Author: Claudinne Miller
Safety Data on Maternal RSV Vaccine ‘Favorable,’ FDA Staff Says
MedPageToday A maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidate prevents infections in infants and comes with “generally favorable” safety data, said FDA staff in briefing documents released ahead of an advisory committee meeting this week, but the reviewers “noted potential uncertainty based on the numerical imbalance in premature deliveries.” On Thursday, members of the Vaccines and Related […]
May 16, 2023
Equatorial Guinea declares end of Marburg outbreak
LaPresensa Equatorial Guinea’s vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, declared late Monday an end to a Marburg virus outbreak, which caused 17 confirmed cases in the country, including 12 deaths. “After not registering Marburg infections during the 21 days stipulated by the WHO, and after the excellent work and results obtained in the fight and […]
May 16, 2023
Mozambique faces worst cholera outbreak in more than 20 years
Africa News Health authorities in Mozambique are battling the most severe cholera outbreak in the country in more than 20 years. The number of cases of cholera increased after the country was hit by Cyclone Freddy in late February. The coastal town of Quelimane in northern Mozambique became a cholera hotspot. “Quelimane is a low-lying city. It’s a swamp. So the water tables are very high, so sewage and […]
May 16, 2023
Forgotten Antibiotic From Decades Ago Could Be a Superbug Killer
Science Alert An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this time to the emerging threat of drug-resistant superbugs. Read the study in PLoS here Half of the bacteria-killing drugs we use today are variations of compounds that were found nearly a century ago, during this ‘golden age’ […]
May 16, 2023
First U.S. cases of drug-resistant skin infection found in NYC
NJ.com A highly transmissible, drug-resistant ringworm infection has been found in two women in New York City. The two patients — whose infections are not connected — are the first cases to be identified in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The infections, caused by the fungus Trichophyton indotineae, have cropped […]
May 16, 2023
COVID Update by Dr. James Lawler
UNMC What is the risk of death after #COVID-19 vaccination or infection? Did the pandemic create an increase in “deaths of despair” from alcohol/drug abuse/suicide? Has life expectancy been affected in the U.S.? Dr. Lawler reviews the data trends.
May 16, 2023
Bird Flu Vaccine Authorized to Save California Condors
Precision Vaccinations Monovalent, adjuvanted, cell-based inactivated influenza H5N1 vaccine approved for people. The United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (APHIS) today announced they approved the emergency use of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) vaccine candidate to prevent additional deaths of California Condors. This vaccine clinical trial will be carried out with the surrogate vultures in […]
May 16, 2023
The World’s Bat Lands are Under Attack, Seeding Risk of a New Pandemic. Here’s Where.
Reuters Our hunger for resources is driving worldwide destruction of areas rich with bats, carriers of tens of thousands of viruses. A Reuters data analysis pinpoints areas where conditions are ripe for a bat-borne disease to spill over to humanity. We’ve dubbed these areas “jump zones.” For millennia, bat viruses posed little threat to humanity. […]
May 16, 2023
Two poultry workers test positive for bird flu after contact on infected farm
Sky News Bird flu has been detected in two poultry workers after they came into contact with infected birds, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The two workers have recently worked on an infected poultry farm in England. Neither have experienced any symptoms of bird flu and have tested negative since. The avian […]
May 16, 2023
Are We Ready for the Long COVID Long-Haul?
MedPageToday “I just don’t know what is wrong with me, but something is off, and I am so forgetful. I feel like I have dementia,” a good friend said to me recently. I recalled that she had been sick with COVID-19 this past year. I remembered her illness well because I had been very concerned […]
May 16, 2023