Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists?
Nature Diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue are becoming increasingly common as the insects that spread them move north. Climate change is turning Europe into a breeding ground for mosquito-borne diseases, researchers warn. Longer summers, hotter temperatures and heavy rainfall are creating favourable conditions for mosquitos in places where they couldn’t previously thrive. […]
Sep 18, 2024
NH confirms second case of mosquito-borne illness EEE
NH News A second case of the mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis has been confirmed in New Hampshire, according to state health officials. The infection was in an adult from Kensington who began experiencing symptoms on Aug. 8. The person was hospitalized and is now recovering at a rehabilitation facility, according to a spokesperson for the […]
Sep 18, 2024
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
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
New XEC Covid variant starting to spread
BBC People have started catching a new Covid variant that could soon take off and become the dominant type, according to scientists. Identified in Germany, in June, cases of the XEC variant have since emerged in the UK, US, Denmark and several other countries, say users on X, formerly known as Twitter. It has some new mutations […]
Sep 17, 2024