Author: Claudinne Miller
What doctors say about one of the biggest flu shot myths
Washington Post The idea that you can get the flu from the flu vaccine is a long-standing fallacy. Here’s what to tell someone who thinks it’s true. The question Can the flu shot cause the flu? The science You may be tempted to skip your flu shot this season because of scheduling issues, a fear […]
Nov 19, 2025
New Antibiotic Stokes Hope for Still Lethal TB in Study
Bloomberg Thuto Pulane had just wrapped up a promising internship in marketing when she lost 13 kilos over two months and started coughing up green phlegm. She grew weaker and decided to visit a nearby clinic to get help after returning home from a family trip. Turns out Pulane had the world’s deadliest curable infectious […]
Nov 19, 2025
Influenza A(H1N1) Has More High-Risk Features Than Other Subtypes
Infectious Disease Advisor Among hospitalized adults with severe influenza, A(H1N1) subtype was linked to an increased risk for severe clinical markers, including respiratory distress and intensive care unit admission, when compared with A(H3N2) and B subtypes. Among patients hospitalized with severe influenza, those with A(H1N1) have more high-risk clinical indicators compared with those with other […]
Nov 19, 2025
A trio of respiratory viruses is sending people to the hospital in N.J.
NJ.com It’s that time of year again when New Jersey hospitals are seeing an increase in admissions associated with COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. Since the week ending Oct. 25, hospitalizations associated with these respiratory viruses have increased, according to the state’s latest respiratory illness surveillance report. The majority of hospitalizations with influenza and COVID have been […]
Nov 19, 2025
Ethiopia confirms three deaths in new Marburg virus outbreak
Africa News Ethiopia confirmed on Monday the deaths of three people who had contracted the Marburg virus. The country’s health ministry said three additional fatalities were being investigated for a possible connection to the disease. This announcement comes after Ethiopian authorities declared the Marburg outbreak on Friday. The outbreak was reported in the Omo region, an area […]
Nov 19, 2025
H5N1 bird flu cases spike in Europe. How worried should we be?
The Conversation On November 13, Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms to curb the spread of avian influenza – more commonly known as “bird flu” – caused by the H5N1 virus. This drastic, though not unprecedented, measure was justified by climbing numbers of outbreaks in Europe, as well […]
Nov 19, 2025
Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest
Smithsonian Magazine Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 50,000 of the animals. In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to […]
Nov 19, 2025
First measles cases found in central Utah; state’s total infections surpass 80
KSL.com More Utahns are being diagnosed with the highly contagious measles virus. The Central Utah Health Department announced in a news release Monday that two measles cases have been confirmed in residents. The infections mark the first in the central Utah district. The department said both cases were in people who are unvaccinated, “who had […]
Nov 19, 2025
Whooping cough outbreaks surge, fueled by waning immunity and falling vaccination rates
CBS News Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country. The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too young to be fully vaccinated are […]
Nov 19, 2025
Ethiopia reports first outbreak of Marburg, Ebola cousin with no vaccine
Washington Post At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, a clinically similar cousin to Ebola, in the East African country’s first outbreak of the highly contagious disease, the World Health Organization said Friday. Ethiopia’s Health Ministry also confirmed the outbreak. The WHO “is actively supporting Ethiopia to contain the […]
Nov 19, 2025