JULY 10, 2024 by The Editors, Bloomberg Opinion Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainAn unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases including measles, dengue and polio have surged past pre-pandemic peaks in...
BY RACHAEL PILTCH-LOEB, DENIS NASH AND SCOTT RATZAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS – 06/08/24 9:00 AM ETWe learned on May 30 of a third human case of H5N1 infection, commonly known as bird flu, in the United States. This case was on a different farm than previous cases and presented with different symptoms. Since March 29, there...
by Lindsey Tanner Stanford women’s soccer team players wear warmup jerseys with “Mental Health Matters” on their backs as well as a butterfly patch on their sleeves to remember late goalie Katie Meyer, who died by suicide earlier in the year, before an NCAA college soccer match against UCLA, Oct. 14, 2022, in Stanford, Calif....
by The Gerontological Society of America Concern regarding the COVID-19 pandemic among Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) participants from March 2020 to October 2020. The mode survey response reported by WHI participants residing in each ZIP code is shown. COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019. Credit: The Journals of Gerontology: Series A (2022). DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac056 A new supplemental issue...
The number of norovirus outbreaks increased in the 2021 to 2022 surveillance year, returning to levels similar to prepandemic levels, according to research published in the Sept. 23 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Anita K. Kambhampati, M.P.H., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues examined norovirus...
by Mary Cunningham, George Mason University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As more monkeypox infections are identified throughout the U.S. and the world, the public is more curious about the disease, especially because we are still in a global pandemic. Epidemiologist and professor at George Mason University Dr. Amira Roess answers more questions about monkeypox’s transmissibility,...
by Mike Stobbe A student walks down a hallway between classes at a high school in Kansas City, Kan., on the first day of in-person learning Wednesday, March 30, 2021. According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, March 31, 2022, nearly half of U.S. high school students...
by David Rising Registered nurse Rachel Chamberlin steps out of an isolation room where Fred Rutherford recovers from COVID-19 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million—underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is...
Countries have reported some five million COVID-19 deaths in two years, but global excess deaths are estimated at double or even quadruple that figure. Last year’s Day of the Dead marked a grim milestone. On 1 November, the global death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic passed 5 million, official data suggested. It has now reached...
Max Kozlov Molnupiravir offers the possibility of treating people in areas where monoclonal antibodies cannot be easily administered.Credit: Mariusz Burcz/Alamy Molnupiravir, one of two antiviral pills that have caused excitement in the past few months because preliminary clinical-trial results showed that they can significantly reduce hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, has yet to receive an emergency use...
