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The COVID public health emergency ends this week. Here’s what’s changing
NPR On Jan. 31, 2020, with six confirmed cases of a new coronavirus in the U.S., a group of federal health officials gathered somberly at the lectern at the White House and declared a public health emergency. “Beginning at 5:00 p.m. EST Sunday, February the 2nd, the United States government will implement temporary measures to increase our […]
May 9, 2023
End of covid emergency highlights U.S. weakness in tracking outbreaks
Washington Post When the covid public health emergency ends May 11, laboratories across the United States will no longer be required to report coronavirus test results to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitals and state health departments, too, will report less comprehensive data, making it more difficult for the federal agency responsible for detecting and […]
May 9, 2023
Could a frozen ancient virus thawed by climate change cause the next pandemic?
ABC News (Australia) Climate change threatens human life in many ways but one of the less obvious could be a rise in pandemics. A warming climate could release ancient pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, that have been frozen in permafrost in the polar regions for millennia, Jean-Michel Claverie tells ABC RN’s Future Tense. “We know for certain that bacteria […]
May 9, 2023
Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over?
STAT News If you have been looking for a sense of pandemic closure, the World Health Organization’s declaration Friday that it was ending the Covid global health emergency was about as close to it as you are likely to get. The reality is that although battlefield metaphors are often employed to describe humankind’s struggle with the SARS-CoV-2 […]
May 9, 2023
4 more cases of Haemophilus influenzae confirmed at Marcus Garvey Academy
Detroit News As students grieved the loss of a 6-year-old classmate, they returned to school at Marcus Garvey Academy on Monday. The Detroit Public Schools Community District says grief counselors were on hand to provide support. The Medical Examiner’s Office told 7 Action News his cause of death is not yet determined. The Detroit Public […]
May 9, 2023
Two Congo virus-related deaths cause alarm in Pakistan
AJ A total of 16 cases of the virus found in Balochistan province since the beginning of the year, of which 11 were detected this month. Pakistan health authorities are alarmed after two people died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in the country’s Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The first death from the disease, commonly […]
May 9, 2023
Senegal: Congo Fever Viral Disease Claims First Victim
Bobr Times A person has died in Senegal from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, known as Congo fever, a viral disease that is transmitted by ticks, AFP learned on Tuesday from the Ministry of Health, which says that the case was circumscribed. A butcher who was on duty at the slaughterhouses in Dakar was declared ill on […]
May 2, 2023
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
The Atlantic By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined. More than a year has passed since the world last saw daily confirmed deaths tick above 10,000; nearly a year and a half has elapsed since the population was pummeled by a new Greek-lettered variant of concern. […]
May 2, 2023
CDC opens probe after 35 test positive for covid following CDC conference
Washington Post Attendees say many people did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions recommended earlier in the pandemic. Disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are probing a new outbreak: the roughly three-dozen coronavirus cases linked to their own annual conference last week. “CDC is working with the Georgia Department of Health […]
May 2, 2023
Marburg death toll in Tanzania rises to six after baby dies
East African Tanzanian health authorities on Saturday said that an 18-month-old child died of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern region of Kagera. The death of the child brought the country’s Marburg death toll to six since its outbreak in the region on March 21, 2023, the Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu announced when she released an […]
May 2, 2023