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World Health Assembly meets with hopes to reinforce pandemic preparedness after bold treaty project stalls

Tue, 2024-05-28 09:25 — mike kraft

World Health Assembly hopes to reinforce pandemic preparedness after bold treaty project stalls The World Health Organization is beginning its annual meeting with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic in the devastating wake of COVID-19. AP News

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Milk from bird flu infected cows can make other animals sick--new experiments

Fri, 2024-05-24 17:45 — mike kraft

New experiments confirm milk from H5N1-infected cows can make other animals sick — and raise questions about flash pasteurization | CNN New experiments confirm milk from H5N1-infected cows can make other animals sick — and raise questions about flash pasteurization Brenda Goodman CNN

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WHO member states'negotiations fail to reach agreeemt on Pandemic Accord.

Fri, 2024-05-24 17:14 — mike kraft

Breaking - WHO Member States Fail To Reach Agreement On Pandemic Accord; Way Forward In Hands Of World Health Assembly - Health Policy Watch A last ditch effort of WHO member states to finish negotiations on a pandemic accord has failed to yield agreement ahead of next week's World Health Assembly Health Policy Watch

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Fighting future pandemics: update on negotations for a new agreement

Fri, 2024-05-24 10:49 — mike kraft

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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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American Heart Association warns that myths incorrectly connecting COVID vaccine to heart defects may be spreading

Fri, 2024-05-24 09:52 — mike kraft

Myths incorrectly connecting COVID vaccine to heart defects may be spreading

The American Heart Association warns that false information about COVID vaccination and heart defects attributed to the Association may be spreading. The misinformation is inaccurately and incorrectly connected to a recent scientific paper on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome.

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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

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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: Australia reports first human avian flu infection

Thu, 2024-05-23 10:05 — mike kraft

Australia reports first human avian flu infection Australia reported its first human case of avian influenza on Wednesday in a child who authorities said had been infected in India but made a full recovery, while a different highly contagious strain was found on an egg farm. Peter Hobson Reuters

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