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Bird flu: US Could See Spike in Cases After Bird Migration Season

Fri, 2024-05-24 10:18 — mike kraft
US Could See Spike in Bird Flu Cases After Migration Season Birds may have spread the disease while migrating for breeding season over the spring. Jordan King Newsweek

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In spring, birds usually return to their breeding grounds, meaning they are making cross-country journeys, often stopping to take breaks along the way. The stopover locations can act as hotbeds for the spread of bird flu, especially if they are near farmland, where infected birds can leave contaminated saliva and feces, transmitting the disease to poultry animals.

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Explainer-What are the FLiRT COVID variants and are they more contagious? --Reuters

Fri, 2024-05-24 09:59 — mike kraft

 

Explainer-What are the FLiRT COVID variants and are they more contagious? The moniker FLiRT is an acronym for the locations of the mutations the variants share on the virus' spike protein. HOW ARE THE FLIRT VARIANTS DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS VARIANTS? The FLiRT variants, which also include KP.2's "parental" lineage JN.1, have three key mutations on their spike protein that could help them evade antibodies, according to Johns Hopkins University. Yahoo News

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Lessons from investigating the original outbreak of bird flu in Texas

Thu, 2024-05-23 10:47 — mike kraft
Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle - KFF Health News Dairy farmers and veterinarians in northern Texas furiously investigated a mysterious illness among cattle before the government got involved. Their observations are telling. khnkit KFF Health News
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New study shows vaccination lowers risk of long COVID; incidence varies by region

Thu, 2024-05-23 10:27 — mike kraft
Study shows vaccination lowers risk of long COVID COVID-19 patients vaccinated against the novel coronavirus were less likely to have symptoms of post-COVID condition (PCC), or long COVID, according to a new study in Nature Communications. CIDRAP

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In other long-COVID research news, a study in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases describes new estimates of long-COVID incidence and clinical study trends in a number of regions.

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Bird flu in cows - is it inching closer to humans?

Thu, 2024-05-23 10:19 — mike kraft
Avian flu is in cows in the US - is it inching closer to humans? The H5N1 strain of avian flu has been around since 1996, but until now its been largely confined to animals. But it has now jumped to cattle in America and some think it means we are inching towards eventual human-to-human infection, with potentially serious consequences. BBC News

... the (spread of the virus between states seems to be down to the movement of infected cows across state lines. ...

Reporting and surveillance of cattle movement in the US is poor compared with the UK and Europe where the BSE outbreaks of the mid-nineties led to all cows having to be tagged.

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Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows

Wed, 2024-05-22 13:06 — mike kraft
Move over, wastewater. Store-bought milk could be another way to track the bird flu outbreak in cows Store-bought milk could provide a work-around, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson researchers suggested, similar to wastewater surveillance. Helen Branswell STAT

 

 

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Misinformation issue study: COVID, other misinformation varies by topic, country on social media

Wed, 2024-05-22 12:57 — mike kraft

 

COVID, other misinformation varies by topic, country on social media The UK maintained a relatively stable proportion between questionable and reliable retweets, while Germany had the highest rates of misinformation. CIDRAP

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-other-misinformation-varies-topic-country-social-media

 

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Analysis: Weathy countries earned billions from climate change programs for developing nations.

Wed, 2024-05-22 09:39 — mike kraft
Rich nations are earning billions from a pledge to help fix climate Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the donor nations, a Reuters data analysis found. Reuters
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Long-Use of COVID codes in health records may dramatically underestimate its prevalence

Tue, 2024-05-21 20:09 — mike kraft
Long-COVID codes in health record may dramatically underestimate its prevalence Long COVID is likely much more prevalent than indicated in electronic health record (EHR) diagnostic or referral codes, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers report in eClinicalMedicine. CIDRAP

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Climate change and heat is linked to worsening brain diseases

Tue, 2024-05-21 20:04 — mike kraft
Climate change is linked to worsening brain diseases Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review published in The Lancet Neurology has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity rise include ... Medical Xpress
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