence. Three inmates were killed in separate incidents this year at the same private prison in rural, east-central Oklahoma where a correctional officer was fatally stabbed by an inmate over the summer, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Davis Correctional Facility, a 1,700-bed men's prison in Holdenville operated by Tennessee-based private prison operator CoreCivic, has been operating at only about 70% of its contractually obligated staffing level, according to a 2021 audit of the facility provided to the AP after an open-records request. Alan Jay Hershberger, a 61-ye...

Friday, September 23, 2022 - California Healthline

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News Of The Day After Student's Death, LAUSD Will Stock Naloxone: Los Angeles public schools will stock campuses with the overdose reversal drug naloxone in the aftermath of a student's death at Bernstein High School, putting the nation's second-largest school system on the leading edge of a strategy increasingly favored by public health experts. Read more from the Los Angeles Times and Southern California News Group. Newsom Signs Bill On Insurance Industry Lobbying: Consultants face new restrictions on charging bounties for influencing some decisions by state officials under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Thursday. The new law doesn't ban all success fees, just those to influence decisions by the insurance commissioner and director of the Department of Managed Health Care. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle. Below, check out the roundup of California Healthline'...

Former State Health Director Ezike Under Scrutiny by the State's Top Ethics Investigator - Better Government Association (BGA)

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The state's former public health director – a well-regarded advisor to Gov. J.B. Pritzker during the COVID-19 crisis – is under investigation by a state ethics agency for taking a CEO job at a medical non-profit overseen and funded by the state agency she led. Dr. Ngozi Ezike, a steady, reassuring figure alongside Pritzker during pandemic news conferences, stepped down from her $178,000-per-year state post in March. In April, she accepted an offer to lead Sinai Health System — one of the state's top medical nonprofits. The Illinois Ethics Act requires department heads like Ezike to wait a year before accepting positions with companies that hold contracts overseen by their departments, or with companies their departments license or regulate. And while in office they cannot engage in job negotiations with companies that lobby their agencies.  The law is designed to prevent the cozy revolving door between state officials and the companies their agenci...

The Differences Between Gastroenteritis and Dysentery - Healthline

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When you have a stomach ache with vomiting and diarrhea, it can be hard to know for sure what's causing your illness. It could be food poisoning or stomach flu, also known as viral gastroenteritis. In rare cases, you could also be experiencing dysentery. It may sound like a disease from long ago, but dysentery is actually still around — there are about half a million cases in the United States per year. Dysentery is an intestinal infection that causes severe diarrhea with blood or sometimes mucus present in the stool. Here, we'll talk about both gastroenteritis and dysentery and whether they're the same thing. Dysentery is a form of gastroenteritis. You can think of gastroenteritis as the umbrella term while dysentery is more specific. Some of the other types of gastroenteritis include: What is gastroenteritis? Viral gastroenteritis is also inflammation or irritation of the intestines caused by a virus. However, 15%–20% of gastroenteritis cases are caused by bacteria. Some...

15 of History's Strangest Plagues - Cracked.com

13 The Dancing Plague of 1518 In July 1518, a woman in Strasbourg, France made like Mick Jagger and started dancing in the streets . A week later, she was still at it. By then, up to 400 people had joined her. Local doctors were baffled and eventually just shrugged their shoulders and assured the afflicted they would wear themselves out eventually, which took until September, but not before some of them (might have? The historical record isn't clear) died of strokes and heart attacks. Related: The Ultimate Dance-Off: 'Flashdance,' 'Footloose,' or 'Dirty Dancing' 12 Dromomania (Jad Limcaco/Unsplash) The pathological urge to travel, A.K.A. dromomania, sounds like just being a trust fund baby, but for dozens of men in France in the last few decades of the 19th century, it was a real problem. For one thing, it's pretty hard to hold down a job when you're always getting the uncontrollable impulse to wander off. The onset of World War I and subsequent t...

Health department urges Lancaster County residents to get updated COVID-19 boosters - KOLN

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LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Lancaster-County Health Officials updated the community on the new COVID-19 boosters for people age 12 and older at a briefing on Tuesday. The CDC recently approved updated boosters for everyone 12 and older. These boosters provide protection against variants in the Lancaster County community, like BA4 and BA5, and boost the body's immunity against COVID-19. "COVID is still with us, and there's a potential for an increase in infections this fall and winter due to people spending more time indoors where respiratory viruses, like COVID, can spread more easily," said LLCHD Health Director Pat Lopez. Lopez said more than 74% of COVID-19 cases in Lancaster County have been with people who are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines, or who were unvaccinated. According to the LLCHD, unvaccinated individuals are 14 times more likely to die than vaccinated individuals, and individuals are three times more likely to die if they are not up to da...

Short point and click adventure The Plague Doctor of Wippra is out on October 5th - GamingOnLinux

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The Plague Doctor of Wippra will see you attempt to help people but ignorance, superstition, and religious zeal will firmly get in your way. Developer Electrocosmos and publisher Application Systems Heidelberg have announced it's releasing with Native Linux support on October 5th. "The Plague Doctor of Wippra is a short point-and-click adventure filled with medical puzzles, medieval period detail, and beautiful, hand-drawn pixel art. Expect interesting characters, a gripping story, and captivating gameplay in a historical setting with contemporary resonance. Experience a working day as medieval German plague doctor Oswald Keller. Make diagnoses, prescribe treatments, and even perform surgery. You'll also have to face popular ignorance and stand up to superstition. It's dangerous work, but it's your only chance at finding the cause of the Black Death." Features: Moody medieval setting with believable characters. Rich atmosphere and...