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Sat, 2011-01-22 09:18 — mdmcdonald

The mission of this working group is explore and understand what the U.K. resilience movement is about, and how its knowledge base and guiding principles might be of assistance to Resilience Systems and Resilience Networks around the world. 

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Migrants must be a focus of catch-up vaccination campaigns-- global health experts

Wed, 2024-05-29 10:02 — mike kraft

Migrants must be a focus of catch-up vaccination campaigns, warn global health experts

More needs to be done to ensure migrant communities are a key focus of receiving vital routine vaccinations to ensure health equity. That is according to Dr. Sally Hargreaves from St George's, University of London, whose research is published as part of the new migrant health Series in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe and is speaking at a World Health Assembly side event at The Geneva Health Forum.

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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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Bird Flu
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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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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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Wearing Face Masks Did Not Significantly Reduce Risk of COVID Infection After First Omicron Wave ---Britsh study

Mon, 2024-05-20 17:53 — mike kraft

 

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U.S. CDC alerts doctors to look out for meningococcal disease tied to travel to Saudi Arabia

Mon, 2024-05-20 17:44 — mike kraft
Ahead of Hajj, CDC alerts doctors to look out for meningococcal disease tied to travel to Saudi Arabia | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to be on the lookout for potentially deadly meningococcal disease linked to travel to Saudi Arabia. Jen Christensen CNN

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Since April, there have been 12 confirmed cases of meningococcal disease associated with travel for Umrah, an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad in Saudi Arabia....

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Vaccinations remain low among pregnant women for flu, whoppng cough and COVID-19

Mon, 2024-05-20 14:39 — mike kraft
Uptake of flu, whooping cough, and COVID-19 vaccines remains low among pregnant women A study conducted by researchers at the University of Warwick has unveiled crucial insights into the complex factors shaping vaccination decisions among pregnant women, particularly in the wake of the ... Kat Beauchamp Medical Xpress

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Warwick has unveiled crucial insights into the complex factors shaping vaccination decisions among pregnant women, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The 2024 Europe report on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action-Lancet study

Thu, 2024-05-16 11:53 — mike kraft

 

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Europe
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Public Health
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Testing of patients for COVID, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, UK modeling study suggests

Wed, 2024-05-15 10:29 — mike kraft

 

COVID patient testing, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, modeling study suggests Interventions such as testing patients for COVID-19 on admission, isolation of ill healthcare workers (HCWs), and universal HCW masking from March 2020 to July 2022 significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission among patients and staff in UK hospitals, suggests a simulation study led by UK Health Security Agency researchers in London. CIDRAP

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Global
UK - London
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U.K. faces worst oubreak of measles in 12 years

Fri, 2024-05-10 11:47 — mike kraft
Measles case confirmed as experts fear UK faces worst outbreak in 12 years A person who attended Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales has been found to have had measles as experts fear the UK faces the worst outbreak of the infection in 12 years tim-hanlon The Mirror

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Almost 900 cases of the virus have been recorded in 2024 so far, compared with 368 cases recorded 2023, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), meaning England has seen more cases of the disease in the first four months of this year, than in the whole of last year.

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