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Max Peck wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:04 pm Finally, a feel-good ivermectin story.

Army of worm larvae hatch from man’s bum, visibly slither under his skin

Isgrimnur wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:50 pm All in all, not horrible.

The China National Health Commission reported today on a human infection with H3N8 avian influenza in Henan Province.

The patient is a four-year-old boy from Zhumadian City. This is the first known human case of H3N8 avian influenza.

Before the onset of the disease, the patient had raised chickens and black-bone chickens at home, and there were wild ducks around the home.

He developed fever and other symptoms on April 5, and was admitted to a local medical institution for treatment on the 10th due to aggravation of his condition . On the 24th, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a test on the patient specimen sent from Henan Province , and the result was positive for the H3N8 avian influenza virus. Henan Province carried out medical observation and sampling tests on the close contacts of the child, and no abnormality was found.

A man in Colorado is the first human in the U.S. to test positive for bird flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.

The case comes as the H5N1 bird influenza tears through the U.S., posing a low risk to humans while leading to the deaths of millions of birds. Some of the birds have died from the disease, but the vast majority of them are being culled to curb the spread.

The patient, who is younger than 40, was involved in the culling of presumptively infected poultry at a commercial farm in Colorado's Montrose County, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He is an inmate at a state correctional facility in Delta County and was working with poultry as part of a pre-release employment program.

The news of cases in additional countries led a senior official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn that cases will likely be spotted in the United States.

“I think we have concerns there might be cases in the United States. I don’t know that we have strong visibility on people who might be reporting for what seem to be a minor rash illness to an STI clinic or something like that,” said Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the CDC’s division of high consequence pathogens and pathology.

Smoove_B wrote: Wed May 18, 2022 2:12 pm Monkeypox isn't new, but this does seem to have the potential to reach more people than the last few times there were outbreaks.

There are currently six Americans being monitored by the CDC for monkeypox. They were all on the same flight as a British person who tested positive for monkeypox earlier this month.

The disease is similar to chickenpox and smallpox but less contagious, according to the CDC.

There were only two cases recorded in the U.S. last year.

Montreal's top public health official is urging people not to panic as her department investigates 17 cases of suspected monkeypox in the greater Montreal region.

At a news conference Thursday morning, Dr. Mylène Drouin said there are 15 suspected cases on the island of Montreal, one on the South Shore and another north of Laval.

"Most of our cases are not severe," said Drouin, adding officials are still awaiting lab results to confirm whether they are, in fact, monkeypox.

Until now, monkeypox outbreaks have been limited mostly to central and western Africa, but in recent weeks, suspected cases have been identified in the U.S., U.K., Portugal and Spain.

For years, African scientists tracked a steep rise in monkeypox cases.

More than 2,800 suspected cases were reported in 2018 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone. The year after, there were nearly 3,800.

By 2020 — half a century after the first human infection was found in the central African country, then known as Zaire — the total tally of suspected annual cases neared 6,300, including 229 deaths.

The clear spike in infections occurred as globalization increased, humans continued encroaching on animal habitats and cross-protection offered from decades-old smallpox immunization campaigns began to wane. Given that perfect storm, many scientists weren't shocked by the recent emergence of monkeypox in other countries around the world.

Some also warn that this won't be the last time the virus spreads beyond its typical territory.

"The recent outbreaks are kind of the culmination of years of warnings that basically went ignored," said Dr. Boghuma Titanji, a scientist and infectious diseases physician at Emory University in Atlanta who is originally from Cameroon.

"Because unfortunately, monkeypox is a disease that has traditionally caused outbreaks in Africa — and usually in very remote parts of Africa — and affecting populations that the world doesn't always care about."

Kraken wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:41 am If monkeypox gains traction

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that new genetic sequencing data indicate there are at least two distinct monkeypox outbreaks underway outside Africa — a surprise finding that one official said suggests international spread is wider, and has been occurring for longer than has been previously realized.

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Public health authorities have already raised concerns about whether monkeypox spread can be stopped, with Hans Kluge, the director of the European office of the World Health Organization, acknowledging earlier this week that it is currently unclear whether the outbreak will be contained.

When asked if she thought the spread of monkeypox could be stopped, Damon sidestepped the question.

“Everybody is working really hard to try to understand what’s happening and … to think about what public health tools can be used to prevent additional spread, including sort of looking at the use of vaccines and the use of therapeutics, which are not unlimited in supply,” she said. “I think it is only with the tight surveillance and looking at what is happening will we understand whether this is something that can be contained.”

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Daehawk wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:31 pm Not only cant you breath in stores now you can no longer touch anything.

Smoove_B wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:24 pm

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:31 pm Not only cant you breath in stores now you can no longer touch anything.

If you're engaging in skin-to-skin contact at your local grocer, I have some additional concerns for you to consider.

Smoove_B wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:43 am We have two more cases of a rare tickborne disease confirmed in NJ, and we're waiting to see if the death of one of the confirmed cases is related:

Powassan virus affects the central nervous system and can cause swelling of the brain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NBC News

A Connecticut woman in her 90s died last month from the tick-borne Powassan virus, the Connecticut Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday.

The woman became ill in early May with symptoms including fever, an altered mental state, headache, chills, chest pain and nausea, the department said. She had a tick removed two weeks before her symptoms started, and laboratory tests showed she had antibodies for Powassan virus.

In April, a person in Maine also died of Powassan virus after being hospitalized with neurological symptoms, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fragments of the monkeypox virus have been detected in semen in a handful of patients in Italy, raising questions over whether sexual transmission of the disease is a possibility, scientists said on Monday.

The monkeypox virus is understood to spread through close contact with an infected person, who may shed the virus via its hallmark skin lesions or large respiratory droplets. Many of the monkeypox cases confirmed in the current outbreak are among sexual partners who have had such close contact.

However sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, and syphilis are understood to be caused by pathogens that pass from one person to the next specifically in semen, vaginal secretions or other bodily fluids.

Smoove_B wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 1:04 pm

WHO is meeting next week (6/23) to decide whether or not monkeypox (or whatever it will eventually called) is an emergency disease outbreak of international concern.

Spoiler - it should be

The World Health Organization will officially rename monkeypox, in light of concerns about stigma and racism surrounding the virus that has infected over 1,600 people in more than two dozen countries.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, announced Tuesday morning that the organization is “working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus, its clades and the disease it causes.” He said the WHO will make announcements about the new names as soon as possible.