Year: 2024
Mpox: German school temporarily closed after case reported
DW Contacts have been informed after several members of a family were found to have contracted mpox. Two school-age children are among those infected. A school in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was closed as a precaution on Monday after two children were found to be infected with the mpox virus. The mpox clade 1b variant was […]
Dec 18, 2024
COVID-19 infection linked to abnormal uterine bleeding
Contemporary OB/GYN There is an association between COVID-19 infection and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), according to a recent study published in Clinical Science.1 Recent concerns have arisen about menstrual disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially caused by disease infection, vaccination, or pandemic-related stress. However, data linking each factor independently to menstrual cycles remains limited. Menstruation is […]
Dec 18, 2024
Bat poop used to grow cannabis kills 2 in New York in unusual cases
LiveScience Two men from Rochester, New York, who grew their own cannabis died from pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus in bat poop they’d used as fertilizer. Two men in New York state have died of a rare fungal lung infection that they caught from bat poop — specifically, poop they were using […]
Dec 18, 2024
Whooping Cough Is Up 600% — What Are The Deadly Disease’s Symptoms?
Forbes Cases of whooping cough are more than six times higher than they were this time last year, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control show. Officials reported 553 cases for the week ending December 7 — the most recent figures available — compared to 105 in the same week last year. Whooping cough is a highly […]
Dec 18, 2024
Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo
NYT Werra Maulu Botey could not bear to close his daughter’s coffin. Waiting to bury her, he slid the rough wooden lid back, again and again, to adjust her small head and smooth the cloth that cradled it away from her cheeks. Olive died of measles, at the age of 5, the evening before. She […]
Dec 18, 2024
Study retracted years after it set off an infamous COVID-19 treatment scandal
USA Today A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday retracted the March 2020 study that introduced the world to hydroxychloroquine early in the COVID-19 pandemic – and confirmed that the attention was undeserved from the start. […]
Dec 18, 2024
Congo’s health ministry identifies flu-like disease as severe malaria
CBC Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry said on Tuesday that a previously unidentified disease circulating in the southwestern Kwango province is a severe form of malaria. Earlier this month, local authorities said the disease had killed 143 people in the country’s Panzi health zone in November. The symptoms of the disease are fever, headache, […]
Dec 17, 2024
Delaware reports probable human case of H5 bird flu
BNO News A probable case of H5 bird flu was found during routine flu surveillance in Delaware, according to state and federal officials. The source of the infection – which would be the first in Delaware – is unknown. The CDC said the case in Delaware meets the definition of a “probable case,” which means […]
Dec 17, 2024
When The Pandemic Came, Zoos Closed, And Animals Began to Act Differently
Science Alert We all had to make adjustments as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded – even zoo animals who were suddenly not seeing crowds of visitors pass by every single day. In a study published in 2022, researchers discovered how primates reacted to that shift, looking at the behavior of bonobos, chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas, and olive baboons, and […]
Dec 17, 2024
Alarming Mutation in H5N1 Virus Raises Pandemic Red Flags
Sci Tech Daily A recent study published in Science and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found that a single alteration in a protein on the surface of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus—currently present in U.S. dairy cows—could significantly increase its potential for human-to-human transmission. These findings highlight the critical importance of ongoing […]
Dec 17, 2024