Government’s Slow Response to Bird Flu Outbreak Raises Concerns of Another Pandemic

Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an outbreak of highly virulent bird flu that for the first time is infecting cows in the United States, according to government officials and health and industry experts.

“This requires multiple agencies to coordinate and communicate internally, but most importantly externally, which doesn’t seem to be happening due to different cultures, priorities, legal responsibilities, scientific expertise, and agility,” says Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist who writes a weekly infectious-diseases newsletter.

The lack of clear and timely updates by some federal agencies responding to the outbreak recalls similar communication missteps at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. There is frustration over more livestock herds not being tested for avian flu and delays in sharing results. Experts fear that these delays could allow the pathogen to move unchecked — potentially acquiring genetic machinery needed for swift spread among humans.

The response has echoes of early days in 2020 when COVID-19 began its deadly march worldwide. While one dairy worker in Texas has already fallen ill amid this outbreak – marking just the second case ever of bird flu transmission from cows – there are concerns about how long livestock sheds virus through their milk after recovering from infection.

Officials point out that it is crucial for federal agencies like USDA (investigating virus in cows), FDA (overseeing food safety), CDC (mon

They were paid with resources from the General Social Security Health System.

The Comptroller General of the Republic imputed joint and several fiscal liability for $65,616 million against Medimás EPS SAS, now in liquidation, and eight of its directors, and Century Farma SAS, now in liquidation, for the detriment to public assets generated by the irregular management given to the resources belonging to the General Social Security Health System (SGSSS).

Among the irregularities that gave rise to this accusation by the Special Investigations Unit against Corruption of the CGR, are:

Payment of medical services to deceased persons (in the audited period 01-01-2018 to 06-30-2019 and 07-01-2019 to 06-30-2020), in the amount of $46,306,935

Fines paid with resources from the General Social Security Health System (

April 22, 2024, 12:23 PM

An elderly man named Chen has been suffering from left shoulder pain for about 2 years. After an examination, it was discovered that in the place where the tuberculosis had occurred, a tumor measuring approximately 8 centimeters was hidden and had invaded the left shoulder bone. Situational photo, the person in the photo has nothing to do with this article. (Photo taken from freepik)

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[Canale sanitario/Rapporto completo]The 67-year-old man, surnamed Chen, had been suffering from left shoulder pain for about 2 years. He once suffered from tuberculosis when he went to another hospital for an x-ray examination of his left shoulder. His lungs were also examined, but no abnormalities were found. During this period he also tried massage, tuina, acupuncture and other methods, but all were useless. So I went to Beitou Health Management Hospital again for a low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) exam and found that there was an 8-centimeter tumor in the upper part of the left lung where the tuberculosis had occurred, and it had invaded the left shoulder bone. , confirming metastasis.

Why did the x-ray examination reveal no abnormalities? Cai Congcong, a doctor at Beitou Health Management Hospital, said that because fibrosis occurred at the lesion site, the images recorded after treatment and the imaging results of the current examination all showed a white appearance.

Cai Congcong said the health examiner deemed the patient to have a history of tuberculosis and recommended a low-dose lung computed tomography (LDCT) scan. Unex

Children who still have baby teeth but have been drunk more than once in their lives – this is not uncommon in parts of Europe. In Bulgaria, for example, where almost ten percent of all eleven-year-old boys have experienced intoxication at least twice. Almost 20 percent of Bulgarian boys have smoked at least once. In Lithuania, on the other hand, one in five eleven-year-olds has already had experience with e-cigarettes.

These are some sad highlights from a report released Thursday by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Based on surveys, it shows how much young people on the continent and some selected countries outside Europe drink, smoke, vape and smoke weed. And even if there are enormous differences between countries, one thing can be learned from the data: Eleven to 15-year-olds, who should actually be protected from addictive substances, consume them to a considerable extent across Europe.

This applies most strongly to alcohol. Six percent of all eleven-year-olds said they had had at least one drink in the 30 days before the survey. Among 15-year-olds it was more than a third. 20 percent in this age group have been drunk at least twice. Young Danes drank most often; almost 70 percent had consumed beer, wine or spirits within the past month. The longer-term trend, like the consumption patterns, is inhomogeneous – but all in all not really reassuring. In many countries, alcohol consumption has stagnated or increased.

E-cigarettes are also widespread and more young people in Europe now smoke than tobacco cigarettes. Abo

2024-04-22 04:11:41

Javier Segura del Pozo, health doctor

In the American territories of the Bourbon monarchy, the attempts to control midwives were even less successful than in the peninsula, as attested by some research on the Viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain. The great social prestige of traditional midwives, close to the worldview on health prevailing in the viceregal society. However, in the 19th century they would be replaced by qualified midwives from different social backgrounds and who would be used as biopolitical instrument of the new nation states that emerged from the independence processes.

Although the control had little practical effect, the attempts to supervise the practice of midwives by surgeons were also experienced in the last decades of the 18th century in the so-called Overseas Provinceswhere in the same way attempts were made to apply the reforms of 1750, as Lisell Quiroz tells us.[1]:

«Until the middle of the 18th century, despite the fact that midwives depended on surgeons and therefore on the Protomedicato, it was the court of the Inquisition that was responsible for judging those women accused of witchcraft or magical practices. But in 1750 the Crown ordered that midwives be examined and controlled by the Royal Protomedicato of Madrid. The writing of booklets for the training of midwives was then commissioned, in which they were ordered to turn to doctors in case of complicated births. What reception did these provisions have in America? In Mexico, midwives resisted these provisions. In Peru the ordinances were recorded and filed but in practice they changed little.

“From a mulatto and mestiza, a cuarterón is born.” Caste painting by the New Spain painter Jose Joaquín Magón. Series of Archbishop Lorenzana, 1770. Source:

According to Quiroz, the midwives were aware of their “competitive advantage” over doctors and they did not have a special interest in moving them either:

«On the one hand, the midwives did not feel the need to undergo an examination before the medical team because they were still the birth specialists, those who were called first of all. Although they knew they had been criticized by the enlightened discourse, they were aware of their experience and the distrust of pregnant women towards doctors. They had practical knowledge that in many cases, especially that of natural births, was enough to accompany parturients (…). On the other h

2024-04-25 17:53:17

The human body is complex and organized and consists of four structures: cells, tissues, organs and systems. All of these work hand in hand to perform the functions necessary for life. Therefore, it is necessary to live a life healthy to ensure operations.

The immune system plays an important role in taking care of the body. According to MedlinePlus, its function is to fight infections and other diseases that can affect health. It is responsible for defending itself against harmful substances, known as antigens, which can be bacteria, viruses, chemical elements or toxins.

“When your immune system recognizes an antigen, it attacks it. This is called an immune response. Part of this response is to produce antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that work to attack, weaken and destroy antigens. Your body also produces other cells to fight the antigen,” indicates the health information platform.

In this way, it is important to strengthen it in order to raise the defense and function properly. The easiest way to achieve this go