Category: Featured
Should We Be Worried about a Malaria Outbreak in the United States?
Boston University Malaria has landed in Florida and Texas. BU infectious diseases specialist David Hamer shares his biggest worries when it comes to mosquito-borne diseases—and why malaria might not be the scariest one. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) started operations in 1946, it had an urgent mission: prevent malaria from spreading […]
Jul 18, 2023
GOROD A new case of Crimean-Congo fever in humans has been identified in southern Georgia. A middle-aged man fell ill. He is being treated at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Tbilisi, his condition is satisfactory. This year, 12 cases of Crimean-Congo fever have been detected in Samtskhe-Javakheti. One of the patients died. A new case of Crimean-Congo fever in […]
Jul 11, 2023
A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long COVID’
Scientific American We need to plan for a future where millions of survivors are chronically ill. Even as U.S. policy makers and business leaders seek to put the COVID pandemic in the rearview mirror with the help of highly effective vaccines, a fundamental policy and planning gap is looming. Many who survive the initial viral […]
Jul 11, 2023
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, CCHF, Virus Spreading In Europe Due To Climate Change
Forbes Here’s another growing problem with climate change that politicians and business leaders can ignore—the spread of CCHF. CCHF is not a rock band. That would be CCR or Creedence Clearwater Revival. Instead, CCHF stands for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. And it’s not like cowbell fever. It’s a potentially deadly fever caused by a virus that’s […]
Jul 11, 2023
CCHF in Pakistan: Patient dies in Quetta bringing death toll from tick-borne virus to 8
AAJ Another congo virus patient in Quetta died on Monday, taking the total number of deaths from the virus in the province to eight. The patient has been identified as 35-year-old Mansoor who was brought to the Fatima Jinnah hospital three days ago. Meanwhile, two more people infected with the congo virus have been admitted […]
Jul 11, 2023
APHIS Releases Research on Sars-Cov-2 Transmission in White-Tailed Deer Throughout the U.S.
USDA APHIS The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released national research from its first year of studies and sampling of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for active infection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. These studies show that SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have spread widely within the U.S. white-tailed deer […]
Jul 11, 2023
In the U.S., the world’s deadliest animal is on the move
Washington Post The deadliest animal in the world is smaller than a pencil eraser and weighs around two-thousandths of a gram — less than the weight of a single raindrop. Every year, it kills an estimated 700,000 people by partaking in what scientists grimly call a “blood meal.” It’s the mosquito — and, increasingly, it’s on the […]
Jul 5, 2023
Why rising interactions between bats and humans pose major global health risks
PBS The search for the origin of COVID-19 has highlighted the risks of viruses transmitted by certain species of bats. In the wild, they can incubate and spread diseases to other animals and humans. Dr. Neil Vora, a physician with Conservation International, joins Ali Rogin to discuss the global health concerns posed by an increasing […]
Jul 5, 2023
What could cause a malaria comeback in the US — and what could stop it
Vox Americans shouldn’t take a malaria-free future for granted. Over the last month, five people in the US (four in Florida and one in Texas) have acquired malaria within the country’s borders. That’s pretty uncommon — at least, in this century; until the 1950s, malaria was a persistent plague in the US, especially in the Southeast. Many […]
Jul 5, 2023
What we do — and don’t yet — know about the malaria cases in the U.S.
NPR In the 1950s, the U.S. declared that it had wiped out malaria. As NPR reported a few years ago, this public health milestone was achieved “through the use of insecticides, drainage ditches and the incredible power of window screens.” This week, headlines trumpeted the “return” of malaria: four cases in Florida and one in Texas. So […]
Jul 5, 2023