Students told to get up to date with vaccinations ahead of Freshers' Week, UKHSA (published 24th August 2022)
Students should get up to date with 3 vaccines: Men ACWY (meningitis), MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) and, for female students, HPV, before the start of the new term. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ian Ziering Mourns Death of Denise Dowse, His Beverly Hills, 90210 Co-Star
Ian Ziering paid tribute to Beverly Hills, 90210's Denise Dowse after she passed away after battling meningitis. See the sweet way he remembered his onscreen high school vice principal. #beverlyhills90210 #hisbeverlyhills90210 #ianziering #ianzieringmournsdeath #highschoolviceprincipal #denisedowse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Denise Dowse, ‘Insecure’ and ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ actress, dies at 64
Dowse had recently fell into a coma brought on by a virulent form of meningitis. #beverlyhills90210 #denisedowse #64dowse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prolific TV actress Denise Dowse dead at 64
Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Denise Dowse has passed away at age 64 after a battle with viral meningitis. #denisedowse #64beverlyhills90210 (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Denise Dowse, From Insecure and Beverly Hills, 90210, Dead at 64
Veteran TV actress Denise Dowse, whose roles spanned from Beverly Hills, 90210 to Insecure, has died after a battle with viral meningitis. She was 64 years old. #denisedowse #beverlyhills90210 (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Insecure' Actress Denise Dowse In Coma After Case of Meningitis
Actress Denise Dowse, famous for her roles on "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Insecure" is currently fighting for her life in a coma, TMZ has learned. #beverlyhills90210 #tmz #denisedowse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Liberia: Institut Pasteur De Dakar, ARC, West African Health Organization, and Africatalyst Form an Alliance to Strengthen Epidemic Preparedness and Response
[New Dawn] DAKAR, Senegal, 2 August 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) has entered into a partnership with the African Risk Capacity (ARC), AfriCatalyst and the West African Health Organization (WAHO) to strengthen outbreak preparedness and response to high consequence infectious diseases in West Africa such as Ebola, Marburg, Lassa fever, Meningococcal meningitis, and emerging pathogens of concern. The partnership will also evaluate the capacities for epidemiological surveillance (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 3, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
What It Really Feels Like to Have Monkeypox
Since the global monkeypox outbreak began in May 2022, more than 22,000 cases have been confirmed in countries around the world. More than 5,000 of those cases have been recorded in the U.S., with many clustered in hotspots including New York and California. The virus, which often results in a blister-like rash and spreads through close contact, has so far predominantly affected men who have sex with men.
Even as cases tick up and monkeypox gains public attention, however, it can still be difficult to find information about testing, treatment, and vaccines. Many people who fear they are at risk or infected are left to seek...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme, Angela Haupt and Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate monkeypox Source Type: news
The Virus Hunters Trying to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Nobody saw SARS-CoV-2 coming. In the early days of the pandemic, researchers were scrambling to collect samples from people who had mysteriously developed fevers, coughs, and breathing problems. Pretty soon, they realized that the disease-causing culprit was a new virus humans hadn’t seen before.
And the world, lacking a coordinated global response, was unprepared. Some countries acted quickly to develop tests for the novel coronavirus, while others with fewer resources were left behind. With a virus oblivious to national borders, and with travel between countries and continents more common than it had been in previo...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Disease Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The Best Way to Slow the Spread of Monkeypox
Only July 23rd, World Health Organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). It was a contentious decision, with WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus making the final call and overruling the WHO’s Emergency Committee. The advisory committee’s disagreements mirrored debates unfolding among public officials, on social media, and in opinion pages over the last several weeks. Is monkeypox a public health emergency when it’s “just” spreading among gay and bisexual men and trans women? To what degree do cisgender men, women, and kids need to...
Source: TIME: Health - July 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Céline R. Gounder Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
CDC Issues Parechovirus Alert, Here ’s How PeV Can Be Dangerous To Infants
This virus has the potential of causing life-threatening sepsis-like illness or neurological problems such as seizures, meningitis or meningoencephalitis in infants. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science business pharma Source Type: news
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Covid: Patient with BA.5 variant details unusual symptoms - I thought it ‘was meningitis'
THE UK is currently seeing a rise in Covid cases believed to be driven by BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants. A patient with BA.5 has shared the unusual symptoms that targeted her and her son. Instead of cold-like signs, the pair experienced symptoms similar to meningitis. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Florida Warns About Snail That May Cause Meningitis Florida Warns About Snail That May Cause Meningitis
"The giant African land snail...is one of the most invasive pests on the planet, causing agricultural and environmental damage wherever it is found."WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - July 6, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
NIRT plans study on whether booster BCG can help prevent tuberculosis
The efficacy of BCG vaccination in newborns is well known and has a documented protective effect against meningitis and disseminated TB in children, Dr Padma Priyadarshini, Director, ICMR's National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) said. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - July 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
