Category: Featured Headlines
A potentially fatal mystery illness in dogs is spreading in the US. It starts with a cough
Today A mysterious and potentially fatal respiratory illness in dogs has been reported in several states across the country, as veterinarians continue to search for what may be causing the condition that has killed some dogs. The illness starts out as a cough that can last for several weeks, but it may not respond to […]
Nov 21, 2023
Science The appearance of a “tropical” mosquito-borne illness in southeastern Australia has unsettled researchers. Construction supervisor Jack McCann started to feel “a bit crook”—that’s “sick,” in Australian slang—on the hot afternoon of 26 February 2022. He and some buddies had just finished laying a fireplace hearth in his backyard in Corowa, Australia, population 5500. His […]
Nov 21, 2023
More free COVID-19 tests from the government are available for home delivery through the mail
AP News Americans can order more free COVID-19 tests online for home delivery. The U.S. government is offering to send another round of four at-home virus tests ahead of the typical surge in cases during the winter holiday season. Anyone who did not order a batch of four COVID-19 tests in September can secure up to eight […]
Nov 21, 2023
Nature As Earth warms, the creatures that spread neglected tropical diseases are gaining a foothold in Europe. Wealthy countries must prepare themselves for more cases. Europe long thought itself safe from neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Those old certainties have now evaporated. A warmer and wetter climate has made the continent more welcoming to vectors of […]
Nov 15, 2023
What Tony Fauci Says about Long COVID and Other Postviral Illnesses
Scientific American The first person I met with long COVID was Kenton Kaplan, a student I was mentoring at Georgetown University. Without much warning, he had called me in January 2022 to drop out of our departmental honors program. As we talked over the next year and a half, he told me about debilitating fatigue, dizziness […]
Nov 14, 2023
Washington Post A flesh-eating fungus is expanding its range in the American West – and Scientists suspect climate change is driving the spread. At some point, Erik McIntyre inhaled the fungal spores. He couldn’t see them, or feel them, and it was weeks before he began to lose energy, to drop weight, to cough up […]
Nov 14, 2023
Fortune Deaths from a handful of viruses that spill over from animals to humans are set to increase 12-fold by 2050 due to climate change and habitat encroachment, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. Three of the four—filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg, SARS, and Nipah virus—are on the World Health Organization’s list of […]
Nov 14, 2023
Can’t Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog
New York Times Adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s are driving the trend. Researchers point to long Covid as a major cause. There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems — with remembering, concentrating or making decisions — than at any time in the last 15 years, data from the Census […]
Nov 14, 2023
Infants Are Born With Syphilis in Growing Numbers, a Sign of a Wider Epidemic
New York Times Congenital syphilis has become more than ten times as common over the past decade, the C.D.C. reported. “The situation is dire,” said one expert. The rise in sexually transmitted infections in the United States has taken a particularly tragic turn: More than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022, roughly […]
Nov 7, 2023
Animal-To-Human Diseases Could Kill 12 Times More People By 2050
Forbes Most modern epidemics have been caused by pathogens that spread from animals to humans. These zoonotic diseases are predicted to increase as climate change and deforestation worsen. Disease epidemics transmitted from animals to humans could kill at least 12 times more people in 2050 than they did in 2020, according to a recently published […]
Nov 7, 2023
