Author: Claudinne Miller
Health misinformation and disinformation: How to avoid it
Medical News Today In the age of viral content and fast and furious social media communication, disinformation and misinformation, including about health matters, are spreading more widely than ever. Why is this the case exactly, and how can we learn to spot inaccurate and even malicious health information? Why do we fall so easily for […]
Apr 1, 2025
What are the long-term effects of measles in kids and adults?
MedNewsToday As the initial measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has grown and spread to 378 people in 18 statesTrusted Source, many people, and especially parents have been worried about the long-term health effects of measles infection. Measles is seen as relatively short-lived viral disease, although the acute symptoms can take around 7–18 days to show. What’s […]
Apr 1, 2025
Who Is David Geier, the Man Leading Federal Autism-Vaccine Study?
Medical News Today Discredited researcher, vaccine skeptic was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license. David Geier, a man without a medical degree who once was disciplined by the Maryland State Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a license, reportedly will lead a new HHS study to identify whether a relationship between vaccines and autism exists. […]
Apr 1, 2025
12 months and 70 cases since the first human bird flu infection: Are we any safer?
ABC News One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after the virus had been found in cattle for the first time ever. While the virus has spread in birds for decades, in recent years it has started to […]
Apr 1, 2025
Mpox poses an ever-increasing epidemic and pandemic risk
Nature The human interaction with mpox has changed across its entire endemic range, revealing the endemic and pandemic risk of monkeypox virus and the current knowledge gaps on its biology that hamper virus control. Humans are an ecological niche for orthopoxviruses (OPXV) such as mpox, a niche originally filled by smallpox (variola virus; VARV). Since […]
Apr 1, 2025
Bird flu could be on the cusp of transmitting between humans − but there are ways to slow down viral evolution
The Conversation Disease forecasts are like weather forecasts: We cannot predict the finer details of a particular outbreak or a particular storm, but we can often identify when these threats are emerging and prepare accordingly. The viruses that cause avian influenza are potential threats to global health. Recent animal outbreaks from a subtype called H5N1 have been […]
Apr 1, 2025
Fungal diseases ‘growing increasingly resistant to treatment,’ WHO says
CBC Some fungal diseases in humans no longer respond to medicines, which increases the risk of severe illness and death as well disease spread, according to a new report. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) published what it calls its first-ever report on the lack of tests and treatments for fungal infections. Yeasts, moulds and mushrooms are […]
Apr 1, 2025
Texas measles outbreak hits 422 cases with 22 new infections confirmed over last 5 days
ABC News The measles outbreak in western Texas is continuing to grow, with 22 new cases confirmed over the last five days, bringing the total to 422 in the state, according to data published Tuesday. Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown, according to the Texas Department […]
Apr 1, 2025
HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
STAT As many as 10,000 — one-quarter of the department — are expected to be let go Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services and its subsidiary agencies, with as many 10,000 workers potentially expected to be hit by the cuts, including some of the […]
Apr 1, 2025
Zooming in on the structure of the lethal Ebola virus
Phys.org Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, but since it was first identified in 1976, there have actually been more than 20 serious Ebola incidents. […]
Mar 26, 2025