Covid infections make people more vulnerable to other infections.

Here's what the Cleveland Clinic say about Brucellosis:
"Brucellosis is an uncommon bacterial infection that comes on slowly and can last for a long time. It can look like a lot of other illnesses, so it’s important to see a healthcare provider to get properly diagnosed and treated. Brucellosis usually isn’t serious, but it can infect your bones and organs, so it’s important to keep a close eye on your symptoms."

Less uncommon now, apparently.

Meanwhile... listeria continues its rampant ascent.

And so does TB.

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@1goodtern

Dec 19

You've heard about lots of people having cancer scares recently, haven't you?

I certainly have.
I work supporting people with exactly this kind of situation.

I was specifically thinking today about cancer scares that have turned out to *not be malignant cancer*, *yet*.

I was looking at my notes for the last two decades and I reckoned that there had been about a doubling of it in the last five years. Roughly.

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@1goodtern

Dec 18

Ok... so this is going to be an extremely weird thread...
If you're squeamish or sensitive, *stop reading*.

You know that you have mites living in the hair follicles of your eyelashes and eyebrows, right?

The ones pictured in the tweet above - and another similar species.

I mean, *almost* every adult does.

You're not born with them, and not many kids have them, because they feed on something called sebum, secreted by your skin, and kids don't produce much sebum...

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@1goodtern

Dec 15

The UKHSA have started publishing this goldmine again - but this year it's even more valuable *because they've reset it to a period when testing was consistent*.

This is very important and it shows yet again:
Covid infection makes you vulnerable to other infection.

So... in the weekly flu and covid surveillance report (that also covers other respiratory infections too), they publish these two charts.

Covid and Flu's interactions with other infections.

They include:

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@1goodtern

Dec 15

Most people just don't understand the immune system, its different components, how covid weakens it, and what that leaves you vulnerable to.

We tend to imagine immunity as a single light switch.
On or off.

Maybe on a dimmer switch.
Strong or weak.

In reality it is a whole set of tightly coordinated systems, and covid happens to damage several of the ones you rely on for dealing with infections that hide inside your own cells.

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