$2.3M grant funds app creation to diagnose diseases
(Cornell University) The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded to Cornell University a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop FeverPhone, which will diagnose six febrile diseases in the field: dengue, malaria, chikungunya, typhoid fever, leptospirosis and Chagas' disease. Faculty members David Erickson and Saurabh Mehta will lead the team. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Notes from the Field: Typhoid Fever Outbreak Associated with an Asymptomatic Carrier at a Restaurant ? Weld County, Colorado, 2015
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 16, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
CDC Report Highlights Chance of Typhoid Transmission Years After Infection (FREE)
By Cara Adler
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Three unrelated people in Colorado developed typhoid fever from exposure to an asymptomatic restaurant worker who had been infected 15 years earlier, … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - June 16, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Your Complete Guide To Staying Healthy During The Summer Olympics
Rio de Janeiro is expecting about 500,000 visitors for the Olympic and Paralympic games this August. If you’re one of them, there are a few things you need to consider in order to have a safe, happy and healthy trip to Brazil this year.
1. Make sure you’re up to date on all your vaccines.
This is travel safety 101. Infectious disease loves a crowd, and one way to make sure a nasty bug doesn't hitch a ride with you is to get vaccinated.
What to do: Make an appointment with a travel doctor now to make sure you’re current on all your regular vaccines (measles, mumps, rubella, etc.) an...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 1, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Your Complete Guide To Staying Healthy During The Summer Olympics
Rio de Janeiro is expecting about 500,000 visitors for the Olympic and Paralympic games this August. If you’re one of them, there are a few things you need to consider in order to have a safe, happy and healthy trip to Brazil this year.
1. Make sure you’re up to date on all your vaccines.
This is travel safety 101. Infectious disease loves a crowd, and one way to make sure a nasty bug doesn't hitch a ride with you is to get vaccinated.
What to do: Make an appointment with a travel doctor now to make sure you’re current on all your regular vaccines (measles, mumps, rubella, etc.) an...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Jarring Anomaly of Society
By Aasha Mehreen AminMay 30 2016 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh)It is easy to miss stories about child domestic workers being tortured and killed. Easy because stories of children being killed have become eerily regular. It is May 28 and there is the report of 14-year-old Konika Rani being hacked to death by a drug addict with three of her classmates also grievously injured by him. There is also the horror of having to read about a six-year-old being left critically wounded after being raped by her neighbour. Next to this is the news of 11-year-old Hasina Akhter dying in hospital from the fatal wounds inflicted on her, presum...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 30, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Aasha Mehreen Amin Tags: Asia-Pacific Crime & Justice Education Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Labour Source Type: news
The Guardian view on antibiotic resistance: walk softly, carry a big stick | Editorial
Preserving the drugs that have extended life expectancy by 20 years by only using them to save lives is a matter of urgency. The drug companies can’t do it. A prize just mightThe Longitude Prize is a very smart idea. The prize is a handsome £8m and it awaits the first individual or (more probably) team that develops a quick, cheap and reliable way of stopping overuse or misuse of antibiotics. The diagnostic – it might be a strip of sensitised paper or it might be a mobile phone app – must be capable of being used anywhere in the world. Next week another round of assessment of ideas begins from the 138 teams so far r...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 22, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Editorial Tags: Antibiotics Society Biology Health Science Source Type: news
[Feature] The Truest Test
Over the past few years, there has been a surge in studies that intentionally infect volunteers with a wide variety of pathogens to test novel drugs and vaccines. The so-called "human challenge model" has a long and checkered past that began with 18th century experiments by smallpox vaccine developer Edward Jenner and later fell under intense scrutiny when they were conducted by Nazi doctors, military researchers, and academic scientists working with prisoners. Today, challenge experiments follow strict ethical guidelines, minimize risks to volunteers at every turn, and face increased scrutiny from regulatory agencies. The...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 19, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Jon Cohen Source Type: news
Typhoid Fever (Enteric Fever)
(Source: eMedicineHealth.com)
Source: eMedicineHealth.com - May 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Talking Science: Facts About Vaccines and Herd Immunity
This week is World Immunization Week and what better way to commemorate it than by discussing the facts about vaccines and the importance of herd immunity. But first...
What exactly IS a vaccine?
A vaccine is a biological agent that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific pathogen, protecting the person from a disease. That's how vaccines work. You get an inactivated, attenuated, or a portion of the version of the pathogen you're hoping to avoid.
According to the CDC, routine vaccines given to children in the last two decades will prevent hundreds of millions illnesses, tens of millions h...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 26, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Talking Science: Facts About Vaccines and Herd Immunity
This week is World Immunization Week and what better way to commemorate it than by discussing the facts about vaccines and the importance of herd immunity. But first...
What exactly IS a vaccine?
A vaccine is a biological agent that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific pathogen, protecting the person from a disease. That's how vaccines work. You get an inactivated, attenuated, or a portion of the version of the pathogen you're hoping to avoid.
According to the CDC, routine vaccines given to children in the last two decades will prevent hundreds of millions illnesses, tens of millions h...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kenya: Hygiene, Screening to Help Minimise Disease Burden
[Nation] Unpredictable weather such as the recent El Niño rains have magnified the health threat with diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dengue fever, hepatitis A, diarrhoea and malaria resurfacing in areas where they had been contained. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Africa's Typhoid Risk
[Addis Fortune] Typhoid fever all but disappeared from Western countries in the 20th century through massive improvements in water and sanitation. It happened after causing untold misery and death in its newly industrialising but unsanitary cities. Tragically, much of the rest of the world is still grappling with typhoid. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates as many as 21 million cases of typhoid annually; the disease is responsible for 220,000 avoidable deaths every year. And without urgent action, the fear is t (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 19, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Malawi: Typhoid Fever Outbreak Hits Mchinji
[Malawi News Agency] Mchinji -Typhoid Fever has hit Mchinji district with confirmed cases of at least 18 people who tested positive to the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 18, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Typhoid toxin increases host survival and promotes asymptomatic infection
(PLOS) Genotoxins damage the genetic material in cells and can cause mutations and cancer. Some bacteria code for and produce genotoxins. A study published on April 7th in PLOS Pathogens reports the surprising finding that one of them, typhoid toxin, actually increases survival of the infected host and promotes long-term colonization without causing disease in the host. The work, the authors say 'poses the semantic and biological question of whether 'toxin' is the appropriate designation'. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - April 7, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
