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Dermatologic features may help distinguish Zika infection
Dermatologists may be seeing patients who have recently traveled to an area affected by the current Zika outbreaks, who present with a rash and possibly a fever.
Source: Skin and Allergy News - February 11, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
Hearing on Emerging Health Threats and the Zika Supplemental Funding Request
U.S. Senate, Committee on Appropriations. 02/11/2016This resource provides a recording of and statements from a two-hour, 10-minute Congressional hearing before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee on the Zika outbreak and the supplemental funding request to combat the Zika virus. Witnesses from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discuss work to accelerate optimal vector control strategies, better diagnostics, and vaccine discovery. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
A Viral Story Links The Zika Crisis To Monsanto. Don't Believe It.
A group of doctors in Argentina calling themselves the "Physicians in Crop-Sprayed Towns" have issued an explosive report that denies global scientific consensus on the Zika virus outbreak and its apparent link to an uptick in cases of the birth defect microcephaly in Brazil. The doctors allege that instead of the mild mosquito-borne Zika virus, the increase in microcephaly cases is caused by a larvicide that contains the chemical pyriproxyfen. This larvicide is employed in mosquito control efforts against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the type that can carry Zika, including using it to kill eggs in ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ebola patients treated in the West showed 81.5% survival
Overall survival was 81.5% for the 27 patients with Ebola virus infection who were treated in the United States or Europe during the recent outbreak, according to a report published online Feb. 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
This is markedly higher than the 37%-74% survival reported...
Source: Skin and Allergy News - February 17, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
The Latest On Zika: Infection In Utero May Trigger Mental Illness
The Zika virus, which is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is strongly suspected to be linked to a new wave of microcephaly cases in Brazil. Babies born with the birth defect have smaller heads and sometimes brains that aren't fully developed, which can result in life-long developmental problems. Zika is currently spreading through Central and South America and the Caribbean, and with the high volume of news about the virus, it's tough to stay up-to-date. Check out our full coverage, or read our daily recaps. Here are seven updates, opinions and developments to know about now: 1. Conf...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) NIAID scientists and colleagues have discovered that a single monoclonal antibody isolated from a human Ebola virus disease survivor protected non-human primates when given as late as five days after lethal Ebola infection. The antibody can now advance to testing in humans as a potential treatment for Ebola virus disease. There are currently no licensed treatments for Ebola infection, which caused more than 11,000 deaths in the 2014-2015 outbreak in West Africa.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 25, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Better way to treat abscesses: Add antibiotic to conventional approach
UCLA researchers have found that doctors can use a specific antibiotic in addition to surgically draining an abscess to give people a better chance of recovery. The discovery turns on its head the long-held notion that surgical drainage alone is sufficient for treating abscesses.
The findings are particularly important because of the emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which since 2000 has become the most common cause of skin infections — initially in the U.S. and now in many other parts of the world.
The UCLA study will be published March 3 by the New England Journal of ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 3, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Volume 144 Issue 05
Epidemiology & Infection, Volume 144 Issue 05 Epidemiology & Infection publishes original reports and reviews on all aspects of infection in humans and animals. Particular emphasis is given to the epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases. The scope covers the zoonoses, outbreaks, food hygiene, vaccine studies, statistics and the clinical, social and public-health aspects of infectious disease, as well as some tropical infections. It has become the key international periodical in which to find the latest reports on recently discovered infections and new technology. For those concerned with policy ...
Source: Epidemiology and Infection - March 5, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research
Hearing on Emerging Health Threats and the Zika Supplemental Funding Request
U.S. Senate, Committee on Appropriations. 02/11/2016This resource provides a recording of and statements from a two-hour, 10-minute Congressional hearing before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee on the Zika outbreak and the supplemental funding request to combat the Zika virus. Witnesses from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discuss work to accelerate optimal vector control strategies, better diagnostics, and vaccine discovery. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 12, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Vaccine Refusal Puts Unvaccinated and Vaccinated at Risk Vaccine Refusal Puts Unvaccinated and Vaccinated at Risk
A recent literature review has revealed that many of the individuals who contracted measles and pertussis in recent outbreaks were either unvaccinated or undervaccinated. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 16, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Zika Virus: A Pandemic in Progress
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 03/18/2016This one-hour, two-minute presentation features Dr. Anthony Fauci, who discusses the history of Zika virus, the current outbreak in the Caribbean and Latin America, Zika and the United States, and the role of research and development, including diagnostic, therapeutics, and vaccine development. He discusses symptoms and diagnosis of the disease, and how information about the Zika outbreak is evolving every day. (Video or Multimedia)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Volume 144 Issue 06
Epidemiology & Infection, Volume 144 Issue 06 Epidemiology & Infection publishes original reports and reviews on all aspects of infection in humans and animals. Particular emphasis is given to the epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases. The scope covers the zoonoses, outbreaks, food hygiene, vaccine studies, statistics and the clinical, social and public-health aspects of infectious disease, as well as some tropical infections. It has become the key international periodical in which to find the latest reports on recently discovered infections and new technology. For those concerned with policy ...
Source: Epidemiology and Infection - March 22, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research
Volume 144 Issue 07
Epidemiology & Infection, Volume 144 Issue 07 Epidemiology & Infection publishes original reports and reviews on all aspects of infection in humans and animals. Particular emphasis is given to the epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases. The scope covers the zoonoses, outbreaks, food hygiene, vaccine studies, statistics and the clinical, social and public-health aspects of infectious disease, as well as some tropical infections. It has become the key international periodical in which to find the latest reports on recently discovered infections and new technology. For those concerned with policy ...
Source: Epidemiology and Infection - April 1, 2016 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research
U.S. Officials Warn Zika 'Scarier' Than Initially Thought
By Timothy Gardner and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top health officials expressed heightened concern on Monday about the threat posed to the United States by the Zika virus, saying the mosquito that spreads it is now present in about 30 states and hundreds of thousands of infections could appear in Puerto Rico. At a White House briefing, they stepped up pressure on the Republican-led Congress to pass approximately $1.9 billion in emergency funding for Zika preparedness that the Obama administration requested in February. "Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought," said...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UCLA scientists unravel the genetic evolution of Zika virus
How does a formerly innocuous and obscure virus like Zika transform itself into a feared pathogen inflicting a devastating impact on global health?
A new UCLA study suggests that the virus possesses the ability to mutate rapidly, allowing the current outbreak to spread swiftly around the world. The Cell Press journal, Cell Host & Microbe, published the findings today in its advance online edition.
“The Zika virus has undergone significant genetic changes in the past 70 years,” explained senior author Genhong Cheng, a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicin...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 15, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
