Health Officials Warn of Measles Outbreak in Philadelphia
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is tracking a measles outbreak, which so far has sickened eight city residents. Philadelphia health care staff are " working to identify everyone who may have been exposed,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 9, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Measles Outbreak In Philadelphia Suggests Growing Problem Of Vaccine Hesitancy
A measles outbreak in Philadelphia has expanded to eight confirmed and three suspected cases, Vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles remain a public health threat. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - January 9, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Joshua Cohen, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Editors' Pick editors-pick business pharma & standard Source Type: news

Measles outbreak in Philly may have spread to Delaware as vaccine hesitancy creates breeding ground for outbreak
Health officials say a patient sick with the virus in Pennsylvania visited a clinic in Delaware while infectious. Contact tracing for people infected with the virus is underway. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Philadelphia Measles Outbreak Has Officials Concerned
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 -- Eight Philadelphia residents are known to have contracted measles, the city ' s department of health said in an update on the outbreak released Monday. Measles is highly infectious, and Philadelphia health care staff are... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Measles outbreak in Pennsylvania's top children's hospital has health officials concerned- as more kids than ever are unvaccinated against the deadly disease
Three children and a parent at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - the city's top pediatric hospital - have tested positive for the highly infectious virus. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Leprosy, Polio, Malaria, TB, Measles... And Massive Unscreened Illegal Immigration
Authored by James Varney via RealClear Wire, Successful public health campaigns and medical advances have enabled the United States to conquer a range of disfiguring and damaging diseases. Polio, which paralyzed…#malaria #tb #jamesvarney #realclearwire #florida #jaybhattacharya #stanforduniversity #typhoidmary #artarthur #newyorkcityhealth (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Midlife Alzheimer's Biomarker; How Measles Spread in the Brain; MS and HIV
(MedPage Today) -- Midlife serum Alzheimer's biomarkers were linked with accelerated cognitive decline in women. (Alzheimer's & Dementia) Researchers mapped how the measles virus mutated and spread in the brain of a person who died with subacute... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - December 26, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: news

In Rare Cases, Measles Mutates in Brain and Kills
TUESDAY, Dec. 26, 2023 -- Measles is incredibly contagious, and outbreaks are more common now as people decide against vaccinating their kids. Now, a case involving a rare but fatal brain disease caused by the measles virus may make some rethink... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Researchers map how measles virus spreads in human brain
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers mapped how the measles virus mutated and spread in the brain of a person who succumbed to a rare, lethal brain disease. New cases of this disease, which is a complication of the measles virus, may occur as measles reemerges among the unvaccinated, say researchers. Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D. Using the latest tools in genetic sequencing, researchers at Mayo Clinic reconstructed how a collective of viral genomes colonized a human… (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - December 21, 2023 Category: Research Source Type: news

Column: Measles is again on the march across the world, thanks to anti-vaxxers such as RFK Jr.
Measles cases are surging in Europe and Central Asia, according to the World Health Organization. Who's responsible? The anti-vaccination movement and its leaders, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - December 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Michael Hiltzik Source Type: news

Action needed to fight measles as 60,000 children remain unvaccinated by their second birthday
Labour warned of a significant drop in MMR vaccination rates in England compared to pre-pandemic levels.An estimated 60,0000 children were unvaccinated by their second birthday. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Sickly sweet: how our sugar-coated cells helped humanity turn illness into evolution
The molecules that cover our cells have interacted over the ages with our environment and the diseases that plague us – and in the process shaped our progressAccording to the latest estimates, Covid-19 may be responsible for more than18 million deaths worldwide. While infectious diseases like this have devastated humanity, it may be wrong to assume they are always antithetical to our survival and flourishing as a species. Otherwise, why would ancient pathogens such as malaria (of thefalciparumtype), cholera, typhoid, measles and influenza A persist as human-only diseases – and why have we not evolved immunity to them?T...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Mark Honigsbaum Tags: Immunology Biochemistry and molecular biology Medical research Science Evolution Source Type: news

Getting Sick All the Time? Don ’ t (Necessarily) Blame COVID-19
Respiratory disease season is in full swing, with influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 case counts rising in various parts of the U.S. Hospitals in some states are also reporting upticks in pediatric pneumonia diagnoses, which experts say seems to be unrelated to the recent spike of pneumonias reported in China. On the heels of last year’s severe flu and RSV reason, all this contagion has some people wondering if SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be to blame. Some studies suggest the virus leaves its mark on the immune system even after an acute illness passes, raising an important question: does having COVI...
Source: TIME: Health - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Nigeria: Measles - Kwara Vaccinates 700,000 Children
[Leadership] A total of 700,000 children have been vaccinated in the 2023 measles campaign across the 16 local government areas of Kwara State. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 29, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

The Far Right and Far Left Meet Over Wellness Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories, especially about vaccines, spread like wildfire during the COVID-19 pandemic, but such anti-science thinking is extending far beyond COVID-19.  There are now conspiracies about sunscreen, the causes of cancer, and wifi—among other alleged ills—and they are going global.  [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Anti-vaccine conspiracies have even begun to influence dog owners. A recent study published in the medical journal Vaccine found that around 4 in 10 dog owners in the U.S. thought vaccinating their dogs against diseases like rabies could cause the dogs to get autism...
Source: TIME: Health - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Williams, Gavin Yamey, Peter Van Heusden and Sarah Downs Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news