Tag Archives: Infectious

Whooping cough has risen sharple in Florida this year. Gee, wonder why. HEPA air purifiers may reduce viral abundance in classrooms but they don’t reduce transmission. Locally acquired chikungunya In New York State. And Dengue in California: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating the year’s first case of locally acquired dengue in a San Gabriel Valley resident. The patient, who became ill …

When landowner and hunter James Barkhurst went scouting his property about a month ago to assess the local deer population ahead of the fall hunting season, he was left in shock. “I’ve seen about 14 dead in less than a mile stretch. There’s a lot of does, big bucks and even fawns. You smell the dead everywhere,” he says. “And …

ATLANTA (AP) — CDC researchers are being forced to skip a pivotal conference on infectious disease this week due to the government shutdown, missing out on high-level discussions not long after surges in measles and whooping cough hit the U.S. IDWeek, the largest annual meeting of infectious disease experts in the nation, is the leading venue for experts to trade …

The ‘Healthy’ Activity To Avoid if You’re Sick, According to an Infectious Disease Doctor  AOL.com Source link

More than 100 students in South Carolina are being quarantined after they were exposed to measles.  In a briefing Wednesday, officials from the South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed 139 students in South Carolina schools are under quarantine because they are all unvaccinated against measles, leaving them vulnerable to infection. The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is typically given …

State and county level vaccination data can mask school by school disparities in uptake. And cases keep going up, while reports on the ground suggest that there are more cases that go unreported. Michigan reports its First outbreak of avian flu since January, in turkeys. Over the last 30 days, 38 flocks have been affected, involving millions of birds. Live H5N1 virus can survive in …

It’s hard to believe that infectious diseases have become a political litmus test, but they are now very much part of the “with us or against us” mental sorting more and more people seem to be doing these days. And the topic seems to be everywhere. Do you think the U.S. should continue funding aid programs for diseases such as …

Two cases of measles have been reported in New York City, officials have warned.   The Manhattan borough president, Mark Levine, said on Monday that two cases of measles have been identified in the Lower East Side and SoHo areas of Manhattan.  No details have been released on the patients, and it’s unclear if they were NYC residents or traveled from …

An infectious disease has invaded America’s public health agencies  The Hill Source link

DR Congo declares another Ebola outbreak.  More details emerge.  Suspected cases have risen to 68,  and more regions are involved.  This is a new zoonotic spillover, not related to previous outbreaks. Mpox Continues to be a problem for Africa, as the rest of the world winds down its health emergency.  Also, cholera is a severe problem. A previously stored sample from a CA dairy …