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The mission of the Global Health Working Group is to explore and improve current and emerging states of health and human security worldwide.

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The Flu is Coming. Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic?

Sun, 2018-12-30 16:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Infectious disease experts have had plenty to worry about in recent decades, including HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and Zika. But one disease scares them above all others—influenza. That’s right, the flu.

news.emory.edu - by Martha McKenzie - December 2018

Even though many people dismiss and misunderstand it—calling everything from a cold to a stomach bug “the flu”— influenza actually claims 12,000 to 56,000 lives in the U.S. every year. And that’s in a normal flu season.

Every so often, a flu pandemic emerges. That’s when a new strain appears that is so different from what has circulated before that people have no immunity to it. A hundred years ago, the 1918 H1N1 pandemic swept the globe infecting about a third of the world’s population and killing 50 million to 100 million people. Since then, there have been three more pandemics, in 1957, 1968, and 2009.

The next pandemic, say experts, is a question of when, not if. Are we ready?

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American Being Monitored at Medical Center After Possible Ebola Exposure

Sat, 2018-12-29 22:10 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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nebraskamed.com - December 29, 2018

Omaha, Neb – An American providing medical assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently experienced a possible exposure to the Ebola virus and is in Omaha for monitoring. This person has no Ebola symptoms but will be monitored closely. Should any symptoms develop, the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit would be activated and the person admitted.

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ACAPS - CrisisInSight: Global Risk Analysis

Thu, 2018-12-27 10:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

In the next 6-9 months, the following countries are expected to deteriorate significantly leading to a spike in #humanitarian needs: https://t.co/mf3f5iyUqW pic.twitter.com/Q000xiembR
— ACAPS (@ACAPSproject) December 26, 2018

In the next 6-9 months, the following countries are expected to deteriorate significantly leading to a spike in #humanitarian needs:

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Federal Report Says U.S. Impacts of Climate Change are Intensifying and Will Batter Economy

Mon, 2018-12-10 08:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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CLICK HERE - FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT

bbc.com - November 23, 2018

Unchecked climate change will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars and damage human health and quality of life, a US government report warns.

"Future risks from climate change depend... on decisions made today," the 4th National Climate Assessment says . . .

. . . But it says that projections of future catastrophe could change if society works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and "to adapt to the changes that will occur".

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CLICK HERE - U.S. Should Expect Worsening Weather Disasters, New Government Climate Report Warns

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A shot-in-the-dark email leads to a century-old family treasure — and hope of cracking a deadly flu’s secret

Wed, 2018-12-05 09:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Slides of human tissue at the University of Arizona taken by British military pathologist William Rolland a century ago. MAMTA POPAT FOR STAT

statnews.com - by Helen Branswell - December 5, 2018

Late one night Michael Worobey began poking around on the internet, looking for descendants of a World War I British military doctor named William Rolland.

Rolland, a pathologist, had written a report in 1917, the year before the start of the Spanish flu. It described cases of British soldiers in France who had contracted an unusually fatal respiratory illness.

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New, Rare Cell Type in Lung Airways Identified as Key Carrier of CFTR Gene, Study Reports

Mon, 2018-11-26 10:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - STUDY - A revised airway epithelial hierarchy includes CFTR-expressing ionocytes

cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com - by Patricia Inacio - August 3, 2018

A previously undiscovered and rare type of cell has been identified in the tissue lining the airway of the lungs and carrying high levels of the CFTR gene, the mutation of which is the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a study reports.

While the exact role of these cells, named “ionocytes” by the researchers, in CF is still unknown, the findings from this study highlight their potential as targets for future therapeutics.

The study, “A revised airway epithelial hierarchy includes CFTR-expressing ionocytes,” was published in the journal Nature . . .

. . . “The data are starting to change the way we think about lung diseases like cystic fibrosis and asthma” . . .

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Italy Orders Seizure of Migrant Rescue Ship Over 'HIV-Contaminated' Clothes

Wed, 2018-11-21 08:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Aquarius is operated by MSF and SOS Méditerranée Photograph: Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images

Prosecutors allege garments on Aquarius should have been labelled as ‘toxic waste’

theguardian.com - by Lorenzo Tondo - November 20, 2018

Italian authorities have ordered the seizure of the migrant rescue ship Aquarius after claiming that discarded clothes worn by the migrants on their voyage from Libya to Italy could have been contaminated by HIV, meningitis and tuberculosis . . .

. . . “Clothing categorically is not, and has never been, an HIV transmission risk,” said Deborah Gold, chief executive of the National AIDS Trust.

“This would have stood out as ridiculous even amongst the misinformation of the 1980s, never mind in 2018. Migrants and people seeking asylum have historically been attacked using myths about HIV and infectious conditions, and we condemn this both for its stigmatising of people living with HIV and of migrants fleeing hardship.”

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