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Infectious Updates 2-21-2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-02-21
So, on Friday the CDC was ordered to stop all their advertising aimed at increasing flu vaccine uptake. Like the image above. Mr. Brainworm is running true to his real self already.
Also the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has been postponed. It was supposed to look at a nasal spray flu vaccine, a new meningitis vaccine, and a chikungunya vaccine. Without official guidance from the CDC, health insurers might not cover these vaccines. Supposedly the postponement is to allow for more public comment? Hmmmmm.
The Texas measles outbreak had grown to 58 cases as of the 18th, I can’t find any newer updates.
UPDATE IN COMMENTS: This morning it is up to 90.
H5N1 has now been detected in rats . It was already known to infect house mice and deer mice. Which I why I did not touch my kitty’s kind gift by the porch door this morning, LOL.
Canada has contracted for 500,000 doses of GSK human avian flu vaccine. This is a standard type of vaccine, not mRNA. The UK has ordered 5 million doses from CSL Sequiris. Finland is already vaccinating people at high risk, including workers at fur farms. (Yes, mink and foxes are known to catch this flu.) The US and the EU have stockpiles of the vaccine, but who knows what will happen here now that lunatics are in charge.
The USDA is working to reverse the firings of the employees from their avian flu response team. Way to go, Eloon.
And the OTHER highly pathogenic avian flu, H5N5, which was spreading in northern European birds, has been detected in a Canadian poultry flock, and in gray seals in the UK. Seals take avian flu pretty hard, unfortunately. And it only makes sense that they get a lot of exposure, since they haul out to rest and breed on the same sort of isolated, rocky beaches preferred by seabirds for their rookeries. Canada has previously detected the N5 strain in wild birds and mammals, including raccoons. Iceland recently found it in a cat. The other countries that have found it this year are Norway, Greenland, and Germany.
WOAH has warned of unprecedented genetic variability in avian flu subtypes in wild birds and poultry across the world, creating epidemiologic challenges. CIDRAP
The remaining patients in Uganda’s Ebola outbreak have been discharged, officially ending this incident. The fatality rate (just one death in nine cases) was much lower than average for this strain of the virus.
And the scare in New York was just that, the two patients did not have Ebola.
The only food recalls I know of are for metal contamination in FeelGood 3 Cheese Mac and Cheese Bites, best-by dates of 6-19 and 6-20, 2026, and for undeclared wheat and egg allergens in Naturite Value Added Fresh Berry Buddies snack packs due to a labeling error.
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