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(original: NBC News)Mississippi hit by 900% increase in newborns treated for syphilis
Bracey Harris
Mon, February 13, 2023 at 6:15 PM GMT+1
JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis. The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.
In 2021, 102 newborns in Mississippi were treated for the sexually transmitted disease, up from 10 in 2016, according to an analysis of hospital billing data shared by Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the medical director for the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Crossroads Clinic in Jackson, which focuses on sexually transmitted infections.
Dobbs, the state’s former health officer, said he’s spoken with health care providers who “are absolutely horrified” that babies are being born with the disease, and in rare instances dying from it.
“This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,” said Dobbs, who is also dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. “There’s really kind of a shock.”
The Mississippi State Department of Health does not formally track congenital syphilis deaths but said there was at least one baby who died in 2021.
Congenital syphilis occurs when the infection is passed from a mother to her child while she’s pregnant. If untreated, a pregnant woman with syphilis has an 80% chance of passing it to her baby.
Babies infected with syphilis may not initially show symptoms, but for those who are not treated within three months of birth, complications can be severe. Syphilis can damage a baby’s organs. The disease can pummel a child’s nervous system and imperil their vision and hearing. In the gravest cases, newborns die.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi- ... 00538.html
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This is both truly tragic, and completely avoidable. But then, they really have to give a shit about both mother and child.RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:27 pm(original: v)Mississippi hit by 900% increase in newborns treated for syphilis
Bracey Harris
Mon, February 13, 2023 at 6:15 PM GMT+1
JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis. The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.
In 2021, 102 newborns in Mississippi were treated for the sexually transmitted disease, up from 10 in 2016, according to an analysis of hospital billing data shared by Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the medical director for the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Crossroads Clinic in Jackson, which focuses on sexually transmitted infections.
Dobbs, the state’s former health officer, said he’s spoken with health care providers who “are absolutely horrified” that babies are being born with the disease, and in rare instances dying from it.
“This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,” said Dobbs, who is also dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. “There’s really kind of a shock.”
The Mississippi State Department of Health does not formally track congenital syphilis deaths but said there was at least one baby who died in 2021.
Congenital syphilis occurs when the infection is passed from a mother to her child while she’s pregnant. If untreated, a pregnant woman with syphilis has an 80% chance of passing it to her baby.
Babies infected with syphilis may not initially show symptoms, but for those who are not treated within three months of birth, complications can be severe. Syphilis can damage a baby’s organs. The disease can pummel a child’s nervous system and imperil their vision and hearing. In the gravest cases, newborns die.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi- ... 00538.html
It was annoying as shit, worse than setting off Alexa. Two thumbs way down.neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:37 am So how many of your sportsball crazy-fanatics got suckered by the TubiTV ad?![]()
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Apparently it pissed a lot of people off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBM0Z3B8OVQ
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:09 pmIt was annoying as shit, worse than setting off Alexa. Two thumbs way down.neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:37 am So how many of your sportsball crazy-fanatics got suckered by the TubiTV ad?![]()
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Apparently it pissed a lot of people off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBM0Z3B8OVQ
No*hmm* I dunno, they really are not. Not in this realm of entertainment. Do you think I would ever address "Bono" as such in person? No. It would be "sir". For Rihanna or Madonna, it would be "ma'am". The names they take on mostly are just part of the costume/persona.
Both of my parents have green eyes. My sister's eyes are green, with a hint of blue-gray. My eyes are green, but more sea green like our parents. Of course, as children, my sister's hair was also more blonde than mine. She was definitely the more recessive child.Azastan wroteI do.MsDaisy wrote:
How many of Fogbowers out there have green eyes? I do, I got them from my Dad. My mom & sister both had brown. I take notice of eye color in people that I meet, but I very rarely encounter another green-eyed soul. Do we have any others here?
My father had brown eyes, mother had blue. Two siblings had blue eyes, two of us had brown, two of us had green.
Wienermobile in a pickle after falling victim to catalytic converter thieves
The Oscar Mayer crew didn’t relish their time in Las Vegas after the vehicle had to be towed to an auto body shop
Abené Clayton
Tue 14 Feb 2023 08.29 GMT
One of the US’s most easily recognizable vehicles is back on the road after it fell victim to a crime that has grown more common in recent years: catalytic converter theft. While parked in Las Vegas ahead of a Super Bowl weekend appearance, the Wienermobile, a 27ft-long bright yellow-and-red hotdog on wheels, was disabled after someone took the vehicle’s hardware.
The Wienermobile is actually a fleet of six vehicles used as a promotional tool for the celebrated Wisconsin-based hotdog brand Oscar Mayer. The Wienermobiles are driven across the nation by “hotdoggers” who claim the job for a one-year assignment. The morning after the converter was taken, the Wienermobile was towed to a nearby auto repair shop where mechanics installed a temporary converter that would allow the Wienermobile’s crew to drive it.
“A hotdog truck, no way,” Joseph Rodriguez, parts administrator for the auto shop where the Wienermobile was serviced, told Eight News Now, Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate. “Imagine like a huge hotdog in the middle of your bay.”
This is not the first time the Wienermobile has made national headlines. In late-January 2020, the roving shrine to processed meat was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy in Waukesha, Wisconsin, for disobeying traffic laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... er-thieves
I don't know for sure about my ancestry but I have green eyes, as do both of my sons. Oldest is bi-racial and has predominantly green with flecks of gold. Youngest has pure green.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:22 pm So, so far there are about six of us with green eyes?
Since I had read once that a lot of Hungarians have green eyes, then read in the link MsDaisy posted that most were from Central and Eastern European background, I wonder how many of us are of that background?
I don't know for sure about my ancestry but I have green eyes, as do both of my sons. Oldest is bi-racial and has predominantly green with flecks of gold. Youngest has pure green.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:22 pm So, so far there are about six of us with green eyes?
Since I had read once that a lot of Hungarians have green eyes, then read in the link MsDaisy posted that most were from Central and Eastern European background, I wonder how many of us are of that background?
I always thought that green eyes were also common in the Irish.
So, you are normal looking with boring features like me. (although I had very light hair and blue eyes as a baby -- that went away fairly quickly)Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:00 am I'm have very dark brown eyes and dark blah-brown hair
neonzx wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:27 amSo, you are normal looking with boring features like me. (although I had very light hair and blue eyes as a baby -- that went away fairly quickly)Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:00 am I'm have very dark brown eyes and dark blah-brown hair
Normies UNITE!