First the good news…

Cocktail of flu, HIV drugs appears to help fight coronavirus: Thai doctors

Now the bad…

A ‘highly pathogenic strain’ of H5N1 bird flu has been reported in China’s Hunan province

Bird Flu is not as contagious as coronavirus, but much more lethal.

BTW, you may have noticed I post links to Yahoo news a lot. It’s still one of my first stops when browsing the news. Mostly because it links to so many reputable news sources. (Although, a few not so reputable ones as well. Just not as many as other sites.)

Takeaway quote…
“There were nearly 1,300 cases of measles in the U.S. through November, That’s the largest number in 27 years. There were no deaths but about 120 people ended up in the hospital.

This from a disease that vaccines had essentially purged from the country for a decade.

“How can we have gone from eliminating the disease to reviving a disease? It’s mind-shattering that we would go in that direction,” said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who heads a congressional subcommittee that oversees public health spending.

‘Tough year’ for measles and other infectious diseases in US

Does a sleeping octopus dream?

More vaping results…

Cool stuff!

Rare 3.8-million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s ancestor, gives insight into early man

Thanks to stupidity. A disease that was almost wiped out in this country has now been brought back by ignorance and arrogance.

Ohio reports first case of measles in two years amid national outbreak

Another great video from Veritasium.

Circa 1980’s I’m guessing. From the Australian Kids TV Show “The Curiosity Show”.

I have one of these somewhere. They are amazing to watch. The laws of thermodynamics at work.

Malaria kills over one million people per year. This could be big, regardless of strange side effects.

Blue Dye Kills Malaria Parasites — But There Is One Catch

This accounts for a great deal of bad policy decisions I think.

Okay so one of my fun facts this week was that humans kill a million sharks each year, but sharks only kill about six humans per year. Well, I was wrong. Humans kill 100 MILLION sharks each year.

HUMANS KILL 100 MILLION SHARKS EVERY YEAR, BUT THAT’S ABOUT TO CHANGE

And speaking of sharks…

PREHISTORIC, DINOSAUR-ERA SHARK WITH INSANE TEETH FOUND SWIMMING OFF COAST OF PORTUGAL

Could early hominids have been walking around in Germany 9.7 million years ago? I doesn’t seem likely, and it’s a bit much to derive from two teeth.
Here is the slightly “fringe” article (warning: ad clogged website)…

9.7 Million-Year-Old Teeth Found in Germany Belong to Hominin Only Known To Have Existed in Africa 4 Million Years Later

And here is a response from National Geographic…
Ancient Teeth Found in Europe Belonged to Mystery Primate

Thanks Mark!

Two terms that should go together, but don’t seem to. This article is pretty scary.

These workers’ lives are endangered while contractors running nuclear weapons plants make millions