Author: Claudinne Miller
As Conspiracy Theories Abound, Can We Restore Trust in Public Health?
MedPageToday With the House still investigating the pandemic, its origins, and our government’s responses — and with perhaps the most well-known public health figure in the hot seat (Anthony Fauci, MDopens in a new tab or window) — now seems a good time to reflect on how we might begin to restore our trust in […]
Jul 2, 2024
Mini-Strokes, Gut Problems: Scientists See Links to an Old Bout of Covid
WSJ Feeling ill? The cause might be years old. Scientists suspect that one culprit behind your new illness might be the infection you got a couple of years ago. The link between new health problems and your past health history appears to be particularly prevalent with Covid. A new Nature Medicine study found that health problems stemming […]
Jul 2, 2024
Scientists wary of bird flu pandemic ‘unfolding in slow motion’
Reuters Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts. Many of them have been monitoring the new subtype of H5N1 avian flu in migratory birds since 2020. But […]
Jul 2, 2024
NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine opens
NIH Candidate vaccine could provide enhanced breadth of protection against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. A Phase 1 trial testing the safety of an experimental nasal vaccine that may provide enhanced breadth of protection against emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is now enrolling healthy adults at three sites in the United States. The […]
Jul 2, 2024
COVID trend reaches “high” level across western U.S. in latest CDC data
CBS News A key indicator for tracking the spread of COVID-19 has officially reached “high” levels across western U.S. states, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now shows. But the agency says it remains too early to say whether this year’s summer COVID-19 surge has arrived nationwide. Levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus showing up in wastewater samples […]
Jul 2, 2024
Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirm
Scientific American Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu. Pasteurization—the process of using high heat to eliminate harmful microbes in foods—effectively kills the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is currently circulating in U.S. cattle. In a new […]
Jul 2, 2024
How Does Bird Flu Spread in Cows? Experiment Yields Some ‘Good News.’
New York Times Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained. Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzling over how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment carried out in Kansas and Germany has shed […]
Jul 2, 2024
Health officials in the Florida Keys issue a dengue fever alert
NBC News A dengue fever alert has been issued in the Florida Keys following two confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness. The local warning comes a week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national advisory about the increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States. Even though most of the dengue […]
Jul 2, 2024
$176 Awarded for Another Pandemic Influenza Vaccine
Precision Vaccinations In the past two years, H5 influenza virus subtypes have caused severe disease in birds and mammals in the United States. Because of various media reports, there is concern about the risk of these viruses spreading to humans, which could generate another pandemic. On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
Jul 2, 2024
Another monolith appeared near Las Vegas. Who’s behind these mysterious objects?
NPR First it was Utah. Then Romania. And California. Spain. Wales. Paraguay. The metallic monoliths began to be found in late 2020 by unsuspecting viewers in seemingly random locations around the world. Often evocative of a science fiction movie prop, the mysterious objects captured the public’s attention and frequently drew crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of […]
Jun 26, 2024