Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Two human cases of bird flu in Michigan
NPR Michigan (Podcast) The third known case of H5N1 bird flu in a human this year was confirmed late last week in Michigan. Two of the three cases were found in Michigan. All of the infections were found in people who work directly with livestock. In Michigan, both cases involved dairy cattle herds infected with H5N1. On […]
Jun 5, 2024
Bird flu detected in four Colorado dairy herds
Colorado News The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that dairy herds in nine states are infected with the H5N1 virus or bird flu. Four of those herds are in Colorado, where the first infection was detected in the northeastern part of the state in April. The USDA and the Colorado Department of Agriculture are […]
Jun 5, 2024
Texas: Pediatricians warn of hand, foot, mouth disease outbreak in San Antonio
San Antonio News A highly contagious illness is spreading among children in San Antonio, causing little ones to suffer from fever, mouth sores, and rashes. A local pediatrician specialist told MySA that cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) typically spike in the late spring and early summer. While it’s easy to transmit, it’s an illness […]
Jun 5, 2024
Second bird flu outbreak in 6 days infects 103K turkeys at northwest Iowa commercial facility
DeMoines Register The second bird flu outbreak in a week was reported Sunday, with nearly 103,000 turkeys infected in northwest Iowa’s Cherokee County. The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported Tuesday, May 28 that an egg facility with 4.2 million laying hens was infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza. On Sunday, the agency announced that 102,891 turkeys […]
Jun 4, 2024
Don’t just blame rat fleas. Lice may have helped spread ‘black death’ plague
NPR The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient pandemic was how it spread so quickly. The common wisdom is that rat fleas were the big spreaders. But now a […]
Jun 4, 2024
Analyzing The Emergence Of Covid Variant KP.2 And Its Potential Impact
Forbes It is clear that SARS-CoV-2, the agent of the Covid-19 epidemic, is here to stay. Like influenza, an easily transmissible respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 mutates to evade the immune system of those who have been previously vaccinated, infected, or both. The question remains: how dangerous is each new version of SARS-CoV-2? Again, like the Flu, […]
Jun 4, 2024
New cases of Avian Influenza infect South Dakota livestock
ABC News Avian Influenza, or the Bird Flu, has been affecting livestock across the nation, and in the last 30 days, there have been five new recorded cases of H5N1, in South Dakota livestock. The infectious disease has changed in recent years to not only affect poultry but also wild mammals and dairy herds. South […]
Jun 4, 2024
COVID-19 (FLiRT variant, CDC data, long COVID) | H5N1 (2nd dairy worked infected, domestic livestock cases, beef studies)
May 29, 2024
Medical Express Speaking at the World Health Assembly, authors of a new Lancet Series call for urgent global action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Authors say if the world does not prioritize action on AMR now, we will see a steady increase in the global death toll—currently 4.95 million per year from infections linked to AMR—with young infants, elderly people, […]
May 28, 2024
Strategic framework for enhancing prevention and control of mpox- 2024-2027
WHO This Strategic framework for enhancing prevention and control of mpox (2024–2027) outlines a road map for health authorities, communities, and stakeholders worldwide to control mpox outbreaks in every context, advance mpox research and access to countermeasures, and minimize zoonotic transmission. There are two known clades of monkeypox virus (MPXV) with distinct epidemiological patterns and […]
May 28, 2024