Category: Featured Headlines
CDC issues alert over rising measles cases in the U.S.
NBC News As of Thursday, there had been 58 measles cases in the U.S. this year, the same number as in all of 2023, the CDC said in an advisory. The country’s health agency warned doctors Monday about an increase in measles cases that in a little more than three months has equaled all of […]
Mar 19, 2024
Four Years On, the Mysteries of Covid Are Unraveling
New York Times Are superdodgers real? Is Covid seasonal? And what’s behind its strangest symptoms? Here’s what we’ve learned. When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question: How was it spreading so quickly? How sick would it make people? Would […]
Mar 13, 2024
Brazil’s staggering dengue fever crisis is a warning to the world
Washington Post Patients lying motionless in the waiting room, moaning for help. Desperate hunts for an open hospital bed.Emergency room arguments over medication. Not since the darkest days of the covid-19 pandemic, when hospital systems all over this country ruptured under the weight of the disease, has Brazil witnessed such scenes. But this time, it’s […]
Mar 12, 2024
Flu Makes a Late Stand in Some Parts of the U.S.
Medical News Today Overall, hospitalizations of all three major respiratory viruses we track (COVID-19, influenza, and RSV) have decreased markedly from their late-December/early-January peaks this season. (Explore the dataon the Inside Medicine dashboard.) Now, you may recall that I recently wrote that, anecdotally, I felt that I was seeing an increase in flu-associated hospitalizations in the Northeast. Updated […]
Mar 12, 2024
The Atlantic Cases are creeping up in America, and not because of politics. Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten sick with the disease. A sick kid in Sacramento, California, may have exposed hundreds of people to the virus […]
Mar 12, 2024
The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic
New York Times Four years ago today, society began to shut down. Shortly after noon Eastern on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid — or “the coronavirus,” then the more popular term — to be a global pandemic. Stocks plummeted in the afternoon. In the span of a single hour that night, President […]
Mar 12, 2024
New Mexico man dies of plague in state’s 1st fatality since 2020: Health officials
ABC News A New Mexico man has died from plague in the state’s first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials. The man lived in Lincoln County — located in the southeastern part of the state — and was hospitalized from the disease before dying, the New Mexico Department of Health said in a press release last week. […]
Mar 12, 2024
Florida health officials provide scant details on measles cases, worrying health experts
STAT n Sunday, public health officials in two Michigan counties warned their residents that they may have been exposed to measles. In Wayne County, an adult who had contracted the virus abroad had been in health-related settings in Dearborn on two days last week — two urgent care clinics, a CVS pharmacy, and a hospital emergency […]
Mar 6, 2024
CDC director on new COVID guidance ending 5-day isolation
PBS Newshour Video – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its COVID guidance for when people need to isolate, return to school or work and get a booster shot. It’s part of broader recommendations on respiratory illnesses. CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the changes. Full transcript at […]
Mar 5, 2024
Livestock Markets Shuttered in Rift Valley Fever Crackdown
Libya Update In a bid to contain the outbreak of the highly contagious Rift Valley fever across the nation, authorities in Benghazi took sweeping action on Tuesday, ordering the closure of several major livestock markets in the city. The move came as part of a coordinated interagency campaign spearheaded by Benghazi’s Municipal Guard working in […]
Mar 5, 2024
