This doctor talks about signs of an epidemic happening in Gaza
One of the symptoms is the skin and eyes turning yellow. If you look at Palestinians posting on social media like Bisan and Mansour, you can see their skin turning yellow.
Its unfortunately not the only disease spreading as hospitals are being destroyed and food and water remains scarce.
Do we have any records of fossil dinosaurs afflicted with illnesses? I guess fossils wouldn't really make it easy to preserve dinos that died from proto-flu, but what about stuff like cancers or malformations?
We do actually! Paleopathology is a whole field and there are tons of specimens that showcase signs of illnesses and injuries! It's really cool actually. there are so many examples that I can't even find the one I wanted to share as a prime one (it was an ornithopod that had a whole cancer study done, can't find it anywhere)
but infections were common and there's tons of studies about the signs of those in fossils as well!
24.09.2023 // All I need to make a study session good (or at the very least bearable) is some good music, a coffee and a calming environment (ideally a cafe or library). I've been trying to get through some haematology revision, which I'm really enjoying even though it's really complicated.
Edit for all the people telling me “uhhh tuberculosis still exists”: I know! :) In fact, all of these sicknesses still exist. In the modern world we live in, however, most of these are only prevalent in developing countries, and certainly not to the extent they once were.
It is no secret that Israel attacks the most vulnerable and will do so by any means. The truth is in everyone's face yet so many people refuse to see this as a genocide.
I was trying to get my cats in the house (my neighbor's house to be specific) and the door locked, because it was night time, and according to my neighbors, "Infected Jesús is out tonight."