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Message 1915814 - Posted: 29 Jan 2018, 21:02:04 UTC - in response to Message 1915660.  

Panera Bread announced on Sunday it was recalling packets of cream cheese after some samples were found to contain listeria, causing panic among fans of the fast food chain.

Although no illnesses have been reported, the company issued the recall as a precaution, according to a news release. Five types of cream cheese — Plain Cream Cheese, Reduced-Fat Plain Cream Cheese, Reduced-Fat Chive & Onion Cream Cheese, Reduced-Fat Honey Walnut Cream Cheese and Reduced-Fat Wild Blueberry Cream Cheese — will be pulled from cafes in the United States.

“Only one variety of 2-oz cream cheese from a single day yielded the positive result. Our intent is to go above and beyond for our guests. You should expect nothing less from Panera,” said Blaine Hurst, Panera’s president and CEO.


Panera Bread recalls cream cheese over listeria concerns, sparks panic among consumers

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Message 1916146 - Posted: 31 Jan 2018, 21:09:34 UTC - in response to Message 1915814.  

BOSTON — The pharmacist convicted in connection with a deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday after he tearfully apologized to the victims for the pain and suffering they endured.

Glenn Chin sobbed as he struggled through his statement during his sentencing hearing in Boston's federal courthouse on Wednesday. The outbreak killed 76 people and sickened hundreds.


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Message 1916342 - Posted: 1 Feb 2018, 20:19:49 UTC - in response to Message 1916146.  

Four years after the United States pledged to help the world fight infectious disease epidemics like Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dramatically downsizing its epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries because money is running out, U.S. government officials said.

The CDC programs, part of an initiative known as global health security, train front-line workers in outbreak detection and strengthen laboratory and emergency response systems in countries where disease risks are greatest. The goal is to stop future outbreaks at their source.


CDC to cut global disease outbreak prevention by 80 percent

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Message 1916348 - Posted: 1 Feb 2018, 20:31:30 UTC - in response to Message 1916342.  

Tax cuts are more important than health
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Message 1916519 - Posted: 2 Feb 2018, 20:07:05 UTC - in response to Message 1916348.  

Health officials at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention rang the alarm about this year's deadly flu fleason at their weekly Friday briefing, saying "overall hospitalizations are now the highest we’ve seen, even higher than 2014-2015 high season.”

Just as concerning, the number of pediatric deaths rose this week by 16, from 37 to 53.

Twenty percent of the children who died had been vaccinated, officials said.

Dr. Anne Schuchat, the new acting director at the CDC, said H3N2 continues to dominate this season, but other strains ─ like H1N1 and Influenza B ─ are also being reported around the country.

Dr. Dan Jernigan reported at the briefing a rise in hospitalization rates from 41.9 per 100,000 last week to 51.4 this week. He said that number may ultimately exceed that of 2014-2015, when there were 710,000 by season’s end.


Flu hospitalizations are 'the highest we've seen,' CDC says

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Message 1916715 - Posted: 3 Feb 2018, 20:20:21 UTC - in response to Message 1916519.  

Fears over a dengue vaccine in the Philippines have led to a big drop in immunisation rates for preventable diseases, officials have warned.

Health Under-Secretary Enrique Domingo said many parents were refusing to get their children vaccinated for polio, chicken pox and tetanus.

The fears centre on Dengvaxia, a drug developed by French company Sanofi.

Sanofi and local experts say there is no evidence linking the deaths of 14 children to the drug.

However, the company had warned last year that the vaccine could make the disease worse in some people not infected before.

Dengue fever affects more than 400 million people each year around the world. Dengvaxia is the world's first vaccine against dengue.

The mosquito-borne disease is a leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian and Latin American countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).


Philippines gripped by dengue vaccine fears

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Message 1917187 - Posted: 5 Feb 2018, 20:30:50 UTC - in response to Message 1916715.  


CDC: Influenza, pneumonia related deaths now epidemic


The percentage of deaths from pneumonia and influenza-like illnesses is considered epidemic across the country, according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Based on National Center for Health Statistics mortality surveillance data available on Feb. 1, 9.7 percent of the deaths occurring during the week ending Jan. 13 were due to pneumonia and influenza viruses. This percentage is above the epidemic threshold of 7.2 percent for this week.
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Message 1917401 - Posted: 7 Feb 2018, 2:13:47 UTC - in response to Message 1917187.  

