“Key warning signs about bird flu are all going in the wrong direction”
By Evan Bush
“To better understand the geography of bird flu’s spread, scientists are monitoring wastewater for fragments of the virus.
“We’ve seen detections in a lot more places, and we’ve seen a lot more frequent detections” in recent months, said Amy Lockwood, the public health partnerships lead at Verily, a company that provides wastewater testing services to the CDC and a program called WastewaterSCAN.
Earlier this month, about 19% of the sites in the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System — across at least 10 states — reported positive detections.
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Belgium becomes 8th non-African country to confirm clade 1b mpox case
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/belgium-becomes-8th-non-african-country-confirm-clade-1b-mpox-case
Mpox Is Spreading in Congo’s Capital, Threatening Global Efforts to Contain the Virus
Trump’s Return May Worsen Financial Woes for Global Health Institutions
“The election of Donald J. Trump, with his mistrust of international institutions and his history of proposing deep cuts to foreign aid, has complicated a perilous landscape for global health organizations that were already in a frantic competition for sharply reduced funds.”
“Their demands for support reflect mounting health challenges: Rates of infection with dengue fever are exploding in Latin America. The mutated mpox virus is increasingly transmissible between people, and there are fears that H5N1, avian influenza, is also evolving to spread between humans. Deaths from cholera, an ancient scourge, and measles are rising. The parasite that causes malaria is increasingly resistant to the drugs to treat it, and an invasive malarial mosquito is threatening African cities.”
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