by University of California – San Diego Credit: Dylan Leagh / Unsplash Americans’ interest in a potentially harmful “magic mushroom” is soaring, with Google searches skyrocketing 114% from 2022 to 2023, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science....
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Microplastics found in every semen sample tested by research team
JUNE 7, 2024 by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Graphical abstract. Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173522A team of public health researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has found microplastics in the semen of every sample they tested. In their study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, the...
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A Lot of Hot Air? Debate on Gas Stoves Points to Exacerbation, Not Cause
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > ATS 2024 Neil Osterweil May 22, 2024 SAN DIEGO — Although there is as yet no smoking gun definitively showing that indoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations from gas appliances are a cause of pulmonary diseases, the circumstantial evidence of the baleful effects of gas stoves on lung function...
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CDC reports third dairy worker infected with bird flu, risk to public remains low
MAY 30, 2024 by Ernie Mundell Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows, there’s been a third case of H5N1 avian flu confirmed in a dairy worker, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. The previous two human cases—the first in Texas, the second in Michigan, where this latest case also occurred—involved only a...
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Measles deaths worldwide jumped 40% last year, health agencies say
A vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is seen in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Friday, May 17, 2019. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 that measles deaths globally spiked by more than 40% last year. The number of cases also rose by...
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Rat-borne parasite that can cause brain disease spreading in southern US
by Ernie Mundell Brown rats found and analyzed near Atlanta now carry rat lungworm, researchers report. It’s a parasite that can trigger a dangerous brain encephalitis in both people and pets, and which now threatens a wide area of the U.S. Southeast. Researchers in Georgia say the microscopic rat lungworm, known scientifically as Angiostrongylus cantonensis,...
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Bangladesh’s worst ever dengue outbreak a ‘canary in the coal mine’ for climate crisis, WHO expert warns
Bangladesh is battling its worst dengue outbreak on record, with more than 600 people killed and 135,000 cases reported since April, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, as one of its experts blamed the climate crisis and El Nino weather pattern for driving the surge. The country’s health care system is straining under the influx...
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Additional West Nile virus cases confirmed in 4 Washington counties
by KOMO News Staff, Tue, September 26th 2023, 9:25 AM MST OLYMPIA, Wash. — Two people and two horses in Washington state have had confirmed cases of West Nile virus diagnosed in the past few days. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) said Monday the separate human cases came from residents in Walla Walla...
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Vibrio cases increasing
Cases of Vibrio in the U.S. in 2022 CDC WARNS ABOUT DEADLY BACTERIA — After multiple reports of Americans infected by rare flesh-eating bacteria this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has alerted providers to look out for the infection and public health officials to warn the public about the risks. Five things...
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26 states see ‘substantial’ spike in COVID hospitalizations, CDC says
BY ALIX MARTICHOUX – 08/29/23 1:45 PM ET (NEXSTAR) – The summer surge in COVID-19 spread could extend into fall. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said hospitalizations rose yet again last week by another 19%. Deaths from the virus also saw a large jump: 21% in one week. The spread of the virus...
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