Author: Claudinne Miller
In this week’s Transmission Briefs, listen as GCHS Scholar and UNMC Professor David Brett-Major, MD, MPH, explains how the Avian flu may spread to other mammals, including humans.
Jun 20, 2023
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax gear up for fall Covid vaccine rollout with an important head start
MSNBC The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Covid strain selection for the next round of shots puts Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax on track to deliver new jabs in time for the fall – a decisive win for the vaccine makers as they gear up to compete against one another. The FDA on Friday advised the three companies to manufacture single-strain jabs targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5, one of the […]
Jun 20, 2023
Peru Suffering Worst Dengue Outbreak In Its History, Over 146K Cases
Forbes Peru is suffering a very bad outbreak of something that’s been nicknamed “break-bone fever”—dengue. In fact, it’s been a historically bad outbreak, as in the worst dengue outbreak that the country has ever had. The outbreak has already left over 146,000 people infected and at least 248 dead. It’s also resulted in the resignation […]
Jun 20, 2023
What’s New in the Search for a Long COVID Cure?
UCSF Effective therapies that target the condition’s root causes could be a few years away. What exactly is long COVID? It refers to unexplained symptoms that are new or worse since someone had acute COVID and that are not attributable to other causes. They persist for at least three months after COVID’s onset and impact […]
Jun 20, 2023
How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats
Quanta Enough pints of beer can have you falling off your bar stool or loudly reciting lyrics to early 2000s jams to total strangers, because alcohol can get past one of the strongest defenses in the body. If you’ve ever been drunk, high or drowsy from allergy medication, you’ve experienced what happens when some molecules […]
Jun 20, 2023
Science Numerous viruses use specialized surface molecules called fusogens to enter host cells. Many of these viruses, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), can infect the brain and are associated with severe neurological symptoms through poorly understood mechanisms. We show that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces fusion between neurons and between neurons and glia […]
Jun 14, 2023
Experts warn bird flu virus changing rapidly in largest ever outbreak
Japan Today The virus causing record cases of avian influenza in birds across the world is changing rapidly, experts have warned, as calls increase for countries to vaccinate their poultry. While emphasising that the risk to humans remains low, the experts who spoke to AFP said that the surging number of bird flu cases in […]
Jun 14, 2023
U.S. House bill would address pandemic preparedness
The Square Center Ensuring the United States works to solidify a rapid response to combat future pandemics is the focus of a new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Disease X Act of 2023, bipartisan legislation introduced by Rep. Lori Trahan, D-MA, would work to ensure there is preparation and development of medical […]
Jun 14, 2023
BBC Podcast: The Hunt for COVID’s Origins
Introduction: Fever: The Hunt for COVID Origins Episode 1: Batshit Episode 2: A Question of Trust Episode 3: Uncertainty and Trump US President Donald Trump wades into the Covid origins debate. It’s April 2020 and at the podium of the White House’s press room, Donald Trump makes a geopolitically incendiary claim: he has a high […]
Jun 14, 2023
In pandemic’s wake, only 57% of doctors would choose medicine again
AMA Early in the pandemic, physician experiences were largely influenced by geography, specialty and personal COVID-19 experiences. But a year into the pandemic, the environment was different because physicians were facing staffing shortages, anti-science aggression, incivility and new dimensions of moral distress. All of this may have had an impact on professional fulfillment, which can […]
Jun 14, 2023