Integral Ecology and One Health – Addressing the Environmental Polycrises
Addressing global environmental and health challenges in an integrated and systemic way.
Location: Maison internationale des associations, Geneva
🕔 Time: 17:00
📅 Date: April 8
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![new research on influenza A shows the virus behaves very differently in the bodies of pregnant and non-pregnant mice.
Study co-author Professor John O’Leary from Trinity College, Dublin, said the findings represent a landmark advance in the understanding of viral infections and pregnancy.
‘The discovery of an influenza-induced “vascular storm” is one of the most significant developments in inflammatory infectious diseases over the last 30 years,’ he said. ‘[It also] has significant implications for other viral infections, including COVID-19.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycxja7acqnay665ub64i2pfp/bafkreibzh6tli5apavgssn7df2qctsal7qffcfcwpttz6hxvhkiaft3gla)
new research on influenza A shows the virus behaves very differently in the bodies of pregnant and non-pregnant mice. Study co-author Professor John O’Leary from Trinity College, Dublin, said the findings represent a landmark advance in the understanding of viral infections and pregnancy. ‘The discovery of an influenza-induced “vascular storm” is one of the most significant developments in inflammatory infectious diseases over the last 30 years,’ he said. ‘[It also] has significant implications for other viral infections, including COVID-19.’
We found a dramatic difference in these inflamed blood vessels, which can seriously affect how much blood makes it to the placenta and all the organs that help support the growing baby,’ he said. ‘We’ve known that flu infection in pregnancy results in an increased risk of babies being smaller and suffering oxygen starvation. ‘Our research shows the critical role that the vascular system could be playing in this, with inflammation in the blood vessels reducing blood flow and nutrient transfer from mum to baby.’ While the researchers did not directly measure blood flow, the study found an increase in biomarkers for oxygen starvation in the fetuses of the flu-infected mice. Pregnancy is believed to affect influenza severity, as the placenta secretes proteins and releases fetal DNA into the mother’s blood that can cause underlying inflammation; influenza infection may tip that underlying inflammation in the mother’s body into a full-blown systemic inflammatory event.
Pandemic #PublicHealth
Implications
🌐 Governments & @who.int must commit
To
Regulate & Improve
#IndoorAirQuality
Prevent spread of VIRUSES
Work for
#HealthyBuildings
Interesting research
Implications of Flu &+other viral infections to mum & foetus
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Fun fact.
Some governments and their advisors were promoting COVID-proof unicorn kids at exactly the same time as other governments and their advisors were planning to top up everyone’s immunity by using kids as vectors.
And they call the ones that want to stop kids getting infected 🤪.
182,000 lives in a single year.
We achieved a 57% drop in PM2.5-related deaths between 2005 and 2023.
But there is work still left to do.
We need stricter compliance mechanisms, ⬆️ monitoring networks, & a deeper integration of indoor air quality strategies to protect vulnerable populations.
1/ If I hear one more public official call indoor air filters a "band-aid," I'm going to explode! Filtering indoor air should be as standard as filtering water. Full stop. 🧵
Many doctors tell parents of children with asthma (over 5 years of age) not to wear a #AirPollution mask outdoors or use an air cleaning filter indoors, because the children will not be able to develop immunity. I explain in this video what is going on and why that's not true.
youtu.be/SavCjYT-hzc
They often violate the bill of rights as well as the court's orders.
I don't want to see Mr Bovino end up charged with crimes that because of his systemic policy actions ignoring the law will not allow him & others under his command to enjoy qualified immunity.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
I choose people over profits
PS @chrisiddon.bsky.social @henryburridge.bsky.social
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"Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study"
#Caregiving #Healthcare #ElderCare #MedSky
❌ Our Planet and Our Rights are NOT FOR SALE!
💪 We took the streets of Brussels today, together with thousands of people at #ClimateMarch!
➡️ We demand the EU to step up on climate ambition and claim back the global leadership it was once known for!
Yes, but smaller. Black and brown carbon fine and ultrafines carrying toxins within, reaching every organ of the body.
We assumed this following the #BlackCarbon detection method developed by the University of Hasselt, Belgium lab (Bové & Naurot) ~10 yr ago.
Congrats to Prof. Grigg for the study confirming it through same day personal exposure.
NOTE: BC short term exposures also can be revealed in urine samples.
Nearly twice as many young adults reported cognitive disability in 2023 as in 2013.
www.sciencenews.org/article/young-adults-cog...
Likely they chose to balance energy use with open windows. Health risk is often not the only factor. Highly-occupied naturally-ventilated buildings typically don't have fan forced air.
1500 ppm is a dated limit to select.
800 ppm should be the norm - see WELL building standards.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah joins the environmental research group at Imperial in order to share the benefits of investing in policies that will increase #CleanAir, water, and food.
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265213/...
Ghislaine Maxwell's deposition was not under oath. She was not video taped, which is very unusual for a deposition. And there are many cuts where they stopped the audio tapes so lawyers could confer with her off-the-record. None of that stuff is the way you do a deposition.
To the contrary... Regulations and Regulatory Enforcement more often create jobs while improving the health and safety of entire populations.
We must not allow the bottom line of a few special interests to determine our choices of energy, resources, chemicals and processes.
#CleanAir
#CleanAir & reducing #ClimateRisk 🌏require the courage of policy action through a concerted campaign of actions & regulatory enforcement. Not simple... But focused leadership 🇫🇷 🇺🇳.
Register to hear from two of the world's top leaders🗼 fighting daily for health & safety.
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Watch #ARISSummit2025: Gathering Currents for Change highlight video! #ARIS2025 attendees engaged with each other throughout the three-day conference with in-depth and thought-provoking keynotes, panel discussions, presentations, and poster and breakout sessions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhPI...
Several masked and armed ICE goons raided the Super Gigante West Norriton Farmers Market in southeastern Pennsylvania, detaining both employees and shoppers at the store. One witness shouted, "This is disgusting...
These are hardworking people... You're separating families."
#Project2025 is a smokescreen intended to weaken the USD$ to pump up cryptocurrencies.
These ultra right fringe broligarchs openly describe their hope to create autonomous techno-fuedalism cities that they will finance after enriching themselves through the fall of the US dollar.
Subscribe to Sen Whitehouse's YouTube channel. He does plenty.
You are thinking of the senior dem senators under the control of the same Neoliberal elite financing campaigns through dark money donations.
Your message and disdain is spot on Gary. The target is just wrong.
How can we know who deposits how much crypto currency into their private accounts?... and thus message for x action or inaction recieved?
RFK Jr. just fired thousands of federal workers at crucial health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
These are the people who inspect our food, track infectious diseases, and research life-saving treatments and cures.
How is this "Making America Healthy Again"?
Unable to register for early access. I erased my email for posting the error here. If you are blocking VPNs, then I'm not interested in working with your org.
The GOP voting children off supplemental food & nutrition benefits = #SithLord move!
"I was hungry & you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty & you gave me something to drink, & behold, now I'm all lazy & entitled. You shouldn't have done that."
#HellcatCreek
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This is your brain.
This is your brain on #AirPollution
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