“More than 400 products sold by the Fresh Ideation Food Group of Baltimore between Jan. 24-30 have been recalled because they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.”
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Infectious disease MD (also CCM & EM) focused on pandemics, emerging infections, biosecurity, biotech centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/Ada
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“According to the company, SeptiCyte RAPID could stratify Covid-19 cases according to the severity guidelines with a discrimination power significantly better than conventional laboratory tests, such as CRP, lactate, creatine, IL-6 and D-dimer.”
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“The vast expansion of telehealth driven by the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for many benefits that telehealth can provide. Big data analytics and research will be critical to determine the impact that telehealth has on the health care system.”
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“Quest’s COVID testing volumes have ‘steadily declined since late December’”
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In this TV interview with discuss fungal infections, their geographic ranges, and treatments
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In this piece I’m quoted about the distribution of Valley Fever, cocciodiomycosis, and how there are likely more areas in the US than the southwest that are hospitable to this fungus
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“"It's really shocking that research on fungal pathogens is so underfunded. Biohazardous threats are much broader than just bacteria and viruses”
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“Influenza vaccination is safer than influenza infection in patients with SCN1A-positive Dravet syndrome.”
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“We believe our investigational MenABCWY vaccine, if approved and recommended, could help simplify the meningococcal vaccination schedule for adolescents and young adults, and in turn improve vaccination rates”
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A guide to the vocabulary of the hidden viruses that can cause a pandemic
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“South Africa had its last cholera outbreak over a decade ago with about 12,000 cases following an outbreak in neighboring Zimbabwe”
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“Escaping accountability based on weasel words and technical language, like not being a ‘beneficiary’ of WHO assistance is unacceptable”
“Oyo State has recorded five deaths from 25 confirmed cases and 121 suspected cases of Lassa fever infection between January 2022 and January 5th, 2023” radionigeriaibadan.gov.ng/2023/02/06/med
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“Right now, it’s rare for fungal pathogens to infect people who are totally healthy—we breathe in fungal spores all the time.”
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“An initial investigation revealed that he had high risk exposure during the incubation period amid his stay in Japan”
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“According to Alberta Health, while 43 cases have been confirmed in Alberta so far, no new cases have been identified since mid-November”
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“Zambia is a landlocked country bordered by five cholera-endemic countries in the Cholera belt in Africa.”
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“The researchers developed VSV-SUDV using techniques that led to Ervebo, the VSV-EBOV vaccine..In the current studies, the investigators replaced the key EBOV protein in Ervebo with the comparable protein from SUDV”
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“ the cases were confirmed in two sisters, who had travelled together from Johannesburg to Malawi to attend a funeral service”
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“By and large, the mix of patients in hospitals is similar to what it was pre-pandemic”
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“Across the country, sepsis kills more people annually than breast cancer, HIV/AIDS and opioid overdoses combined”
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“Out of the 1,782 patients seen at the Penn Medicine Post-COVID..Clinic between June 2020 & Jan 2023, about 1/5th said they felt uncomfortable dealing w/ daily activities like driving, shopping, or using public transit, suggesting the need for a caregiver”
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"I can tell you, for a lot of affluent patients coming to our clinic or white patients, what got them to this clinic is that their doctor took their symptoms seriously and got him to our clinic”
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“There were about 58,000 fewer daycare workers in the U.S. last month compared with February 2020, just before the pandemic took hold”
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I don’t see how schools requiring #COVID19 vaccination as an enrollment requirement is any different than requiring tetanus (which is non-communicable) or chickenpox vaccines. Seems like this is inconsistent and not really based on any principles.
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“male healthcare workers were more receptive to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine than female healthcare workers”
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I think that targeting the booster to high risk persons, regardless of age, is the best policy (similar to what the UK did for the bivalent booster)
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“We learned valuable lessons from COVID-19 thus far, so we must apply them to the next phase of antiviral development to create oral COVID-19 treatment option” — I think Paxlovid largely fits the bill and new drugs from Shionogi, GSK, Pardes etc will come
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Drug companies face COVID cliff in 2023 as sales set to plummet
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“We need a next-generation vaccine. We have 1 very good antiviral, but there are drug interactions associated w/ it that mean some people cannot take that drug, so we need another..there’s always the possibility of resistance developing..”
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U.S. House plans vote to end foreign air traveler COVID vaccine mandate
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“The work of responding to Covid & all the other pathogens that are swirling in our mix continues, but we just lack the resources..I don’t see the public health emergency declaration or rescission as making or breaking that..problem before that happened”
“Rep. Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, blasted Biden for a high-altitude balloon from China that is traveling over the continental US not being shot down before it reached US territory, speculating that it could have ‘bioweapons’”
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At about 9:15 AM eastern I’ll be discussing fungal infectious disease with on . Watch live here
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Good take down and analysis of some misinformation regarding #COVID19 vaccines by . This is an example of how just a little bit of scrutiny reveals mountains of obfuscation and a desire to mislead
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“When there are fewer lactobacilli than there should be, these bacteria can no longer protect the vaginal mucosa, which is disrupted by other bacteria. ‘HPV then has access to the basal cells’"
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“Missed or delayed TB diagnosis may be critical in this population with 25% of patients dying with 8 weeks from hospital admission.”
“Local health officials waited until no new cases were reported within 42 days – or two incubation periods of the measles virus – before declaring the outbreak over”
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“many mid-adult patients were unaware of their eligibility for HPV vaccination. However, once they were made aware of their eligibility for vaccination, many indicated interest in learning more.”
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