Author: Claudinne Miller
Biohazard warning as fighters seize Sudan lab: WHO
Reuters Video Africa Times Authorities in Sudan report a “high risk of biological hazards” following the seizure of a health facility where polio, measles and cholera isolates are stored but the samples are now completely out of their control. “It is occupied by one of the fighting parties,” said Dr. Nima Saeed Abid, the World […]
Apr 25, 2023
Biomarker pattern found in kids with COVID 19-linked inflammatory syndrome
NIH Findings from NIH-funded study could lead to new means of diagnosis and treatment for MIS-C. Children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C(link is external)) — a rare condition linked with the virus that causes COVID-19 — have biochemical indicators of cell injury and cell death that are distinct from other children with COVID-19, according to […]
Apr 25, 2023
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’
New York Times Magazine In his most extensive interview yet, Anthony Fauci wrestles with the hard lessons of the pandemic — and the decisions that will define his legacy. It was, perhaps, an impossible job. Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United […]
Apr 25, 2023
Finding the Origin of a Pandemic Is Difficult. Preventing One Shouldn’t Be.
NYT (Opinion) In 1999, the New York State Department of Health asked me to test brain samples from people in Queens experiencing encephalitis, or brain inflammation. Surprisingly, we found they were infected with West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne virus that had never been reported before in North America. How did a virus endemic in Africa […]
Apr 25, 2023
Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Satanic’
AtlasObscura Remembering one passionate entomologist who poetically described and classified more than 70 species’ painful stings. Trekking along a mountain in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, entomologist Justin Schmidt came across a nest of the tropical wasp species Polybia simillima, better known as the fierce black polybia wasp. The agile, buzzing insect has a reputation for having a painful […]
Apr 25, 2023
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
CDC Next ACIP Meeting April 19, 2023, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ACIP meetings are virtual. No registration is required to watch the webcasts. Agenda Webcast Link Federal Register
Apr 18, 2023
Pathogens in Pop Culture: Fungal Pathogens and The Last of Us
NETEC Could a fungus cause the next pandemic? If you’ve watched HBO’s hit series ‘The Last of Us’ or played the popular video game, then you may be familiar with the concept: a mass outbreak of an infectious fungus turns humans into zombies. But could the scenario played out in ‘The Last of Us’ actually […]
Apr 18, 2023
Covid Emerged as Chinese Lab Faced Biosafety Issues, Senate Republican Study Finds
WSJ Covid Emerged as Chinese Lab Faced Biosafety Issues, Senate Republican Study Finds. A Chinese laboratory conducting advanced coronavirus research faced a series of biosafety problems in November 2019 that drew the attention of top Beijing officials and coincided with the Covid pandemic’s emergence, according to a new report being released by Senate Republicans on […]
Apr 18, 2023
COVID during pregnancy may alter brain development in boys
NPR The nation’s COVID-19 tally includes more than 200,000 people who were pregnant when they got infected. Now scientists are reporting that boys from these pregnancies may be prone to subtle delays in brain development. Here’s NPR’s Jon Hamilton. JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Before COVID-19 came along, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital were looking at lots […]
Apr 18, 2023