We've had Ebola in West Africa, where it hadn't been seen before, novel kinds of avian influenzas that infect birds and also some of them infect humans, new kinds of coronaviruses that cause diseases like SARS, a new one that's coming out of the Middle East called Middle East RespiratorySyndrome, new kinds of tick-borne illnesses, mosquito-borne viruses from dengue to chikungunya to West Nile virus.
that will go out and just purely from its own uh contagious Powers go out and infect the whole population um and by the same token it overlooks how much uhmessages are remixed by consumers um you know jenkins's point which is absolutely
maybe I could be raping a woman and she's HIV positive then I could go and infect my wife and my my friends and our ignorance is very very high even in thein the the men it's very high and people behave or act through that ignorance yeah
And we're actually exploiting this further to try and tell when people get anxious and have depression from a simple smartwatch. Infections are not the only thing you detect with these devices. My colleagues at Stanford have actually shown you can pick up a-fibrillation, which is a heart condition that if you catch it early,
So the advent of Medicine 2.0 made those causes of death much less common. Infections, communicable diseases, infant mortality, and trauma have fallen dramatically because the tools of Medicine 2.0 are really good at treating those things. And so now that the tide has gone out and you can see who's not wearing their shorts, you realize that what's really going on.
Only 1.7%? Only 1.7%. infections. So, it's it's it's one thing when a young person gets a urinary tract infection and they go to the urgent care
So, you can feel you won't feel cognitively as sharp and absolutely won't just think about when you're when you're when you have an infection. Your immune system is very active. You're fighting off a pathogen, right? Do you feel like you're tired or do you feel like you're cognitive cognitively at your peak?
OK, another one from Gemini. "Infectious generosity seems like a call to action. What is one concrete way that a reader could start spreading generosity, whether through small acts or large-scale initiatives?"
So for example, people who report getting less than seven hours of sleep a night are almost three times more likely to become infected by the rhinovirus or the common cold.And of course, we're all concerned about immunity right now.
But Rooster was the most malignant member of the family, spreading what his boys came to call the family curse like a criminal contagion, which infected almost everyone in the family over four generations.As Bobby told me, Rooster hated toys and sports.
didn't think of it as culture they didn't think of it as anything they just had all these new habits that were infectious that got them doing things that they hadn't done before and it turned out that these built and built and built and built pretty soon they had language and then they had epic poetry and then they had uh architecture and
idea is to get rid of the microbes. So, if the surgeon actually slips with a knife or whatever, you don't get infections. So, it's to block the infections. The problem is you're killing the good ones with the bad. And what that does is it creates a niche for this cedificil to crawl in. So if it's competitive in the gut, which it is, it's very competitive. It's hard for
Yeah, I know it's a great and morbid slide, but whatever. When you look at this list, how many of these are infectious? One, right? influenza pneumonia. So that's that's flu. You know, you get pneumonia that that's infectious. How many of these are actually linked to
infectious? One, right? influenza pneumonia. So that's that's flu. You know, you get pneumonia that that's infectious. How many of these are actually linked to microbes? Turns out nine of these 10 diseases now have a microbial link. Heart disease, cancer, lung
The vegan didn't make the the products associated with aththeroscerosis because they didn't have the bugs in the first place to do infections. That's great. The hygiene actually works and that's been important and it's done really well. But we realize I think we've tipped the scales
stimulate the growth of different types of immune cells and they calibrate the immune system so that it reacts to infectious threats and keeps us healthy but it also doesn't overreact to harmless things in the world around us to dust and pollen and allergens in our food um and it turns out that the immune
Well, it's really easy. Infections. If an infection gets to the main line, it's catastrophic.
The fact is, what we're finding is that one of the best predictors that there is going to be an onset of an infection is that the baby's vital signs stabilize. Weird, right? Why? We don't actually really know why, what's happening biologically.
infected with salmonella to the worst possible degree.
infection yoga will solve it so everything's solved through that so it's like whatever the expertise that we have
infection on a healthy economy. We need to get rid of it. We need to cleanse it through the bankruptcy system because
infections it makes you listless and anemic and tired and again that could affect your learning we evaluated both
infection rates, telling people not to use condoms.
infectious after two hundred years is not a minor thing.
They infect just great.
They infect each other.
Only 1.7%? Only 1.7%. tract infections, pain with sex, dryness, there is a magical solution
So infection, now, you probably have realized this because of the COVID epidemic that people with heart disease or underlying heart conditions,
Alien infected the virtual machine and then came back 48 hours later to check what the digital thieves had been doing.
been infected with the disease of self-indulgence.
on infectious disease. But I get to Boston, and San Francisco the most, because these are the top two biotech clusters.
right? They're competitors. And but what these two guys did and their teams and other people in the world is they basically showed that microbes actually cause infectious diseases. And that was a big finding because up until then they had no idea what caused there was all these, you know, thoughts that maybe it's bad air, swamp gas. No one knew how infections work. So these guys showed
and he basically spent 12 years of his life inside this bubble. He became known as the bubble boy. He then died at 12 of an infection. But so they were able to keep him alive by giving these key things. But the experiments we do in animals are very similar. We do the same things. We call these things germfree animals.
terribly infected . He had gotten hit by a bus the month before.
an infectious disease. So he created a network of violence interrupters, people that could be called in to mediate instances
of infectious agents. So first he started with strep, and then the tubercular bacilliaie.
The infection has a latency of 23 days.
that infections are amenable to.
called "Infected ." And I went on there, and there were, I think there were like 100 reviews at the time, and was
And "Infected " is a story of an ex-linebacker from the University of Michigan.
malware-infected USB sticks into their computers, they disable the firewalls, they install plugins or add repositories or add certificates to their machine's root of trust, they punch
Preventing infection in the first place is the most important part to my mind of facing the HIV AIDS epidemic.
they could infect almost any server on the internet.
They go on to infect three other people each, and you can see how this spirals out of control very quickly.
And then they infect more cells.
And then you will infect not that many people, but you will infect enough that there will then be transmission of HIV to get to 35 million people.
And it could almost infect our country in a positive way.
represents everything that exists it is a master family tree of life on Earth it doesn't infect other animals that might eat mosquitoes it doesn't kill the insects so it doesn't have any ecological consequences we're not going
So can infect him with malaria and get the therapeutic benefit, if it had that, for their mental problems, but he could also
I will infect all of you with something just awful.