Some Coronaviruses Kill, While Others Cause a Common Cold. We Are Getting Closer to Knowing Why
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 4, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Headlines Health Source Type: news
Why Infectious Disease Outbreaks Are Becoming So Common
SARS-CoV-2. Monkeypox. Polio. Marburg. These viruses are no longer familiar just to public-health experts, but household names around the world, thanks to their recent incursions into human populations. People have always confronted pathogens of all sorts, but the attacks are becoming more commonplace, and more intense, than they ever have before.
“We are going through an era of epidemics and pandemics, and they are going to be more complex and more frequent,” says Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome, a global health charitable foundation that addresses health challenges. “We tend to see each [outbreak] i...
Source: TIME: Health - September 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disease feature healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Angela Rasmussen on Covid-19: ‘This origins discussion is the worst thing about Twitter’
Did Sars-CoV-2 emerge from a Huanan market stall or a lab? For the American virologist, who has been abused online for defending a ‘natural’ origin, the evidence is clearAngela Rasmussen studies the interactions between hosts and pathogens and how they shape disease. Before the pandemic, she worked on the emerging viruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers), Ebola, dengue and avian flu. Then, when Covid-19 erupted,the American virologist, who works at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, was drawn into the debate over where it came from. She has beenamong the most vocal scientists on Twitter defendi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 13, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Laura Spinney Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science Culture Source Type: news
A Hotter World Means More Disease Outbreaks in Our Future
As global temperatures have risen in recent decades, so have the number of outbreaks of infectious diseases. SARS, MERS, Zika, West Nile, COVID-19, and now clusters of monkeypox and polio have all recently threatened public health.
That’s no coincidence. In a study published in August in Nature Climate Change, researchers tried to understand the relationship between major environmental changes related to higher greenhouse gas emissions—including global warming, rising sea levels, storms, floods, drought, and heat waves—and the outbreaks of 375 human infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, and oth...
Source: TIME: Health - August 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized climate change COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
‘All-In-One’ Vaccine Could Protect Against Future Covid-19 Variants, Researchers Say
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology say the “mosaic-8” vaccine could protect people from other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
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Omicron BA.4 and BA.5: Starting From Scratch Yet Again
(MedPage Today) -- Coronaviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses with large genomes and, until recently, consisted of the mild 229E, OC43, L69, and H53U1 strains, and the "novel" SARS and MERS strains. Sometime in late 2019, a third "novel" coronavirus... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - June 6, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
MERS Fast Facts
Check out CNN's MERS Fast Facts to learn more about Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a viral respiratory illness first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
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Nearly 15 Million Deaths Are Linked to COVID-19, World Health Organization Says
(London) — The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.
In a report Thursday, the U.N. agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the figure as “sobering,” saying it should prompt countries to invest more in their capacities to quell future health emergencies.
Scientists tasked by WHO with calculating the actual number of COVID-19 deaths b...
Source: TIME: Health - May 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Cheng / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk wire Source Type: news
MERS-CoV: public health investigation and management of possible cases, UKHSA (updated 4th April 2022)
Algorithm on public health investigation and management of possible cases of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus).
4 April 2022Added new algorithm and accessible text version.
7 August 2018Updated version (v31) of case algorithm. Minor changes from v 30 including formatting changes, and detail on camel exposures and co-infection. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Covid variant worse than Omicron in next 2 years: UK epidemiologist
UK's SAGE advisors have warned of a "realistic possibility" that a more lethal variant could emerge that kills one in three people, in line with earlier coronaviruses such as MERS. This is because Omicron evolved from a different part of the virus's lineage, and there is no guarantee the next strain will evolve directly from Omicron. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 24, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
To End COVID-19, We Have to Admit That We ’ve Failed
In 1985, the first HIV vaccine trial was launched with great fanfare. The previous year, Margaret Heckler, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, confidently declared that an HIV vaccine would be created within two years. But almost four decades after the initial discovery of the HIV virus, there is still no viable HIV/AIDS vaccine. That doesn’t mean, though, that there is no cure. The grueling and largely thankless work of trialing an HIV/AIDS vaccine has continued steadily over the past four decades (the most recent one launched in January 2022, using Moderna’s mRNA technology), making it the longes...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Werb Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Its scouse soldier's lad init! An examination of modern Urban street gangs on Merseyside - Hesketh RF.
PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss the emergence of the contemporary Urban Street Gang (USG) on Merseyside. In terms of gang scholarship in the UK, Merseyside has been greatly neglected despite regular reports in national mainstream media that suggest Mers... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
A vaccine to prevent all Covid is within reach. Here ’s how to grab it
What exactly is a pan-coronavirus vaccine? The term has become a catchall for both vaccines that could protect against any current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants and those that could also provide immunity against SARS, MERS and any other coronaviruses that might come along. Scientists have reason to be optimistic that either kind is possible. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - January 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How The mRNA Vaccines Were Made: Halting Progress and Happy Accidents
The stunning Covid vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna drew upon long-buried discoveries made in the hopes of ending past epidemics. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata and Benjamin Mueller Tags: Clinical Trials Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Vaccination and Immunization National Institutes of Health MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Graham, Barney S (1953- ) Kariko, Katalin (1955- ) Fauci, Anthon Source Type: news
Texas scientists ’ new Covid-19 vaccine is cheaper, easier to make and patent-free
Dr Maria Bottazzi says their vaccine, called Corbevax, is unique because they do not intend to patent itA new Covid-19 vaccine is being developed by Texas scientists using a decades-old conventional method that will make the production and distribution cheaper and more accessible for countries most affected by the pandemic and where new variants are likely to originate due to low inoculation rates.The team, led by Drs Peter Hotez and Maria Bottazzi from the Texas Children ’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at Baylor College of Medicine, has been developing vaccine prototypes for Sars and Mers since 2011, which th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 15, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Erum Salam Tags: Texas Coronavirus Vaccines and immunisation US news World news Science Source Type: news
