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Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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Now I'm scared; 23andme reported that I'm at risk for Late-Onset Alzheimer's. What lifestyle changes can I make to reduce the risk of liver cancer?
take a daily herpes antiviral https://www.healthline.com/health-news/evidence-of-link-betw... and reduce your alzheimer's risk by 90%
https://bottomlineinc.com/health/alzheimers/warning-a-cold-s...
A family member has herpes and recently started showing signs of dementia. I’m going to have them try that regimen. I’m also going to reach out to that doctor.
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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I don't know _what_ is going on but I have a guess. I live in Canada. We see these 'Hepatitis vaccine' posters at every doctors office/clinc. They are all related to "going on vacation somewhere warm". So the implication is "Caribbean vacation = hepatitis". There were even TV commercials that tried to show "unexpected places you could get hepatitis from", from the ice-cube, from the sand on the beach (showing a cut f…
I don't follow. You're saying posters and TV commercials about hepatitis cause more hepatitis? (I bet you're not, but I really don't get it)
The suggestion seemed to be implying those that produce those commercials are telling people that vacation spots could be a common time + location to get the infection.
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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How does this go, usually? They ask you to choose someone else then decline future appointments? Have you seen anything similar for urgent-care clinics?
I don't see this in urgent care. I am talking about peds. You bring your newborn in, but start refusing vaccinations. I have spoken in person with over a dozen clinics who categorize themselves as "no-refusal" clinics. They will medically defer, and in some cases allow refusal of STD vaccines. But a person who just doesn't want vaccinations will likely be disenrolled from the register.
That's an interesting moral problem. I don't begrudge those clinics their choice. Maybe they think they're protecting the other patients in the waiting room.
But what would you think of a doctor who declines to treat an alcoholic because the alcoholic persists in his drinking? Does a doctor have a duty to care for people regardless of their actions?
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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I don't see this in urgent care. I am talking about peds. You bring your newborn in, but start refusing vaccinations. I have spoken in person with over a dozen clinics who categorize themselves as "no-refusal" clinics. They will medically defer, and in some cases allow refusal of STD vaccines. But a person who just doesn't want vaccinations will likely be disenrolled from the register.
That's an interesting moral problem. I don't begrudge those clinics their choice. Maybe they think they're protecting the other patients in the waiting room. But what would you think of a doctor who declines to treat an alcoholic because the alcoholic persists in his drinking? Does a doctor have a duty to care for people regardless of their actions?
I'm not a doctor, I just study their data. But I think from what I'm hearing, they've made what they think is the most moral choice. Vaccines have very specific age ranges, and if they continue to see a patient without giving them the vaccine, I think they've decided that that interferes with their do no harm.
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now I'm scared; 23andme reported that I'm at risk for Late-Onset Alzheimer's. What lifestyle changes can I make to reduce the risk of liver cancer?
take a daily herpes antiviral https://www.healthline.com/health-news/evidence-of-link-betw... and reduce your alzheimer's risk by 90%
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094 on the same stuff
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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What about vaccines for nuisance illnesses where the vaccines have potentially severe consequences? For example, the rotavirus vaccine has been known to cause intussusception in some small but non-negligible fraction of recipients. This is sometimes fatal, and generally involves surgery. Rotavirus typically causes diarrhea, which can be dangerous, but generally isn’t if monitored closely. Do you call CPS on parents t…
“The only vaccine that is missing from many state mandates is the rotavirus vaccine.”
- Vaxopedia.org
Anecdotally, when we were vaccinating our kids, rotavirus was presented as optional or not crucial. I don’t remember the precise wording the doctor used, but I recall it was the one we skipped. A big factor in that was our kids were not in any kind of daycare.
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't follow. You're saying posters and TV commercials about hepatitis cause more hepatitis? (I bet you're not, but I really don't get it)
The suggestion seemed to be implying those that produce those commercials are telling people that vacation spots could be a common time + location to get the infection.
I still don't get it. Is that true or not?
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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Not extremely unlikely given that most saliva swapping likely goes on between partners who kiss on a daily basis and hence are extremely likely to have at least one interaction where both parties have a combination of cuts, bleeding gums, cold sores or similar.
It's complicated. The level of infectiousness to others varies depending on the state of the virus in the person who carries it. People with a chronic infection (long term) typically have low level infectivity. So it would be a very unlikely combination of factors coming together for transmission to occur that way.
It's still 50x-100x more infectious than HIV, because of the very high concentrations of it in bodily fluids. This combined with its very long lived potency out of the body makes for much easier infection.
In theory, you could drink from a glass and leave the virus in saliva on the rim. If nobody cleans the glass, and five days later someone with bleeding gums drinks out of it, it's still infectious.
Re: Viral hepatitis: A silent epidemic killing more people than HIV, malaria or TB
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Why is there faeces and urine everywhere?
Large homeless population.
and a lack of public toilets. People are people — we generally would rather go to the bathroom in private if it's an option. Homeless people don't shit in the street because it's their first choice.