Author: Claudinne Miller
What We Know About HMPV, the Virus Spreading in China
NYT While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, medical experts say. HMPV is common and decades old. Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic almost […]
Jan 7, 2025
What Covid tried to teach us — and why it will matter in the next pandemic
Stat Five years ago this week, STAT was interviewing nervous infectious disease scientists about a mysterious disease spreading in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, located roughly 500 miles west of Shanghai. On Jan. 4, 2020, we published the first of what would become a torrent of articles on the disease now known as Covid-19. The […]
Jan 7, 2025
Sick Season Is in Full Force. Here’s What’s Going Around
Time The holidays came with a side of flu for many Americans, with 40 states reporting high or very high levels of illness last week, according to the latest government health data. “A lot of flu out there,” said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Carrie Reed. Of course, there are a number of bugs […]
Jan 7, 2025
First H5 Bird Flu Death Reported in United States
CDC CDC is saddened by Louisiana’s report that a person previously hospitalized with severe avian influenza A(H5N1) illness (“H5N1 bird flu”) has passed away. While tragic, a death from H5N1 bird flu in the United States is not unexpected because of the known potential for infection with these viruses to cause severe illness and death. […]
Jan 7, 2025
India’s first human metapneumovirus (HMPV) cases confirmed, but officials say “no reason to worry”
CBS News Indian officials have confirmed the vast nation’s first cases of human metapneumovirus, often called HMPV, with seven people said to have contracted the virus as of Tuesday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research. Two of the HMPV infections were reported in the central Indian city of Nagpur on Tuesday, while two cases […]
Jan 7, 2025
First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana
NYT The deceased was over 65 and had other medical conditions, state officials said. A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United States, state health officials reported on Monday. The patient was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, the officials said. […]
Jan 7, 2025
Activities for a boring January
Bored Panda Recreate One Famous Classic Painting A Day For A Year! really love art, admiring beauty and talent. I want to actualize great painting from different cultural traditions to show people that it is much closer than it seems. My replicas encourage everyone to look at the paintings in detail. I think it’s important. […]
Jan 7, 2025
Mpox Is Spreading in Congo’s Capital, Threatening Global Efforts to Contain the Virus
NYT A NYT reporter went to Congo, where the mpox epidemic has reached the teeming capital, infecting children and their mothers, who sell sex to survive. Mireille Efonge got sick a few months ago, with a fever and painful blisters on her groin. She became too weak to move, so neighbors carried her to a […]
Jan 2, 2025
Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary
NPR An animal sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., is under quarantine after a bird flu outbreak killed 20 big cats at the facility over the past month. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington called the deaths “heartbreaking,” confirming the virus has claimed more than half its animals, including four cougars and a half-Bengal tiger, since late November. […]
Jan 2, 2025