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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

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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…

The Conversation

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.

ABC News

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

Daily Mirror

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.

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Koranti Hospital once again stands up to the occasion

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

The Hindu

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 Times of India

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 Conversation

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 Guardian - US

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.

The Conversation

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

Irish Mirror

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.

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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

The Independent UK

Marburg virus: Ghana confirms two cases of highly infectious disease

Total of 98 people now under quarantine as suspected contact cases

Evening Standard

Two dead after feared Marburg virus found in Ghana

The highly infectious disease has been found in Africa

Asharq Al-Awsat

S. Korea Expands Booster Shots as COVID-19 Cases Creep Up

Health officials in South Korea are expanding booster shots to adults 50 and over as COVID-19 cases creep up again across the country. The 40,226 new cases reported Wednesday marked the country’s highest daily jump in more than two months, although hospitalizations and deaths remain stable, AFP said. Baek Gyeongran,…

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Wales Online

Every latest suspected monkeypox case in England

Doctors are asked to report suspected cases of the infectious disease

The Conversation

Male dogs are more likely to develop contagious nose cancer from sniffing other dogs' genitals

Normally we don’t think of cancer as an infectious disease – but what if we told you there is a contagious cancer, thousands of years old? This cancer is not, however, caused by transmission of a virus. These are cancer cells that can be physically passed on between dogs.

The Conversation

Polio was recently detected in sewage in the UK – here's what else scientists look for in our wastewater

We recently learned that poliovirus had been detected in sewage in north and east London between February and May 2022. Poliomyelitis (polio) is an infectious disease that can cause paralysis and death, mainly in children.

WEKU

Still testing positive after day 10? How to decide when to end your COVID isolation

Nobody wants to infect their friends and friendly, but do you really have to keep isolating at day 12, 13 or beyond? Unfortunately — and perhaps unsurprisingly — the science is not entirely settled.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota reports Twin Cities adult is state’s first monkeypox case

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has reported a presumptive case of monkeypox, an infectious disease that has raised concerns because it has emerged globally over the past year and has been found in 26 U.S. states.

Salon

Biden's COVID "new normal" is not normal

The administration is trying to normalize COVID deaths as they shift the goalposts on what it means to “beat” COVID

Daily Mirror

New Disease X could arrive any day as virus outbreaks 'getting worse' amid polio in UK

Two and a half years since the first outbreak of Covid-19, experts are warning more disastrous pandemics are likely on the way as we live in a "perfect storm for emerging infectious diseases"

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