Author: Claudinne Miller
Rabid bats found in Colorado: How to prevent risk of rabies
9 News Public health officials recommend that these precautions be taken to reduce the risk of exposure to rabies. Rabid bats have been found in Arapahoe and El Paso counties. The bats are the first to be discovered with rabies in each of the Colorado counties in 2024. In Arapahoe County, a bat found near Quincy […]
May 22, 2024
Impact of Vaccination and Infection on SARS-CoV-2 T Cell Immunity in 2-Years Study
Physicians Weekly Researchers conducted a prospective study to assess the effectiveness of additional vaccine boosters in patients who received the initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccination series within the first year of the pandemic. They assessed the temporal profile of cellular and serological responses in 639 individuals who received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. A significant portion of these individuals […]
May 22, 2024
Bird Flu (H5N1) Explained: Australia’s First Human Case Of Bird Flu Reported In Child
Forbes Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which has health officials closely monitoring it and experts concerned the virus could mutate and eventually spread to humans, where it has proven rare […]
May 22, 2024
4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles and more
CBS News Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people infected — mainly children — have […]
May 22, 2024
3 Things to Know About FLiRT, the New Coronavirus Strains
Yale Medicine A Yale Medicine expert weighs in on the potential impact of the new strains on the spread of COVID. The good news is that in the early spring of 2024, COVID-19 cases were down, with far fewer infections and hospitalizations than were seen in the previous winter. But SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID, is […]
May 22, 2024
We Don’t Know How Bad Bird Flu Is Getting
NY Magazine Intelligencer he H5N1 influenza has killed tens of millions of birds over the last few years, and it’s not slowing down. Instead, it has confounded expectations by spreading into animals once thought immune, and even to at least one person in the United States. (There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission, and risk to the public is still considered low.) […]
May 22, 2024
Companies start work on bird flu vaccines for cows—despite major hurdles
Science Market uncertainties, safety rules, and export concerns stand in way of H5N1 shots for cattle. The outbreak of avian influenza in U.S. dairy herds raises an obvious question: Why not adopt the strategy many countries use to protect poultry and vaccinate the cows? An H5N1 vaccine might not only protect cattle from infection and […]
May 22, 2024
Will Destruction Of Smallpox Virus Get Postponed Again?
Forbes Is it finally time to eliminate the remaining stocks of variola (smallpox) virus for good? The World Health Assembly will discuss the current status on May 27. The World Health Assembly in 1996 set a date for virus destruction, but in subsequent resolutions the destruction of the virus has been postponed repeatedly to provide opportunities […]
May 22, 2024
Supernova or Coronavirus: Can You Tell the Difference?
New York Times A scientist finds beauty in the “visual synonyms” that exist in images seen through microscopes and telescopes. For Kim Arcand, a visualization scientist for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, visual symmetry reveals how basic physics and chemistry thread through everything in the universe, from the tiniest organisms to […]
May 21, 2024
I was there when bird flu first appeared. It’s different today.
Washington Post The H5N1 flu virus and I go way back. In 1997, I watched as more than a million chickens were slaughtered in Hong Kong to combat the first major global outbreak of the disease. Eighteen people were sickened by the virus and six died, all of whom had close contact with the birds. They were the […]
May 21, 2024