Cholera cases doubled worldwide in 2022
The statistics show rising cholera rates and larger outbreaks around the globe, with 44 countries reporting cholera cases in 2022. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Blakemore Source Type: news
Thousands of schools shut amid eye virus outbreak
Tens of thousands of schools across Pakistan are being shut in response to an outbreak of pink eye. Over 56,000 private and public schools across the province of Punjab are being closed between September 28 and October 1 to stem the tide of the viral conjunctivitis outbreak, the Punjab government…#pakistan #punjab #afp #zulfiqarali #cdc #mohsinnaqvi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa
A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen and Tiksa Negeri Tags: Malaria Urban Areas Insects Mosquitoes Medicine and Health Deaths (Fatalities) Invasive Species Disease Rates Pesticides President ' s Malaria Initiative Africa Djibouti Ethiopia your-feed-science your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
Fed's Goolsbee: Evidence points to the outbreak of inflation in 2021 as largely supply-related, ignoring supply improvements a recipe for overshooting
(Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nigeria: Diphtheria - Unicef Deploys 9.3m Vaccine Doses to Kano, Borno, Yobe, Others
[Daily Trust] The United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that in the midst of the most severe diphtheria outbreak in recent global history, UNICEF has deployed 9.3 million doses of diphtheria vaccines to affected states in Nigeria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 28, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Meatloaf likely source of Calgary daycare E. coli outbreak as shared kitchen charged
The City of Calgary said Wednesday it has laid charges against a shared kitchen — used by several daycares experiencing an E. coli outbreak — for operating without the proper licence. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - September 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Calgary Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Govt Accelerates Borehole Drilling Programme to Provide Clean Water and Slash Cholera Risk
[263Chat] The Zimbabwean government has accelerated its borehole drilling programme in Manicaland province's Marange district to provide safe and clean water for the communities affected by a recent cholera outbreak. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Governance Health and Medicine Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Cholera Outbreak Response Underway in Buhera - Health Minister
[263Chat] Health and Child Care Minister, Dr. Douglas Mombeshora says the Government has put in measures to combat a new cholera outbreak that has been reported in Manicaland's Buhera district. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 27, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
New Jersey Supreme Court to rule on pandemic-related insurance exclusions
New Jersey's Supreme Court is expected to consider whether an Atlantic City casino can get payouts from business interruption insurance for losses during the COVID-19 outbreak, potentially providing guidance for policyholders nationwide regarding the scope of coverage for pandemic-related losses.…#newjersey #supremecourt #atlanticcity #oceancasinoresort #pennsylvania #philmurphy #unitedpolicyholders #followwayneparry #twitter (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: South Africa Battles High-Path H7N6 Avian Flu in Poultry
[UMP] Outbreaks of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that began at the end of May have led to the loss of about a quarter of South Africa's poultry, with layer farms hit hardest, according to a poultry industry official quoted in a South African agriculture publication. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 26, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Food and Agriculture Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Links 9/26/2023
How Tsarist Russia sought to make a tropics on the Black Sea aeon (Anthony L) China is facing an alarming mpox outbreak. Could this be next global health crisis? ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin) Seoul stages military parade and warns North of ‘overwhelming’ response Financial Times FBI Agents Are Using Face…#blacksea #anthonyl #zmescience #seoul #northof #maersk #pentagon #sal #klausschwab #western (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
COVID outbreak among ATC staff causes flight chaos at London Gatwick
One of Europe’s busiest airports was thrown into fresh turmoil this week when what appeared to be a COVID outbreak at air traffic control forced the cancellation of scores of flights. London Gatwick Airport moved to limit the number of planes coming and going from its runway for the rest of the…#londongatwickairport #stewartwingate #nats #gatwick #easyjet #britishairways #fortune #johanlundgren #gatwickairport #atc (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UN says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan as conflict grinds on
The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps as deadly fighting grinds on between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
As low uptake of jabs leads to measles outbreak... I'm proof you're never too old to need the MMR
Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases. By July, Public Health England had announced an outbreak in London, where I caught it. If I'd been aware of it, I would have got the jab. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Deadly avian flu reaches Gal ápagos Islands
In a development that has alarmed conservation biologists, the avian flu strain that has devastated birds and marine mammals on five continents has reached Ecuador’s Galápagos National Park, home to species that are found nowhere else.
“It is extremely concerning from a conservation perspective,” says Marcela Uhart, a wildlife veterinarian at the University of California (UC), Davis. “Outbreaks could pose an acute threat to the future of these endemic species.”
So far only a few animals have tested positive for the H5N1 virus, which migratory birds can carry over long distances. But the highly contag...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 25, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
