Rat Bite Disease

Carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) is an abnormal vascular connection between the internal carotid artery (ICA) or the external carotid artery (ECA) and the venous branches of the cavernous sinus (CS); it is rare but can cause serious complications. Etiologically, CCF may be caused by head trauma most commonly, which may be blunt trauma to the brain or more notably, a basilar skull fracture resulting in a tear of the intracavernous ICA [1]. Other causes include the spontaneous rupture of a cavernous carotid aneurysm or a weakness of the arterial wall [2]. CCF is typically divided into direct and indirect types. Shunting of the blood from the carotid artery to the cavernous sinus increases the pressure inside the cavernous sinus, causes the backing up of blood in the draining vessels, may cause the flow to reverse, and presents clinical features that resemble many conditions of the eye and neck. Therefore, it is important for neurologists, neurosurgeons, and ophthalmologists to focus on ...

A s the world watches the rare spectacle of protesters challenging China's authoritarian leadership over its increasingly perplexing "zero Covid" policy, people who study the disease see threats ahead for China — and beyond. The zero Covid policy, which has kept cases and deaths in China to negligible numbers throughout the pandemic, seems doomed to fail in the face of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, they believe. But the Chinese leadership does not appear to be mapping a path to a safe exit ramp, leaving experts worried the country could see a tsunami of cases that would swamp its health care system if the national containment effort collapses. "I think they're very poorly prepared and based on what we have seen in Hong Kong — which is probably the best proxy for what might happen in China — this could be fairly devastating," Francois Balloux, director of the University College London's Genetics Institute, told STAT...

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It costs $50 per day for Frankie to go to daycare, while it costs $20 per day for Avery's human son to go to before- and after-school care. "When we were looking at our budget, I knew I would have to give up special stuff for me to make sure she's cared for." On the days Frankie doesn't go to doggie daycare, Avery gets up at 5:30 a.m. to walk her and then also plays with her after work. "She's a German shepherd," Avery said. "She's a working dog. It's not like I can just throw a toy around for 10 minutes. She needs work." Without the physical simulation, Frankie will often chew something up. "I would say in the first six months, I lost all of my work shoes," Avery said. After people all over the world entered lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, many adopted a pet to help with their boredom and loneliness. According to a 2021 study by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1 in 5 American househol...

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What is monkeypox? This (not so) new virus is making headlines, and the last few years have put us on high alert when a virus is in the news. Here's what you need to know about the origins, outcomes and potential impacts of monkeypox. No Monkeying Around Despite the name, there's no guarantee that monkeypox actually came from monkeys. While scientists first discovered the disease in 1958 when working with two colonies of monkeys kept for research, the CDC says the origin point of the illness remains unknown. According to Wired, the disease is often found in rodents including squirrels, rats and dormice. The name "monkeypox" comes from the fact that monkeys were the first viral vector detected by humans. This disease is typically found in the rainforests of Central and Western Africa, but may occasionally appear outside this area when infected humans travel to other locations. Common Symptoms of Monkeypox The World Health Organization (WHO) lists several comm...

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Abstract The contact and interaction of human is considered to be one of the important factors affecting the epidemic transmission, and it is critical to model the heterogeneity of individual activities in epidemiological risk assessment. In digital society, massive data makes it possible to implement this idea on large scale. Here, we use the mobile phone signaling to track the users' trajectories and construct contact network to describe the topology of daily contact between individuals dynamically. We show the spatiotemporal contact features of about 7.5 million mobile phone users during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China. Furthermore, the individual feature matrix extracted from contact network enables us to carry out the extreme event learning and predict the regional transmission risk, which can be further decomposed into the risk due to the inflow of people from epidemic hot zones and the risk due to people close contacts within the observing area. This method is mu...