Author: Claudinne Miller
Bird flu was found at a new fur farm, seagulls died of the disease in Mikkeli
Finland News (Machine Translated) Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been found in a new fur farm in Kauhava. In total, bird flu has now been found in 25 fur farms in Ostrobothnia, more than half of which are from the same locality, Kausti. The same virus has been confirmed as the cause of death of the […]
Aug 22, 2023
Number of Congo virus patients rising in Balochistan
The Nation Two more suspected Congo virus patients have been admitted to Fatima Jinnah Chest Hospital Quetta FJCHQ. The number of positive cases reported this year has mounted to 28, FJCHQ sources told media. According to the administration, Hamza, 22, a resident of Quetta, and Naseeba, 30, resident of Loralai were shifted to the hospital […]
Aug 22, 2023
Bird flu ‘ticking time bomb’ cannot be stopped without major farming reforms, warns new report
Farmers Review Africa The report – called Bird flu: Only major farm reforms can end it – shows that, contrary to popular belief, wild birds are typically victims of the disease rather than the cause, and it is spiralling out of control due to the rise of factory farming. This view is supported by the international Scientific Task Force […]
Aug 22, 2023
Should We Be Surprised by Leprosy’s Recent Spike in Florida?
MedPageToday Earlier this month, a report in Emerging Infectious Diseases prompted a flurry of internet headlines plus some outlandish theories. COVID vaccines causing leprosy? Seriously? Nonetheless, the data themselves were notable. Although the overall count of newly diagnosed Hansen’s disease in the U.S. — roughly 150 to 200 cases per year — hasn’t changed in several decades, the percentage […]
Aug 22, 2023
How 10,000 years of plagues left their mark on our DNA
Washington Post Agnolo di Tura was a sometime shoemaker and tax collector with a yen for keeping a journal. He was also his family’s sole survivor when the Black Death tore through Siena, Italy, in 1348. He buried his wife and five children with his own hands, he wrote in his journal. He was somehow […]
Aug 16, 2023
Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners
The audio sounds like it’s being played underwater. Still, it’s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can’t speak. Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, recreate the song. The research, published on Tuesday, produced a recognizable, […]
Aug 15, 2023
Persistent Neurocognitive and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Post-COVID
Psychiatric Times Although COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory virus, it also affects other organs and systems in the body, including the nervous system.1 The mechanisms of injury to the brain and nervous system include chronic inflammation, changes in the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, hypoxia, and coagulopathies resulting in the formation of blood clots.2,3 Long COVID and […]
Aug 15, 2023
Outbreak News Today Florida health officials reported an additional locally transmitted dengue fever case in Miami-Dade County in the past week, bringing the total indigenous cases to 11 this year to date– Broward (2) and Miami-Dade (9) counties. Two hundred and four cases with onset in 2023 have been reported in individuals with travel history […]
Aug 15, 2023
New COVID ‘Eris’ variant: The symptoms, how dangerous it is and whether vaccines work
Yahoo News There’s a new COVID-19 variant dominating infections in the U.S. EG.5 — or “Eris,” as it’s been nicknamed — was identified in China in February and detected in the U.S. in April, and now accounts for more than 17% of COVID-19 cases nationwide, which is the most of any variant. Here’s what you need to know about […]
Aug 15, 2023
A new fruit fly toolkit to understand the impact of SARS-CoV-2 virus in human health
Baylor While the COVID-19 pandemic is under control now, the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to mutate and inflict unprecedented suffering on millions of people in the form of numerous little-understood, lingering symptoms that are collectively termed ‘long-COVID.’ Identifying the underlying causes and therapies for long-COVID symptoms and devising strategies to protect against known and emerging viruses […]
Aug 15, 2023