#Surveillance for #human #infections with avian #influenza A(#H5) viruses: objectives, case #definitions, #testing and reporting (#WHO), https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/04/surveillance-for-human-infections-with.html
Invasive strep infections, are rising in the US. This can include the serious flesh-eating variety.
https://time.com/7276379/invasive-group-a-strep-rates-us-rising/ #Disease #Infections #InfectiousDisease #Health #Medicine
Emerging #Infections: Three Epidemiological #Transitions from #Prehistory to the Present,
Second Edition - Prof Ron Barrett, Dr Molly Zuckerman, Dr Matthew Ryan Dudgeon, and Prof George J. Armelagos, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/emerging-infections-9780192843135?cc=it&lang=en&
Adopts a biosocial approach which is especially relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, examining it from a deep time perspective and providing it with a much-needed explanatory framework
Back to our regular programming.
More than 160 years after Semmelweis Ignác, we still need to improve on properly cleaning #medical equipment to prevent care–associated #infections.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2832469
JUST PUBLISHED! Draft topic texts for IHI call 11 at https://europa.eu/!8d3rF8 
The topics for this two-stage call cover #infections, #BrainDisease, #pharmacovigilance, #Type1Diabetes and #surgery
Get ahead of the game and start studying the topics - the time to start thinking about your proposal and building a consortium is now!
Keep following us for updates on the topics plus alerts for our info sessions.
#IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU #Health #Research #Funding
Dietmar Zehn, Professor of Animal Physiology and #Immunology, and his team showed that the body prepares itself for a severe course of illness even in the case of uncomplicated #infections by producing special #Tcells: http://go.tum.de/664167
A.Eckert
Yay, #Infections! Lethal ones, diseases that #Science and #PublicHealth had controlled or eradicated. #HeWhoShallNotBeCombed & #SwastiCar guy, using Secretaries with brain worms, are decimating our efforts to deal with TB (and measles and COVID and worms…). Yay!
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/tuberculosis-death-usaid-trump/682062/
Malicious #GitHub #repositories linked to nearly 1M #infections • The Register
Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking #scam , #Singapore considering the literal rod for #scammers , and more
#malware #security #privacy
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 1, 2025
#Yellowstone #rhyolitic #magma #caldera #magnetotellurics #Alvin #abyssal #hadal #extremophilic #HOV #AI-designed #3D-printed #nanomaterials #nanolattice #geometries #MAV #SUPER #lidar #two-trajectory #mini-brains #HSV-1 #Alzheimer’s #latent #infections
Another TIL…
Teen recently got 2 small wound infections that needed checking. Dr. diagnosed as MRSA. I was 
and a bit panicked. But Dr said it’s getting to be more common. Kid doing fine with dual oral and nasal antibiotics but damn, I had no idea. 
#mrsa #infections
Now published in Peer Community Journal, #Infections section: Relevance of the synergy of surveillance and populational networks in understanding the Usutu virus outbreak within common blackbirds (Turdus merula) in Metropolitan France, 2018
https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.513/
Please remember that harmful infections like #rsv , #flu , #COVID19 etc. will not "boost" your #immune system.
Especially children do NOT "profit" from being exposed to #infections regularily.
Even if healthcare professionals who believe in this outdated doctrine should tell you this; the exact opposite is true: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2828688
"the overall infection burden in early life was associated with increased risks of moderate to severe infections and antibiotic treatments later in childhood"
"Maybe you already know how your immune system works, but you’d like someone to sum it all up in a way that helps you articulate the details when your friends and relatives bash you for protecting yourself.
So, where did this idea come from—it’s good to get sick?
It has a history.
Let’s start with a basic question: Where exactly did this idea come from that you have to train your immune system?"
Texas Officials Warn of 'Man-Eating' Bug Found in Livestock Near Southern Mexico Border
#Bugs #Cattle #Cows #environment #guatemala #health #healthnews #infections #Insects #mexico #TEXAS #USnews
https://theaegisalliance.com/2025/01/05/texas-officials-warn-of-man-eating-bug-found-in-livestock-near-southern-mexico-border/?fsp_sid=185
CDC detects Bird Flu Mutation in Human, amid new Infections in Cats. [
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The ongoing spread of bird flu in the United States has alarmed experts — not just because of human cases causing severe illness, but also due to troubling new instances of infections in cats.
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotlights/h5n1-response-12232024.html
![Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the mutations were "likely generated by replication of this virus in the patient with advanced disease," emphasizing that no transmission of the mutated strain to other humans had been identified.
