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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
Philippines Reports First Mpox Case Since W.H.O. Declared Global Emergency
NYT It was not clear if the patient had contracted the new, potentially more deadly strain of the disease, which first appeared outside of Africa in Sweden last week. The Philippines reported its first case this year of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, on Monday, just days after the World Health Organization declared the disease […]
Aug 20, 2024
New covid vaccines for summer variants slated for approval late next week
Washington Post The arrival of updated Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for the KP.2 variant comes well into a summer wave when Americans have struggled to find an existing shot. Federal authorities are preparing to approve updated coronavirus vaccines targeting the latest virus variants late next week, a move that could make shots available before Labor Day, according to a […]
Aug 20, 2024
H7 bird flu found on third poultry farm in Australia
Reuters Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a third poultry farm near Melbourne, but it is not the same strain that has spread globally and raised fears of human transmission, the Victoria state government said on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of birds have already been destroyed after bird flu was found at two Australian […]
Jun 4, 2024
Companies start work on bird flu vaccines for cows—despite major hurdles
Science Market uncertainties, safety rules, and export concerns stand in way of H5N1 shots for cattle. The outbreak of avian influenza in U.S. dairy herds raises an obvious question: Why not adopt the strategy many countries use to protect poultry and vaccinate the cows? An H5N1 vaccine might not only protect cattle from infection and […]
May 22, 2024
A case of Lassa fever detected in France, here is everything you need to know about this disease
Machine translated from French An extremely rare virus in the Northern Hemisphere because it is endemic to West Africa, there are no vaccines yet to counter Lassa fever. On May 2, 2024, because he was suffering from Lassa fever, a man was admitted to the Bégin military hospital in Saint-Mandé in Val-de-Marne (94). If his condition […]
May 7, 2024
Epidemiologic Survey of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Suids, Spain
CDC We conducted a cross-sectional study in wild boar and extensively managed Iberian pig populations in a hotspot area of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) in Spain. We tested for antibodies against CCHFV by using 2 ELISAs in parallel. We assessed the presence of CCHFV RNA by means of reverse transcription quantitative PCR protocol, which […]
Apr 30, 2024
Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are working quickly to assess how it is evolving and how much of a risk it poses to humans. In her three decades of working with elephant seals, Dr. Marcela Uhart had never […]
Apr 23, 2024
High risk of animal-to-human diseases developing in some China fur farms
Reuters An investigation of five fur farms in China housing foxes, raccoon dogs and mink found a high risk of diseases developing that could jump from animals to humans, said animal protection group Humane Society International who conducted the study at the end of 2023. The farms in China’s northern Hebei and Liaoning provinces each […]
Apr 16, 2024
How prepared the U.S. is for a bird flu pandemic
Washington Post Federal officials are preparing for the possibility of additional human cases of bird flu,testing components to create a vaccine after a Texas dairy worker was infected with the highly virulent virus, even as they stress theUnited States remains far from needing to activate a full-blown emergency response Two candidate vaccine viruses— essentially the building blocks […]
Apr 2, 2024