Author: Claudinne Miller
Should You Get a Measles Vaccine Booster?
Yale Medicine As cases increase in some places, a Yale Medicine specialist reviews the groups, including some adults, who should get vaccinated. These days, most people are vaccinated against measles, a highly contagious, life-threatening respiratory virus, when they are children. But recent reports that measles is spreading in parts of the United States are prompting some […]
Mar 18, 2025
Japanese encephalitis has claimed a second life in NSW and been detected in Brisbane. What is it?
The Conversation A second man has died from Japanese encephalitis virus in New South Wales on March 6, the state’s health authorities confirmed on Friday. Aged in his 70s, the man was infected while holidaying in the Murrumbidgee region. This follows the death of another man in his 70s in Sydney last month, after holidaying in the same region […]
Mar 18, 2025
NIH-sponsored trial of Lassa vaccine opens
NIH Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic disease that can be fatal and that causes permanent hearing loss. A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Lassa fever is a viral hemorrhagic disease that […]
Mar 18, 2025
New Indiana CWD case detected, DNR recommends hunter vigilance
The Republic A tiny spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) was recently detected in Indiana among white-tail deer. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced a second CWD case within the state’s borders in late February, found in Posey County. Although deer hunting season does not begin until September, the news was released to the […]
Mar 18, 2025
Scientists Found The Silent ‘Scream’ of Human Skin For The First Time
Science Alert The body you inhabit is made up of lots of moving parts that need to communicate with each other. Some of this communication – in the nervous system, for example – takes the form of bioelectrical signals that propagate through the body to trigger the appropriate response. Now, US researchers have discovered that […]
Mar 18, 2025
America is becoming a nation of homebodies
The Conversation In his February 2025 cover story for The Atlantic, journalist Derek Thompson dubbed our current era “the anti-social century.” He isn’t wrong. According to our recent research, the U.S. is becoming a nation of homebodies. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we studied how people in the U.S. spent their time before, during […]
Mar 18, 2025
‘It’s not a vaccine, it’s a shot’: uncovering a new trend in vaccine scepticism
The Conversation It has long been recognised that attitudes towards vaccines may be vaccine-specific, so that people may take up some, but not others. On July 26 2021, the following statement was posted on Twitter (later renamed X) about the COVID-19 vaccine: It’s not even a real vaccine. You can catch Covid and also spread it […]
Mar 18, 2025
NIH cuts funding for vaccine-hesitancy research. mRNA research may be next
NPR The Trump administration is slashing long-standing areas of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, claiming they no longer align with the agency’s priorities. The latest target? Millions of dollars in NIH grants for studying vaccine hesitancy and how to improve immunization levels. It’s work that’s particularly relevant as a measles outbreak grips […]
Mar 18, 2025
Texas public health official predicts the measles outbreak could take a year to contain
STAT Once eliminated in the U.S., the virus could become endemic again. The expanding measles outbreak that has spread from West Texas into New Mexico and Oklahoma could take a year to contain, a public health leader in the area where the outbreak started warned on Tuesday. Katherine Wells, director of public health for the […]
Mar 18, 2025
Measles remains a danger to health even years after an infection
NPR The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is now close to 300 reported cases, surpassing the total number of cases in all of the U.S. in 2024. The outbreak is happening in remote, rural areas. There have been a few isolated cases reported in 13 other states — not related to the Texas outbreak. The Centers […]
Mar 18, 2025