Month: November 2019

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PANDA/PANS is NOT Pediatric. Now referred to as autoimmune encephalitis.

Autoimmune Encephalitis

From a friend on Facebook:
“For those who have been following my daughter’s journey from vaccination to increased bacterial and viral illnesses, then AUTISM to Seizures, then a PANS diagnosis (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) to her recent diagnosis of Nonfamilial Hypogammaglobulinemia, please check out this story I need to share. Its origin is a FB post I came upon from a group that I visit. The author gave me permission to post as she truly wants other parents to know about her family’s plight, so no other family will live this horrific experience. There are almost 15,000 members of this group and we are all parents of PANS/PANDAS kids. The reality is that PANS is NOT a rare diagnosis and it is NOT JUST PEDIATRIC. It also seems that the cute PANDAS label has not helped in the urgency of this disorder – as the researchers and doctors at a recent conference were stressing this change to PANS/PANDAS – now referred to as autoimmune encephalitis.”

https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/health-healing/thank-you-to-a-caring-mom-on-fb-pans-is-not-pediatric/

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State of Ransomware in the U.S.: 2019 Report for Q1 to Q3

In the first nine months of 2019, at least 621 government entities, healthcare service providers and school districts, colleges and universities were affected by ransomware. The attacks have caused massive disruption: municipal and emergency services have been interrupted, medical practices have permanently closed, ER patients have been diverted, property transactions halted, the collection of property taxes and water bills delayed, medical procedures canceled, schools closed and data lost.

Email and attachments and RDP continue to be the attack vectors of choice. The latter is vulnerable to ransomware via exploitation on unpatched systems, misconfigured security settings and brute force attacks on weak login credentials.

“There is no reason to believe that attacks will become less frequent in the near future,” said Fabian Wosar, CTO at Emsisoft. “Organizations have a very simple choice to make: prepare now or pay later.”

https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/34193/state-of-ransomware-in-the-u-s-2019-report-for-q1-to-q3