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
ICMR-VCRC develop special bacteria-infected mosquitoes to control dengue, chikungunya viruses
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Source: The Economic Times - July 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Viruses Can Change Your Scent to Make You More Attractive to Mosquitoes, New Research Finds
[The Conversation Africa] Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animal. Over 1 million deaths per year are attributed to mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya fever. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 1, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zika and dengue may make humans more attractive to mosquitoes
Zika and dengue fever viruses alter the scent of humans and mice they infect, researchers say. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - July 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mosquitoes Drawn to Hosts Infected by Dengue, Zika
Flavivirus infections alter the skin microbiome of mice to increase the production of a sweet-smelling compound that attracts the viruses’ insect vectors, a study finds. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - June 30, 2022 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Renews Commitment to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases, Investing in Beating Intestinal Worms, Dengue and Leprosy
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 23, 2022 – Johnson & Johnson proudly joined the global community, including governments, foundations, non-profit organizations and other pharmaceutical companies, to endorse the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. Together, we are recommitting to our long-established efforts to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a set of debilitating diseases that put at risk the health of 1.7 billion people around the world, especially the most vulnerable and underserved.Working from the lab to the last-mile of health delivery, Johnson & Johnson is today committing ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - June 23, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Health & amp; Wellness Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Opens First Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery in Asia Pacific at Duke-NUS to Advance Dengue Research
SINGAPORE, June 21, 2022 – Johnson & Johnson (the Company) today announced the launch of the new J&J Satellite Center for Global Health Discovery (Satellite Center) at Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School, jointly established by Duke University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a graduate-entry medical school and research powerhouse. As the first of the J&J Centers for Global Health Discovery (J&J Centers) in the Asia-Pacific region, the Satellite Center at Duke-NUS aims to help drive new solutions to address flaviviruses, which disproportionately impact communities across the region, by ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - June 21, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Takeda: Dengue Vaccine Candidate Works Without Big Safety Risks Takeda: Dengue Vaccine Candidate Works Without Big Safety Risks
Takeda ' s TAK-003 dengue vaccine showed long-term efficacy and no antibody-dependent enhancement reactions in seronegative patients. It can be given without prior serologic testing.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - June 10, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Serologic Cross-Reactivity Between Dengue Virus and SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Cross-Reactivity Between Dengue Virus and SARS-CoV-2
Prior reports have suggested cross-reactivity between assays for SARS-CoV2, dengue, and Zika viruses, but this report indicates high specificity and minimal levels of cross-reactivity among the three.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
Africa: AI Drives Quest for New Antivirals to Fight Outbreaks
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international scientists using artificial intelligence to discover new oral antivirals. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 4, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Monkeypox isn ’t the disease we should be worried about | John Vidal
Climate change is likely to exacerbate the rapid spread of viruses and pathogens as humans encroach on the natural worldIn the past three weeks there have been nearly 100 cases and 18 human deaths from arare tick-borne disease in Iraq; afourth case of the Ebola virus and more than 100 cases of bubonic plague have been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and just two years after Africa was declared free of wild polio, new cases have turned up inMalawi and Mozambique. A dangerous strain of typhus is circulating in Nepal, India and China. There are alarming outbreaks on several continents of mosquito diseases such as m...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 25, 2022 Category: Science Authors: John Vidal Tags: Monkeypox Infectious diseases Microbiology Science World news Farming Animals Environment Source Type: news
Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Stop Disease Pass Early Test Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Stop Disease Pass Early Test
To curb the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like Dengue and Zika, scientists have genetically modified the insects and released them in the US.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - May 9, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Mosquitoes Genetically Modified to Stop Disease Pass Early Test
To curb the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue and Zika, scientists have genetically modified the insects and released them in the U.S. Early results from the pilot study are promising. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - May 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Warning: Climate Crisis Is Now the Single Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity
This year’s World Health Day launched a new warning: more than 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to “avoidable environmental causes”. Credit: BigstockBy Baher KamalMADRID, Apr 5 2022 (IPS) While the world’s top scientists and experts continue their arduous work to finally submit to politicians at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (7-18 November 2022), a new alert now emerges: the climate crisis has already become the single biggest health threat to humankind.
But this new alert should be no surprise: it rather constitutes the logic, expected cons...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Development & Aid Environment Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations World Health Day Source Type: news
Eight-Gene Model Can Help Predict Progression to Severe Dengue
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 -- An eight-gene model can help predict progression to severe dengue (SD), according to a study published online March 29 in Genome Medicine.
Yiran E. Liu, from Stanford University in California, and colleagues integrated 11... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 1, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
