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Important to keep an eye on this in any way we can.
BC teen no longer critical, taken off oxygen.
We found this out through a letter in the New England Medical Journal because our health officials decided not to provide an update "unless there was a need from the public health perspective to do so"
globalnews.ca/news/10938653/…
Oof, let’s keep an eye on this.
Congo government says it's 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease that killed dozens ctvnews.ca/health/congo-gove…
I can’t believe we are at this point in history that there needs to be this reminder. Not because people might not know, but because some are willfully ignoring basic health measures.
Oof 😳
H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. reut.rs/4e3pxS0 reut.rs/4e3pxS0
This isn’t great
BREAKING: Rare imported case of #Lassa fever diagnosed in Iowa; person died from the infection, state health authorities reported Monday. statnews.com/2024/10/28/lass…
Great that this is being rolled out. Fingers crossed
Rwanda will deploy Marburg vaccine under trial as death toll rises to 12 ctvnews.ca/health/rwanda-wil…
Oh no
Health official says Brantford-Brant child has died after being hospitalized with rabies brantfordexpositor.ca/news/l…
And important bit of research here, even just to demonstrate how we are supporting creation of new variants through our health decisions.
Marburg virus does not have a vaccine, making it a hemorrhagic fever with a pretty high fatality rate (estimated 80-90%)
Rwanda - WHO: "..Among the confirmed cases, over 70% are healthcare workers from two health facilities in Kigali. The patients are being cared for in hospitals. Contact tracing is underway, with 300 contacts under follow-up..." flutrackers.com/forum/forum/… #marburg
We are working with an organization supporting people with Parkinson’s disease this term in #HLTC19. This is the power of community-engaged partnerships in higher education! #UTSC
Retired NFL startquarterback Brett Favre reveals he has #Parkinsons disease
cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/b… via @cbcsports
And there it is. Another mosquito-borne virus to add to @HLTC25. Condolences to the family and friends grieving at this time. And let’s be sure to protect ourselves & our loved ones.
NEW: we are urging residents to protect themselves against mosquito bites to reduce the risk from eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV).
We have received laboratory confirmation that an Ottawa resident who died of a viral encephalitis in August 2024 tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis virus infection.
More info: ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/city-…
A great thread and of relevance to #HLTC19 is the potential for 1.5 million cases of Long COVID from COVID cases anticipated over the next month. #chronicdisease
PMC COVID-19 Forecasting Model, Sept 9, 2024
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Nationally, we appear to have passed the peak of our late-summer wave, and it's not pretty.
At peak:
🔹>1.3 million daily infections
🔹2.8% (1 in 36) actively infectious
🔹Transmission higher than 90.5% of the pandemic
We are showing a peak around Aug 10, but as you look closely at the graph and in later Tweets, you'll see it was bimodal, with near-identical transmission on Aug 10 and Aug 24.
The CDC consistently corrects historical data, so in hindsight, we might expect the official peak date to flip to the 24th, or for the stats on the 10th to jump higher.
We had expected that Friday's data release might show this was the largest summer peak all-time (by the slimmest of margins), but the prior week's data were retroactively corrected downward by about 5%.
This is a common occurrence, which is why it's important to focus on the big-picture forecast (very bad transmission the remainder of 2024) as opposed to minute details.
Let's walk through the details in this Thread....
ALT Figure shows the 9 waves of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic. We are in the 5th-largest wave, and the 2nd largest summer wave. The statistics in the Tweet summarize the peak of the current wave.
Oh great…I now know about sloth fever….
What you need to know about 'sloth fever' after 21 cases confirmed among US travelers - my comments interview @ABC abcnews.go.com/Health/sloth-…
Be sure to wear repellants and with cooler weather moving in, wear long sleeves and pants as you go about your business from dusk to dawn.
Health officials in New Hampshire this week confirmed the first death from the rare mosquito-borne virus known as eastern equine encephalitis.
"This is the peak time for vector-borne disease and it's probably going to become our new normal," @PeterHotez tells @GeoffRBennett.
Not now, ancient Tibetan frozen water. Not now.
Scientists have discovered more than 1,700 ancient viruses deep inside a Tibetan glacier. Most of them are completely new to science. These ancient viruses are now being thawed out from glaciers and Siberian tundras.
e360.yale.edu/digest/ancient…
ScienceConfab retweeted
Honduras 🇭🇳 reports five suspected cases of the more infectious and deadly Mpox clade one.
All cases are from the same family, according to Health Minister Carla Paredes.
Definitely something we need to be aware of as we allow students to get COVID again and again and again
I just wish public health leaders and politicians would read this study, which includes data from 800,000 adults in England.
We are getting cognitively slower even when the infection is "All resolved."
#LongCovid outcomes are even worse.
#CovidIsNotOver
Can some virologists swab for avian influenza? We know H5N1 has been found among dolphins. Could this be a cause of this (and other) stranding? We also have no clue as to prevalence of influenza A among marine mammals.
Dolphin mass stranding on Cape Cod found to be the largest in U.S. history ctvnews.ca/climate-and-envir…