South Africa: Avian Influenza Outbreak Threatens Chicken Supply
[allAfrica] Dr Greg Cilliers, a veterinarian and executive board member of the World Veterinary Poultry Association, warns that chicken meat will be scarce in South Africa in the coming weeks due to a shortage of broiler chicks, reports IOL. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 9, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Food and Agriculture Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
How Old Do You Have to Be To Receive Yellow Fever Vaccine?
Discussion
In the United States, Yellow Fever (YF) is rare and usually due to traveler’s coming to the US from Africa (34 countries) or South America (13 countries, see maps here) This wasn’t always true. There were numerous outbreaks in the past few centuries. However, after the Spanish-American War, a YF commission was sent to Cuba that proved YF was mosquito-borne and 1 year later major improvement was seen due to a multi-pronged mosquito control program.
“In May 1900, the U.S. Army,…formed the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission to gather data in Cuba that might inspire improvements in the publi...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 9, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
How seniors can access 4 key vaccines this fall — for COVID, flu, pneumonia, and RSV
COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal, and — for the first time — respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines will all be available this fall for older adults. But medical experts warn high costs and patchwork rollouts could be barriers for seniors trying to protect themselves. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
News at a glance: More success for fusion, medical tests under scrutiny, and a grizzly reintroduction
PHYSICS
Fusion experiment beats previous energy record
Lightning has struck a second time for physicists using lasers to achieve nuclear fusion, in which two atomic nuclei combine into one while releasing enormous amounts of energy. On 30 July, the 192 lasers of the stadium-size National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory instantaneously crushed a tiny capsule filled with heavy isotopes of hydrogen. In doing so, they prompted a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the laser beams deposited onto the target. The new results, presented by NIF scientists at a conf...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Disease Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Compared with COVID-19 and Influenza Among Hospitalized Adults Aged ≥60 Years - IVY Network, 20 U.S. States, February 2022-May 2023
This report describes the severity of respiratory syncytial virus disease among hospitalized older adults compared to hospitalizations for COVID-19 or influenza. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - October 5, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Severity of RSV Hospitalizations Rivals COVID in Older Adults
(MedPage Today) -- Hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections were less frequent than those due to influenza or COVID-19 in adults 60 and up, but they were associated with more severe disease, CDC researchers reported.
Among... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - October 5, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
COVID-19 levels in N.S. remain low as respiratory-illness season approaches, Strang says
Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health gave an update Tuesday morning on respiratory illnesses and the rollout of influenza and COVID-19 subvariant vaccines this fall. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Nova Scotia Source Type: news
South Africa culls nearly 2.5M chickens in effort to contain bird flu outbreaks
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- South Africa has culled nearly 2.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two separate strains of avian influenza that have threatened to create a shortage of eggs for consumers and are hitting an industry already struggling due to an electricity…#southafrica #avian #gautengprovince #johannesburg #pretoria #thokodidiza #neighboringnamibia #wilhelmmare #southafricans #southafrican (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA Pioneers Who Paved the Way for COVID-19 Vaccines
It was an unlikely collaboration, and it began in an unlikely place, but the partnership that Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman formed in the 1990s at the University of Pennsylvania has now led to a shared Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Kariko and Weissman were awarded the Nobel for their work in tweaking the genetic material mRNA to make it more amenable to working in vaccines. Their discovery led to the first approved mRNA vaccines, targeting the COVID-19 virus, in 2020. And that success is seeding mRNA-based strategies across a number of different conditions, including other infectious diseases as well as...
Source: TIME: Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Women Have Higher Risk for Solicited Reactions After Flu Shot
FRIDAY, Sept. 29, 2023 -- The risk for solicited reactions following influenza vaccine is higher for women than men, according to research published online Sept. 28 in the Journal of Epidemiology& Community Health.
Marilou Kiely, Ph.D., from... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 29, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Avian Flu Threatens to Send Chicken, Egg Prices Soaring
[allAfrica] Harare -- South African consumers will have to put up with higher chicken meat and egg prices as the industry confronts its worst highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemic to date, according to economists and industry insiders. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 29, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Agribusiness Food and Agriculture Economy, Business and Finance Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Trade Source Type: news
Influenza, Tdap, and COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage and Hesitancy Among Pregnant Women - United States, April 2023
This report describes influenza, Tdap, and COVID-19 vaccination coverage and hesitancy among pregnant people. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - September 28, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
UK-produced pandemic flu vaccine deal agreed by government
The UK Health Security Agency's agreement enables the production of millions of influenza vaccines. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is It Flu, COVID-19, or RSV? How to Navigate the New World of At-Home Testing
Before COVID-19, figuring out whether a sore throat, fever, and runny nose were caused by a cold, flu, or strep wasn’t a top priority. You either powered through, knowing you’d be miserable for a few days but would probably feel better soon or you visited the doctor’s office, urgent care, or emergency room where you might get a test to figure out which virus or bacteria was behind your misery, and maybe a prescription to treat it. But even doctors often don’t order tests, preferring instead to make diagnoses based on symptoms.
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During the pandemic, how...
Source: TIME: Health - September 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
