Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
‘Playing COVID roulette’: Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet
LA Times As the summer travel season picks up, COVID cases and hospitalizations are rising in Los Angeles County — and some of those recently reinfected are finding their latest bout to be the worst yet. There are no signs at this point that the latest coronavirus variants are producing more severe illness, either nationally […]
Jul 9, 2024
CDC Reports Fourth Human Case of H5 Bird Flu Tied to Dairy Cow Outbreak
CDC A human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) (“H5 bird flu”) virus infection in the United States has been identified in the state of Colorado. This is the fourth case associated with an ongoing multistate outbreak of A(H5N1) in dairy cows and the first in Colorado. Previous cases were reported in Texas (1) and Michigan (2). As with […]
Jul 9, 2024
Colorado: Public Health Officials Confirm First Human Plague Case in Pueblo County
Colorado Department of Public Health The Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment, in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, has confirmed a human case of plague in a Pueblo County resident. PDPHE continues to investigate a potential source and asks the public to take the precautions listed below:
Jul 9, 2024
Travelers beware: It’s a big year for dengue
NPR It’s already a record-breaking year for dengue infections in Central and South America, with almost 10 million cases diagnosed so far. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of an increased risk of the mosquito-borne virus in the U.S., as summer weather and vacation travel heat up. This week, the CDC told health […]
Jul 3, 2024
COVID-19 emergency room visits, deaths are up. Should you be worried?
USA Today More people ended up in emergency rooms and died in recent weeks from COVID-19, federal health data showed. The information agencies collect, known as surveillance data, that tracks cases and the spread of COVID-19 has become limited. However, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are indicators of the disease’s spread. The numbers for emergency room admissions and deaths are […]
Jul 3, 2024
3 Things to Know About FLiRT and LB.1, the New Coronavirus Strains
Yale Medicine The good news is that in the early spring of 2024, COVID-19 cases were down, with far fewer infections and hospitalizations than were seen in the previous winter. But SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID, is still mutating, raising concerns about a potential wave of infections this summer. In April, a group of new virus […]
Jul 3, 2024
As bird flu spreads among U.S. cattle, veterinarians find themselves in a familiar position: the frontlines
STAT When, in April, the federal government began requiring some cows to be tested for a strain of avian flu before their herds could be moved across state lines, it seemed like an obvious step to try to track and slow the virus that had started spreading among U.S. dairy cattle. But Joe Armstrong, a veterinarian at […]
Jul 3, 2024
Colorado has the most cases of bird flu among dairy cows in the U.S.
Colorado Public Radio Cases of highly pathogenic avian flu cases in Colorado dairy cows keep rising, with numbers from a federal website recording the state as having more cases than any other. A top state health official said Tuesday the state is working with dairy farms and the industry as they continue to work to […]
Jul 2, 2024
COVID trend reaches “high” level across western U.S. in latest CDC data
CBS News A key indicator for tracking the spread of COVID-19 has officially reached “high” levels across western U.S. states, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now shows. But the agency says it remains too early to say whether this year’s summer COVID-19 surge has arrived nationwide. Levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus showing up in wastewater samples […]
Jul 2, 2024
Biweekly Update by Dr. Lawler
Current COVID-19 Epidemic Wave | Recent Studies | H5N1 Updates
Jun 26, 2024