Blooming Wellness
Dr. Eek's Health & Wellness Blog
Meet the New World screwworm. Sounds like a metal band. Acts like a horror movie. This fly does not wait for you to die. Its babies prefer living flesh. Yes, yours. Or your dog’s. Or a newborn calf’s. The Latin name even translates to “man eater.” Cozy. A recent Maryland case put it back on …
File this one under “diseases you expect in the tropics, not the Garden State.” Then again, it’s New Jersey. They had the mysterious flying drones and dumped spaghetti saga: Anything can happen there! ;) The New Jersey Department of Health just announced they’re investigating a locally acquired malaria case in Morris County. Translation: the person …
Your Blood Pressure Wants You Sober? Somewhere between the clink of wine glasses and the “just one beer” that turns into three, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology slid a note across the bar: No alcohol is best.Not “cut back,” not “stick to moderation” …. just a polite little psst that …
Avoid the brain-eating amoeba sinus rinse! 🧠 The Brain-Eating Amoeba Strikes AgainA healthy 71-year-old woman was on a camping trip in Texas when her sinuses (and her life) took a fatal turn. After rinsing her nose with unboiled tap water from her RV, she developed severe neurological symptoms: fever, headache, confusion. Just eight days after …
Another day, another bear selfie death. Killer selfies strike again! An Italian motorcyclist, Omar Farang Zin (48), was travelling Romania’s scenic Transfăgărășan road when he stopped to photograph and try to feed wild brown bears. After posting close‑range selfies and videos, he returned the next day, approached a female bear with four cubs, and was dragged into …
Pneumonic Plague in Arizona? “I thought that was some medieval shit!” In July of 2025, health officials confirmed a pneumonic plague death in Coconino County Arizona, the first recorded plague fatality there in almost twenty years. County Health and Human Services received confirmatory lab results after the patient arrived critically ill at Flagstaff Medical Center …
Seven people died after eating poisonous turtle meat on Tanzania’s Pemba Island, causing authorities to ban eating turtles in the area. A three-year old child is one of the dead, and at the time of this report, others remain in the hospital. Getting sick from eating poisonous turtle meat is called chelonitoxism. No one knows …
It’s highly unusual to hear about someone getting gonorrhea from a hot pool, but that appears to be what happened to an 11 year old girl in Italy. Most cases of gonorrhea are transmitted sexually. What happened? An 11 year old girl was visiting the crater lake Speechio di Venere on Pantelleria Island, Italy with …