A nationwide flu outbreak is showing no sign of easing up as at least four more deaths have been reported in the past few days, including three children.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said 14,676 people have been hospitalized with influenza since the flu season began in October, double the number from all of last year and the highest ever recorded.

In New York City, health officials confirmed Tuesday that two children had died. One was identified as 8-year-old Amely Baez of Queens, who died Monday shortly after she was rushed to a hospital with flu symptoms, health officials said.


Nationwide flu outbreak shows no sign of easing up as more deaths reported

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Message 1917915 - Posted: 9 Feb 2018, 20:47:35 UTC - in response to Message 1917401.  

Flu has been on a vicious march this winter, evading vaccines, overwhelming hospitals and prompting school closures from California to Hong Kong in its wake. But relief in the form of new drugs is on the way.

Almost two decades after Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu first reached pharmacy shelves, researchers around the world are pushing ahead with a raft of new options. None will arrive in time to help sufferers this winter, but the most advanced -- developed by Roche and Shionogi & Co. -- could be on the market in Japan within months and available in the U.S. and Europe next winter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/flu-relief-is-coming-as-successors-to-aging-tamiflu-near-market
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Message 1918034 - Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 11:35:28 UTC - in response to Message 1917915.  

U.S. health officials reported more bad news on Friday regarding the country's ongoing, deadly flu season: doctors across the country are seeing more cases, hospitalizations and deaths from flu, and there's no sign it's letting up.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 10 more pediatric flu deaths were reported last week, bringing the total to 63 children who have died from the flu so far this season.

Officials say it's possible that we could see several more weeks of increased fu activity before the epidemic finally starts to wane.

"Flu is incredibly difficult to predict. We don't know if we've hit the peak yet," Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the CDC, said in a press briefing on Friday.


"Very intense" flu season on track to break records, CDC says

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Message 1918546 - Posted: 12 Feb 2018, 20:31:55 UTC - in response to Message 1918034.  

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CDC Flu Update: Widespread Activity Continues


Influenza activity increased again according to the latest FluView report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All U.S. states but Hawaii and Oregon continue to report widespread flu activity and the number of states experiencing high influenza-like illness (ILI) activity increased from 42 states plus New York City and the District of Columbia to 43 states plus New York City, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. ILI has reached 7.7% this week and is the highest level of ILI recorded since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, which peaked at 7.7% ILI. The overall hospitalization rate is higher than the overall hospitalization rate reported for the same week of 2014-2015; a high severity, H3N2-predominant season. CDC also is reporting an additional 10 flu-related pediatric deaths during week 5, bringing the total number of flu-related pediatric deaths reported this season to 63. Flu activity is likely to remain elevated for several more weeks.

http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2018/02/cdc-flu-update-widespread-activity-continues.aspx
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Message 1919062 - Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 20:13:52 UTC - in response to Message 1918546.  

This year’s flu vaccines reduce the chance of getting the flu by about one-third but are just 25% effective against the nasty strain causing the most misery, according to preliminary estimates released Thursday.

The findings, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), come as no surprise to flu experts tracking the worst influenza season in a decade.


Flu vaccines just 25% effective against worst strain this year, CDC says

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Message 1919287 - Posted: 16 Feb 2018, 21:10:43 UTC - in response to Message 1919062.  

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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) At least 43 people have died and 450 people are ill in a Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization.
Lassa fever, an acute viral hemorrhagic illness, is endemic in most of West Africa, especially Nigeria, where it was discovered in 1969. Symptoms can be mild or severe, including hemorrhaging in the gums, eyes or nose.
Many of its symptoms mimic Ebola, but Lassa fever is caused by the Lassa virus and transmitted by multimammate rats.


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Message 1919949 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 21:13:46 UTC - in response to Message 1919287.  


Life after Ebola



It has been four years since the Ebola virus outbreak in the West African states of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone was first reported. Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham has been back to document the people still living with the legacy of the disease.

With pictures.
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Message 1920522 - Posted: 22 Feb 2018, 22:17:04 UTC - in response to Message 1919949.  

Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work

Scientists say they have settled one of medicine's biggest debates after a huge study found that anti-depressants work.

The study, which analysed data from 522 trials involving 116,477 people, found 21 common anti-depressants were all more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than dummy pills.

But it also showed big differences in how effective each drug is.

The authors of the report, published in the Lancet, said it showed many more people could benefit from the drugs.

There were 64.7 million prescriptions for the drugs in England in 2016 - more than double the 31 million in 2006 - but there has been a debate about how effective they are, with some trials suggesting they are no better than placebos.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the study "finally puts to bed the controversy on anti-depressants".

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Message 1921019 - Posted: 25 Feb 2018, 8:05:23 UTC - in response to Message 1920522.  

Editor’s note: An article published Feb. 6, 2018 in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health had identified 416 cases of advanced black lung disease among coal miners in central Appalachia. New cases of black lung had been rare until recently, but this study suggests that the incidence is rising. Anna Allen and Carl Werntz, professors of occupational medicine at West Virginia University who treat miners with black lung, explain what causes this disabling disease.

Black lung disease on the rise: Five questions answered

What is black lung disease, and what causes it?

Underground mining is one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States. Risks include inhaling toxic gases, such as methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide; being crushed by roof falls or mining equipment; drowning when tunnels fill with water; and injury in fires and explosions. Even if miners survive the workplace, they may suffocate to death years later.

Surface and underground mining is associated with two pneumoconioses, or dust diseases of the lung. Black lung disease, also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, comes from inhaling coal mine dust. The other disease, silicosis, is caused by inhaling silica dust from crushed rocks. Black lung and silicosis often appear together because coal seams are found between rock layers that contain silica.

When miners inhale dust, it deposits along their airways. Their bodies try to remove the dust by sending in special white blood cells called macrophages to engulf and chemically digest it. But the cells are unable to break down the dust, so they die and release enzymes that damage lung tissue. This causes problems that include chronic bronchitis, emphysema and fibrosis (scarring). In progressive massive fibrosis, the most severe version of black lung, scarring causes lung volume to shrink, further damaging adjacent lung tissue and making air exchange even worse.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/24/black-lung-disease-on-the-rise-five-questions-answered_partner/
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Message 1921427 - Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 21:20:59 UTC - in response to Message 1921019.  

Scientists launch an ambitious effort to find viruses lurking in the wild that could cause pandemics

Scientists want to identify viral threats lurking in the wild.

Diseases like Ebola, SARS and Zika are viruses that originate in animals and can spread to humans. These zoonoses can kill swaths of people and cost billions to contain and prevent from happening again. Most aren't known until they spark deadly emergencies.

Scientists only know 263 such viruses that have infected humans. The Global Virome Project estimates that 263,000 unknown viruses in wildlife are capable of infecting people, meaning researchers know of about 0.1 percent of them.

The international partnership also estimates the total number of viruses in wildlife is 1.7 million, and that finding all of them would cost about $7 billion. It wants to find 71 percent of the unknown viruses, an effort it estimates will cost $1.2 billion over a 10-year period.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/scientists-want-to-find-viruses-in-the-wild-that-may-become-pandemic.html
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Message 1921437 - Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 22:00:39 UTC - in response to Message 1921427.  

Scientists launch an ambitious effort to find viruses lurking in the wild that could cause pandemics

Scientists want to identify viral threats lurking in the wild.
I hope it isn't to weaponize them ...
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Message 1921949 - Posted: 1 Mar 2018, 19:40:20 UTC - in response to Message 1921437.  

This Company Is Testing A Flu Vaccine Made In Tobacco -- And Philip Morris Is On Board

In September, just before the start of one of the worst flu seasons on record, a Canadian biotech company called Medicago started a phase 3 clinical trial of its flu vaccine, which it manufactures in tobacco plants. The company hopes to prove that its unusual production method will result in a product that can be churned out in a fraction of the time it takes to make current vaccines—and that it will provide broader protection, too.

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Message 1922198 - Posted: 2 Mar 2018, 21:33:47 UTC

Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests

Scientists say diabetes is five separate diseases, and treatment could be tailored to each form.
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