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CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
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I'm sorry. Is there some kind of organization or mechanism that monitors specifically explosive diarrhea?
The CDC used to track a whole bunch of diseases so that we could intervene and limit their spread. They did this for some, typically food-borne causes of diarrhea
Several.
All kill people. Every day.
Whole initiatives at charity organizations and international Health organizations actively monitor child and adult impact from diarrheal diseases.
The US CDC used to be a latchkey to those efforts.
There are entire charitable organizations devoted to individual diarrhea diseases
I know. I work for one.
I figured you knew, given all the good information you have. I just wanted to add to the conversation and feel important :3
Working for one of those NGOs is really interesting tho. You should post about it on the dull men's group sometime so we can argue about it being not dull enough, also learn cool stuff about the fatal butt diseases
The dull what?
There's a dull men's club community on here. It's for everyone who is dull enough, not just men. We like to talk about things and stuff.
Okay, fine. Yes, those are diseases that are monitored. But explosive diarrhea is a symptom, not a disease. Sometimes people just get the runs for any number of reasons.
That's why saying there was an increase in "explosive diarrhea" sounds odd. Public health agencies generally monitor diseases that cause diarrhea, not the symptom itself in isolation.
It's like saying there was an increase in fevers during the height of COVID, or a spike in people feeling pain after breaking a bone. Those are symptoms of underlying conditions, not the thing that's actually being tracked.
Maybe I'm missing some context, but the wording still strikes me as strange.
The symptoms are how you understand and characterize a disease.
Presentation of the runs from your gut is noteworthy and measured. You measure it for understanding incubation, water loss, recurrence, latency between events, and a slew of other data points.
It is in fact how you characterize disease at large, the symptoms.
100% agree.
Not what I mean. But yes. You are absolutely correct.
I gotta start naming my poops like that. Today was a Jimmy
I took a Donald this morning!
Several.
All kill people. Every day.
Whole initiatives at charity organizations and international Health organizations actively monitor child and adult impact from diarrheal diseases.
The US CDC used to be a latchkey to those efforts.
The Cloacal Control Council, yes
Yes