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Scottish professor claims there are “signals” of a new pandemic

National World “Signals” from bird flu suggest that the next global pandemic could arrive sooner than expected. Professor Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University, who advised the Scottish government during the coronavirus outbreak, said action was needed to avoid a repeat of that, describing it as a “tragedy for lives lost but also the restrictions put in […]

Aug 29, 2023

Disease X

Precision Vaccinations Disease X is supposed to be caused by a “pathogen X” that is expected to be a zoonosis, disease, or infection that can be transmitted between humans and animals, most likely an RNA virus, wrote Richard Hatchett, chief executive officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Disease X […]

Aug 29, 2023

Over 50 sea lions die in Argentina from bird flu; officials fear jump in humans

The Intl News Officials in Argentina said Tuesday a large number of sea lions have died due to an outbreak of bird flu which continued to infect the animals, with officials sounding alarm that this virus may jump into humans “very easily”. Recently, there were reports from animal health authorities in the country that scores […]

Aug 29, 2023

Five additional cases of Dengue Fever confirmed

Eyewitness News he Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday reported that the number of confirmed cases of Dengue Fever in the country has increased to 21. Health officials just last week revealed that  the Ministry’s National Communicable Disease Surveillance Unit and Department of Public Health teams in New Providence and Abaco were actively monitoring 16 positive […]

Aug 29, 2023

Live Worm Removed From Woman’s Brain

MedPageToday A live, wriggling parasitic roundworm, 80 mm long, was extracted from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in Australia. The worm was a third-stage larval form of Ophidascaris robertsi and was surgically removed from the patient’s right frontal lobe, reported Sanjaya Senanayake, MBBS, of the Canberra Hospital in Australia, and co-authors in Emerging Infectious Diseases The helminth […]

Aug 29, 2023

Can COVID, Flu, and RSV Shots Be Given at the Same Time

MedPageToday Many adults ages 60 and up will be eligible for three vaccines this fall — a COVID booster the flu shot, and the new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine — so the big question is, can they get them all at once? Since there are no data on giving this trio of vaccines at the same time, […]

Aug 29, 2023

Who Should Get a COVID Booster This Fall?

MedPageToday While the FDA and CDC have yet to weigh in on fall COVID boosters, experts in infectious disease and public health are already discussing who should get them, and who may not need to. High-risk groups get a resounding “yes” — but when it comes to younger, healthy adults, the answer is less clear. There’s […]

Aug 29, 2023

The painful pandemic lessons Mandy Cohen carries to the CDC

NPR As COVID-19 devastated communities across the nation in spring 2020, a group of Black ministers in this racially divided city made an urgent plea for more testing in their neighborhoods. Testing at the time “was outside of communities of color,” says the Rev. Jordan Boyd, pastor of Rockwell AME Zion Church in Charlotte. For […]

Aug 29, 2023

COVID Update by Dr. Lawler

UNMC This week Dr. Lawler provides us with recent COVID trends using wastewater data & discusses the new BA.2.86 COVID-19 variant. On current COVID-19 cases: “We’re relatively close to where we were in the summer of 2021.”

Aug 22, 2023

COVID-19 School Closures Harmed Children’s Mental Health

Psychology Today There has been much conjecture about possible detrimental long-term consequences of school closures on young children and adolescents, but now a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides convincing evidence that the mental health of school children was impaired by school closures during the pandemic. The study surveyed 907 adolescents and their parents […]

Aug 22, 2023