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Fauci to step down in December to ‘pursue next chapter’ of career

Expert, 81, who has led National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, clashed with Trump over Covid response

The Guardian - US

Fauci announces December departure from government service

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December

The Independent UK

Anthony Fauci to step down from government in December

‘After more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field’

The Independent UK

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Scientists' big monkeypox fear: It will spread to wild animals and be here to stay

Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human.

Los Angeles Times

Woman's 'bedbug nightmare' on holiday with people 'too scared' to use pool with her

'Abbie' from West Yorkshire was unable to sunbathe or relax because of the medication she was asked to take and when using the hotel swimming pool in Egypt she was left embarrassed when she was asked if she had an infectious disease

Daily Mirror

Make the CDC an Infectious Disease Epidemic Fighter Again

Dr. Walensky's proposed bureaucratic reshuffling is too timid.

Reason

Woman has to have her five dogs put down after she contracted ultra rare disease

Wendy Hayes explained she still has guilt about having to put down her five family dogs after a rescue dog was carrying a rare infectious disease

Irish Mirror

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Woman has to put down all five dogs as she's first in UK to contract ultra rare disease

Stoke-on-Trent grandmother Wendy Hayes explained she still has guilt about having to put down her five family dogs after a rescue dog was carrying a rare infectious disease

Daily Mirror

Infectious disease experts warn Omicron wave not the last of Australia's COVID-19 pandemic

According to infectious diseases experts, future surges and strains of COVID-19 are still a risk as the winter wave eases.

ABC News

What scientists know — and don’t know — about the Langya virus

Infectious disease researchers have identified yet another virus, but don’t panic — here’s what you need to know about the Langya virus.

Inverse

Study Connects Climate Hazards to 58% of Infectious Diseases

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hundreds of known infectious diseases are worse than ever due to climate crisis

A new study shows how widespread the influence of climate is on human health

Wales Online

Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases

A new study finds climate hazards aggravate 58% of known infection diseases in people

The Independent UK

Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and chaos. I assured them that the Aug. 4, 2022, public health emergency declaration is about government…

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Israel was a world leader in combatting COVID-19 with vaccines, now they're getting ready for monkeypox

Israel has recorded fewer than 200 cases of monkeypox but the country learned from COVID-19 that moving quickly can make or break a country's response to an infectious disease.

Daily Mirror

North Korea claims it has 'defused' Covid explosion and reports zero cases of the virus

Infectious disease experts have cast doubts on North Korea's claims, with the World Health Organisation saying last month it believed the situation was getting worse, not better

The Independent UK

Prehistoric Europeans drank milk long before humans could digest lactose – study

New research indicates that famine and exposure to infectious disease best explains the evolution of our ability to consume milk.

The Hindu

Koranti Hospital once again stands up to the occasion

Fever Hospital has been in the forefront of battles against infectious diseases

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Patna: Experts say people should take precautions against monkeypox

PATNA: With the WHO declaring the monkeypox as a global emergency and at least four cases detected in India, health experts have cautioned people against this highly infectious disease.

The Conversation

The Marburg virus: urgent need to contain this close cousin of Ebola

In July 2022 Ghana confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade and Usifo Omozokpea asked virologist Oyewale Tomori about its origin and how people can protect themselves against…

The Guardian - US

Paxlovid going underused due to doctors’ ‘misperceptions’, experts say

Clinicians are ‘skittish’ about the Covid antiviral, resulting in a failure to treat patients who could greatly benefit

The Conversation

Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this exceedingly rare occurrence

The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New York state health officials on July 21, 2022. The U.S. resident had not been vaccinated.

Irish Mirror

Dr warns 'an awful lot of Covid infection' going undiagnosed in Ireland

Dr Eoghan de Barra, an infectious disease consultant at Beaumont Hospital, said despite Covid cases in hospitals dropping, there is still plenty of infection spreading

Tribune News Service

As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger

Forget COVID-19, monkeypox and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease specialists: common urinary tract infections, or UTIs, that lead to emergency room visits and even hospitalizations because of the failure of oral antibiotics.

The Independent UK

Fauci expects to retire by end of Biden's current term

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, says he plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January 2025

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