Author: Claudinne Miller
Gaza is vaccinating against polio. Is the virus a threat to the U.S.?
Washington Post A campaign is ongoing to vaccinate children in Gaza after its first polio case in 25 years. The threat to the United States is only in communities with low vaccination levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) has set about vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza in response to the Palestinian enclave’s first polio […]
Sep 18, 2024
Bird flu detected in San Diego County wastewater
Fox 5 News San Diego County is now the fifth location in California to detect the bird flu, county officials announced Monday. San Diego County reports though there are no confirmed human cases, the H5 influenza virus — commonly known as the bird flu — was detected in wastewater in San Diego County during testing […]
Sep 18, 2024
CDC says close contact of Missouri bird flu patient showed symptoms
NBC In a report Friday, the agency said the second person was not tested and has recovered. A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a Missouri patient who tested positive for the bird flu virus, the agency quietly disclosed in its weekly influenza […]
Sep 18, 2024
What you need to know about 2024 flu shot
Today Video The CDC recommends everyone six months and older get a flu shot so NBC’s Dr Natalie Azar shares what you need to know about this year’s vaccine as TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Sheinelle Jones show how quick and easy it is to get your shot.
Sep 18, 2024
40 million deaths by 2050: toll of drug-resistant infections to rise by 70%
Nature By 2050, around 2 million people — the majority aged over 70 — could die from drug-resistant infections each year. More than 39 million people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections between now and 2050, according to an in-depth global analysis of antimicrobial resistance. The report, published on 16 September in The Lancet1, found that between […]
Sep 18, 2024
Nearly 300 confirmed cases of whooping cough in Wisconsin
WBay.com Wisconsin is seeing a growing number of whooping cough cases. So far this year, the state has four times the number of cases since last year. No deaths have been reported. Doctors are stressing the importance of prevention and treatment. Whooping cough has a lengthy incubation period, meaning we can see numbers jump rather […]
Sep 17, 2024
Readout of White House Convening on Mpox
White House Today, leaders from the National Security Council and the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy convened a roundtable with Federal agencies, global and domestic public health partners, advocacy organizations, and community leaders to discuss the escalating “clade I” mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and multiple […]
Sep 17, 2024
California reports a total of eight H5N1 bird flu outbreaks among dairy herds
Los Angeles Times The number of California dairy herds reported to have outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu has grown to eight. Officials have refused to disclose the locations of the infected herds, but have said they are in close proximity somewhere in California’s Central Valley — an 18,000-square-mile expanse that is roughly the size of […]
Sep 17, 2024
CDC says close contact of Missouri bird flu patient showed symptoms
NBC News In a report Friday, the agency said the second person was not tested and has recovered. A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a Missouri patient who tested positive for the bird flu virus, the agency quietly disclosed in its weekly […]
Sep 17, 2024
The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn
Wired US health officials say they don’t know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu. THIS YEAR IN the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became infected after coming into contact with poultry, and four got the virus from exposure to dairy cows. The source of […]
Sep 17, 2024