Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to COVID ’s future
Over a few weeks in November 1889, a respiratory disease attacked half the residents of St. Petersburg, Russia, and it soon began to race through Europe and the rest of the world. Two years later, in a spectacularly
detailed book
, a British medical officer, H. Franklin Parsons, described what was dubbed the “Russian influenza” epidemic, which raged until 1894. People seemed to spread the disease before developing symptoms, the young did not suffer as much as the old, a dry cough was common among the ill, some had a “perversion of taste and smell,” and deaths rose. Suspicions ran high that a pathogen had ...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - January 11, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Importance of National Influenza Centers in the surveillance of highly pathogenic avian viruses. The time for One-Health is now
Rev Esp Quimioter. 2024 Jan 11:sanz11jan2024. doi: 10.37201/req/137.2023. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSince 1996, the highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype A(H5N1) has been causing almost uninterrupted outbreaks in wild and domestic birds, as well as cases in humans with a mortality rate close to 50%. However, the years of greatest circulation have been precisely the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, in which several cases have been recorded in humans in places where they had never appeared before, in addition to multiple cases in wild, domestic and peri-domestic mammals, which raise some concern about the risk ...
Source: Revista Espanola de Quimioterapia - January 11, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: I Sanz-Mu ñoz J M Eiros M Hern ández Source Type: research
Surveillance for Unexplained Deaths of Possible Infectious Etiologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic-Minnesota, 2020-2021
We examined the Minnesota Department of Health Unexplained Deaths and Critical Illnesses of Possible Infectious Etiology and Medical Examiner Infectious Deaths (UNEX/MED-X) surveillance system,-a system that expanded postmortem surveillance for infectious diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic by leveraging standard (medical examiner [ME]) and expanded (mortuary) surveillance to identify COVID-19-related deaths.METHODS: MEs, coroners, or morticians collected postmortem swabs from decedents with an infectious prodrome or with SARS-CoV-2 exposure before death but with no known recent infectious disease testing. The Minnesota ...
Source: Public Health Reports - January 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Melanie J Firestone Linnea Thorell Leslie Kollmann Lydia Fess Greta Ciessau Anna K Strain Richard Danila Ruth Lynfield Stacy Holzbauer UNEX Surveillance Team Source Type: research
Effects of scheduled school breaks on the circulation of influenza in children, school-aged population and adults in China: a spatio-temporal analysis
School break / closure has been widely used as a non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) to mitigate severe epidemics and pandemics of respiratory infectious diseases, e.g., influenza and COVID-19. While school break has been reported to reduce the overall spread of respiratory infectious diseases [1-6], it could disproportionally affect certain population subgroups, e.g., students, which in turn reshape the epidemiology of respiratory infectious diseases in the broader population. Empirical contact data in a number of countries reveal compensatory contact behaviours during school closure compared with school term [7-9]. (So...
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - January 11, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Mengling Qiao, Fuyu Zhu, Junru Chen, You Li, Xin Wang Source Type: research
A systematic review and clinical presentation of central nervous system complications of SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized pediatric patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
To analyze the epidemiology of COVID-19-associated CNS complications (CNS-C) in hospitalized children, to compare CNS-C recorded in the Omicron wave versus preceding COVID-19 waves and to compare COVID-19-associated CNS-C with those associated with influenza virus infection. (Source: Pediatric Neurology)
Source: Pediatric Neurology - January 11, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Menucha Jurkowicz, Eugene Leibovitz, Bruria Ben-Zeev, Nathan Keller, Or Kriger, Gilad Sherman, Sharon Amit, Galia Barkai, Michal Mandelboim, Michal Stein Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research
A Systematic Review and Clinical Presentation of Central Nervous System Complications of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Israel
Coronavirus disease-associated central nervous system complications (CNS-C) in hospitalized children, especially during the Omicron wave, and in comparison with influenza associated CNS-C, are not well understood. (Source: Pediatric Neurology)
Source: Pediatric Neurology - January 11, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Menucha Jurkowicz, Eugene Leibovitz, Bruria Ben-Zeev, Nathan Keller, Or Kriger, Gilad Sherman, Sharon Amit, Galia Barkai, Michal Mandelboim, Michal Stein Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research
Characterising respiratory infections among hospitalised children during the COVID-19 pandemic in southeastern China: a cross-sectional study of pathogens and clinical association
Conclusion
