Dogs in New Jersey Test Positive for Drug-Resistant Bacteria Linked to Fatal Outbreak
The recent findings of two dogs in New Jersey testing positive for a drug-resistant strain of bacteria have caused significant concern among health officials. This strain, known as carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, has been genetically linked to the germ responsible for a fatal outbreak last year that affected 81 individuals across 18 states. With 14 patients losing their vision and four tragically losing their lives, it is clear th
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Dogs in New Jersey Test Positive for Drug-Resistant Bacteria Linked to Fatal Outbreak
What works best to gain muscle mass
Gaining muscle mass is not only a requirement for aesthetics, but also life insurance that guarantees health, independence and autonomy.
Muscle hypertrophy and the growth of muscle tissue goes beyond physical appearance. Maintaining and increasing muscle mass is crucial to avoid cardiovascular diseases, cardio-metabolic risks and loss of functionality in older adults.
However, strength training not only benefits physical health, it also optimizes the functioning of the neuromuscular system, essential for leading a full and active
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The poorer the neighborhood, the fewer vaccinations
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Shakib Sana has been working as a general practitioner for fourteen years. In all those years, he has not once had a patient with measles – until recently several children with measles symptoms suddenly came into his consultation room in Leerdam. “To be sure it was measles, I had to look at the medical manual and consult with a colleague and a pediatrician,” says Sana.
Measles is back in the Netherlands, including an outbreak in Eindhoven in March. Whooping cough is also on the rise killed now four babies in 2024. “Last year we had one case of whooping cough in Amsterdam in the first quarter,” says councilor Alexander Scholtes (Public Health, D66). “This year we already have 250 cases in the same period.”
This is because too few children have been vaccinated with the MMR injection (mumps, measles, rubella) and the DKTP injection (diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio). Only if nine out of ten children have been vaccinated will there be sufficient group protection – also for babies, who can only be vaccinated after nine months. In Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, the vaccination rate among two-year-old children is below the critical limit of 90 percent.
The differences are large within the major cities. In 40 of the 136 districts, the vaccination rate is below the critical limit, an overview shows NRC made. A district in Amsterdam-West even scores 69.5 percent (DKTP) and 64.6 percent (BMR). Only in ten neighborhoods in the major cities, including one in Amsterdam-Centre, does the vaccination rate for measles (MMR) exceed the ideal limit of 95 percent.
AmsterdamLowest vaccination rate in the west of the city
Because measles is such a contagious disease, 95 out of 100 children should actually be vaccinated against it. “We are almost waiting for a measles outbreak to occur here too,” says Amsterdam councilor Scholtes. “Measles and whooping cough are the first diseases to break through with a low vaccination rate, the tip of the iceberg of all infectious diseases.”
That is why The Hague councilor Hilbert Bredemeijer (Youth, CDA) was recently the first to have one rapport draw up information about the vaccination rate at district level. In some neighborhoods of The Hague it has fallen below 80 percent. Subsequently, the three other major cities gave up at the request of NRC also the vaccination figures per district. “The vaccination rate is now at a very worrying level,” says Bredemeijer. “We as a society need to have a good discussion about this theme. This starts with finding out in which neighborhoods the vaccination rate is too low.”
Poor neighborhoods
Why do so few parents vaccinate their children? The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) gives some rather different explanations in its latest report on it National vaccination programme. Since the corona pandemic, citizens’ confidence in the government has declined. Fables about the harmful effects of the vaccines are circ
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Upsurge in whooping cough in Europe, call for increased vigilance in France
Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection whose transmission occurs mainly within the family or in communities through contact with a sick person with a cough. Even though the number of cases of whooping cough has decreased significantly since the introduction of the vaccine, the bacteria continues to circulate. Infants too young to be vaccinated and adolescents and adults who have lost vaccine protection are the most affected populations. Outside our borders, Europe is currently experiencing an upsurge in cases of whooping cough with significant epidemics in Croatia, Denmark and the United Kingdom and significant increases in Belgium, Spain and Germany. In France, since the start of 2024, around twenty grouped cases (or clusters) have been reported to Public Health France in 8 French regions versus 2 grouped cases in a single region (Ile-de-France) for throughout 2023. Given this clear increase in the number of cluster cases reported, Public Health France remains vigilant and recalls the importance of vaccination to protect people at risk of serious forms.
A resumption of the circulation of whooping cough begins in France
Whooping cough progresses in cycles of recrudescence every 3 to 5 years. In France, surveillance data from the RENACOQ network (the hospital pertussis surveillance network) have shown six epidemic peaks in recent years: 1997, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2012-2013 and 2017-2018. Since the last peak of whooping cough (162 cases reported), the number of cases has continued to decrease to reach 34 cases in 2020 and 4 cases in 2021 in infants under 12 months. Same observation regarding the data from the Sentinelles network (the research and monitoring network in primary care general medicine and pediatrics in mainland France) reporting 1 case per year in the general population over the same period. Even if a rebound in the disease could be expected in France in 20
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Upsurge in whooping cough in Europe, call for increased vigilance in France
Driven by global warming, the “giant tick” is colonizing Occitania: INRAE and CIRAD monitor the situation
Almost ten years after a first report in Occitania, Hyalomma marginatum, the “stripe-legged” tick, also known as the “giant tick”, has established itself in the region. Scientists from CIRAD and INRAE have been monitoring it for several weeks on farms to measure the phenomenon. With new data: after the reporting of parasites carrying the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus last year in the Pyrenees Orientales, the disease, endemic in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, could appear in France.
