Katarína Zelinová

PhD 🥳, clinical microbiologist, ex-translator/moderator at @Twitter #TTC_SK

[COTM @COTM_2]

Personajes que dejaron escapar al bebé y años después lo enfrentan de adulto como una amenaza

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

@Lewysko https://t.co/1gLy4aQ1mR

[Jiří Vítek @JVitek94]

Počet gólů vstřelených nohou na letošním mistrovství světa 👇

1️⃣ @czehockey 🏒
1️⃣ @ceskarepre_cz ⚽️

Hezká plichta.

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

@to_brna @czehockey Podľa abecedy áno 😅

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Three people just died of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. The strain kills nearly 40% of the people it infects. And yet no virologist on earth is panicking about a pandemic, because the reason it stays small is one of the strangest rules in disease science.

The rule is simple. The deadlier a virus is, the harder it is to spread.

If a virus kills you in days, you can't ride a bus, board a plane, or even leave the hospital. You're in a bed or a body bag. Either way, the virus killed its only ride.

Hantavirus has been around for at least 70 years, but fewer than 1,000 Americans have ever caught it. The CDC says it kills 38% of those who do. The cruise ship strain, called Andes, kills closer to 40%. If hantavirus spread like COVID, it would kill billions. But it can't.

Most hantaviruses spread only one way. You breathe in tiny dust particles from rat or mouse pee, droppings, or spit. No mice in your house, no virus. The cruise ship is the rare exception, because the Andes strain can spread between people, but it usually needs close contact like spouses sharing a bed. A Johns Hopkins virologist called Andes spread "unbelievably rare."

Compare it to the viruses that scared the world. Ebola kills 60 to 90% of people, but only through bodily fluids and only late in the illness, so each patient passes it to fewer than 2 others. SARS killed 10% before being wiped out in 8 months. MERS killed 35% but never spread far beyond the Middle East. None of them became pandemics, because the spread was always too slow.

Then COVID showed up. It killed about 1 in every 100 people who caught it. That is almost nothing compared to hantavirus. But COVID was mild enough that you could work for a week without knowing. You would ride the bus, hug your kid, eat lunch with a coworker, and infect four other people. It killed 7 million.

Flu works the same way. Mild fever, sore throat, but you still drag yourself to school or the office. The virus walks right into the next host.

Hantavirus is the opposite. Within 4 to 10 days, your lungs fill with fluid. There's no medicine that fights it and no vaccine to prevent it. The only treatment is a machine that breathes for you, and even that just cuts the death rate from 50% to 20%. Every outbreak, from 3,200 UN soldiers in the Korean War, to the 1993 Four Corners cases, to Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa last year, traces back to mice.

The viruses that worry scientists are the boring ones. The ones that give you a sniffle for a week and let you walk around the city while you're contagious. Hantavirus, brutal as it is, never had the spread to do real damage.

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

@srnec651 20:40 😔

[Milan Martinec @Mejla]

Tyhle 4 momenty z OH byste si měli pamatovat nadosmrti.

1936, J. Owens vyhravá zlatou před hitlerem

1968, T. Smith a J. Carlos na bedně bez bot a se zdviženou pěstí

1968, V. Čáslavská odvrací hlavu při sovětský hymně

2026, V. Heraskevyč s památkou na ruskem zavražděný kolegy

[Rob Cameron @RobCJournalist]

Investigative journalist Ján Kuciak & his fiancée Martina Kušnírová were 27 when they were shot dead in their home on Feb 21, 2018.

Four people have been convicted of their murders.

But the businessman accused of ordering the killing is not among them.

https://t.co/U1AYFmtRrN

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

In addition to Czechs and Poles, Slovaks also launched a fundraiser in support of Ukraine - in just three days, they managed to collect almost €500,000. More than 10,000 Slovaks joined the fundraiser.

Thank you 🇸🇰 Slovakia, I never give you enough love for your support of 🇺🇦 ♥️

[Marek Štefan @infektolog]

Chřipka = virové onemocnění 🦠. Tedy způsobuje ji virus, proto jsou antibiotika neúčinná ❌💊. Zdravý pacient se léčí podpůrně a symptomaticky (klidový režim 🛌, dostatek tekutin 💧, lehce stravitelná strava 🍲, vitamíny 🍊, léky na horečky 🤒, na kašel 🤧 atd.).

