Author: Claudinne Miller
Outbreaks of avian influenza caused by influenza A(H5N1) in the Region of the Americas – August 2023
PAHO As of epidemiological week (EW) 31 of 2023, agricultural authorities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, The United States of America, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela have detected outbreaks of HPAI A(H5N1) viruses in domestic birds, farm poultry and/or wild birds, and in mammals. Among the […]
Aug 13, 2023
Report explores doctors spreading COVID misinformation
PBS What happens when doctors spread misinformation during a pandemic, potentially endangering peoples’ lives? A new investigation from The Washington Post looks at why doctors who pushed medical misinformation, particularly about alleged COVID remedies or treatments, faced so few repercussions for their behavior. William Brangham spoke with Lena Sun, one of the lead reporters on […]
Aug 8, 2023
The special ingredient for Mars travel meal prep? Astronaut breath
NPR The ingredients for space yeast are fairly simple. “Astronaut breath, water, yeast starter, electricity, a rolling pin and we can make it happen,” Stafford Sheehan, a finalist in the NASA-sponsored Deep Space Food Challenge, told NPR. Put air, water and yeast starter into Sheehan’s handy machine, wait about two hours and voila: a protein shake […]
Aug 8, 2023
Walgreens Shows Highest Covid-19 Test Positivity Levels Since May 2021
Forbes Are you positive that Covid-19 cases are on the upswing this Summer? With the lack of an accurate and reliable national Covid-19 surveillance system, it may be hard to tell what the heck is really happening with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the U.S. But there are several indications that […]
Aug 8, 2023
Covid Vaccine Makers’ Stocks Crash To Multiyear Lows Monday As Sales Keep Sliding
Forbes Moderna and BioNTech shares both cratered to their lowest price in years Monday as the companies behind the most widely-circulated mRNA Covid-19 vaccines grapple with investor disappointment with crashing revenues. BioNTech and Moderna’s stocks fell 8% and 6%, respectively, a decline spurred by BioNTech’s earnings report revealing the German firm’s sales fell 95% year-over-year […]
Aug 8, 2023
Bird Flu Has Never Done This Before
The Atlantic Experts worry that H5N1 avian influenza is now endemic in North America. At bird breeding grounds this spring and summer, the skies have been clearer and quieter, the flocks drastically thinned. Last year, more than 60 percent of the Caspian terns at Lake Michigan vanished; the flock of great skuas at the Hermaness reserve, in Scotland, may have […]
Aug 8, 2023
UK Health Security Agency unveils world-leading Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre
Medical News.Net The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has today unveiled its world-leading Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre (VDEC), which is building on its pandemic legacy and helping develop life-saving new vaccines for the UK and worldwide. The center is situated at the UKHSA’s Porton Down site, where it is co-located with other services delivered separately […]
Aug 8, 2023
A new clue to the reason some people come down with long COVID
NPR Stéphanie Longet is an immunologist and a COVID researcher at the University of Saint-Etienne in France, and just like 10-20% of adults who were infected with the virus, she continues to have symptoms well after her infection has resolved – a condition known colloquially as long COVID. “I got COVID one year ago and I […]
Aug 8, 2023
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever case reported in North Macedonia
Outbreak News Today The Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia reported of a confirmed case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in a 27-year-old woman from the village of Kuchica, municipality of Karbinci, Štip. The patient presented with initial symptoms of the disease (high temperature up to 38.6°C, severe headache, malaise and vomiting) started on […]
Aug 8, 2023
How leprosy arrived in Florida, and how it is spreading: New clues are emerging
Sun Sentinal Health officials are seeing more cases of the rare disease of leprosy in Florida, and want to find out why. Are foreign travelers bringing the disease to Florida with them? Are people in the state getting it from armadillos, which are naturally infected with the bacteria that causes the disease? How is this […]
Aug 8, 2023