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Local Zika outbreaks in United States 'likely': U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is likely to see outbreaks of the Zika virus, with perhaps dozens or scores of people affected, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday.
Source: Reuters: Health - April 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Zika Emergency Funding Remains Stalled in Congress
Funding to fight the ongoing Zika virus outbreak remains tied up in bureaucracy as the U.S. Senate adjourned for a week-long recess after hearing arguments over the best way to fund the fight against the virus.
“We shouldn’t be taking 10 days off as a dangerous virus threatens this nation,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said, the Atlantic reports. “And it is threatening us.”
The White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion in Zika emergency funding in February. Some funds that were allocated to the Ebola response have been repurposed to help with Zika, but health officials argue more is nee...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - April 29, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Alexandra Sifferlin Tags: Uncategorized Funding recess Senate Zika Source Type: news
House Republicans Are Happy To Dither As Zika Threat Looms
Public health officials are growing more and more concerned about the Zika virus as its true impact in South and Central America becomes clear. In January, the World Health Organization said Zika could be on the verge of spreading throughout the Americas. Health organizations in the U.S. are upping their efforts to develop a vaccine and eradicate the virus, and the White House has asked that money be appropriated to help make this happen.
But as certain as death and taxes, Republicans in the House of Representatives have emerged to slow this process to a crawl. GOP lawmakers have met these calls to action with indifference...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
This Billboard Traps And Kills Mosquitoes Carrying Zika Virus
An effective method to fight the Zika virus may be at the side of a road.
The international public health emergency has left researchers and health professionals scrambling to devise a way to put a stop to the virus that is spread by mosquitoes and through sex, and causes microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome at birth.
In Brazil, which has been hit hardest by the outbreak, innovators have found a way to kill the disease-carrying mosquitoes wherever they happen to be.
Posterscope Brasil recently launched the “Mosquito Killer Billboard” in Rio de Janeiro.
The mechanism sprays a solution that’s a co...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 10, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Zika Virus Infection: Current Concerns and Perspectives
Abstract
The Zika virus outbreaks highlight the growing importance need for a reliable, specific and rapid diagnostic device to detect Zika virus, as it is often recognized as a mild disease without being identified. Many Zika virus infection cases have been misdiagnosed or underreported because of the non-specific clinical presentation. The aim of this review was to provide a critical and comprehensive overview of the published peer‐reviewed evidence related to clinical presentations, various diagnostic methods and modes of transmission of Zika virus infection, as well as potential therapeutic targets to combat...
Source: Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology - May 27, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Fake Vaccination Papers Let Yellow Fever Spread in AngolaFake Vaccination Papers Let Yellow Fever Spread in Angola
The world's worst yellow fever outbreak in decades took hold in an Angolan slum because its early victims were Eritrean migrants whose false vaccination papers sent doctors off on the wrong path for weeks, international health officials said. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - June 15, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
Outbreak of Zika virus disease in the Americas and the association with microcephaly, congenital malformations and Guillain-Barre syndrome
Introduction Prior to 2007, Zika virus (ZIKV) was generally considered an arbovirus of limited importance, causing a mild self-limiting febrile illness in tropical Africa and Southeast Asia. Now, a large, ongoing outbreak of ZIKV that started in Brazil in early 2015 is spreading rapidly across the Americas and has been potentially linked to congenital malformations (including microcephaly) and Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS). In England, as of 4 February 2016, five adults have been diagnosed with ZIKV infection following travel to countries currently experiencing a ZIKV outbreak. Zika virus ZIKV was first isolat...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - June 16, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Ladhani, S. N., O'Connor, C., Kirkbride, H., Brooks, T., Morgan, D. Tags: Eye Diseases, Open access, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, Travel medicine, Tropical medicine (infectious diseases), Vaccination / immunisation, Headache (including migraine), Infection (neurology), Neuromuscular disease, Pain Source Type: research
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Due to Metalworking Fluid Aerosols
Abstract Purpose of Review This review summarises the clinical knowledge of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in workers exposed to aerosols of metalworking fluid, reviewing published outbreaks and clinical cases. Recent Findings Metalworking fluid exposure has become the commonest recognised cause of occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis, having been rare before 2000. There are many possible agents in the metalworking fluid which may be the cause of disease including bacteria, mycobacteria, fungae, biocides, emulsifiers, reodorants and dissolved chrome and cobalt. Causes are likely to be different in different outbrea...
Source: Current Allergy and Asthma Reports - July 28, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Lawmakers Enjoy Vacation While Zika Spreads To U.S.
WASHINGTON ― Democrats in Congress called on leaders Friday to interrupt a seven-week vacation and return to Capitol Hill after the first local outbreak of the Zika virus was reported in Florida.
Congress failed to pass emergency legislation to fund the nation’s response to Zika before legislators departed earlier this month, first to attend the party conventions and then to take time off.
But with news that at least four people had contracted Zika locally in Southern Florida and the conventions over, Democrats were quick to say it’s time to come back to work.
“I call on Republican Congressional leaders...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mumps Outbreak at a University Mumps Outbreak at a University
A large outbreak of mumps in university students, many of whom had previously received 2 doses of MMR vaccine, suggests that in certain situations a 3 dose sequence may be warranted.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - August 15, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
More Kids Will Get Vaccinated Under New California Law
This piece comes to us courtesy of EdSource, where it was originally published.
Mississippi hasn’t had a case of measles since 1992. West Virginia last saw measles – a highly contagious virus that kills an estimated 314 people worldwide every day – in 2009. Now, with California’s new vaccination law rolling out shot by shot, the state joins Mississippi and West Virginia to become the third in the nation to adopt stringent vaccination school entrance requirements. And medical experts say disease rates are likely to fall in California as they have in those states.
“It’s a good club to...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zika and the race to quell outbreaks: My talk with Anthony Fauci, NIH ’ s top vaccine expert
Anthony Fauci has spent his career hunting ways to treat and prevent infectious diseases, from tuberculosis to severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. He did pioneering work on deciphering how HIV/AIDS attacks the human immune system, and during more than three decades as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has continued […]See the rest of the story at mysite.comRelated:WHO will vaccinate in five African nations after polio outbreakFederal emergency aid is ending in Flint. State officials vow to pay for water.Baltimore police cuffed, stunned and shot people in mental health crisi...
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thousands Queue in Congo for Emergency Yellow Fever Vaccinations Thousands Queue in Congo for Emergency Yellow Fever Vaccinations
Thousands of people in Democratic Republic of Congo ' s capital Kinshasa queued up on Wednesday for emergency yellow fever vaccinations aimed at limiting one of the worst outbreaks in decades that has killed hundreds in the region this year.Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - August 18, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
Zika and the race to quell outbreaks: My talk with Anthony Fauci, NIH ’ s top vaccine expert
Anthony Fauci has spent his career hunting ways to treat and prevent infectious diseases, from tuberculosis to severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. He did pioneering work on deciphering how HIV/AIDS attacks the human immune system, and during more than three decades as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has continued […]Related:Zika virus now actively spreading in Miami Beach, CDC expands travel advisoryFlorida Gov. Rick Scott confirms new Zika transmissions in Miami BeachZika now suspected from mosquitoes in Miami Beach
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
