Africa: What a Dog Bite Tells Us About Balancing Human and Environmental Health
[WWF] When a feral dog bites your child on the way to school, what does it tell us about the balance between human and natural health in Africa? As it happens, a great deal. We poison predators who harass our livestock. The loss of those scavengers leads to more feral dogs roaming our streets, creating the potential for rabies to pose a more significant threat to human health. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 4, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Illinois Man Dies of Rabies After Apparent Bat Bite to Neck Illinois Man Dies of Rabies After Apparent Bat Bite to Neck
An Illinois man in his 80s who woke to a bat on his neck in mid-August has died of rabies, marking the first human case of the disease in the state in more than 65 years.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - September 29, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
What Happens When the World ’s Most Popular COVID-19 Dashboard Can’t Get Data?
One Monday in late February 2020, Lauren Gardner was working frantically. The website she’d been managing around the clock for the last month—which tracked cases of an emerging respiratory disease called COVID-19, and presented the spread in maps and charts—was, all of a sudden, getting inundated with visitors and kept crashing.
As Gardner, an associate professor of engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), struggled to get the site online again, an official in the Trump Administration falsely claimed on Twitter that JHU had deliberately censored the information.
“Seems like bad timing to sto...
Source: TIME: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Barone Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Illinois man dies of rabies in state's first human case since the 1950s
An Illinois man died this month in the state's first human case of rabies since the 1950s, according to health officials on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A man died from rabies after waking up to a bat in his room. It's Illinois' first human case of the virus in nearly 70 years
A man in northeastern Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Illinois man who woke up with bat on neck dies in state's 1st human rabies case since 1950s
The man, who was in his 80s, had contact with a bat and initially declined treatment, officials said. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: Western Cape Targets 70,000 Pets for Rabies Vaccination
[Govt of SA] Today the Western Cape Department of Agriculture joins the rest of the world in observing World Rabies Day 2021. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 28, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Bite injuries among vaccination staff participating in a mass canine rabies vaccination campaign, Haiti 2016-2017 - Kirkhope RT, Gibson AD, Augustin PD, Crowdis K, F énelon N, MacLeod ET, Vigilato MAN, Pieracci EG, Wallace RM.
Elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies worldwide will require large-scale dog vaccination campaigns. However, this places participating vaccinators at increased risk. Data from the 2016-2017 Haitian mass rabies vaccination campaign was analyzed to det... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Non-Human Animals and Insects Source Type: news
South Africa: MEC Ivan Meyer Joins Veterinary Services Officials During Rabies Vaccination Campaign in Klapmuts
[Govt of SA] Free animal health care makes a difference in the fight against rabies (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 7, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Maharashtra company starts human trials of drug aimed at mild, moderate cases of COVID-19
World's largest vaccine maker Serum Institute of India is the sponsor of the Pune-headquartered iSERA Biological Pvt Ltd's drug project, which began soon after COVID-19 hit Indian shores. The company's primary activity is the manufacturing of antiserum products for snakebites and rabies, and it is using the same process for development of the anti-Covid drug as well, its director Pratap Deshmukh told. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - August 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Benefit-risk assessment of the French surveillance protocol of apparently healthy biting dogs and cats for human rabies prevention - Crozet G, Charmet T, Cliquet F, Robardet E, Dufour B, Rivi ère J.
In France, apparently healthy dogs and cats that bite humans must undergo an observation period of 15 days with three veterinary visits to ascertain that they remain healthy, indicating that no zoonotic transmission of rabies virus occurred via salivary pr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Rabies: Developing Monoclonal Antibody Cocktails for the Passive Immunization Component of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Guidance for Industry
Clinical Antimicrobial (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - July 28, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
"As long as the patient tells you it was a dog that bit him, why do you need to know more?" A qualitative study of how healthcare workers apply clinical guidelines to treat dog bite injuries in selected hospitals in Uganda - Kisaka S, Makumbi FE, Majalija S, Kagaha A, Thumbi SM.
Dog-mediated rabies is on the increase in Uganda despite the availability of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). PEP procedures are expounded in the Uganda Clinical Guidelines (UCG) of 2016. We assessed adherence by health workers to UCG while managing dog bi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Almost 200 People at Zoo May Have Been Exposed to Rabid Bat
Rabies shots have been recommended for 186 people who may have been exposed to a rabid bat while staying overnight at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - July 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Quality Improvement: The Quiet Hero of Global Health Programs
By Sujata Bijou,
Senior Measurement and Learning Technical AdvisorJuly 08, 2021In my past life, I was a chemical engineer. More specifically, I was a process engineer for Head & Shoulders shampoo. While my colleagues were working on other process aspects of manufacturing efficiency (faster, cheaper, less waste, etc.) I was finding ways to improve the manufacturing process to make the shampoo more effective at fighting dandruff. In our case, we wanted to fight dandruff without creating any other neg...
Source: IntraHealth International - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: Measurement & Analytics Source Type: news
