Leonard Cole, Who Detailed Secret Army Germ Tests, Dies at 89
A dentist with a parallel career as a political scientist, he drew attention to a program that made millions of Americans unwitting guinea pigs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ed Shanahan Tags: Cole, Leonard A. Deaths (Obituaries) Hazardous and Toxic Substances Biological and Chemical Warfare United States Defense and Military Forces Anthrax United States Army Writing and Writers United States Politics and Government Source Type: news
Boy, 1, has massive 'rapidly enlarging' lesion erupt on his butt
A one-year-old boy was infected with cutaneous anthrax, causing a massive, oozing, lesion to erupt on his buttocks. It took ten days of antibiotic treatment for his condition to begin improvement. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Croatia: Anthrax found in dead cattle in nature park
Croatian authorities say anthrax has been confirmed in dozens of cattle found dead in a nature park southeast of the capital, Zagreb (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Outbreaks from Animals in Africa Have Surged By 60% in the Last Decade
LONDON — The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future.
There has been a 63% rise in the number of animal diseases breaching the species barrier from 2012 to 2022, as compared to the decade before, the U.N. health agency said in a statement on Thursday.
There was a particular spike from 2019 to 2020, when diseases originating in animals that later infected humans, made up half of ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Africa healthscienceclimate Public Health wire Source Type: news
Monkeypox Testing Shows the U.S. Learned Little from the COVID-19 Pandemic
U.S. testing for monkeypox is insufficient to determine how widespread the virus is and where new cases are cropping up, according to infectious disease experts and advocates concerned about a sluggish response to the outbreak that’s already hit 32 countries.
While government labs have the capacity to test as many as 8,000 samples a week, they’re only using 2% of that capability, suggesting that about 23 monkeypox tests are being performed a day, said James Krellenstein, the cofounder of PrEP4All, an HIV advocacy group that widened its focus during the pandemic. Much more testing is needed to find out where the...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madison Muller / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate News Desk wire Source Type: news
Uganda: Anthrax - One Dead, 10 Admitted in Bududa
[Nile Post] By Kevin Kasoma (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
2001 Anthrax Attacks Fast Facts
Check out CNN's Fast Facts to learn more about the 2001 anthrax attacks also known as Amerithrax. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - May 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
State Laws Are Treating Fentanyl Like the New Crack —And Making the Same Mistakes of the 80s and 90s
Since the U.S. drug war was declared in 1971, various drugs have been identified as public enemy number one—from crack cocaine, in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the early 2000s. Today, the primary villain is fentanyl, a synthetic opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin. In 2021, more than 71,000 people in the U.S. died after overdoses involving synthetic opioids—mostly fentanyl, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics on May 11.
Such a deadly drug necessitates a firm public health response, and fortunately, decades of evidence have shown there are tools ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized Addiction healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Fuad El-Hibri, founder of vaccine maker Emergent BioSolutions, dies at 64
A major producer of vaccines against anthrax, the biotech company later attracted scrutiny when it was forced to discard 75 million doses of coronavirus vaccine because of possible contamination. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - May 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Langer Source Type: news
Fuad El-Hibri, Who Led a Troubled Vaccine Maker, Dies at 64
His company, Emergent BioSolutions, won a lucrative contract to produce Covid vaccines but then had to throw out millions of contaminated doses. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Clay Risen Tags: El-Hibri, Fuad Deaths (Obituaries) Emergent BioSolutions Inc Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Anthrax Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) United States Politics and Government AstraZeneca PLC Johnson & Source Type: news
Morrisville drugmaker scores $6M deal with Canada for anthrax treatment
The Canadian contract follows a recent deal with the U.S. government worth up to $81 million for the anthrax treatment. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 27, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news
Anthrax, animal attacks, and sexual disorders, why some Brits needed medical help in lockdown
EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline has analysed the latest latest data on NHS patient admissions, appointments and attendances in England from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pediatricians Who Serve Trans Youth Face Increasing Harassment. Lifesaving Care Could Be on the Line
Dr. Gina Sequeira first saw the protesters on a bright clear morning last September. A co-director of Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic who provides gender-affirming care to young people, Sequeira had confronted ignorance about her medical specialty in the past. But nothing had prepared her to see people outside her office, waving signs and handing out flyers warning of the “dangers” of the work she does.
“That was really, really hard for us as a clinic,” she says. “And I think it was really hard for the hospital’s patients and families who witnessed it.” Just a month later, p...
Source: TIME: Health - February 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Madeleine Carlisle Tags: Uncategorized feature Health Care LGBTQ nationpod News Source Type: news
The lessons of COVID-19, two years on
When Robert Kim-Farley heard that COVID-19 had reached the United States, on Jan. 20, 2020, he immediately recalled the grim images from China that he had been seeing online, with people dying in the streets outside of overwhelmed hospitals.“The pandemic has reached us, and it’s going to be bad,” the UCLA epidemiologist thought.With the U.S. reaching the second anniversary of that first U.S. case, Kim-Farley has been reflecting on what the scientific community got right during the medical crisis, and what it could have done better.On a scale of 1 to 10, he said he ’d give the U.S. a 7 for how local, state and feder...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 20, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
