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Infectious Updates 6/7/2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-07
Well, at least the vaccine is approved. Even with some limitations. But Moderna lists some advantages to its new formulation of the Covid vaccine, including being refrigerator stable, not needing the elaborate supercold storage.
Long Covid is fairly common in Medicare records. But more doses of vaccine means less chance of getting it.
Most children who had MISC-C recover within two years, catching up to their peers. The worst cases still show deficits in executive function.
Oh, did we forget about deer? Ohio testing found Alpha and Omicron strains of Covid circulating in white-tailed deer, long after Alpha has disappeared from the human population.
In total, 12.3% of 519 swabs tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Four of the 10 sites yielded positive samples, with prevalences of 6.5% to 50.0%, the latter of which was from a site next to a highly populated residential area.
And the Government Accounting Office Is telling HHS to fix "persistent deficiencies" in infectious disease testing before the next pandemic. I'm sure brainworm boy will get right on that.
Yeah, just in case there was any doubt at all, Study finds live avian flu virus can live a week in refrigerated raw milk.
Bangladesh reported two new human cases of H5N1. Both were boys, both recovered, both viruses were the older Asian clade that is still circulating there rather than the newer global clade. The WHO is recommending that both clades be included in pandemic preparedness vaccines.
The FDA has raised the alert level for a salmonella contamination case on tomatoes from Williams Farm Repack, distributed between April 23 and April 28. I don't know about how long tomatoes last in your fridge, but this strikes me as kind of late?
US measles total jumps, outbreaks now total 17. But Texas seems to be slowing down, more vaccines getting into arms.
Studies found that The 2022 European diphtheria outbreak was transmitted along migration routes, and not necessarily traceable to migrants' countries of origin. Still, the need for global public health measures is clear.
Valley fever may be far more prevalent than reported. This is a fungal lung infection spread by spores released by disturbed soil.
Sierra Leone is having a major mpox ongoing outbreak, Ethiopia reports its first mpox death, in an infant. Vaccines are being shipped in, but the situation is considered a "health emergency of continental concern".
Three human cases of tularemia in Nebraska, when there were only 6 cases in the previous ten years, is a concerning anomaly.
Tularemia is caused by a bacterium (Francisella tularensis) spread via tick and deer-fly bites or contact with infected animals. Symptoms include fever, headache, swollen glands, and skin ulcers at the site of the bite.
Stay safe out there.
late breaking update:
1.7 million eggs recalled due to salmonella
People have been sickened and hospitalized. The company is August Eggs, but they were sold under many store imprints, from Mar 4 to June 4, plant codes P-6562 or CA-5330.
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