Mozambique: Mozambique Needs 800,000 Doses of Vaccine Against Foot-and-Mouth Disease
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's veterinary authorities are mobilising funds for the purchase of a further 800,000 doses of vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease, aiming to complete the immunisation of cattle in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 8, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Agribusiness Food and Agriculture Economy, Business and Finance Health and Medicine Mozambique Southern Africa Source Type: news
Cases of Tick-Borne Illnesses Are on the Rise. Some Experts Believe Climate Change is the Cause
(NEW YORK) — In 2022, doctors recorded the first confirmed case of tick-borne encephalitis virus acquired in the United Kingdom.
It began with a bike ride.
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A 50-year-old man was mountain biking in the North Yorkshire Moors, a national park in England known for its vast expanses of woodland and purple heather. At some point on his ride, at least one black-legged tick burrowed into his skin. Five days later, the mountain biker developed symptoms commonly associated with a viral infection — fatigue, muscle pain, fever.
At first, he seemed to be on the mend, bu...
Source: TIME: Health - July 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ZOYA TEIRSTEIN / Grist/AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
The U.S. Scientist At the Heart of COVID-19 Lab Leak Conspiracies Is Still Trying to Save the World From the Next Pandemic
Ralph Baric stepped onto the auditorium stage at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and looked out at the sparse audience that had come to hear him speak. On the large projector screen hanging behind him, the following words appeared: How Bad the Next Pandemic Could Be, What Might It Look Like, and Will We be Ready. The date was May 29, 2018.
“Well, I have to admit I’m a little worried about giving this talk,” Baric said. “The reason is being labelled a harbinger of doom.” The screen shifted, and images of the four horsemen of the apocalypse—Death, Famine, War, and Plague&mda...
Source: TIME: Health - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Werb Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature freelance Source Type: news
How the Tech Behind a COVID-19 Vaccine is Helping Save Bees
After more than a decade in the industry, commercial beekeeper Liana Teigen Moreno thought she knew what she was doing when it came to making honey. A hipster pixie with a platinum crew cut and bright blue eyes, Teigen tends to 800 beehives in northern Florida. Her experience at the University of Florida’s Honey Bee Research Lab in Gainesville taught her everything she needed to know about bee diseases, knowledge that came in handy late last year when she realized that an insidious parasite that she had first learned about working her way through college as a part-time beekeeper had decimated her hives—despite ...
Source: TIME: Science - July 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker and Video by Andrew. D Johnson Tags: Uncategorized climate climate change Climate Is Everything COVID-19 feature Food & Agriculture healthscienceclimate Londontime Source Type: news
AI? Brain manipulation? WHO ’s new chief scientist aims to anticipate global challenges
At the beginning of May, after almost 10 years at the helm of one of the world’s richest biomedical foundations, British physician Jeremy Farrar traded funding clout for a bigger international stage, moving to Geneva to become chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). Farrar had
helped make the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust a major player
in global issues such as infectious diseases and the health effects of climate change. He also wasn’t shy about criticizing WHO’s leadership, specifically its slow response to the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Only the second person in the chief scie...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 29, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
How Podcaster Andrew Huberman Got America to Care About Science
The moment the clock strikes 1:20 p.m., students are out of their seats and shoving laptops into backpacks, spilling out of the classroom and onto Stanford University’s lush California campus. But some stay behind, forming a line to speak to their guest lecturer. A few ask for selfies. Others talk about their workout routines. All look starstruck to be in the presence of Andrew Huberman, the man who has spent the last 80 minutes talking about neuroplasticity, memory, and learning.
Arguably not since the Fauci mania of the early pandemic has a scientist become as famous, as quickly, as Huberman. The 47-year-old Stanfo...
Source: TIME: Health - June 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate podcasts Source Type: news
Creating a buzz: Georgia biotech company picks up another $4.5M for honeybee vaccine
A Georgia biotech company that aims to save the world ’s bee population raised $4.5 million to help fuel its growth globally.
