**Syphilis: Did Christopher Columbus bring the STD to Europe?**
"_The sexually transmitted disease originated in the Americas 8,000 years ago. But there's evidence that 15th-century colonialists spread Syphilis worldwide._"
https://www.dw.com/en/syphilis-did-christopher-columbus-bring-the-std-to-europe/a-71096335.
#History #Histodons #Science #Syphilis #STD #ChristopherColumbus @histodons @science
@openrightsgroup So UK 16 & 17 year olds are to get the vote, but are now blocked from informing themselves about issues that may concern them, even posts by MPs? And they can give consent, but not read about sexual health?
A provision in #Trump’s tax bill instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to #abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from #Medicaid in 2023, even to those like #PlannedParenthood that also offer #MedicalServices like #contraception, #PregnancyTests, #STD testing & #CancerScreenings.
C++ Coroutines Advanced: Converting std:future to asio:awaitable
https://www.ddhigh.com/en/2025/07/15/cpp-coroutine-future-to-awaitable/
#HackerNews #C++ #Coroutines #Advanced #std::future #asio:awaitable #programming #async #await #C++
#std 
12. Tag der Bestandserhaltung in Berlin
Termin: 25. - 26. November 2025
Organisiert vom KBE (Kompetenzzentrum #Bestandserhaltung für Archive und Bibliotheken in Berlin und Brandenburg) in Kooperation mit dem Bundesarchiv zum Thema „Vom Papier zum Pixel – Bestandsschonende Digitalisierung“
https://bestandserhaltung.zlb.de/veranstaltungen/tag-der-bestandserhaltung/
Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid after taking office in January and halted grants by the U.S. Agency for International Development. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/22/world/science-health/trump-cuts-hiv-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #hiv #std #africa #us #donaldtrump #medicine #nigeria
Two critical labs at the #CDC were inexplicable targeted for closure in April. The #STD & viral #hepatitis laboratories are among the parts at the agency where terminations have been rescinded. https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/cdc-cuts-reversed-two-renowned-laboratories-targeted-by-doge-will-continue-work/
2 days after the lab's scientists received their reduction in force emails, #HHS Secy #RFKJr acknowledged that ~⅕ of the cuts at HHS were made *unintentionally* & some people would be offered their jobs back.
On April 4, the Assn of #PublicHealth Laboratories sent a letter to RFKJr urging HHS to reinstate all personnel in the Division of #Viral #Hepatitis & at the Division of #STD Prevention, another lab at the #CDC that was shuttered.
Wisconsin has seen a 1,450% increase in congenital syphilis cases since 2019, the state's Dept of Health Services reports.
This at a time when the country's premier #STD lab has been shuttered in the devastating cuts at #CDC.
What could possibly go wrong? https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/
Update. "#CDC's #STD Lab Shuttered by #Trump Layoffs"
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/stds/115065
"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (#STDs) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."
Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (#ASTDA).
https://www.astda.org/statement-from-astda-on-cuts-to-the-cdcs-division-of-std-prevention/
The lab's efforts aren't duplicated anywhere, there's no $ to be made so the private sector won't step in, and this lab is key to fighting anti-microbial resistance.
“To me, this is like a blind man with a chainsaw has just gone through the system and arbitrarily cut things without any rationale.”
Improving on std:count_if()'s auto-vectorization — https://nicula.xyz/2025/03/08/improving-stdcountif-vectorization.html
#HackerNews #Improving #std:count_if #auto-vectorization #programming #optimization #C++ #performance
Bald ist März und meine nächste #STI-Testung dürfte anstehen. Bei mir sind es sechs Monate. Wie sieht das bei euch aus?
#CDC Centers for Disease Control & Prevention sites datasets removed as of 1/31/25 . Not immediately clear what day they were removed: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey; AtlasPlus, which housed #HIV #AIDS, #Hepatitis and #STD information; #contraception page for #healthcare providers; page on ending #gender based #violence; Evidence supporting recommendations for #HPV vaccination harmonization across genders, ages 22 -26 yrs; #Heartdisease death rates by gender, by county https://www.axios.com/2025/01/31/health-cdc-websites-data-removed-trump
I have no real desire to watch Star Trek: Discovery.
But one thing that bugged the hell out of me about what I did see was how the Klingons looked like racist caricatures. To me, they made them look like a white man's version of a savage African stereotype. Was I the only one who saw that? Like, it was just as bad (to me) as the Harry Potter movies turning goblins into Protocols of Elder Zion illustrations.
The Disco thing was weird because all they could talk about was how progressive the show was but the villains were the most regressive Star Trek representation since "Code of Honor".
Rückkehrer aus der „Neuen Welt“ brachten im 15. Jahrhundert nicht nur Schätze nach Europa – sie bescherten uns auch die Syphilis, wie DNA-Analysen belegen. #Syphilis #Kolumbus #Geschlechtskrankheit #Infektion #STD
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/syphilis-kam-aus-der-neuen-welt/
The fact BlueSky shortens to BS feels like an object lesson in how not to name things. The same lesson Paramount/CBS learned with Star Trek: Discovery and the Committee for the Liberation of Terrifying Organisms and Their Rehabilitation Into Society should really have put their finger on earlier.
#BlueSky #STD #RedDwarf
Weil ich heute meinen Hausarzt darüber aufklären musste, warum ich mich vor kurzem habe gegen HPV impfen lassen: für uns, die wir noch nicht regulär in der Pubertät gegen HPV geimpft wurden, kann eine Impfung dennoch sinnvoll sein (sie ist allerdings teuer):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10038021/#
https://www.frauenaerzte-im-netz.de/frauengesundheit/impfschutz-impfungen/impfung-gegen-hpv/
Selbst wenn man bereits Gebärmutterhalskrebs hatte, senkt die Impfung das Rezidivrisiko. #std #hpv #cervicalcancer #prevention
WTF, y'all generation z/α need to wrap that shit up! People out here having syphilis and whatnot, you don't want your dick rotting off (or your brain turning to pudding like Trump's did).
https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/10/02/condoms-arent-fact-life-young-americans-theyre-an-afterthought/
#condoms #std #herpes #syphilis #gonorrhea #chlamydia #hiv #genz #genalpha
:EA DATA. SF: 
