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Flu is expected to flare up in U.S. this winter, raising fears of a 'twindemic'

After virtually disappearing for the last two years, there are troubling clues that the flu could come roaring back this year, to cause trouble alongside COVID.

WEKU

With overdoses rising, a push for syringe service programs

WASHINGTON — Experts say the spike in overdoses and diseases related to sharing needles means it’s time to revoke a longtime ban restricting federal funds for syringe exchanges. But lawmakers in both parties remain resistant to allowing taxpayer dollars to go to clean needles and syringes for drug use.

Tribune News Service

Covid vaccination rates in US children under five lag despite effectiveness

Biden’s recent announcement that the pandemic is ending could slow process further, as parents question the necessity of shots

The Guardian - US

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Too few kids with sickle cell disease get stroke screening, treatment, CDC finds

Fewer than half of children in the United States with sickle cell disease get a needed screening for stroke, and only about half or fewer get a treatment that can help with pain and anemia.

Chicago Sun-Times

With overdoses rising, a push for syringe service programs - Roll Call

Public health officials say that syringe service programs are a key part of the toolbox used for harm reduction for people who use drugs.

Roll Call

Azeem Rafiq calls for Yorkshire racism hearings to be held in public

Rafiq feels public hearings would help bring closure after he first made allegations of racism more than two years ago

The Independent UK

Polio vaccination rates in some areas of the US hover dangerously close to the threshold required for herd immunity – here's why that matters

Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the disease. Due to an enormously successful polio vaccination campaign beginning in the 1950s when the first…

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How the climate crisis is fueling the spread of a brain-eating amoeba

Naegleria fowleri grows in warm fresh water, making it well-suited to proliferate as temperatures rise in the US

The Guardian - US

A Colorado teen’s long COVID isn’t just persisting — after 2 years, it’s getting worse

DENVER -- Reminders of life outside Lilly Downs’ Denver hospital room dotted the walls.

The Denver Post

Do I need a polio booster?

The poliovirus has been detected in wastewater in New York. If you are unsure of your vaccination status, here are a few ways to find out.

Inverse

What parents need to know about polio

Polio is popping up in NY wastewater. What does this mean for school-aged children?

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More than 4 in 5 of U.S. pregnancy-related deaths are avoidable, CDC says

Over half of pregnancy-related deaths occurred between seven days to one year after the pregnancy.

Axios

How Biden's declaring the pandemic 'over' complicates efforts to fight COVID

Biden's comments — made as officials try to convince Americans to get a new booster shot and the White House seeks $22 billion in new COVID funding — were "unfortunate," several epidemiologists said.

WEKU

Florida infant confirmed to have monkeypox, the youngest in the state with the virus

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention released details Monday on how a Florida infant contracted monkeypox and struggled with full body lesions.

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Amid 'out of control' STD epidemic, calls for changes

Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts

Tribune News Service

With polio’s return, here’s what back-to-schoolers need to know

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting…

The Independent UK

Doctors fire back after Biden declares Covid ‘over’: ‘A weekly 9/11’

’Mark my words—this winter, Covid will be roaring back’

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: What’s at fault for lower life expectancy? Health care has less influence than individual choices.

Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth.

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The Independent UK

What is EV-D68, the respiratory virus that can cause paralysis in children?

‘EV-D68 has been associated with acute flaccid myelitis, a rare neurologic complication involving limb weakness,’ CDC says

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Will vaccine fatigue affect how many people get the bivalent booster?

Pfizer’s and Moderna’s bivalent boosters, which are now available to many age groups, offer protection against the original COVID-19 virus plus the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. Is the nation ready for yet another COVID-19 vaccine shot?

Tribune News Service

Should you get your flu shot and COVID booster together? Here’s what experts say

The flu shot is as familiar an October ritual as football, foliage and Halloween.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker lifts final classroom COVID-19 mitigation, ending testing requirement for unvaccinated school workers

After lifting the statewide school mask mandate at the end of February and lifting vaccination requirements on college campuses earlier this summer, the Democratic governor called it the latest part of his plan “to carefully unwind the state’s COVID-19 executive orders.”

The Independent UK

US warns monkeypox could mutate to resist antiviral drug

U.S. health officials are warning doctors against overusing the lone drug available to treat monkeypox

The Guardian - US

Hollywood high school student dies after taking fentanyl-laced pill in apparent string of overdoses

Death at Bernstein high school in Hollywood comes as new data shows 200 people dying a day of fentanyl overdoses

Tribune News Service

Pandemic fatigue threatens COVID-19, monkeypox funding requests

As the Biden administration asks Congress for additional federal dollars to fight infectious diseases, it faces a conundrum: pandemic fatigue.

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