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Infectious Updates 3-11-2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-11
Maryland and Virginia are warning travelers who may have been exposed to a measles patient returning from traveling abroad. If you were in Washington Dulles Airport Terminal A or the baggage claim area, on March 5 from 4-9 pm, or Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Department on March 7 from 3:30 to 7:30 pm, you could have been exposed. If not immunized, monitor for symptoms for 21 days after potential exposure.
Texas is up to 223 measles cases with 29 hospitalized, New Mexico is at 33 today. Oklahoma has two probable cases linked to these outbreaks. Voa news
Sleep debt has been tied to increased risk of pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, and GI infection, in a study of Norwegian nurses.
Brazil reports its first clade 1b mpox case, all others this year have been clade 2. CIDRAP
Tonix Pharmaceuticals announced that it has received a US Department of Defense grant to develop a single dose vaccine against mpox and smallpox, using a recombinant live horsepox virus.
Chronic wasting disease was confirmed on a deer farm in Kaufman County, Texas, and the farm is under quarantine. It has been found in 36 US states, 5 Canadian provinces, Finland, Norway, South Korea, and Sweden. The prions can persist in the environment for years, and resist high heat, radiation, and formaldehyde. (So how TF do we get rid of them?)
The second cluster of Ebola cases in Uganda is now expanded. Not only the mother and newborn sister of the 4 year old who died, who were buried untested and count as presumptive cases, but two new confirmed cases — a woman who had contact with the boy, and a woman who had contact with his mother. Both are receiving treatment. Uganda is monitoring 192 identified contacts.
Belgium reported on March 4 its first avian flu cases in domestic cats which lived on a poultry farm. The poultry had an outbreak in mid-February. Both cats had to be euthanized, but other cats on the property remained healthy. CIDRAP
New Jersey reported 4 more detections of H5 in domestic cats from the same household as 2 earlier detections.
Less than half of US parents think they have accurate information about H5N1 avian flu, most don't know whether there has been a human case in their state, 2 in 5 want the government to take more action to prevent outbreaks, and 1 in 3 have taken steps to prevent infection in their family, finds a report on the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's health.
But 1 in 5 say media reports on the virus are overblown. [Eyeroll] CIDRAP And only about 20% have high confidence in the government to manage the virus, keep infected animal products out of the food supply, or inform us which products should be discarded. The majority in this case are right, i would say. We can’t trust this administration for much of anything.
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