Combatting bacterial and viral infections is getting tougher because of their growing resistance to drugs. Antibiotic drugs can no longer be counted on to conquer nasty bacteria. Antivirals don't always overpower the viruses. This is a huge problem but it is one that widely acknowledged and researched.
There's an additional medical challenge though, that matters a lot. Namely, drug-resistant fungi.
Yep, fungi.
It's a topic that doesn't get discussed much — and that worries Paul Verweij, professor of clinical mycology at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He says there's a "silence surge" in drug-resistant fungi and that it's mostly happening under-the-radar.
Fungicides are used to protect plants against fungal disease. Everything — watermelons, maize, wheat, flowers — use lots of fungicides. If we didn't use the fungicides, you'd probably have a yield loss maybe of 30% or 40%.
The problem is that the fungicides are quite similar to the drugs we give to patients. So the fungus becomes resistant to the fungicide and, at the same time, our medical azoles [a class of antifungal drugs] do not work as well anymore.
More than a decade before Mamdani was even born, the streets of Downtown Albany were filled with free buses. They whizzed by the Capitol and other government offices on a regular basis, all thanks to a $326,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to study how eliminating bus fare affects ridership.
The Freewheeler buses — yes, that’s what they were called — ran during daytime, off-peak hours on routes running through Albany’s central business district from 1978 through 1980. (During peak hours, the regular fare was 40 cents.)
Ridership went through the roof. Three times as many people rode the bus during off-peak hours during the work week when fares were eliminated — a jump from 1,070 daily average riders before the pilot program took effect to 3,040, according to a 1981 federal study. On Saturdays, it was a fivefold increase, from 270 to 1,340.
The study showed the free buses didn’t bring more people to Downtown Albany. Instead, people simply shifted their travel habits.
Workers and residents who had been accustomed to hiking up Downtown Albany’s steep State Street hill hopped on the bus instead. Downtown residents made fewer trips by car, though not by much — about 353 fewer car miles per day, not enough to make a meaningful reduction in emissions, according to the report.
Now Adam was the first man since the world began. The Lord picked up some clay and from it made a man. Now Adam wasn’t satisfied, he said, I’ll need a bride. So the Lord took out a rib from Adam’s side.
They set out to meet each other, never met before. They recognized each other by the clothes each other wore.
Now she wore a tulip, a bright yellow tulip, and he wore a big red rose. And as Adam grew older there were some things he told her, but he told her no one knows.
He said, hey, you’re dynamic, you can start a panic, right down from your head to toes.
If any guy needs a harem, I’ve got more ribs and I’ll share them, and he blushed like a big red rose. The garden of Eden is where they settled down.
They had a small apartment just outside of town. Now Adam didn’t eat much, but she didn’t give a hoot. When he got hungry, he picked him some fruit.
They finally sought their home there, I don’t know where they went. They had to move away because they couldn’t pay the rent.
But she still wore a tulip, a bright yellow tulip, and he wore a big red rose.
And as Adam grew older there were some things he told her, but he told her no one knows. He said, hey, you’re dynamic, you can start a panic, right down from your head to toes.
If any guy needs a harem, I’ve got more ribs and I’ll share them, and he blushed like a big red rose.
I really mean it, he blushed like a big red rose.
Phil Ochs …. before he started out on his own with The Campers (1963) singing Camp Favorites.
