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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
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
Large dairy in Michigan tests positive for HPAI
Farm Progress Dairies in Michigan and Idaho confirm HPAI-positive cows with a virus strain similar to one in Texas and Kansas. For more than two years, backyard flocks and the commercial poultry industry have been combating highly pathogenic avian influenza. Now, the virus has infected dairy cows in five states, including Michigan. The Michigan Department […]
Apr 2, 2024
Four Years On, the Mysteries of Covid Are Unraveling
New York Times Are superdodgers real? Is Covid seasonal? And what’s behind its strangest symptoms? Here’s what we’ve learned. When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would […]
Mar 12, 2024
The rate of antidepressants prescribed to young people surged during the pandemic
NPR The monthly rate of antidepressants being dispensed to young people increased about 64% more quickly during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers used the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database to examine a sample of about 221 million prescriptions written for millions of Americans between the ages 12 to 25, […]
Feb 27, 2024
Study shows 43% to 58% lower prevalence of long COVID among vaccinated people
CIDRAP A new study based on 4,605 participants in the Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study shows that the prevalence of long COVID symptoms at 30 and 90 days post-infection was 43% to 58% lower among adults who were fully vaccinated before infection. The study appeared yesterday in the Annals of Epidemiology. The 30- and 90-day timeframes were meant […]
Feb 20, 2024
Mosquito swarms bring ‘triple whammy’ of infectious disease to Timor-Leste
Telegraph The country is battling simultaneous outbreaks of dengue, Zika and – for the first time – chikungunya. A triple outbreak of dengue, chikungunya and Zika is threatening an island just an hour’s flight from Australia in what experts warn is a “wake-up call” of the dangers of climate change. Timor-Leste, bordering Indonesia, has seen […]
Feb 13, 2024