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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Zika virus 'not controllable': CDC director's grim warning MIAMI — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delivered a grim assessment Tuesday of the government's ability to contain Zika, saying it's too late to stop the dangerous virus from spreading throughout the United States. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Zika again. Mosquito army released in Zika fight in Brazil & Colombia Scientists are planning to release an army of millions of modified mosquitoes in areas of Brazil and Colombia. |
JumpinJohnny Send message Joined: 27 Mar 13 Posts: 678 Credit: 962,093 RAC: 0 |
If wolbachia is "naturally occurring" and already in "60% of insects", I'm not real clear what effect they think this scheme would have. They plan on releasing "an army of millions" which is not quite an "army" in mosquito terms. No one has any certain number of how many mosquitoes there are but estimates run between 70,000,000,000,000,000, (70 quadrillion) and 200,000,000,000,000,000,(200 quadrillion) at any given moment. But if you can collect $18 million to fund a scheme, I guess it's wortha shot... or is it? |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
If wolbachia is "naturally occurring" and already in "60% of insects", I'm not real clear what effect they think this scheme would have. Yes it's worth a shot. Wish we could kill all the mosquitoes, but we can't. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Quarter of World's Population Are Infected With Latent Tuberculosis This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In rich countries, tuberculosis is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, the disease that claimed Keats, Poe, Chopin. But globally, TB is today the number one infectious killer, causing an estimated 1.8m deaths in 2015. http://www.newsweek.com/tb-tuberculosis-epidemics-disease-infection-vaccines-worl-population-514165 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Yemen's suspected cholera cases soar to 1,410 within weeks: WHO The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has ballooned to 1,410 within three weeks of the outbreak being declared, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as 18 months of war has destroyed most health facilities and clean water supplies. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Fatal Measles Complication Killed Patients Years Later A deadly measles complication that kills kids years after they seemingly recover may not be as rare as doctors thought, researchers said Friday. The fatal and incurable complication has killed at least 16 California adults and children, the researchers in Los Angeles and San Francisco said. They say they're afraid the condition is far more common than anyone thought, and say it strongly reinforces the need for vaccinating every single child who can be. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fatal-measles-complication-killed-patients-years-later-n674706 Measles, Mumps, and Rubella, shot. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Study: Zika virus could cause infertility in men, new study suggests The Zika virus could cause infertility in men, a new study suggests. Scientists in the US discovered that mice infected with Zika had shrunken testicles, low testosterone levels and low sperm counts. Although the findings have not yet been replicated in humans, experts say that the virus may also have worrying conseqences for men who become infected. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/31/zika-virus-could-cause-infertility-in-men-new-study-suggests/ |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Zika infections double in Vietnam The number of confirmed Zika cases in Vietnam has more than doubled over the past three days to 23, with a dozen of the new infections recorded in the commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The mosquito-borne virus has been spreading in Southeast Asia after outbreaks in the Americas. Thailand reported the region's first confirmed case of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size, linked to Zika in late September. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/zika-vietnam-1.3832552 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Study: Ebola adapted to easily infect people Ebola dramatically adapted to infect human tissues with ease in the first few months of the 2014-15 outbreak, research suggests. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
CDC identifies first US cases of drug-resistant fungal infection (CNN)Thirteen individuals have become ill from a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection previously unseen in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The fungus, Candida auris, is known to occur in health care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes. Seven cases occurred between May 2013 and August 2016 in four states: Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. As of August 31, four of these seven patients, all with bloodstream infections, died, though it is unclear whether their deaths were due to C. auris. http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/health/drug-resistant-c-auris-found-in-us/index.html |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30673 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Malaria drugs' complete failure tracked Scientists have developed a way to track the spread of a dangerous form of malaria that cannot be treated with the main therapy. Doctors in Cambodia reported the complete failure of artemisinin and piperaquine - the key drugs taken to kill malaria - this year. The discovery of resistance markers, reported in the Lancet, will allow scientists to track the threat. Experts said the study was a big step forward. Artemisinin resistance has been known about for years, but a recent rise in resistance to piperaquine as well means the main malaria treatment, taking both together, is starting to fail. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37859264 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Despite Past Setbacks, Worldwide Polio Eradication Within Reach When John Germ’s father contracted polio as an adult, his doctor doubted that he would ever walk again. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
How to survive the election, psychologically With the election tomorrow, I believe Americans will soon confront a new level of “election stress.†|
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Testing Begins On An Experimental Zika Vaccine With Inactivated Virus Federal scientists have launched another test in human volunteers of a Zika vaccine. This one uses a more traditional approach than an experiment that started in August. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Canadian lab worker possibly exposed to Ebola from pigs WINNIPEG, Manitoba – An employee in a high-level Canadian laboratory may have been accidentally exposed to the Ebola virus on Monday after working with pigs who were infected with the virus as part of an experiment, government officials said on Tuesday. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/11/08/canadian-lab-worker-possibly-exposed-to-ebola-from-pigs.html |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Birth Year May Affect Your Flu Risk. Here's How People's birth years can affect their risk of catching certain strains of influenza — probably because their first case of flu somehow sets their immune system, researchers reported Thursday. Their findings could be good news for what scientists predict about the risk of a killer flu pandemic, and they could also help researchers find better flu vaccines, the researchers said. "Our work implies that we have never seen a true 'virgin soil' influenza pandemic," the team wrote in their report, published in the journal Science. "Virgin soil" means a population that has no immunity at all to a new infection. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/birth-year-may-affect-your-flu-risk-here-s-how-n682076 |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Cull ordered after bird flu virus found on Austrian poultry farm VIENNA – A turkey on an Austrian poultry farm in the western province of Vorarlberg has tested positive for the H5N8 bird flu virus and all birds on the farm will be culled, the health ministry said on Friday. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Bird flu spreads in Germany, sparking fears for holiday meals Germany revealed more cases of a dangerous strain of avian influenza on Saturday, alongside reports that the disease had spread to Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Croatia. Caution is urged. |
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