Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Bird flu was found at a new fur farm, seagulls died of the disease in Mikkeli
Finland News (Machine Translated) Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been found in a new fur farm in Kauhava. In total, bird flu has now been found in 25 fur farms in Ostrobothnia, more than half of which are from the same locality, Kausti. The same virus has been confirmed as the cause of death of the […]
Aug 22, 2023
Number of Congo virus patients rising in Balochistan
The Nation Two more suspected Congo virus patients have been admitted to Fatima Jinnah Chest Hospital Quetta FJCHQ. The number of positive cases reported this year has mounted to 28, FJCHQ sources told media. According to the administration, Hamza, 22, a resident of Quetta, and Naseeba, 30, resident of Loralai were shifted to the hospital […]
Aug 22, 2023
Bird flu ‘ticking time bomb’ cannot be stopped without major farming reforms, warns new report
Farmers Review Africa The report – called Bird flu: Only major farm reforms can end it – shows that, contrary to popular belief, wild birds are typically victims of the disease rather than the cause, and it is spiralling out of control due to the rise of factory farming. This view is supported by the international Scientific Task Force […]
Aug 22, 2023
Florida: Additional local dengue transmission in Miami-Dade County, West Nile virus case in Escambia County
Outbreak News Today Florida health officials reported an additional locally transmitted dengue fever case in Miami-Dade County in the past week, bringing the total indigenous cases to 11 this year to date– Broward (2) and Miami-Dade (9) counties. Two hundred and four cases with onset in 2023 have been reported in individuals with travel history […]
Aug 15, 2023
Can the world really stop wild polio by the end of 2023?
Nature Given global efforts to eradicate the poliovirus were recently described as unsuccessful, how are Afghanistan and Pakistan now on the verge of eliminating it? Afghanistan and Pakistan — the two countries in which polio is still endemic — are closer than they have ever been to eradicating wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) […]
Aug 15, 2023
Macedonia: Third case of Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever in the country, the patient is a 42-year-old man from Veles
360 (Machine Translated) The authorities inform that the patient had an elevated temperature up to 38 degrees, headache, body pain, malaise and profuse sweating. He was initially admitted to the General Hospital in Veles, and now he is at the Infectious Disease Clinic in Skopje. In the late evening hours of 12/08/2023, the Department of Epidemiology […]
Aug 15, 2023
China reports a five-fold increase in mpox cases; 96% patients are male
WION As per a statement by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 96 percent of the patients were male and reported sexual activity with another man. As per the Chinese CDC, while in June the cases stood at 106, in July, the count reached a high of 491. However, as per a Bloomberg […]
Aug 15, 2023
‘Elegant’ study connects COVID with mitochondria gene disruptions, paving way for new treatments
Fierce Biotech Scientists and clinicians studying COVID-19 have long suspected that the disease doesn’t just affect the lungs, but many other organ systems too. Now, researchers have identified a mechanism that could explain why and reveal new pathways to find treatments for long COVID. In a study published Aug. 9 in Science, a team led by Children’s Hospital of […]
Aug 15, 2023
The Pandemic Potential of U.S. Animal Markets
MedPageToday Zoonotic disease threats are not just an “over there” problem. COVID hit the U.S. while my partner and I were back home at a wedding in Kansas. At the time, there were a handful of cases on the coasts, but concerns about the new virus were drowned out by the busy reception full of […]
Aug 15, 2023
Long COVID: Mitochondria, the Big Miss, and Hope
Medscape This week there was news on Long COVID in two very different directions: emergence of strong data to support mitochondrial dysfunction as the basis for the condition in some people, and learning how the $1.15 billion allocation to the NIH RECOVER initiative has largely been wasted. In this edition of Ground Truths, I’ll review […]
Aug 15, 2023