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Innerhalb weniger Monate entwickelt Waldemar Haffkine 1896 einen Impfstoff gegen die Pest. Millionen Menschen werden damit geimpft, doch ein tragischer Unfall zerstört Haffkines Ruf.

Unsere Abonnenten können die vierte Folge unserer Serie zur Pest schon jetzt hören, alle anderen dann nächste Woche.
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
press releases: APA (Vienna) Forscher grenzen Ursprung der “Justinianischen Pest” weiter ein. science.apa.at/power-search... + Johannes Preiser-Kapeller. On the Trail of the First Pandemic (new research on the Justinianic Plague) www.academia.edu/143668444/
August 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
PREISER-KAPELLER Johannes, MCGRATH William A., PFISTER Rodo, GONG Shengsheng, KELLER Marcel, NEWFIELD Timothy P., SCHAMILOGLU Uli, BÜNTGEN Ulf, SPYROU Maria A., AVERBUCH Bryan, CHEN Fahu, SCHINDEL Nikolaus, XIE Haichao, XOPLAKI Elena (2025) doi.org/10.1007/s107...
The Circulation of Yersinia pestis in Central Eurasia before and during the First Plague Pandemic (Second to Eighth Century CE): Palaeogenetic and Historical Evidence and Sociopolitical, Ecological, a...
Modern Yersinia pestis genomes show the greatest diversity of the plague pathogen in Central Eurasia. This region is now widely linked to the origins of the Y. pestis lineages responsible for two hist...
doi.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
more on acupuncture needles:
gera.fr/les-aiguille...
July 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
the journal informs us that PREISER-KAPELLER et al. will be out in August.
2025 The circulation of Yersinia pestis in Central Eurasia before and during the First Plague Pandemic (second to eighth century CE): palaeogenetic and historical evidence and sociopolitical, ecological, and climatic parameters, in: Human Ecology (revision submitted).
July 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Die Zürcher Gesundheitsdirektorin Natalie Rickli will «irreversible» geschlechtsangleichende Behandlungen bei Minderjährigen verbieten lassen – ein guter Dienst an ihrer Partei und sich selber.

Ein Kommentar von @dwild.bsky.social

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Geschlechtsangleichung: Ricklis Rauchbombe
Anfang 2024 reagierte die Zürcher Gesundheitsdirektion (GD) auf den Vorwurf eines Vereins, wonach Jugendliche unter Druck gesetzt worden seien, geschlechtsangleichenden Massnahmen zuzustimmen.
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July 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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A big advance today in the infectious disease history of Eurasia: Sikora et al., "The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia," www.nature.com/articles/s41.... #histmed #aDNA 🧪🗃️
The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature
Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens coi...
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Please note two articles on ealy Chinese medicine.
Investigation into the Medical History of Long 癃 Urinary Disease in Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts
簡帛文獻中有關癃病的醫學史考察
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A Brief Analysis of the Incantatory Expulsion Recipe for “Treatment of Acute Heart Pain” in the Tianhui Medical Slips
天回醫簡“治心暴痛”祝由方淺析
May 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Sooo happy to finally have this one published!! (3 years in the making… 👀) A comprehensive investigation into the recency and geographical origins of both SARS-CoVs that spilled to humans in the past few decades, now in @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat coronaviruses that circulated as...
www.cell.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
But what does Emma Hodcroft ‪@firefoxx66.bsky.social‬ make with todays news in German press about the lab leak narrative?
Great article from Ewen Callaway in @nature.com about how #SARSCoV2 has helped us better understand viruses - including the areas where we still have much to learn.

“This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is indeed a splendid contribution to smallpox studies, and the visualisation of smallpox: Figure 4. Permanent facial scarring from smallpox.
Source: Page from Toshin seiyo (痘疹精要, The essentials of smallpox, early 1800s; Kanda Gensen (神田玄泉) (c.1670–1746) with revisions by Enomoto Gensho (榎本玄昌).
January 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
ist der PUKbericht online zu finden? und wo?
woz.ch WOZ @woz.ch · Dec 20
Ueli Maurer führte die Öffentlichkeit in die Irre und die Banker:innen bekamen fast gleich viel Boni, wie sie Verluste gemacht haben: Heute stellte die Parlamentarische Untersuchungskommission ihren Bericht zum Untergang der Credit-Suisse vor.

Von @ksurber.bsky.social

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PUK-Bericht: Dicker Wälzer, brisante Erkenntnisse
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December 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Question: As you say that you are "publishing from Basel" and rodo just lives there: Is there any outlet of Quirin Press in that city, or does any bookshop sell your books here? Esp. when the "sour mood" will be out that would be welcome 🙈
⤵️ the Preface

From the Studio of Sour Mood: Poetry and Prose of Guan Yunshi 貫雲石 (1286–1324)

by
Richard John Lynn
October 10, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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Great write-up of our upcoming paper on gibbon dances (preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...) by @inkfish.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com - some much needed publicity for the small apes 🧪

www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/s...
These Apes Dance Like Someone Is Watching
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The Way of the Academicians (翰林風)
from “Hua Ying Chin Chen” (Variegated Positions of the Flower Battle, Chinese name:花營錦陣),
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:C...
September 14, 2024 at 1:48 PM