Author: Claudinne Miller
NIH launches trials for long-COVID treatments: what scientists think
Nature World’s largest study of long COVID will evaluate potential therapies for brain fog, sleep disruption and more. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced yesterday that it will launch its first trials to test the safety and efficacy of treatments against long COVID. These trials will focus on therapies aimed at some of […]
Aug 1, 2023
Northern Ireland: First positive cases of mammals with bird flu confirmed
Belfast News Positive cases of bird flu have been found in two fox cubs, as well as in wild birds in Portrush, Co Antrim. The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has confirmed the positive results for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or bird flu. It is the first time mammals have been confirmed […]
Aug 1, 2023
Finland orders cull of 50,000 mink and foxes due to bird flu
Reuters The Finnish food authority said on Tuesday it has ordered 50,000 farmed mink and foxes to be culled at three fur farms hit by bird flu infections as mink can host the virus, increasing the chance of it mutating and affecting humans. Finland and Norway are facing record outbreaks of the H5N1 virus strain this year. […]
Aug 1, 2023
The CDC sees signs of a late summer COVID wave
NPR Yet another summer COVID-19 wave may have started in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back up again,” Dr. Brendan Jackson, the CDC’s COVID-19 incident manager, tells NPR. The amount of coronavirus being detected in wastewater, the […]
Aug 1, 2023
Rare Links Between COVID Vaccines and Adverse Events Studied
MedpageToday Two Yale University researchers want to understand why symptoms that emerge rarely after COVID-19 vaccines occur. Persistent symptoms after vaccination — sometimes called “long vax” — are similar to those reported with long COVID, including small-fiber neuropathy and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS ). But studies have largely shown that the risk of post-vaccine events do […]
Aug 1, 2023
Is Leprosy endemic in Florida?
CDC Abstract Florida, USA, has witnessed an increased incidence of leprosy cases lacking traditional risk factors. Those trends, in addition to decreasing diagnoses in foreign-born persons, contribute to rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States. Travel to Florida should be considered when conducting leprosy contact tracing in any state. Leprosy, […]
Aug 1, 2023
Challenges in Developing Long COVID Criteria
MedPageToday In a recent JAMA article, researchers provided a new approach for identifying individuals with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), commonly referred to as long COVID. Because this article — from Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD, and colleagues — was part of the large, federally funded U.S. RECOVER study of long COVID, it will be influential among scientists around […]
Aug 1, 2023
FDA Head Robert Califf Battles Misinformation — Sometimes With Fuzzy Facts
KFF Robert Califf, the head of the Food and Drug Administration, doesn’t seem to be having fun on the job. “I would describe this year as hand-to-hand combat. Really, every day,” he said at an academic conference at Stanford in April. It’s a sentiment the FDA commissioner has expressed often. What’s been getting Califf’s goat? […]
Jul 25, 2023
S. Korea confirms avian influenza cases in cats for first time in 7 years
Yonhap News Two cats at an animal shelter in Seoul were confirmed to have been infected with a highly pathogenic avian influenza strain, marking the first infections of the virus in mammals in seven years, the agriculture ministry has said. Cats have been found dead at the shelter in Yongsan, central Seoul, since last month, […]
Jul 25, 2023