Aktivní sportovci 🏃‍♂️💪, s návratem k těžké fyzické zátěži nepospíchejte ⏳, nejdříve za 14 dní po odeznění příznaků. Takový zánět srdce (myokarditida) ❤️‍🔥 může mít tragické následky ⚠️. Stejně tak není rozumné jet horečku a bolesti těla vypotit do posilovny 🏋️‍♂️ nebo vyběhat (znám takové případy, nedopadli dobře).

Rizikoví pacienti ⚠️ (vyšší věk 👴👵, nemoci srdce ❤️, plic 🫁, ledvin, rakovina, ...) dostávají lék s účinkem na virus chřipky 💊🦠 (oseltamivir, Tamiflu).

Pozor ❗ ivermektin nefunguje ❌, tak jako nefunguje na covid-19.

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

Vianočné prianie ❤️ #slovakia

[Marek Štefan @infektolog]

🤧 Chřipka? Nepodceňujte ji! ⚠️

👉 Typické příznaky:
• náhlý nástup „nevůle“ 😖
• bolest svalů a kloubů 💥
• extrémní únava 🛌
• horečky 🌡️
• bolest hlavy, v krku 🤕
• suchý kašel, dušnost 😮‍💨
• někdy i zvracení a průjem 🤢
🧪 Diagnostika:
✔️ antigenní test (lékárna)
✔️ PCR test (lékař)
👵🫀 Rizikové skupiny pozor!
Vyšší věk nebo chronická onemocnění (srdce, plíce, ledviny, rakovina), imunosuprese, po transplantaci či chemoterapii 👉 kontaktujte včas lékaře.
📟 Tip do domácnosti:
Mějte oxymetr (měření saturace kyslíku).
❗ Opakované hodnoty 92–90 % a méně = ihned k lékaři!
💊 Léčba existuje!
⚠️ Nejde o antibiotika (ta jen výjimečně při bakteriální komplikaci).
✅ Účinné antivirotikum oseltamivir (Tamiflu) – na recept.
💰 Většinou není hrazen z pojištění (jsou přísná kritéria), ale pár stovek může znamenat rozdíl mezi komplikacemi a rychlejším uzdravením ❤️
🔗 Více informací na odkazech v předchozím příspěvku.
➡️ Chřipka není „jen nachlazení“. Myslete na sebe i na ostatní. 💙

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

Treba vidieť 👇 #hanba #Slovakia

[Adam Znasik @adamznasik2]

Bolo by krásne, keby toto videlo viac ľudí, ako vyčíňanie Matoviča, ale to by som veľa chcel.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Vaccines are safer than the diseases they prevent

That's the whole point

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

Dear students, thank you for your courage! 👏Slovakia still stands with Ukraine 🇸🇰🇺🇦 #DostBoloFica

[Samo Marec @SamoMarec]

Today, high school students in Poprad, Slovakia, walked out on Prime Minister Robert Fico ringing their keys as a nod to the Velvet Revolution.

So proud of my high school ♥️♥️♥️

Video: Denník N

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

@srnec651 @Lewysko Podľa mňa to súvisí s tým, že po trade deadline môžu povolať max. 4 hráčov z AHL🤷‍♀️ https://t.co/HkMKhyBh7g

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

@AnneLabrecque1 @CanadiensMTL Hi Juraj, Happy B-day. Celebrate by scoring a goal. Puck would be nice.

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

Ďakujeme pani prezidentka ❤️ Slovakia 🇸🇰 stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Slovakia #Ukraine

[Zuzana Čaputová @ZuzanaCaputova]

The people of #Ukraine are defending their right to live. It’s that simple. They deserve all the support they can get to defend this right and to live and prosper as a sovereign nation living in peace.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The US has just experienced its first measles death in America in a decade. It took place in Texas where there is an outbreak due to unvaccinated people.

Vaccines matter. Stop being stupid and refusing these life-saving vaccines.

[Katarína Zelinová @katush222]

Fico nie je Slovensko. #nievmojommene 👇