Several experts contacted by AFP cautioned that it was too early to determine whether these changes would make the virus more transmissible or more severe in people.
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, explained that while the mutation might help the virus enter cells more easily, additional evidence [such as animal testing] would be needed to confirm any effect on transmissibility.
Moreover, similar mutations have occurred in previous critically ill patients without leading to broader outbreaks. "It's good to know we should be looking out for this," Rasmussen said, "but it doesn't actually tell us, [Oh, we're this much closer to a pandemic now]."](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/770/318/939/716/868/original/a73dafd158bf2bcd.jpeg "Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the mutations were \"likely generated by replication of this virus in the patient with advanced disease,\" emphasizing that no transmission of the mutated strain to other humans had been identified.
Several experts contacted by AFP cautioned that it was too early to determine whether these changes would make the virus more transmissible or more severe in people.
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, explained that while the mutation might help the virus enter cells more easily, additional evidence [such as animal testing] would be needed to confirm any effect on transmissibility.
Moreover, similar mutations have occurred in previous critically ill patients without leading to broader outbreaks. \"It's good to know we should be looking out for this,\" Rasmussen said, \"but it doesn't actually tell us, [Oh, we're this much closer to a pandemic now].\"")
![[ImageSource: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)]
A sample of the virus found in a critically ill patient in the United States has shown signs of mutating to better suit human airways, although there is no indication it has spread beyond that individual, authorities report.
An analysis posted by the CDC revealed that a small percentage of the virus in the patient's throat carried genetic changes that could increase the virus's ability to bind to certain cell receptors found in the human upper respiratory tract.
Importantly, the agency noted that these changes have not been detected in birds – including in the backyard poultry flock believed to have been the source of the patient's initial infection.
Earlier this month, officials announced that an elderly Louisiana patient was in "critical condition" with a severe H5N1 infection. And now, a updated @CDCgov technical report on the Louisiana case is out. There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host [specifically this human host].](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/770/319/813/726/954/original/3005e6fb2bfe49ce.png "[ImageSource: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)]
A sample of the virus found in a critically ill patient in the United States has shown signs of mutating to better suit human airways, although there is no indication it has spread beyond that individual, authorities report.
An analysis posted by the CDC revealed that a small percentage of the virus in the patient's throat carried genetic changes that could increase the virus's ability to bind to certain cell receptors found in the human upper respiratory tract.
Importantly, the agency noted that these changes have not been detected in birds – including in the backyard poultry flock believed to have been the source of the patient's initial infection.
Earlier this month, officials announced that an elderly Louisiana patient was in \"critical condition\" with a severe H5N1 infection. And now, a updated @CDCgov technical report on the Louisiana case is out. There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host [specifically this human host].")
So many people are silently incubating #infections right now -But it’s too late to order molecular tests (Lucira, Metrix, Pluslife), N95s, or #air purifiers for today’s gathering
Quick solution:
OPEN WINDOWS to Help Keep Your Guests SAFE
#Samara #SamaraSARS #SamaraVirus
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779062
The #genocide committed by #Israel in #Gaza still seems to be "unreal" and abstract for many.
Here's what "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" means for Gaza, at this very moment:
1.9 million people displaced, 90% of the population
This winter, an estimated 876,000 people will face extreme food insecurity, of which 345,000 will face an extreme lack (#famine)
1.1 million people suffering from acute #respiratory #infections
Only 17 of 36 #hospitals partially functional
1,057 #health workers killed
92% of all #housing units destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000)
68% of the road network damaged
Since the beginning of December, 40% of 461 planned aid transports in Gaza have not been authorized by Israel, another 16% have been impeded. In the completely sealed-off north of Gaza, 48 out of 52 transports were not permitted.
68% of the cropland and 44% of the greenhouse area damaged, 95% of all cattle killed or slaughtered.
This is what you get when a single nation like the #US has the power to protect the openly genocidal government of #Israel under #Netanyahu from any consequences.
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-24-december-2024
A Life-Saving Checklist (2007)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
#ycombinator #anthony #austria #austrians #aviation #checklists #detroit #doctors #health_care #hospitals #infections #intensive_care_units_i_c_u_s #max #medicine #michigan #peter #second_world_war_world_war_ii #specialists #test_pilots #the_right_stuff #tom
Are #Abortion #Bans Across America Causing #Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. #WomensHealthcare n states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to #death, succumbed to fatal #infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-bans-deaths-state-maternal-mortality-committees #privacy #healthcare #civilliberties #legalresearch #states #healthcare #miscarriage #maternalmortality
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