Africa has launched an Mpox testing initiative. Cases keep going up.
Social determinants of health, y’all. Covid survivors who were disadvantaged have Twice the risk of long term symptoms.
Many routes of transmission for H5N1 on dairy farms
An outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Harlem
The bacterium Legionella can cause a severe type of pneumonia. People typically get the disease when they breathe in contaminated water vapor from cooling towers, whirlpool spas, hot tubs, humidifiers, hot water tanks, and evaporative condensers of large air-conditioning systems.
And the outbreak is up to 73 cases and 3 deaths.
Vaccine-derived polio is circulating In Germany and Israel
Nevada detects Measles in wastewater in Clark County. No cases have been reported yet. This is the county that includes Las Vegas.
(Same link) southern Europe is seeing more vector-borne tropical diseases.
Cambodia reports its Fifteenth human H5N1 case of the year. Seven of the fifteen have been fatal.
Two children caught Roundworms from raccoons last year.
Foreign objects cause Sausage recall
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