Can leprosy be cured? CDC issues travel advisory to Florida after state sees increase in cases
The disease, if left untreated, can cause severe disabilities including blindness and the curling of the hands and feet. It may now be endemic to central Florida. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Leprosy May Be Endemic In Southeastern U.S. —But It’s Still Rare: Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
The disease is curable using a multi-drug treatment that includes typically two or three antibiotics taken over the course of a year or two. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 1, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Arianna Johnson, Forbes Staff Tags: Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Trending Explainer Trending-Explainer topline Source Type: news
CDC warning as leprosy cases increase in Florida
Infectious disease agency suggests central portion of state may have become ‘endemic location’ for potentially debilitating diseaseLeprosy cases are surging in Florida,said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with a new report suggesting the central area of the state may have become an “endemic location” for the infectious, potentially debilitating disease.There were 159 new cases of leprosy in the US in 2020, the most recent year for which data was studied, according to a report published on Monday by the CDC. Florida was among the top reporting states, and almost a fifth of all cases were rep...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Adam Gabbatt in New York Tags: Florida US news Infectious diseases World news Science Health Society Source Type: news
Pee-Wee Herman Actor Dies; Leprosy Endemic in Florida? Senator With Facial Numbness
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Paul Reubens, the actor who played Pee-wee Herman in the 1980s and 90s, died at the age of 70 after a 6-year fight with cancer. (NBC News)
An abortion advocacy... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 1, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
50th country recognized by WHO for eliminating a neglected tropical disease, marking the ...
30 July 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Iraq for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the fifth country in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region to achieve this milestone.
“The success of Iraq’s national trachoma programme has shown what can be achieved with national leadership and collaboration”, said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Freedom from trachoma will positively impact the lives of the most vulnerable populations now and in the future”.
Iraq established its national trachoma programme in 2012 to coordinate the final domest...
Source: WHO EMRO News - August 1, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
What Matters Most to You as a Doctor?
(MedPage Today) -- It is a well-known phenomenon that burnout -- defined as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and apathy towards work -- is endemic among physicians. While studies have demonstrated that a loss of meaning in one's life... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - July 30, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Cases of Tick-Borne Illnesses Are on the Rise. Some Experts Believe Climate Change is the Cause
(NEW YORK) — In 2022, doctors recorded the first confirmed case of tick-borne encephalitis virus acquired in the United Kingdom.
It began with a bike ride.
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A 50-year-old man was mountain biking in the North Yorkshire Moors, a national park in England known for its vast expanses of woodland and purple heather. At some point on his ride, at least one black-legged tick burrowed into his skin. Five days later, the mountain biker developed symptoms commonly associated with a viral infection — fatigue, muscle pain, fever.
At first, he seemed to be on the mend, bu...
Source: TIME: Health - July 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ZOYA TEIRSTEIN / Grist/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Blog: Influencing the next Labour government
After 13 years of Tory failures in Westminster, our economy is weaker, our living standards are lower, and our country is poorer. Britain is clearly broken.
Over the weekend, our UNISON delegation spent long hours in intense negotiations with the Labour party at the National Policy Forum.
Our mission was to get UNISON’s priorities on pay, public services, social care, workers’ and trade union rights, and equalities into Labour’s policy platform for their next manifesto.
That manifesto must be election-winning, because despite Labour riding high in the polls over the past year, they’ve lost the last four general ele...
Source: UNISON Health care news - July 26, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: Article General Secretary General Secretary's blog News Christina McAnea Labour Party UNISON Labour Link Source Type: news
Puffballs and eyelash cups: searching for New Zealand ’s curious fungi
Growing interest in native fungi as enthusiasts across New Zealand hunt for the unusual specimens, from gilled oyster mushrooms to fleshy ‘brains’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOne day the forest floor may be filled with leaf litter, soft decomposing logs and tiny tree saplings – the next, the logs flush with gilled oyster mushrooms, rivers of brightly coloured waxgills run along the ground, or puffballs – white orbs, as big as footballs, that suddenly appear in the undergrowth.Such is the curious world of New Zealand ’s fungi, which like the nation’s flora and fauna, have evolved in isolation into ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Gabi Lardies in Auckland Tags: New Zealand Foraging Fungi Biology Source Type: news
Curry may have landed in Southeast Asia 2000 years ago
Even after 2000 years, the stone slab still smelled of nutmeg. Unearthed in an ancient village in southern Vietnam, the cookware—roughly the size and shape of an anvil—was likely used to grind the spice, along with other ingredients familiar in today’s curries. The discovery, reported today in
Science Advances
, marks
the earliest known example of spice processing in mainland Southeast Asia
. It also suggests that visitors from India and Indonesia may have introduced their culinary traditions to the region millennia ago.
“For decades, we have known of the strong Indian influence on Southea...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Mortality among persons with epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic and non-endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Siewe Fodjo JN, van Cutsem G, Amaral LJ, Colebunders R.
PURPOSE
To document epilepsy-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and investigate possible associations with onchocerciasis endemicity.
Methods
Systematic review with meta-analysis. Searches were performed in PubMed and Google Scholar (searc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news
As famed Arecibo Observatory shuts down, its scientists face an uncertain future
At the end of a winding road lined by flowering red flamboyan trees, you can still see the broken remains of the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope. The Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope collapsed in 2020, and in October 2022 its owner, the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced that after 6 decades, the site would no longer be an observatory. Instead, NSF plans to transform it into an educational facility. Contracts for up to 90 staff members, including 25 researchers, end on 14 August.
“We’re closing out all science activities,” says physicist Julie Brisset of the University of Cent...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 12, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
'Bone-breaker' fever could become endemic in UK if 'risky' experiment backfires, experts fear
EXCLUSIVE: Londoners could be injected with the infectious tropical virus dengue as part of a proposed study that experts say carries an 'inevitable' risk of onward community infections. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Angola: Vice-President Chairs 1st Ordinary Session of HIV/Aids Fight Commission
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, will Tuesday in the Province of Luanda lead the First Ordinary Session of the National Commission for the Fight Against HIV/AIDS and Major Endemics (CNSLS-GE). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 11, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Angola Central Africa Health and Medicine Southern Africa Source Type: news
Vaccination Is the Best Bet Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs — Experts
Experts encourage parents to vaccinate their children against typhoid to ensure that the child has access to clean drinking water. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Jul 6 2023 (IPS) The first thing you notice about eight-month-old Manahil Zeeshan is how tiny she looks on the adult-size hospital bed at the government-run Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN) in Korangi, a neighbourhood in Karachi.
Her right foot is taped with a cannula, and she whimpers incessantly. “I have been in and out of the hospital for the last seven days,” said Uzma Mohammad, Zeeshan’s mom, with worry lines...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zofeen Ebrahim Tags: Africa Civil Society Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequality Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
