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First Cows, Now Cats. Is Bird Flu Coming for Humans Next?
WSJ With so much H5N1 virus circulating across the U.S., scientists worry we are a few mutations away from a potential human pandemic. Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in […]
Feb 18, 2025
MedPage Today On the first day of President Trump’s second term, he signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO). In an ironic twist of fate just 10 days later, a 32-year-old Ugandan nurse had a positive post-mortem test for a deadly filovirus. But unlike Ebola Zaire virus, its close viral kin, this man’s killer […]
Feb 18, 2025
Uganda confirms 2 new Ebola cases, total rises to 9
BNO News Two new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the outbreak affecting Uganda, bringing the total to nine, according to the country’s health ministry. The new cases were confirmed by Uganda’s Ministry of Health in a statement on Monday, according to Reuters. Of the nine total cases, one death has been confirmed, while the remaining […]
Feb 12, 2025
Kansas City Tuberculosis Outbreak: A Deadly Wake-Up Call
AJMC The Kansas City, Kansas, area is currently experiencing a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak, with 2 deaths, 67 active cases, and 79 latent cases reported so far. This surge comes amid a broader rise in TB cases across the US and globally over the past 3 years. In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care®, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, director […]
Feb 11, 2025
How Worried Should You Be About Bird Flu? Here’s What to Know.
WSJ Risk for the general public is still low, but public-health experts advise caution. Sky-high egg prices. Millions of dead chickens. A new strain in cattle. Bird flu is making its way around the country, hitting farmers and consumers in their wallets. A second strain of H5N1 avian flu was recently detected among dairy cows in Nevada, […]
Feb 11, 2025
China reports two new cases of H9N2
China Center for Health Protection Avian influenza A(H9N2):Hunan Province:
Feb 11, 2025
Number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda rises to nine
Reuters The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to nine from three, the country’s health ministry said. The East African country declared an outbreak of the severe, often-fatal viral infection late last month. The latest outbreak is being driven by the Sudan strain of the virus, for which there is no approved vaccine. Uganda’s […]
Feb 11, 2025
New version of bird flu infects Nevada dairy worker
Washington Post This version of the virus is circulating broadly in wild birds and is different from the virus that has been causing dairy cow outbreaks since early 2024, the CDC said. A Nevada dairy worker was infected with a version of bird flu that is known to have killed one person in the United States and severely […]
Feb 11, 2025
In the wake of its outbreak, Rwanda is examining its Marburg survivors
Devex Rwanda is studying the survivors of its recent Marburg outbreak to better understand how they survived. Rwanda swiftly brought its recent outbreak of Marburg to a close at the end of December. The government’s response — which took less than three months — was seen as a blueprint on how to efficiently control an […]
Feb 5, 2025
Uganda: 25 contacts of Ebola patients traced in Jinja city
The Independent The Senior Health Educator of Jinja City, Sayyid Kalume, has confirmed that 25 contacts of the two Ebola patients identified last week have been traced. The majority of these contacts are family members and neighbors of the patients, who were isolated after testing positive for the Ebola virus. The two patients—a child and […]
Feb 5, 2025