Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
NCDC reports 763 Monkeypox cases, as Lassa fever kills 53 in January
(The Nation) Nigeria has recorded 763 (501 male, 261 female) confirmed cases of Monkeypox diseases from 34 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as of January 1, 2023, according to the latest epidemiological data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). Of the states with the cases of Monkeypox in the country, […]
Feb 14, 2023
COVID Rebound Can Happen Even without Paxlovid
(Scientific American) Concerns about Paxlovid rebound are preventing some doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drug and some high-risk patients from taking it. Paxlovid gets a bad rap over concerns about COVID “rebound.” That’s the primary takeaway from a series of papers showing that whether or not people take the antiviral medication, many have symptoms that […]
Feb 14, 2023
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
(Scientific American) The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system. Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She went on to complete […]
Feb 14, 2023
(The Lancet) WHO has identified Marburg virus as an emerging virus requiring urgent vaccine research and development, particularly due to its recent emergence in Ghana. We report results from a first-in-human clinical trial evaluating a replication-deficient recombinant chimpanzee adenovirus type 3 (cAd3)-vectored vaccine encoding a wild-type Marburg virus Angola glycoprotein (cAd3-Marburg) in healthy adults.
Feb 14, 2023
Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study
(NIH) A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, could someday be an important tool […]
Feb 14, 2023
(Atlantic) In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most part, clinicians dismissed its symptoms, and researchers focused on SARS-CoV-2 infections’ short-term effects. Now, as the pandemic approaches the end of its third winter in the […]
Feb 14, 2023
For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over
(New York Times) Seniors are increasingly left to protect themselves as the rest of the country abandons precautions: “Americans do not agree about the duty to protect others.” In early December, Aldo Caretti developed a cough and, despite all his precautions, came up positive for Covid on a home test. It took his family a […]
Feb 14, 2023
EQ Ministry of Health (Machine translated to English) Today, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, accompanied by the presidential advisers on health, and WHO consultants based in the country, held an important meeting with the departments linked to the inter-ministerial management of the current epidemic of Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever. The Minister of State […]
Feb 14, 2023
What to know about the deadly Marburg virus as new outbreak emerges
(Washington Post) The deadly Marburg virus has surfaced this week for the first time in Equatorial Guinea, causing at least nine deaths in the west African nation, according to the World Health Organization. A handful of Marburg cases were identified in Ghana late last year. Although it remains “a very rare disease in people,” according to the Centers for Disease Control […]
Feb 14, 2023
UPDATE STATEMENT SANITARY ALERT OF THE DAYFEBRUARY 8, 2023(Machine translated) The Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, issues the following update on the situation of the health alert of last February 8, communicated as a result of the unusual epidemiological situation detected in the districts of […]
Feb 13, 2023