Author: Claudinne Miller
A fungus sickened more than 150 Michigan workers. The CDC still isn’t sure why it happened
Lansing Journal A common soil fungus sickened more than 150 Michigan paper mill workers, and killed one, in what health officials called the largest such outbreak in U.S. history, but the exact cause remains elusive, they said this week. The Centers for Disease Control said a 2022-23 outbreak of blastomycosis at Escanaba’s Billerud Paper infected […]
Jan 2, 2025
Norovirus, Covid And RSV Are Surging This Winter. Here’s What To Know.
Forbes Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control shows spikes in norovirus, Covid-19 and RSV across the U.S.—a resurgence that’s potentially unlike the usual annual winter spread of these illnesses, which have been less active in recent months. Norovirus is a contagious virus that typically presents as projectile vomiting and diarrhea after ingesting contaminated food or […]
Jan 2, 2025
5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
AP Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped public opinion […]
Jan 2, 2025
We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare for future outbreaks
New Scientist Yes, it really has been five years. On 7 January 2020, we published an article with the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China”. By then, at least 59 people had been infected with what we now know to be SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind covid-19. The rest is – well, has now […]
Jan 2, 2025
Canadian Teen Recovers From Severe H5N1 Bird Flu Infection
MedPageToday A 13-year-old Canadian girl recovered after being hospitalized in critical condition with H5N1 avian influenza, researchers reported. The girl was hospitalized on Nov. 7 and transferred to BC Children’s Hospital the next day, where she was intubated and put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and treated with three different antivirals, David Goldfarb, MD, of […]
Jan 1, 2025
Windfalls for COVID Misinfo Groups
Medical Page Today Four groups that spread medical misinformation in the midst of the COVID pandemic and its aftermath have collected enormous sums of money from donations in recent years, the Washington Postopens in a new tab or window found in tax filings from the nonprofits. The influx of funds has allowed the groups to further their […]
Jan 1, 2025
NIH officials assess threat of H5N1
NIH Balancing enhanced vigilance and “business as usual.” Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) remains a low risk to the general public, and public health experts in the United States believe that available treatments and vaccines, as well as those in development, are sufficient to prevent severe disease. However, the National Institutes […]
Jan 1, 2025
Norovirus Outbreaks Are Rising Nationwide, C.D.C. Says
NYT Here’s what to know about symptoms and treatment, as well as how to reduce your risk of infection. There have been an unusually high number of norovirus outbreaks sickening people across the country this month, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 91 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks in the […]
Jan 1, 2025
Mpox: German school temporarily closed after case reported
DW Contacts have been informed after several members of a family were found to have contracted mpox. Two school-age children are among those infected. A school in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was closed as a precaution on Monday after two children were found to be infected with the mpox virus. The mpox clade 1b variant was […]
Dec 18, 2024
COVID-19 infection linked to abnormal uterine bleeding
Contemporary OB/GYN There is an association between COVID-19 infection and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), according to a recent study published in Clinical Science.1 Recent concerns have arisen about menstrual disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially caused by disease infection, vaccination, or pandemic-related stress. However, data linking each factor independently to menstrual cycles remains limited. Menstruation is […]
Dec 18, 2024