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U.S. officials warn of risks to dairy farm workers amid bird flu outbreak in cows

Wed, 2024-05-01 15:18 — mike kraft

Officials warn of risks to ‘certain groups’ of people amid bird flu outbreak in cows - POLITICO

The Biden administration said Wednesday it’s working to strengthen federal testing guidance and the overall public health response should the bird flu outbreak in cows spread among humans.

State health labs have sent “around 25” human test samples to the CDC for reference testing amid the current dairy outbreak, according to officials. More than 100 workers are being monitored. Officials declined to answer questions from reporters about where in the country the monitored workers are, saying only that officials are “following the herd” of infected cows.

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SARS-CoV-2 vaccine does not increase new-onset seizure risk--Iranian study

Wed, 2024-05-01 15:11 — mike kraft

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EU drug watchdog urges COVID-19 vaccine update

Wed, 2024-05-01 10:14 — mike kraft

EU drug watchdog urges COVID-19 vaccine update The EU's drug watchdog urged Tuesday that anti-COVID jabs be updated before another round of vaccinations to counter a new variant of the virus, which is still claiming thousands of lives. Science X Medical Xpress

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The most widely circulating COVID variant worldwide is now JN.1, having overtaken the XBB family that is the target of the most recent vaccines, the European Medicines Agency said.

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Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability, others lose money

Tue, 2024-04-30 19:32 — mike kraft

Walmart to shut all health clinics in US over lack of profitability Walmart said on Tuesday it will close all 51 of its health clinics and shut its virtual health care operations, saying it could not see it as a sustainable business model to continue. Siddharth Cavale,Granth Vanaik Reuters

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U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record low - CDC

Tue, 2024-04-30 19:06 — mike kraft

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Negativity about vaccines surged on Twitter after COVID-19 shots became available--study

Tue, 2024-04-30 09:28 — mike kraft

Research finds negativity about vaccines surged on Twitter after COVID-19 shots became available There was a marked increase in negativity about vaccines on Twitter after COVID-19 vaccines became available, according to a presentation at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, ... Science X Medical Xpress

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The analysis also found that spikes in the number of negative tweets coincided with announcements from governments and health care authorities about vaccination.

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Odds of getting long COVID reduced by 25% for those who received booster shot --study

Tue, 2024-04-30 09:20 — mike kraft

COVID booster linked to 25% lower odds of long COVID People who received the COVID-19 booster vaccine had 25% lower odds of having long COVID than their unvaccinated counterparts. CIDRAP

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Impaired sense of smell still common 1 year after COVID-19

Mon, 2024-04-29 19:13 — mike kraft

Impaired sense of smell still common 1 year after COVID-19 Participants with a history of COVID-19 were more likely to experience some degree of smell loss compared with those without a history. CIDRAP

Sense of smell—but not taste—was still impaired in some COVID patients at 1 year, according to a new study in JAMA Network Open.

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European experts call for global genetic warning system to combat the next pandemic and antimicrobial resistance

Fri, 2024-04-26 10:12 — mike kraft

Experts call for global genetic warning system to combat the next pandemic and antimicrobial resistance (medicalxpress.com)

...genomic surveillance could do much more to reduce the toll of disease and death worldwide than just protect us from COVID-19. Writing in Frontiers in Science, an international collective of clinical and public health microbiologists from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) calls for investment in technology, capacity, expertise, and collaboration to put genomic surveillance of pathogens at the forefront of future pandemic preparedness.

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