Author: Claudinne Miller
Scientists woke up a 46,000-year-old roundworm from Siberian permafrost
Washington Post A female microscopic roundworm that spent the last 46,000 years in suspended animation deep in the Siberian permafrost was revived and started having babies in a laboratory dish. By sequencing the genome of this Rip Van Winkle roundworm, scientists revealed it to be a new species of nematode, which is described in a […]
Aug 1, 2023
Doctors who put lives at risk with covid misinformation rarely punished
Washington Post A Wisconsin doctor in 2021 prescribed ivermectin, typically used to treat parasitic infections, to two covid-19 patients who later died of the disease. He was fined less than $4,000 — and was free to continue practicing. A Massachusetts doctor has continued practicing without restriction despite being under investigation for more than a year over allegations of […]
Aug 1, 2023
NIH launches trials for long-COVID treatments: what scientists think
Nature World’s largest study of long COVID will evaluate potential therapies for brain fog, sleep disruption and more. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced yesterday that it will launch its first trials to test the safety and efficacy of treatments against long COVID. These trials will focus on therapies aimed at some of […]
Aug 1, 2023
Northern Ireland: First positive cases of mammals with bird flu confirmed
Belfast News Positive cases of bird flu have been found in two fox cubs, as well as in wild birds in Portrush, Co Antrim. The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has confirmed the positive results for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or bird flu. It is the first time mammals have been confirmed […]
Aug 1, 2023
Finland orders cull of 50,000 mink and foxes due to bird flu
Reuters The Finnish food authority said on Tuesday it has ordered 50,000 farmed mink and foxes to be culled at three fur farms hit by bird flu infections as mink can host the virus, increasing the chance of it mutating and affecting humans. Finland and Norway are facing record outbreaks of the H5N1 virus strain this year. […]
Aug 1, 2023
The CDC sees signs of a late summer COVID wave
NPR Yet another summer COVID-19 wave may have started in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again,” Dr. Brendan Jackson, the CDC’s COVID-19 incident manager, tells NPR. The amount of coronavirus being detected in wastewater, the […]
Aug 1, 2023
Rare Links Between COVID Vaccines and Adverse Events Studied
MedpageToday Two Yale University researchers want to understand why symptoms that emerge rarely after COVID-19 vaccines occur. Persistent symptoms after vaccination — sometimes called “long vax” — are similar to those reported with long COVID, including small-fiber neuropathy and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS ). But studies have largely shown that the risk of post-vaccine events do […]
Aug 1, 2023
Is Leprosy endemic in Florida?
CDC Abstract Florida, USA, has witnessed an increased incidence of leprosy cases lacking traditional risk factors. Those trends, in addition to decreasing diagnoses in foreign-born persons, contribute to rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States. Travel to Florida should be considered when conducting leprosy contact tracing in any state. Leprosy, […]
Aug 1, 2023
Challenges in Developing Long COVID Criteria
MedPageToday In a recent JAMA article, researchers provided a new approach for identifying individuals with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), commonly referred to as long COVID. Because this article — from Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD, and colleagues — was part of the large, federally funded U.S. RECOVER study of long COVID, it will be influential among scientists around […]
Aug 1, 2023
