Post Tagged with: "Epidemics"

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  A New Threat from an Old Disease

  After decades of absence, polio has been detected in the United Kingdom.
   
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  Social Media Companies Take on Anti-Vaxx Movement

  Facebook and Instagram are countering anti-vaccine rhetoric with educational pop-up windows that appear when users search for vaccine-related information.
   
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  Africa’s Concerning Disease Trend

  Negative mood increases societies’ susceptibility to infectious disease.
   
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  Anti-Vaxx Fever

  For the first time, the World Health Organization has listed “vaccine hesitancy” among its annual list of top ten global health threats.
   
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  [Article] Mood and Mosquitoes: Brazil’s Zika Epidemic Demonstrates Socionomic Causality

  What role has social mood played in the highly publicized Zika epidemic that has ravaged Brazil?
   
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  Still Early in a Season of Susceptibility

  We found that major epidemics of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries tended to occur near the end of severe or extended declines in stock market indexes.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Zika Epidemic: Fast Spread, Slow Response

  One key is to understand the pathogen’s sudden growth, after decades of obscurity.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The Power of Positive Thinking

  A recent paper published in Nature Medicine found that artificially stimulating the brain’s feel-good center boosts immunity towards diseases.
   
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  Exploring Socionomic Causality in Social Health and Epidemics

  Stock market indexes should be valuable leading indicators of changes in public health
   
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  What Does The Stock Market Have to Do With Health?

  Alan Hall presented his research connecting declines in stock market indexes to infectious disease outbreaks.