Covid unlikely to overwhelm hospitals: Experts
"In fact, waste water surveillance in Bengaluru has shown that we went through a silent outbreak. Infections happened, but hospitals didn't fill up," said Virologist Shahid Jameel of the University of Oxford. "This shows vaccines and prior infections protect and the virus is pretty much endemic." (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - May 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.S. Will Lift Most Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Next Week
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday.
Vaccine requirements for federal workers and federal contractors, as well as foreign air travelers to the U.S., will end May 11. The government is also beginning the process of lifting shot requirements for Head Start educators, healthcare workers, and noncitizens at U.S. land borders.
The requirements are among the last vestiges of some of the more coercive measures taken by the federal government to ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zeke Miller/AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Polynesian snails release is biggest ever of ‘extinct in the wild’ species
Misguided introduction of alien predator saw partula snails driven from their habitat – but zoos have reared new populationsWhen French Polynesia was overrun by the invasiveAfrican giant land snail, another alien species, the predatory rosy wolf snail, was introduced to solve the problem.Unfortunately therosy wolf snail devoured tiny, endemic partula snails instead, hunting down the scent of their slime trails at three times the speed of a normal snail.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Patrick Barkham Tags: Conservation French Polynesia Environment World news Wildlife Extinct wildlife Animals Invertebrates Science Source Type: news
Ignoring the social care crisis will worsen the broken system, says UNISON
Commenting on the report by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) that calls on the government to reform the system of care and support in England, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said:
“Ministers are choosing to ignore the social care crisis. Deep-rooted staffing problems will only begin to be resolved by addressing endemic low pay in the sector.
“A national care service with better pay and conditions would end the profiteering in care and turn around this broken system.”
Notes to editors:
-UNISON is the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members provi...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 26, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Gavin Edwards social care Source Type: news
Endemic Melioidosis in the United States Endemic Melioidosis in the United States
Melioidosis from B pseudomallei is now locally endemic to the southern continental United States.CDC Expert Commentary (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Commentary Source Type: news
Measuring for primary prevention: an online survey of local community perspectives on family and domestic violence in regional Australia - Woods JA, Ward AC, Greville HS, Moran MC, Nattabi B, Martin KE, Thompson SC.
BACKGROUND: Family and domestic violence, encompassing diverse behaviours including physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuse, is endemic worldwide and has multiple adverse health and social consequences. Principal drivers include traditional gender ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news
The forgotten facet of firearms safety: unintentional gun injuries and deaths in the United States - Schwebel DC.
Firearm-related injuries and deaths are endemic in the United States today. Reading the daily news, many American citizens reflect upon the horrors of mass shootings and sense the daily homicides and suicides that kill 5 Americans every hour of every day, ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
South Africa: Novel Diagnostic Testing Technique - a Game-Changer in the Fight Against TB
[UCT] Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health priority globally, and the foremost infectious disease killer in sub-Saharan Africa. In many TB-endemic countries, it sets back national gross domestic product by between 2 and 3% - with approximately 11 million people falling ill with TB for the first time annually. (Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis)
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - April 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Neglected Tropical Disease Mycetoma Research Gains Momentum
Patients outside the Mycetoma Research Center in Sudan. Credit: DNDi By Geoffrey KamadiNAIROBI, Apr 7 2023 (IPS) The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma—a neglected tropical disease—are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania, Kenya, and Niger, as well as people in Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, and Cameroon. Cases have also been reported in Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen.
“It is currently unknown what the incidence, prevalence and the number of reported cases per year per country is,” observes Dr Borna Nyaoke, head of the Mycetoma Program at the Drugs for Negl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Geoffrey Kamadi Tags: Africa Featured Headlines Health Inequity TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Sudan Source Type: news
Bird shots: Is vaccinating poultry the best defense against a deadly bird flu?
Lakeside, California—
Hilliker’s Ranch Fresh Eggs in this San Diego suburb has 30,000 chickens in three “cage-free,” open-air barns, where birds crowd the floor like rush-hour riders on a big city subway. “A cage-free aviary is a very interesting science experiment,” says Frank Hilliker, who runs the farm his
grandfather started
in 1942. He worries mightily about infections spreading through the massed birds. On his iPhone, he pulls up a list of the vaccines his chickens get: against Newcastle disease, infectious laryngotracheitis, coryza, colibacillosis, salmonella, infectious bronchitis, and fo...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Environment agency workers to walk out for four more days, says UNISON
Thousands of Environment Agency workers in England are to strike for four days over pay later this month, blaming government inaction for putting communities, waters and wildlife at risk, says UNISON today (Wednesday).
Despite months of strikes and other action where workers have taken themselves off ‘on call’ incident response rotas, ministers have made no attempt to invite unions in for pay talks, says UNISON.
The union’s latest action means staff working on coastal sea defences, protecting communities from floods, tackling water pollution, waste fires and fly-tipping will strike from 7pm next Friday (14 April). ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 5, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Donna Rowe-Merriman environment agency Source Type: news
Rwanda: Rwanda First African Country to Fully Integrate Drone Technology in Fighting Malaria
[New Times] In a world still grappling with malaria elimination, Rwanda was the first country to integrate and deploy drones in the most malaria endemic zones of the country for an accelerated outcome. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 27, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Q & A: Bioengineer Mireille Kamariza can ’t wait to see what’s next
When Mireille Kamariza joined theUCLA Samueli School of Engineering as an assistant professor of bioengineering in January, she brought with her an early record of innovation.Just a decade after earning her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego, Kamariza has already developed a potential point-of-care diagnostic test for tuberculosis. TB is the world ’s second-deadliest infectious disease, behind COVID-19, and still a serious burden in low-income countries.In the late 2010s, as a doctoral fellow at Stanford University, Kamariza and colleagues designed a system with a fluorescent “reporter” molecule attached to a sugar...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Disease caused by tick bites spreading in Northeast
A tick-borne parasitic disease has claimed new ground in the Northeast, having been announced as being "endemic" in three more states. According to a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published on March 17 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cases of babesiosis spiked…#northeast #cdc #connecticut #maine #massachusetts #minnesota #newhampshire #newjersey #rhodeisland #vermont (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How immune are we? Why answering this question is essential for post-pandemic life
In order to move through a world where the coronavirus is endemic, we need a reliable way to assess our individual level of immunity. Here's how we can. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - March 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news
