• sudoshakes@reddthat.com
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    14 days ago

    Several.

    • Rotavirus
    • Shigella
    • Adenovirus 40/41
    • Norovirus GII
    • ST-ETEC
    • Cholera (endemic)
    • Cryptosporidium
    • Campylobacter

    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.

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          14 days ago

          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

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      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.

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        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.