Athens-based Dalan Animal Health, which last year moved into the University of Georgia’s Delta Innovation Hub, says it has developed the world’s first honeybee vaccine to protect the pollinators from a bacterial disease c alled American foulbrood, which can destroy an entire honeybee colony in as little as three weeks.
Jackson, Wyoming-based firm Prime Movers Lab led… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rebecca Grapevine Source Type: news
General health advice and guidelines for pilgrims
27 June 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a list of recommendations that each pilgrim should follow. These recommendations are in line with the health requirements set by the health authorities in Saudi Arabia for pilgrims in the Hajj season this year.
Physical ability, chronic diseases and health education
WHO recommends that authorities at pilgrims’ countries of origin should take into account that a pilgrim should have minimum physical ability for Hajj. It also alerts to the high risk of infectious diseases in older people and those with severe chronic diseases such as ...
Source: WHO EMRO News - June 27, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Likely Getting an Update
In a unanimous vote, the 21 members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s vaccine committee recommended an update to the COVID-19 vaccine to better match the viral strains currently circulating in the country and around the world.
The panel voted to move away from the current bivalent vaccine, which is designed to tackle the original virus and BA.4 and BA.5 variants, to a vaccine that is better able to protect against the XBB family of variants. The half a dozen different versions of XBB viruses account for nearly all new infections in the U.S., with two—XBB.1.5 and XBB.1.16—currently dominatin...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Getting an Update. Here ’ s What to Know
In a unanimous vote, the 21 members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s vaccine committee recommended an update to the COVID-19 vaccine to better match the viral strains currently circulating in the country and around the world.
The panel voted to move away from the current bivalent vaccine, which is designed to tackle the original virus and BA.4 and BA.5 variants, to a vaccine that is better able to protect against the XBB family of variants. The half a dozen different versions of XBB viruses account for nearly all new infections in the U.S., with two—XBB.1.5 and XBB.1.16—currently dominatin...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Eritrea: Ministry of Agriculture Announces Production of Two Animal Disease Vaccines
[Shabait] The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that it has produced two internationally certified animal disease vaccines through its National Animal and Plant Health Laboratory (NAPHL) based in Vilajio, Asmara. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 5, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Companies won ’t share COVID-19 shots, stalling future vaccine research
The U.S. government has tens of millions of unused doses of messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines, regularly trashing shots as they pass their expiration dates. It’s a dismal reflection on recent vaccine uptake, but it’s also a serious roadblock for scientists testing and developing vaccines that could protect against future variants of SARS-CoV-2—and the next pandemic. Developers need existing vaccines as a benchmark to compare with new candidates. But government contracts with the vaccinemakers, and the companies’ own policies, prohibit the use of the vaccines for research purposes.
“At this stage of the...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
The COVID-19 virus mutated to outsmart key antibody treatments. Better ones are coming
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and other effective drugs were elusive, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) emerged as a lifesaving treatment. But now, 3 years later, all the approvals for COVID-19–fighting antibodies have been rescinded in the United States, as mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have left the drugs—which target parts of the original virus—ineffective.
Researchers around the globe are now trying to revive antibody treatments by redesigning them to take aim at targets that are less prone to mutation. “There are new approaches that present a much more challenging task for the virus to evade,”...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 24, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Animal health body urges bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic
Governments should consider vaccinating birds against bird flu to avoid the virus - which has already killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide - turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Animal Health Organisation (WOAH) said. The severity of the current…#avianinfluenza #moniqueeloit #hpai #agricultureusda #usda (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bird Flu Vaccine Authorized for Emergency Use in California Condors
More than 20 of the birds, which are critically endangered, have died in recent months. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Anthes Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Avian Influenza Wildlife Die-Offs Endangered and Extinct Species Condors Birds Viruses Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service California your-feed-science your-feed-health your-feed-animals Source Type: news
