2024-07-13: News Headlines

Rhoda Wilson (2024-07-13). Countries are purchasing vaccines in preparation for a bird flu pandemic. expose-news.com Yesterday Nature published an article summarising what countries are doing to prepare for a bird flu pandemic. Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance. Nature expressed no concern …

Talha Burki (2024-07-13). World Report] West Nile virus in the USA. thelancet.com 25 years since the disease emerged in the USA, experts stress the need for an effective vaccine. Talha Burki reports.

Nicole Leonard (2024-07-13). Pa. extends human influenza testing into summer amid bird flu outbreak. whyy.org

Emily Mendenhall (2024-07-13). Perspectives] Long COVID politics and activism. thelancet.com Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) has been described as a mass disabling event. Many people around the world have lost their jobs, homes, health, and social lives to a virus that sits in the nerves, tissues, blood, brain, and gut. Although rapid medical innovation for diagnostic tests, treatments, and effective vaccines for COVID-19 was largely efficient and effective, there are no verifiable tests for long COVID or a silver-bullet therapy to treat it. Even so, governments have committed millions to research projects that will hopefully explain the complex array of symptoms characteristic of long…

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