Projections for a Pandemic Future: in Whose Interest?
The World Health Assembly (22-28 May) is expected to discuss the pandemic treaty.Credit: World Health Organization (WHO)By Nicoletta DenticoROME, May 12 2022 (IPS) In what has been defined a historic consensus decision aimed at protecting the world from future infectious diseases crises, on 1st December 2021, the special session of the World Health Assembly agreed to kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, the decision marked �...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - May 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicoletta Dentico Tags: COVID-19 Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
‘Zoonotic spillovers’ expected to rise with at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over next 50 yearsThere will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially devastating” spread of disease that will imperil animals and people and risk further pandemics, researchers have warned.As the planet heats up, many animal species will be forced to move into new areas to find suitable conditions. They will bring their parasites and pathogens with them, causing them to spread between species that haven ’t inter...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 28, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Milman Tags: Environment Infectious diseases Science Source Type: news
Warning: Climate Crisis Is Now the Single Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity
This year’s World Health Day launched a new warning: more than 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to “avoidable environmental causes”. Credit: BigstockBy Baher KamalMADRID, Apr 5 2022 (IPS) While the world’s top scientists and experts continue their arduous work to finally submit to politicians at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (7-18 November 2022), a new alert now emerges: the climate crisis has already become the single biggest health threat to humankind.
But this new alert should be no surprise: it rather constitutes the logic, expected cons...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Baher Kamal Tags: Development & Aid Environment Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations World Health Day Source Type: news
Vegan Documentarian Tells the Inside Story of the Lab-Grown Meat Industry
Liz Marshall’s latest release, Meat the Future, will be available for streaming April 5 on Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play. The feature length-documentary charts the birth of a new technological innovation that grows meat from stem cells instead of animals, reducing the need for industrial agriculture and ending slaughter. She tells the story through Uma Valeti, a cardiologist-turned food entrepreneur who now heads one of the world’s leading cell-cultivated meat companies, Upside Foods (formerly called Memphis Meats). I spoke with the film director about her new documentary, the next steps, and what cell-cult...
Source: TIME: Science - April 5, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Food & Agriculture healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
US Funding for Global Health Security Doesn ’t Cover These Essential Systems for Health Workers—Yet
By Polly Dunford,
President and chief executive officer
Polly Dunford, President& CEO of IntraHealth, visits Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda. Photo by Esther Ruth Mbabazi for IntraHealth International.March 28, 2022US funding for global health security has surged in the last few years, and now Congress has just approved a $510 million increase for fiscal year 2022, nearly doubling current funding. President Biden is proposing even greater increases for fiscal year 2023 in hisnew budget proposal, including a multilateral fund for global health security and pandemic preparedness. The US has alreadypledged $2...
Source: IntraHealth International - March 28, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: kseaton Tags: COVID-19 Digital Health Policy & Advocacy World Health Worker Week Global health security Community Health Workers Source Type: news
COVID-19 —lessons for zoonotic disease
Science,<a href="https://www.science.org/toc/science/375/6585">Volume 375, Issue 6585</a>, Page 1114-1115, March 2022. (Source: ScienceNOW)
Source: ScienceNOW - March 10, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Edward C. Holmes Source Type: news
New Preprints Further Implicate Market in Pandemic's Origins
Three studies that analyzed samples from Wuhan ’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market add to evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has zoonotic origins. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 28, 2022 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Zoonotic Infection With Oz Virus, a Novel Thogotovirus Zoonotic Infection With Oz Virus, a Novel Thogotovirus
Learn more about the Oz virus, a tick-transmitted thogotovirus that could potentially cause infection in mammals -- including humans.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - February 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
Failure to prevent pandemics at source is ‘greatest folly’, say scientists
Protecting wildlife to stop viruses jumping to humans would save far more than it costs, analysis showsPreventing future pandemics at source would cost a small fraction of the damage already caused by viruses that jump from wildlife to people, according to scientists.Each year on average more than 3 million people die from zoonotic diseases, those that spill over from wildlife into humans, new analysis has calculated. Stopping the destruction of nature, which brings humans and wildlife into greater contact and results in spillover, would cost about $20bn a year, just 10% of the annual economic damage caused by zoonoses and...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 4, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Damian Carrington Environment editor Tags: Conservation Biodiversity Wildlife Coronavirus Infectious diseases Epidemics Environment Science World news Medical research Microbiology Source Type: news
Dogs May Present a New Obstacle Dracunculiasis Eradication Dogs May Present a New Obstacle Dracunculiasis Eradication
The World Health Organization planned to eradicate dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease, by 2030. But complicating matters is a new study revealing a novel zoonotic pathway of transmission.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
The Cow That Could Feed the Planet
The cows in Farmer John’s pasture lead an idyllic life. They roam through tree-shaded meadows, tearing up mouthfuls of clover while nursing their calves in tranquility. Tawny brown, compact and muscular, they are Limousins, a breed known for the quality of its meat and much sought-after by the high-end restaurants and butchers in the nearby food mecca of Maastricht, in the southernmost province of the Netherlands. In a year or two, meat from these dozen cows could end up on the plates of Maastricht’s better-known restaurants, but the cows themselves are not headed for the slaughterhouse. Instead, every few mont...
Source: TIME: Science - November 2, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker/Maastricht, Netherlands Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything feature Innovation Magazine Source Type: news
It May Be Too Late to Find the Origin of COVID-19. The WHO Is Trying Anyway
Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s still not clear exactly how, where or when the SARS-CoV-2 virus began infecting people. Many experts believe the virus jumped from animal hosts to humans, but researchers continue to investigate the possibility that it escaped from a laboratory.
It’s not clear which, if either, of those theories is correct, and as time passes, the chances of finding a concrete answer grow slimmer. But on Oct. 13, the World Health Organization (WHO) unveiled a new effort to capitalize on whatever limited time remains: the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathoge...
Source: TIME: Health - October 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins
Scientists quickly identified the deadly Nipah virus, tracing it to fruit bats. The detective story is taking on new relevance as scientists hunt for the origins of coronavirus and as zoonotic spillover is happening with increasing frequency, heightening the possibility of more pandemics in the future. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - October 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Karin Brulliard Source Type: news
Characterization of the variables related to reports of death due to canine bites in scientific articles during the years 2013-2017: a systematic review - Barrios CL, Aguirre-Olea V, Bustos-L ópez C, Pérez-Vergara S, Claros-Alegría S.
Canine bites are an important public health problem, with consequences such as physical injuries, psychological trauma, transmission of zoonoses, infections and they can even cause death. To avoid deaths caused by this type of bite, multiple factors relate... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 30, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Consumption of Wild Animal Meat Increases Risk of Zoonotic Diseases - UN Report
[The Herald] The taking of animals for wild meat consumption poses significant threats of spreading diseases from animals to humans such as coronavirus into the human population, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday this week. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 16, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
