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Measles cases are popping up in the US.

Tue, 2024-01-23 17:45 — mike kraft

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Study indicates how COVID-19 Vaccines and Infections Are Tweaking Our Immunity

Tue, 2024-01-23 09:06 — mike kraft

How COVID-19 Vaccines and Infections Are Tweaking Our Immunity A study shows our immune systems may be getting better at protecting against new variants. TIME

Your immune system may be getting smarter every time you encounter COVID-19, a new study suggests. After getting vaccinated and infected, the immune system generates broader defenses against the virus, including against new variants.

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Wastewater tests show COVID infections surging, but pandemic fatigue limits precautions

Tue, 2024-01-23 08:56 — mike kraft

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Global COVID cases rising as waste water tests indicate under-reporting

Tue, 2024-01-23 08:48 — mike kraft

Latest global COVID snapshot shows rising cases, drop in deaths Mateescu Mugur/iStock CIDRAP

Over the past month, global COVID-19 cases rose slightly, with a steady drop in deaths from the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest monthly update.

However, the group cautioned about interpreting the data, given that less than half of countries reported their COVID metrics during the latest reporting period, which covers December 11, 2023, to January 7.

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Wastewater tests can find mpox, study finds. Expect more viruses to be tracked that way

Tue, 2024-01-23 08:40 — mike kraft

Wastewater tests can find mpox, study finds. Expect more bugs to be tracked that way New research bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases in the U.S. Wastewater testing does a good job at detecting mpox infections. AP News

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Amid sharp increase in measle cases, UK officials urge millions of parents to get their kids vaccinated

Mon, 2024-01-22 17:51 — mike kraft

Millions in the UK are being urged to get vaccinations during a surge in measles cases U.K. health officials are urging millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade. AP News

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Disease X: WHO raises warning of a possible new global pandemic

Mon, 2024-01-22 17:32 — mike kraft

World health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than COVID Scientists say a future pandemic could be caused by an unknown pathogen already circulating in animals. Stephanie Whiteside NewsNation

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Analysis: Why demand for Covid shots is lower than for flu vaccinations

Mon, 2024-01-22 10:47 — mike kraft

Why many more people are lining up for a flu shot than a Covid vaccine Americans who regularly get a flu shot are just the type of people you’d expect would routinely get vaccinated against Covid. And yet many are not. Helen Branswell STAT

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California and Oregon ease CDC guidance, letting students and workers with asymptomatic COVID avoid isolation.

Mon, 2024-01-22 10:22 — mike kraft

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Oregon and California, among the most cautious of states early in the pandemic, have surprised health officials elsewhere by breaking with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and telling infected workers and schoolchildren that as long as they have no symptoms, they are generally free to go about their lives.

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First malaria vaccine program for children starts in Cameroon

Mon, 2024-01-22 10:10 — mike kraft

Cameroon starts world's first malaria vaccine program for children Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. AP News

Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa.

The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in the decades-long effort to curb the mosquito-spread disease on the continent, which accounts for 95% of the world’s malaria deaths.

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