Dr. Mahboob Blogs

  We're almost halfway through 2023, with new public health challenges on the horizon. I've compiled a list twelve pathogens with severe epidemic or pandemic potential to watch: 1. H5N1 bird flu: The H5N1 virus continues to evolve, reaching previously unaffected regions. Huge numbers of affected mammals in South America, together with record-breaking outbreaks in the west, are causing concern among scientists. 2. Other bird flu viruses: Human health is threatened by other avian influenza viruses such as H3N8, H5N5, H5N6, H5N8, H7N4, H7N9, H9N2, and H10N3. 3. MERS: MERS was discovered in Middle east in 2012 and is endemic in Camels on the Peninsula. The virus, which resembles SARS, has a fatality rate around 50%, but human to human transmission is limited. 4. New coronaviruses: First we had SARS in 2002, then we discovered MERS in 2012 and finally had COVID-19 discovered in 2019. New Coronaviruses characterized by high fatality rates seem to be the new normal. 5. Deng...

  “Even the night has ears” African Proverb Meaning: This proverb is cautioning that even when you think no one is there or listening, your actions are always accounted for and witnessed. Similar to the saying, “if walls could talk,”. This proverb simply warns that you never know who is in the dark listening. Speak and act with integrity even if there is no one seeing. Integrity is having high principles and keeping those standards consistent throughout all the different parts of the self. One of the first places integrity issues show up is in our language patterns. When we are “in integrity,” we speak from a place of wholeness. Our words match our actions. As Dr. Seuss put it, “We say what we mean and we mean what we say.” When we break from this pattern and say things we don’t really mean, we move “out of integrity.” Can you identify someone in your life who uses language carelessly, who agrees to things readily but then never seems to be able to show up for his or her agreements...