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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (336525)	2/2/2021 12:41:09 AM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By abuelita Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361565

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability Somehow the coronavirus is rampaging through a city that was supposedly immune. theatlantic.com TL;DR A city with over 76% immunity is not struggling with overwhelmed hospitals and mass graves. It seems that a new variant can reinfect people who had caught the virus before. One message from the story, rich countries cannot protect themselves by hoarding the vaccine. As it mutates in poor countries, it finds its here.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (336525)	2/2/2021 1:36:02 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361565

in all likelihood, in people too.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (336525)	2/2/2021 2:43:55 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 361565

As the article notes briefly, salmon in the Baltic are eating too many Sprat, just as salmon in the Great Lakes are eating too much Alewife - both prey fish rich in thaiminase, an enzyme which breaks down thiamine. This enzyme causes a thiamine deficiency even in a diet with excess thiamine and this deficiency works it's way up the food ladder. - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - academic.oup.com . Why? Alewife and Sprat have too greatly displaced other plankton feeding fish which do not produce thiaminase. The Alewife used the Welland Canal to invade north of Niagara Falls, while no one yet seems to know why there's too many sprat in the Baltic.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (336525)	2/2/2021 3:19:10 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 361565

Moose and Elk which eat grain rather than plants (cellulose) develop thiaminase produced by the fermentation of the carbohydrates in their rumen. The thiaminase breaks down dietary thiamine before it can be absorbed. How do moose or elk gain access to grain and corn ? . "Kindly people" who leave out grain to "feed" wildlife need to provide thiamine supplements with the grain or curb their behavior. Moose might also mistakenly consider themselves lucky to stumble upon a field of grain or corn.