Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
South Georgia Island: Bird flu infects penguins at famous wildlife haven
BBC Bird flu has been confirmed in 10 penguins on South Georgia, one of the world’s great wildlife havens. Avian influenza had already infected other seabirds and mammals on the British Overseas Territory, but scientists report gentoo and king penguins have now fallen victim, too. The breeding season is closing on the sub-Antarctic island so […]
Mar 12, 2024
The next pandemic? It’s already here for Earth’s wildlife
The Conversation I am a conservation biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases. When people ask me what I think the next pandemic will be I often say that we are in the midst of one – it’s just afflicting a great many species more than ours. I am referring to the highly pathogenic strain of […]
Mar 12, 2024
A look at the Avian Influenza situation in Alberta
Alberta City View Since Jan. 1, there have been two confirmed cases of Avian influenza, one in a commercial flock in Mountain View County and the second in a backyard flock in Vermilion River County. Avian influenza hit the Province of Alberta for the first time in 2022 and outbreaks are still popping up two […]
Mar 12, 2024
4 things you should know about measles amid an uptick in cases
The Hill The U.S. is seeing a rash of measles cases, with more than three dozen cases reported across 17 states already this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This comes two months after the agency warned clinicians to remain alert for measles cases. So far this year, 45 cases have been reported […]
Mar 12, 2024
4 cases of measles now confirmed at Chicago migrant shelter, including CPS student
CBS News Four cases of measles have now been reported at the migrant shelter for new arrivals in Pilsen, the Chicago Department of Public Health confirmed Monday. This marks a total of five cases of the highly contagious disease in Chicago in just four days. Chicago Public Schools said one patient was a CPS student. […]
Mar 12, 2024
Avian flu spreading to marine mammals grows concern of potential risk to humans, study says
CBS News Concern is growing about the avian flu now spreading to marine mammals and a new study says that it increases the potential risk to humans. The danger to humans is low right now, but as long as the avian flu is spreading to other animals, there’s a risk it could spread to people, […]
Mar 5, 2024
When you have covid, here’s how you know you are no longer contagious
Washington Post The United States has entered a different stage in the pandemic. Four years after the virus emerged, the covid-19 landscape has changed dramatically. The virus is no longer the emergency it once was, when the population had no protection against the novel pathogen SARS-CoV-2. By the end of 2023, 98 percent of people […]
Mar 5, 2024
SARS CoV-2 Is a Very Weird Virus
Medscape Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. In the early days of the pandemic, before we really understood what COVID was, two specialties in the hospital had a foreboding sense that something was very strange about this […]
Mar 5, 2024
With a million cases of dengue so far this year, Brazil is in a state of emergency
NPR It was 3 a.m. on Feb. 6 when the dengue field hospital in Brasília temporarily shut its doors. The generator powering the medical facility had blown and the 29 members of the Brazilian Air Force in charge had to change it before they could see patients again. Medical professionals who’d been trained to care […]
Mar 5, 2024
Low iron levels resulting from infection could be key trigger of long COVID
Cambridge University Problems with iron levels in the blood and the body’s ability to regulate this important nutrient as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection could be a key trigger for long COVID, new research has discovered. The discovery not only points to possible ways to prevent or treat the condition, but could help explain why […]
Mar 5, 2024