Author: Claudinne Miller
Mortality Due to H5N1 Human Infections Could Decrease by Switching Receptor
Precision Vaccinations Avian influenza mortality might be due to a H5N1 virus pneumonia. The Lancet Infectious Disease recently published a Correspondence offering insights regarding the current influenza A(H5N1) outbreak in dairy cattle and poultry, raising concerns about increased risk for sustained human-to-human transmission. On July 24, 2024, these researchers wrote that avian influenza viruses’ increasing host […]
Jul 30, 2024
Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
Wired Measles, bedbugs, and dengue have all been cited as concerns for tourists and athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, with the tropical virus in particular forcing authorities into action. Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At the postponed […]
Jul 30, 2024
Paxlovid, Vitamin Supplements Show Promise With Long COVID
Medscape Paxlovid, an antiviral approved last year to treat acute infections of COVID-19, is showing great potential as a new treatment for long COVID and may be the most promising experimental therapy now being studied for treating the condition. New research offers strong evidence that Paxlovid provides significant benefits for COVID-19 patients who are at […]
Jul 30, 2024
COVID-19 Is Widespread In ‘Common Backyard Wildlife’ In US
Forbes A new study has determined that the COVID-19 virus is widespread amongst wildlife in the United States. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was recently detected in six common backyard species. Additionally, antibodies indicating prior exposure to the virus were found in five species. Depending upon the species, exposure rates ranged from 40-60%. The […]
Jul 30, 2024
Dengue Fever’s Worrisome Surge
MedPageToday Readers, sometimes I wish we could meet face to face and talk. If so, today I would ask: who here has dealt with the world’s most common mosquito-borne virusopens in a new tab or window and poster child for the 21st century’s explosion of epidemic, vector-borne blights? My guess? Some of you have seen travelers with […]
Jul 30, 2024
What to Know About Long COVID and How to Reduce Your Risk
UCSF UCSF scientists are seeking to solve COVID-19’s greatest riddles with sophisticated imaging techniques that have found long-term immune activation throughout the body. UC San Francisco scientists have found that SARS-CoV-2 can linger in the body for years and could be driving a global epidemic in long COVID. They’re also exploring the surprising long-term risks […]
Jul 30, 2024
The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing
Wired Human cases keep ticking up, are very likely to be underreported, and offer the virus the opportunity to learn how to spread from person to person. Ongoing Outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and worldwide. The virus, known as H5N1, is also increasingly adapting to mammals […]
Jul 30, 2024
New initiative launched by WHO to develop mRNA bird flu vaccines
ABC News The World Health Organization announced Monday that it has launched an initiative to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The project, which will be led by Argentinian pharmaceutical company Sinergium Biotech, will aim to identify vaccine candidates for manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries, the WHO […]
Jul 30, 2024
Man dies after contracting Ebola-like tick-borne disease in Spain
CNN A man has died from an Ebola-like disease named Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) after being bitten by a tick in Spain. The 74-year-old died of organ failure on Saturday in an isolation unit at the La Paz-Carlos III Hospital in the Spanish capital, Madrid, a spokesperson for the hospital told CNN on Monday. CCHF causes severe […]
Jul 30, 2024
What’s different about this summer’s FLiRT COVID wave
Salon COVID could be a staple of summer, experts say. t’s not only a so-called “brat summer,” 2024 is also turning out to be a FLiRT summer — as in the collection of COVID-19 variants driving the latest summer wave. Based on wastewater sample data, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention reports that COVID levels have increased […]
Jul 30, 2024