Author: Claudinne Miller
Canadian Teen Recovers From Severe H5N1 Bird Flu Infection
MedPageToday A 13-year-old Canadian girl recovered after being hospitalized in critical condition with H5N1 avian influenza, researchers reported. The girl was hospitalized on Nov. 7 and transferred to BC Children’s Hospital the next day, where she was intubated and put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and treated with three different antivirals, David Goldfarb, MD, of […]
Jan 1, 2025
Windfalls for COVID Misinfo Groups
Medical Page Today Four groups that spread medical misinformation in the midst of the COVID pandemic and its aftermath have collected enormous sums of money from donations in recent years, the Washington Postopens in a new tab or window found in tax filings from the nonprofits. The influx of funds has allowed the groups to further their […]
Jan 1, 2025
NIH officials assess threat of H5N1
NIH Balancing enhanced vigilance and “business as usual.” Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1) remains a low risk to the general public, and public health experts in the United States believe that available treatments and vaccines, as well as those in development, are sufficient to prevent severe disease. However, the National Institutes […]
Jan 1, 2025
Norovirus Outbreaks Are Rising Nationwide, C.D.C. Says
NYT Here’s what to know about symptoms and treatment, as well as how to reduce your risk of infection. There have been an unusually high number of norovirus outbreaks sickening people across the country this month, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 91 suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreaks in the […]
Jan 1, 2025
Mpox: German school temporarily closed after case reported
DW Contacts have been informed after several members of a family were found to have contracted mpox. Two school-age children are among those infected. A school in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia was closed as a precaution on Monday after two children were found to be infected with the mpox virus. The mpox clade 1b variant was […]
Dec 18, 2024
COVID-19 infection linked to abnormal uterine bleeding
Contemporary OB/GYN There is an association between COVID-19 infection and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), according to a recent study published in Clinical Science.1 Recent concerns have arisen about menstrual disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially caused by disease infection, vaccination, or pandemic-related stress. However, data linking each factor independently to menstrual cycles remains limited. Menstruation is […]
Dec 18, 2024
Bat poop used to grow cannabis kills 2 in New York in unusual cases
LiveScience Two men from Rochester, New York, who grew their own cannabis died from pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus in bat poop they’d used as fertilizer. Two men in New York state have died of a rare fungal lung infection that they caught from bat poop — specifically, poop they were using […]
Dec 18, 2024
Whooping Cough Is Up 600% — What Are The Deadly Disease’s Symptoms?
Forbes Cases of whooping cough are more than six times higher than they were this time last year, statistics from the Centers for Disease Control show. Officials reported 553 cases for the week ending December 7 — the most recent figures available — compared to 105 in the same week last year. Whooping cough is a highly […]
Dec 18, 2024
Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo
NYT Werra Maulu Botey could not bear to close his daughter’s coffin. Waiting to bury her, he slid the rough wooden lid back, again and again, to adjust her small head and smooth the cloth that cradled it away from her cheeks. Olive died of measles, at the age of 5, the evening before. She […]
Dec 18, 2024
Study retracted years after it set off an infamous COVID-19 treatment scandal
USA Today A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday retracted the March 2020 study that introduced the world to hydroxychloroquine early in the COVID-19 pandemic – and confirmed that the attention was undeserved from the start. […]
Dec 18, 2024