Category: Featured Headlines
Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals
Telegraph Alert issued over reported epidemic of ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’ among Chinese children. Chinese hospitals have been “overwhelmed with sick children” as an outbreak of pneumonia escalates in cities across the country, including Beijing, according to reports. ProMed – a large, publicly available surveillance system which monitors human and animal disease outbreaks worldwide – issued a notification […]
Nov 22, 2023
Omicron, Now 2 Years Old, Is Not Done With Us Yet
New York Times The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan and spread across the world, the surprises seemed to be over. More than four billion people had been vaccinated against the virus, […]
Nov 21, 2023
CDC updates on international travel, new COVID variant HV.1, Beyfortus
AMA Wondering how to avoid COVID this holiday season? AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, breaks down the best time to get vaccinated and provides updates on the latest COVID variant and the surge in RSV and flu cases. Plus, the sharp decrease in vaccination rates among children […]
Nov 21, 2023
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