This investigation offers significant insights into the prevalence and distribution of common pathogens among children experiencing ARTIs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discernment of high-risk factors linked to these pathogens enhances our understanding of the epidemiological characteristics of ARTIs in children. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - January 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Huang, H., Wu, B., Lin, W. Tags: Open access, Epidemiology, COVID-19 Source Type: research
Monitoring COVID-19 in Belgian general practice: A tool for syndromic surveillance based on electronic health records
CONCLUSION: The syndromic surveillance tool for COVID-19 in primary care provides rapidly available data useful in all phases of the COVID-19 pandemic to support data-driven decision-making. Potential enhancements were identified for a prospective surveillance tool.PMID:38186340 | DOI:10.1080/13814788.2023.2293699 (Source: European Journal of General Practice)
Source: European Journal of General Practice - January 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: B énédicte Vos Laura Debouverie Kris Doggen Nicolas Delvaux Bert Aertgeerts Robrecht De Schreye Bert Vaes Source Type: research
Key Challenges for Respiratory Virus Surveillance while Transitioning out of Acute Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic
In this report, we highlight key challenges for the development of integrated models of surveillance. We discuss the relative strengths and limitations of different surveillance practices and studies as well as their contribution to epidemiologic assessment, forecasting, and public health decision-making.PMID:38190760 | DOI:10.3201/eid3002.230768 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - January 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Oliver Eales Michael J Plank Benjamin J Cowling Benjamin P Howden Adam J Kucharski Sheena G Sullivan Katelijn Vandemaele Cecile Viboud Steven Riley James M McCaw Freya M Shearer Source Type: research
Monitoring COVID-19 in Belgian general practice: A tool for syndromic surveillance based on electronic health records
CONCLUSION: The syndromic surveillance tool for COVID-19 in primary care provides rapidly available data useful in all phases of the COVID-19 pandemic to support data-driven decision-making. Potential enhancements were identified for a prospective surveillance tool.PMID:38186340 | PMC:PMC10776082 | DOI:10.1080/13814788.2023.2293699 (Source: European Journal of General Practice)
Source: European Journal of General Practice - January 8, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: B énédicte Vos Laura Debouverie Kris Doggen Nicolas Delvaux Bert Aertgeerts Robrecht De Schreye Bert Vaes Source Type: research
Key Challenges for Respiratory Virus Surveillance while Transitioning out of Acute Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic
In this report, we highlight key challenges for the development of integrated models of surveillance. We discuss the relative strengths and limitations of different surveillance practices and studies as well as their contribution to epidemiologic assessment, forecasting, and public health decision-making.PMID:38190760 | PMC:PMC10826770 | DOI:10.3201/eid3002.230768 (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - January 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Oliver Eales Michael J Plank Benjamin J Cowling Benjamin P Howden Adam J Kucharski Sheena G Sullivan Katelijn Vandemaele Cecile Viboud Steven Riley James M McCaw Freya M Shearer Source Type: research
Zoonosis and zooanthroponosis of emerging respiratory viruses
Lung infections in Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) are triggered by a variety of respiratory viruses. All human pandemics have been caused by the members of two major virus families, namely Orthomyxoviridae (influenza A viruses (IAVs); subtypes H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2) and Coronaviridae (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS−CoV−2). These viruses acquired some adaptive changes in a known intermediate host including domestic birds (IAVs) or unknown intermediate host (SARS-CoV-2) following transmission from their natural reservoirs (e.g. migratory birds or bats, respectively). Verily, these acquired adaptive su...
Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - January 5, 2024 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research
Exploring Racial Disparities in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Case Study of Durham, North Carolina
This study thus provides an example of how the Black health community has proven an active agent in countering the structural forces driving racial disparities.PMID:38175795 | DOI:10.1093/jhmas/jrad066 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 4, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mallory Bryant Jeffrey Baker Source Type: research
Exploring Racial Disparities in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Case Study of Durham, North Carolina
This study thus provides an example of how the Black health community has proven an active agent in countering the structural forces driving racial disparities.PMID:38175795 | DOI:10.1093/jhmas/jrad066 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 4, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mallory Bryant Jeffrey Baker Source Type: research
Exploring Racial Disparities in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Case Study of Durham, North Carolina
This study thus provides an example of how the Black health community has proven an active agent in countering the structural forces driving racial disparities.PMID:38175795 | DOI:10.1093/jhmas/jrad066 (Source: Medical History)
Source: Medical History - January 4, 2024 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mallory Bryant Jeffrey Baker Source Type: research
