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Woman blinded by parasites after making mistake with her contact lenses
  • I'm only a student in the field so NotADoctor™ but under normal conditions your tear film layer and blinking keep other liquids out of your eyes. When wearing contacts in water or when cleaning them with tapwater, there is a small amount of the fluid that gets trapped against the eye. If that fluid is fresh water contaminated with acanthamoeba, it provides ample opportunity and time for the acanthamoeba to break through the layer and the contact lens prevents it from being blinked away.

  • Woman blinded by parasites after making mistake with her contact lenses
  • My understanding is that acanthamoeba are basically everywhere, and the contacts being worn when swimming or showering are actually one of the main factors in acanthamoeba infection. They normally eat bacteria but they are opportunistic parasites, and I guess the contact gives them the opportunity.

  • Largest drug "super lab" in Canada's history busted with record amount of fentanyl, chemicals and guns seized
  • I mean, one of the benafits for fentanyl specifically from the perspective of drug dealers is that it's a synthetic. With heroin or cocaine or something you have to have space to grow the plants or a source for the plants and those can only grow easily at certain latitudes, etc. So you're limited by the supply chain. With synthetics you can set up a lab anywhere relatively easily, like in Canada for example

  • Saudi Arabia: Neom workers speak of '16-hour work days' in undercover film
  • Oh, absolutely. I would even say that description of their attitude towards workers rights is an understatement. I'm just talking about their lofty goals for the project and how even with the best engineers and best workforce in the world their stated timelines are physically impossible

  • Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
  • The automated voicemail transcriptions my work uses (medical office) recently switched to AI. In some cases it works really well, but if there are long periods of silence it will start to make things up. I've ended up with some pretty loopy messages when someone leaves voicemail with long silence at the end.

  • phys.org Are you tasty to mosquitoes? Study offers clues into when and why they bite

    As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their victims in the first place. But while scientists have uncovered the ways that odor and heat help mosqui...

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