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Scientists fear UK could see outbreaks of dengue fever – and this is why
Brit tourist caught deadly dengue fever in top European hotspot
A BRIT holidaymaker has caught the deadly jungle bug, dengue fever, in the south of France.
Medics revealed a 44-year-old woman was infected with the virus on a family trip close to Nice in September.
The holidaymaker has caught dengue fever near Nice, France[/caption]
Mosquitoes are responsible for spreading dengue fever[/caption]
She went to A&E in the UK with a three-day fever, pains and a rash but later made a full recovery.
Dengue is most often found in tropical countries like Vietnam and Brazil.
But global warming means the mosquitoes that spread the dengue virus are comfortable coming further north, with cases set to rise in future.
French health officials warned of an outbreak in the country’s south last year.
Dr Owain Donnelly, from London’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the illness is “rapidly changing”.
He said: “Hotter temperatures and more rainfall, and increasing global trade and tourism, mean we may see more parts of Europe with the right combination of factors for dengue outbreaks.”
The virus causes fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, vomiting and a blotchy rash.
It usually heals on its own but around five per cent of cases are severe and can be deadly.
Around 50million people per year are infected with dengue, mainly in Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
It does not spread between people but is carried by the Asian tiger mosquito, which is on the rise in Europe.
Speaking at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Dr Donnelly added: “Physicians should consider testing for dengue if patients live in or have visited countries even where it is not widespread.”
I had my weekend turned on its head by this stop motion-animated pagan fever dream of a game
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Barotrauma, the sci-fi submarine sim inspired by Dwarf Fortress and fever dreams, gets a full release
Quick question: what’s scarier than the incomprehensible depths of our oceans, where totally undocumented sea life roams in a life of perpetual darkness and where human life is simply impossible? That, but on an alien planet’s frozen moon, whose topside we also haven’t documented and is ram-packed with unspeakable, harmful things. And what’s scarier than both of those things? Being stuck in a submarine with other people.
That’s the setup, more or less, to hardcore multiplayer sci-fi submarine survival sim Barotrauma. You and a team of 15 other players – or AI, since there is a singleplayer mode too – descend the depths of Jupiter’s moon Europa, keep the sub operational, moving between underwater biomes to complete missions and fend of the aforementioned unspeakable, harmful things. You communicate. You delegate. You each work diligently in your assigned roles, and you complete the missions as a team.
I mean, presumably that’s happened at least once since Bartrauma released in Early Access in 2019. I don’t have the figures in front of me, but even though it’s got over 2.5 million players, I think it’s safe to say that 99.99991% of play sessions have not turned out that way. In reality, Barotrauma is a game about the most outlandish, chaotic and hilarious sabotage, subterfuge and skullduggery ever committed below sea level. It’s got a little bit of Among Us about it in that way, if Among Us was a grindhouse horror where crewmates injected each other with deadly parasitic viruses that paralysed and muted them.
Now that the full release has arrived, players have the chance to check out new tutorials and and a totally overhauled campaign, replete with a scripted event system. Like there wasn’t already enough to worry about down here with some guy singing to you while simultaneously holding a shotgun to your face, and giant shrimp-like creatures destroying the deck below you.
Graphics and environments have also been polished considerably over the course of Barotraum’s Early Access phase, leading to a V1.0 that looks genuinely unsettling, moody, and distinct from just about anything else out there. Light and darkness are the key theme here, visually: light is a rare commodity down in the waters of a frozen moon, and awful, awful things happen outside it.
Barotrauma’s community is closely involved in the game’s development, all the way along. Lead developer Joonas Rikkonen had been toying with the idea of making a totally unscripted, sandbox-style experience in the vein of Dwarf Fortress, and first put a playable public build live way back in 2016. It was the encouraging player response to that build that led to Rikkonen taking a job at Finnish studio Fakefish to continue its development.
Barotrauma’s Discord community is now more than 30,000 members strong. Their feedback has shaped the game over the last four years, and they’ve been active in expanding on the game’s framework, too. Fakefish made the source code and all the dev tools used to create the game available to that community, which has spawned quite the modding community. Its Steam Workshop has 60,000+ different entries. I’ve yet to find one that stops me being terribly frightened. Fakefish have included one of those player-made ships in this 1.0 release of the base game, as part of a community competition.
Also new to players who haven’t submerged since v1.0 arrived are explorable outposts, wrecks of other submarines and improved alien ruins. There are more monsters and missions out there, and character progression goes deeper thanks to a talent system. Barotrauma’s full 1.0 release is available now on Steam.
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Christmas revellers in stitches over ‘fever dream’ ice rink – they’re all saying the same thing
CHRISTMAS revellers have been left in stitches over a “fever dream” ice rink – and they’re all saying the same thing.
The skating rink, spotted in Harrow, North London, doesn’t actually have any ice and instead kids are seen skating on a plastic floor.
Christmas revellers have been left in stitches over the ‘fever dream’ rink that doesn’t have any ice[/caption]
TikTok user Hanah Zarah shared a clip of the kids scuttling around on the hard floor to social media.
She said: “No, only in Harrow. Only in Harrow will they have a floor, a literal floor where they are skating on.”
The video has clocked up more than 3.2 million views and garnered a series of hilarious responses.
One person wrote: “No, I was there the other day and it literally says ‘ice rink’ with ice crossed out.”
Another person said: “Injury advice lawyers in Harrow are buzzing right now.”
Someone else said: “Harrow is just a fever dream and I love living here.”
A fourth commented: “Sounds like people are tap dancing.”
One person said a similar rink is out in Croydon called a “synthetic ice rink”.
The rink was celebrated as a free attraction for families and friends in the area.
It comes as a model has slammed “Karens” after claiming she was forced off an ice rink over the length of her skirt.
Lowri Rose was skating at Winter Wonderland in Cardiff, when she was reportedly ordered off the ice after another customer complained about her outfit.
The model, who was wearing the mini skirt over shorts, has demanded a refund, saying that the ordeal “completely ruined” her experience and left her “humiliated”.
She claimed staff at the event were complicit in “bullying” by acting on the complaint from a “Karen“, a slang term for a woman who is seen as entitled or demanding.