Biology Digest

  The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( Beijing CDC ) reported Monday a human inhalation anthrax case in a patient from Chengde in North China’s Hebei Province. Bacillus anthracis bacteria Image/CDC The patient was transported to Beijing via ambulance four days after showing symptoms and was later quarantined and treated. The patient had a history of contact with cattle and sheep, and associated products from those animals. Anthrax is a bacterial pathogen in  livestock  and wild  animals . Ruminants such as bison, cattle, sheep and goats are highly susceptible, and horses can also be infected. Anthrax is a very serious  disease  of livestock because it can potentially cause the rapid  loss  of a large number of animals in a  very short  time. Affected animals are often found dead with no illness detected. When conditions become favorable, the spores germinate into  colonies  of...

Twenty years of lab conspiracies have came by in a flash   I noticed in recent biology and political talk that the Lab conspiracy in China keeps escalating especially here in the USA. I'm wondering if the conspiracy theories that the politicians keep ranting about as a ploy for the 2022 governor's and congressional elections even understand that here in the USA two decades ago we had the Anthrax attacks. There were FBI investigations at the time saying it came from a lab here in the USA and it was one of the sparking points on why biology majors are the least trusted group to the general public for the past 20 years. I agree it's virtue signaling among politicians in this recent China lab conspiracy in relation to SARS-CoV-2. TWIV 760 and TWIV 761 a Microbe.tv production recently went into discussions on how COVID-19 "Lab Conspiracy" is not true and the evidence the virologists had showed that the virus was naturally occurring. Parts of this escalation on Lab cons...

  The infamous “QAnon shaman” found among the rioters who stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. last week once served in the Navy but was kicked out after refusing to take a vaccine, Task & Purpose has learned. The likeness of Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, 33, has been plastered across the internet since he showed up in Washington bedecked in a headdress and sporting star-spangled war paint — because nothing says “I’m an insurrectionist of the social media era” quite like getting Instagram-ready before storming your nation’s capital. For those who have been following the rise of QAnon and their associated conspiracy theories over recent years,  Chansley’s name is likely well-known  thanks to his appearances at  numerous Trump rallies and in subsequent news reports , particularly  in his home state of Arizona . Hell, he even has  his own Wikipedia page . Gina Harkins with Military.com  was the first to report on Chansley’s prior military...