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Will the monkeypox virus become more dangerous?
A few years ago, researchers scoured the remains of 1867 people who lived between 30,000 and 150 years ago for genetic traces of variola, the virus that causes smallpox. In the teeth and bones of four Northern Europeans from the Viking era, they found enough DNA to reconstruct entire variola genomes. The sequenced viruses weren’t direct ancestors of the feared variola strain that was eradicated in the second half of the 20th century. But they may hold a clue to how smallpox became so deadly. Over the span of 350 years, the Viking virus lost several genes , the researchers reported in a 2020 paper in Science...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 15, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

What We Learned About Genetic Sequencing During COVID-19 Could Revolutionize Public Health
You don’t want to be a virus in Dr. David Ho’s lab. Pretty much every day since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Ho and his team have done nothing but find ways to stress SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. His goal: pressure the virus relentlessly enough that it mutates to survive, so drug developers can understand how the virus might respond to new treatments. As a virologist with decades of experience learning about another obstinate virus, HIV, Ho knows just how to apply that mutation-generating stress, whether by starving the virus, bathing it in antibodies that disrupt its ability to infect cells, ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Genetics Magazine Source Type: news

Return-to-work, disabilities and occupational health in the age of COVID-19
We have read with great interest the two editorials by Burdorf et al: “The COVID-19 pandemic: one year later – an occupational perspective” (1) and “The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: consequences for occupational health” (2). The authors highlight the importance of the societal consequences of the outbreak and changes in the world of work to manage occupa tional health. The key points identified – such as individual socio­economic factors, psychological effects and occupations with highest risk of contamination – modify return-to-work approaches. It is estimated that around 800 million people of working...
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health - May 18, 2021 Category: Occupational Health Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Epidemic thunderstorm asthma: lessons learned from the storm down-under
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2020Source: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In PracticeAuthor(s): Dwan Price, Kira M. Hughes, Francis Thien, Cenk Suphioglu
Source: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice - October 23, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

The Great Vaccine Race: Inside the Unprecedented Scramble to Immunize the World Against COVID-19
The cleverest of enemies thrive on surprise attacks. Viruses—and coronaviruses in particular—know this well. Remaining hidden in animal hosts for decades, they mutate steadily, sometimes serendipitously morphing into more effective and efficient infectious agents. When a strain with just the right combination of genetic codes that spell trouble for people makes the leap from animal to human, the ambush begins. Such was the case with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind COVID-19, and the attack was mostly silent and insidious at first. Many people infected with SARS-CoV-2 remained oblivious as they served as the v...
Source: TIME: Health - September 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Magazine Source Type: news

Leading in Time of COVID: A True Test of Leadership
By Folake OlayinkaAug 15 2020 (IPS) In 1918, the Spanish Flu, a deadly influenza caused by the H1N1 virus, decimated the world. Over the course of four successive waves, it infected 500 million people, about a third of the world’s population at the time, resulting in 50 million deaths. More recently between 2014 and mid-2016 , the Ebola virus epidemic was the most widespread outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history—causing devastating  loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the West Africa region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. These outbreaks, as well as SARS and MERS, each have provided lessons...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Folake Olayinka Tags: Democracy Headlines Health Source Type: news

Here ’s How Scientists and Public-Health Experts Recommend the U.S. Gets Back to ‘Normal’
There is both promise and peril in being a pioneer, and the people of Hokkaido have learned both lessons well over the past few months. After infections of COVID-19 on the Japanese island exploded following its annual winter festival this year, officials in February declared a state of emergency to control the disease. Soon after, new daily cases plummeted, and Hokkaido’s quick action was heralded as a beacon for the rest of Japan to follow. But it wasn’t just infections that dropped; over the next month, agriculture and tourism business also dried up, and Hokkaido’s governor decided to ease social restri...
Source: TIME: Health - April 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Magazine Source Type: news

A possible role for B cells in COVID-19? Lesson from patients with agammaglobulinemia
An epidemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has become the focus of scientific attention.1 The high infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 and rapid rise in the number of patients affected reflects the lack of  preexisting immunity as reported by the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019). The clinical presentation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is variable, ranging from lack of symptoms to severe respiratory distress and multiorgan failure req uiring intensive care unit admission and mechanical ventilation.
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - April 21, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Isabella Quinti, Vassilios Lougaris, Cinzia Milito, Francesco Cinetto, Antonio Pecoraro, Ivano Mezzaroma, Claudio Maria Mastroianni, Ombretta Turriziani, Maria Pia Bondioni, Matteo Filippini, Annarosa Soresina, Giuseppe Spadaro, Carlo Agostini, Rita Carse Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Expanding Research Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Informatics, Bioinformatics, and Data Science Training Programs in Mali
Conclusion Bioinformatics and data science training programs in developing countries necessitate incremental and collaborative strategies for their feasible and sustainable development. The progress described here covered decades of collaborative efforts centered on training and research on computationally intensive topics. These efforts laid the groundwork and platforms conducive for hosting a bioinformatics and data science training program in Mali. Training programs are perhaps best facilitated through Africa’s university systems as they are perhaps best positioned to maintain core resources during lapses in sho...
Source: Frontiers in Genetics - April 11, 2019 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research

Lessons from Ebola and readiness for new emerging infectious threats
Throughout history, human subjects have served as incidental hosts to many infectious diseases that have resulted in epidemics. Many of these infectious diseases are vector-borne or zoonotic in origin. In more recent times, the global spread of HIV-1, outbreaks related to avian influenza, and the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, to name a few, profoundly illustrate how an infection can spread worldwide in a very rapid fashion (Table I).1 In this issue of the Journal, Kampmann et al2 and Lindblad et al3 describe the ongoing Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak that is c...
Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology - April 1, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle A. Barron, Donald Y.M. Leung Tags: Reviews and feature article Source Type: research

Title: The WASH Approach: Fighting Waterborne Disease in Emergency Situations
Refugees collect water from a public tap stand in an Adjumani settlement. © Wendee Nicole Rhino Camp, Arua District. Refugees in Uganda live on land donated by Ugandan nationals. Refugee families are given plots on which they can build temporary shelters and grow crops.© Wendee Nicole Oxfam staff members Tim Sutton (left) and Pius Nzuki Kitonyi (right) with the soon-to-be-repaired water pump in Adjumani. In disaster-affected situations, Oxfam takes a lead in delivering WASH-related services.© Wendee Nicole Hand-operated water pumps are a reliable source of pre...
Source: EHP Research - December 31, 2014 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Featured Focus News Community Health Disaster Response Drinking Water Quality Infectious Disease Infrastructure International Environmental Health Microbial Agents Sanitation Warfare and Aftermath Water Pollution Source Type: research

What can Reunification of East and West Germany tell us about the cause of the allergy epidemic?
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Source: Clinical and Experimental Allergy - November 1, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Ursula Krämer, Roma Schmitz, Johannes Ring, Heidrun Behrendt Tags: Invited Review Source Type: research