When Should We Consider A Rickettsial Disease?
Discussion
Rickettsioses are “small, obligate intracellular, gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillary α-proeobacteria” from the genuses Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Coxiella, Ehrlichia, and Orientia genuses. Often they cause limited health problems but can cause severe disease and death. They present with a fever and other non-specific signs and symptoms, usually with a rash and lymphadenopathy. Other problems can include:
Cardiac – endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis
Gastrointestinal – abdominal pain, acute abdomen, cholecystitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis
Heme/Lymph – hemophagocytosis, lymph...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 18, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Dengue Fever Is Soaring Worldwide. Here ’s What to Know—and How to Stay Protected
Governments and public health experts around the world are sounding the alarm about the record-high spread of one of the most notorious—and incurable—diseases, which about half the world is at risk of catching: dengue.
The mosquito-borne virus has a long history in warm climates but is now also emerging in regions where it had been generally unheard of—such as in Europe and parts of the U.S. By early December, there had already been more than five million dengue infections worldwide this year—a dramatic increase from some 500,000 cases in 2000—recorded across at least 80 countries and terri...
Source: TIME: Health - December 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Koh Ewe Tags: Uncategorized Explainer News Desk Source Type: news
U.K. At Risk Of Tropical Diseases If Temperatures Rise
Potentially fatal dengue could become endemic in London by 2060 as the effects of climate change intensify. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - December 12, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katherine Hignett, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
Automakers ’ Protection Of Software Underscores Issue Of Rising IP Theft
The theft of American intellectual property is endemic. According to a widely cited report issued by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, IP theft costs the U.S. economy hundreds of billions of dollars each year: Estimates range from $225 billion to $600 billion. Nowhere…#ip #bigtech #google #apple #zoom #generalmotors #tammybaldwin #johncornyn #doj #ussenators (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alienware wants to make endemic esports brand partnerships cool again
Esports organizations have spent years trying to evolve away from endemic brand partners in favor of blue-chip, non-endemic sponsors. But as sponsorships in the space grow fewer and farther between, endemics are becoming more attractive partners for esports teams large and small — and brands are…#fazeclan #gfuelandsteelseries #doordash #mcdonalds #bmw #chrissaylor #alienware #delltechnologies #teamliquid #clg (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Social vulnerability and firearm violence: geospatial analysis of 5 US cities - Polcari AM, Slidell MB, Hoefer LE, Henry MC, Zakrison TL, Rogers SO, Benjamin AJ.
BACKGROUND: Firearm violence is now endemic to certain US neighborhoods. Understanding factors that impact a neighborhood's susceptibility to firearm violence is crucial for prevention. Using a nationally standardized measure to characterize community-leve... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Episode 6: The Future of COVID-19: How to Live With a New Endemic Episode 6: The Future of COVID-19: How to Live With a New Endemic
Drs Matteo Bassetti and Cristina Mussini discuss the future of COVID-19 and sustainable approaches to living with an endemic.Medscape (Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hiv-Aids Headlines - November 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases InDiscussion Source Type: news
Caribbean parrots thought to be endemic are relicts of millennial-scale extinction
In a study supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and published in the journal PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds. Working … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - November 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
Roche launches automated serology hepatitis E virus tests, including a test to detect acute HEV infections, recommended in the new WHO 2023 Essential Diagnostics List
It is estimated that one third of the global population could be at risk for infection with Hepatitis E virus.1The new tests allow clinicians to diagnose acute and chronic infections amongst patients presenting with or without signs of the illness as recommended by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).2The tests complete Roche ’s panel used for the differential diagnosis of acute viral hepatitis caused by the hepatitis A, B, C and E viruses.Basel, 16 November 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the launch of the Elecsys ®Anti-HEV IgM and Elecsys Anti-HEV IgG immunoassays for t...
Source: Roche Investor Update - November 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Roche launches automated serology hepatitis E virus tests, including a test to detect acute HEV infections, recommended in the new WHO 2023 Essential Diagnostics List
It is estimated that one third of the global population could be at risk for infection with Hepatitis E virus.1The new tests allow clinicians to diagnose acute and chronic infections amongst patients presenting with or without signs of the illness as recommended by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).2The tests complete Roche ’s panel used for the differential diagnosis of acute viral hepatitis caused by the hepatitis A, B, C and E viruses.Basel, 16 November 2023 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the launch of the Elecsys ®Anti-HEV IgM and Elecsys Anti-HEV IgG immunoassays for t...
Source: Roche Media News - November 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
COVID-19 likely to peak in colder months as virus becomes endemic
As COVID-19 becomes endemic in the U.S., Yale scientists are trying to determine whether the timing of these surges will ever be predictable. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 14, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Progress Toward Eradication of Dracunculiasis - Worldwide, January 2022-June 2023
This report updates previous reports and describes progress toward eradicating endemic dracunculiasis in five countries. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - November 9, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: Animal-Related Diseases MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Guinea Worm Disease [Dracunculiasis] Source Type: news
Exploring the aftermath: work demands, workplace violence, and job satisfaction among nurses in a public hospital in the post-COVID-19 era - Sulistyowati D, Handiyani H, Kurniawan MH, Syukrini RD, Turyatiningsih.
BACKGROUND: Despite the shift from the COVID-19 pandemic to an endemic phase, many individuals, including nurses, may still be facing psychosocial challenges after enduring three years of the pandemic. Although the anticipation that psychosocial issues, su... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
South Africa: Malaria Season - Travellers Warned to Take Precautions
[SAnews.gov.za] The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is urging people travelling to malaria-endemic areas to take the appropriate precautions this summer. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 3, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malaria South Africa Southern Africa Travel and Tourism Source Type: news
A 'tropical disease' carried by sand flies is confirmed in a new country: the U.S.
Leishmaniasis, a disease spread by a parasite carried by sand flies, is generally considered a tropical disease. Now, thanks to climate change, new research finds it's endemic to the United States.(Image credit: Science Photo Library) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - November 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Max Barnhart Source Type: news
