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A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

@Thosnod @soloenbalda Madre mia... En fin, ni me interesa. De echo al ver el tipo de persona que es lo bloquee rápido tras ver un par de respuestas...

@ervicioso @soloenbalda Espera que el señor "cisne negro" ha hecho un vídeo. Debe ser que no le van a invitar a @soloenbalda 😂

Esto es una preciosidad. Ah, que hay que jugarlo?

@AgustiBarrio Mmmm... Te pinta, pero es del matrix diseñador de The Hunters etc. Que pero a mí, es un joc de tirar daus y veure que pasa, minimes decisions...

Gladiators: Blood & Glory, sembla que arribarà cap a l'estiu. Gestionem un Ludus, una escola d'entrenament de gladiadors. Ens hem de preocupar de preparar, entrenar, equipar així com de la resta de la logística dels nostres gladiadors.

Todavía estoy perplejo con lo que acabo de escuchar en un podcast donde el diseñador de un juego, más euro que Wargame, y relacionado con Midway, dice que su juego no se va a reeditar por el antiamericanismo que se ha generado actualmente por los acontecimientos recientes —>

DENTRISIMO! backerkit.com/c/projects/gam…

@AgustiBarrio @franjo_bf Diüen que en solitari es molt fàcil, que el mijor es jugar en semi-cooperatiu. Ja dirás que tal, pero al final m'has picat i ja ve cap a casa.

@franjo_bf Sí, m'està agradant molt. Es juga en solitari i fins a 5 jugadors (es pot jugar amb 2, 3, 4 etc).

1r torn complicat. Prospero, el mag de la casa Jerrold, fa una pífia màgica i queda ferit. Les guarnicions de la Plaga Vermella donen guerra fent aparèixer unitats emboscadores. Alguns tresors amb trampes provoquen danys i aturdiments. Queda un torn més abans arribi la nit.

@Thosnod @cisnenegro @soloenbalda Yo es que juego a los dos modos, el eterno master desde hace más de 30 años con grupos y a solas cuando quiero probar otras cosas y hacer algo más a mí gusto y con la profundidad que yo quiero o para explorar otras mecánicas etc.

@cisnenegro @ervicioso @soloenbalda Ojalá pudiera hacer lo mismo 😅 Pero tengo problemas de movilidad. Por eso, como mi amigo, juego al rol o no-rol 😊

@cisnenegro @Thosnod @soloenbalda Pues mira, justo en su programa hablaron hace poco muy bien de lo que es el rol en solitario. Escuchatelo bien.

@ervicioso @Thosnod @soloenbalda Sí, en su programa sí, aquí para que voy a discutir nada si me viene alguien diciendo que estoy repartiendo carnets.

@cisnenegro @soloenbalda "Solo es rol lo que yo juego, en fin..." Pereza infitina

@cisnenegro @Thosnod @soloenbalda Si has dicho que querías discutirlo... Yo solo te saco de la ignorancia en cuanto a este tema que controlo, en futbol, por ejemplo, no te podría ayudar.

@Thosnod @ervicioso @soloenbalda Que lo disfrute tu amigo, faltaría. Es más, a tu amigo, igual que a ti, os debería importar una mierda la opinión de un señor random que no conocéis de nada.

@cisnenegro @soloenbalda Para seguir, la primera edición de d&d si, esa de 1974, tiene su suplemento (1975) escrito por el propio Gigax para jugarlo en solitario...

@cisnenegro @soloenbalda Lo dicho ignorancia, no solo existen los librojuegos (que no son rol) o los juegos de escribir un diario (que también no llegaría a llamarlos rol), si no que hay cientos de juegos que se juegan igual que un juego de rol convencional, de echo. Puedes jugar a D&D5 solo

From the trailer for "Tower Dungeon" Volume 6 (Tsutomu Nihei's manga). 2D animation : @Studio_Keel >> natalie.mu/comic/news/666…

Games Omnivorous, gran editorial, va a sacar un nuevo juego del autor de Mausritter, que tiene muuuuy buena pinta. Se llamará Flail y toca todos los puntos que me gustan en un juego estilo OSR(sin serlo). Espero que @elrefugioedit se anime a sacarlo gamesomnivorous.com/pages/flail

@Amarillo114 Que no hombre que no! Pero si han ganado la guerra ellos, que lo dijo por la tele!

@ervicioso tenian mas idea de por donde iba a ir el tema en la revista que Trump y su mongoconsejo de mongoasesores

Como mola nuestro mundillo de los Wargames

Credit to Olden Heritage from Facebook This would never happen today. "In April of 1991, two years after leaving the Oval Office, former President Ronald Reagan — Hollywood actor turned leader of the free world — walked onto Paramount's Stage 16 at the legendary studio lot, and what happened next became one of the most quietly magical crossovers in pop culture history: the Great Communicator stepped into the final frontier, visiting the live set of Star Trek: The Next Generation during production of the Season 4 finale, 'Redemption,' and the crew could barely believe their eyes; Reagan had known Paramount producer A.C. Lyles since the 1940s, and it was through that decades-old Hollywood friendship that this extraordinary visit was quietly arranged, with Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and even Brent Spiner — who wasn't on the call sheet that day but showed up anyway just to witness history — all gathering on the Klingon High Council chamber set to greet him; when Reagan came face-to-face with actors in full Klingon warrior makeup and prosthetics, someone asked what he thought of them, and without missing a beat he grinned and said 'I like them — they remind me of Congress,' bringing the entire stage to laughter; then came the moment that truly stops your heart: the ailing Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, frail and using a cane, made his way over on his cart to welcome Reagan personally, and when Roddenberry accidentally dropped his cane, Reagan — nearly ten years his senior — immediately knelt down and picked it up for him, and Roddenberry, visibly moved, later said he felt as though he had been knighted; Reagan's own son Michael would later write in his 2004 memoir that even after leaving office, his father remained 'fascinated by dreams of a bright future for humanity,' and standing on that starship set, surrounded by a cast imagining a united Earth sailing among the stars, perhaps he finally found a vision grand enough to match his own optimism — proof that sometimes the most profound meetings between greatness and wonder happen not in the halls of power, but on a Hollywood soundstage dressed up like tomorrow." #StarTrekTNG #RonaldReagan #PopCultureHistory #HiddenHistory #fblifestyle