It is large in size (8 mm), is armed with a spur, a “rostrum” for the scientists who study it, is carried by two-colored legs decorated with whitish rings at the joints, lives in the scrub of the Mediterranean coast. Montpellier researchers are following his trail. Last October, for the first time in France, the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHF) was detected in specimens of Hyalomma marginatum, the “stripe-legged tick”. The mites had been collected from cows and horses in the Eastern Pyrenees.
Although there are no documented cases of transmission to humans, the condition, similar to Ebola, is potentially serious.
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For several weeks, scientists from Cirad and Inrae and the University of Montpellier have been back in the field: in search of Hyalomma marginatum, but also of Ixodes ricinus, another species of tick quite present in the north and west of region, which transmits Lyme disease. , “we do not find it in the Hérault, nor in the Gard, nor in the Aude or the Eastern Pyrenees”specifies Thierry Pollet, epidemiologist researcher at INRAE, associated with Cirad and the ASTRE mixed research unit of the University of Montpellier in the “Vectors” collective, from his laboratory on the Baillarguet campus, north of Montpellier.
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On the other hand, the teams follow the trail of Dermacentor marginatus, a vector of animal diseases, in particular equine piroplasmosis, which exhausts and sometimes kills the infected animal.
“Ticks collected from horse and cattle breeders are being analysed”, indicates the scientist. Spring is the most favorable season for observations: “This is where the ticks come into activity, the missions continue until July and August.”
“We talk a lot about mosquitoes, but ticks are also a public health problem”
Will the samples confirm the circulation of the CCHF virus in France? Monitored since 2015 by a CIRAD team in Montpellier, the evolution of the tick population is worrying: “It poses serious risks to both human and animal health.“, indicates the research institute.
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In addition to Lyme borreliosis, the best-known tick-borne disease, cited by 8 out of 10 French people, which affects 47,000 people in France in 2021 according to Public He
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Avian Influenza Spreading in US Dairy Herds: Colorado Confirmed as Ninth State with Infected Cows
(Central News Agency Denver, full foreign news report on the 26th) Colorado became the ninth US state to report that a dairy herd was infected with avian influenza. Federal health officials said today that further analysis of the milk showed that pasteurization killed the avian flu virus.
Reuters reported that test results showed that 1/5 of US commercial milk samples contained residues of the avian influenza virus, indicating that the epidemic was spreading more widely than previously thought, and members of Congress urged the Biden administration to further curb the spread of the virus.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said tonight that preliminary results from the gold standard nucleic acid (PCR) test show that pasteurization kills viruses in milk and infant formula. The FDA did not disclose how many dairy products it tested, but said it plans to conduct additional tests on 297 products in 38 states.
A Texas ranch worker was confirmed to be infected with avian influenza and had developed conjunctivitis after coming into contact with dairy cows during the current outbreak. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (
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Avian Influenza Spreading in US Dairy Herds: Colorado Confirmed as Ninth State with Infected Cows
Pre-Registration Opens for Professional Residency Training in Hospitals in Salta Province
Pre-Registration for Professional Residency Training System in Hospitals of Salta
Tomorrow, Monday the 29th, pre-registration will open for applicants to enter the professional residency training system in hospitals dependent on the Ministry of Public Health of the Province of Salta. The availability of opportunities includes basic medical residences, post-basic residences, and health team residences.
Basic medical residencies are available at various hospitals including San Bernardo Hospital, Arturo Onativia Hospital, Public Maternal and Child Hospital, Lord of the Miracle Hospital, Miguel Ragone Hospital, Pope Franc
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Pre-Registration Opens for Professional Residency Training in Hospitals in Salta Province
The centenarian revealed the secrets of her longevity
During her life, the woman not only worked for a cotton research company, but also played the piano and sang in a choir for 90 years and gave up these hobbies only recently. She traveled the world with her friends, especially falling in love with the Middle East.
A few months ago, Joyce moved into a foster home. There, her day starts with yoga or light exercise, the old lady adores walks.
Centenarians like Joyce will probably no longer be a rarity in the future: it is estimated that by 2050 there will be eight times more of them in the world than now.
Joyce shared her secrets to living to 100 and staying active in old age.
1. Don’t find a significant other
Joyce has never been married, and her top tip for making it to 100 is not to have a significant other.
Research on this topic is mixed. It has been observed that married people tend to live longer, possibly because they are less lonely and less stressed.
But Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science
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Revolutionary Universal RNAi Vaccine Developed by Researchers to Provide Immunity for All
The new type of vaccine does not focus on the production of antibodies so it will be suitable for both babies and people with a weak immune system, the researchers promise. It can also stop ‘rising’ indefinitely.
We mostly know the ‘boosters’ from the time of the corona vaccine. Every mutation of the coronavirus was closely monitored and the vaccines were again adjusted accordingly. But people also queue up for the flu shot every year to protect themselves from the latest strain of the virus. Researchers at the University of California to stop these re-injections. They have developed a new strategy that should make modified vaccines for new variants unnecessary.
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This new vaccine strategy does not focus on a few specific features of the virus, but on all parts of the viral genome (an organism’s complete genetic information). In addition, the vaccine does not rely on the traditional response of the human immune system. This means that it may also be suitable for babies with an underdeveloped immune system, and for people who suffer from an illness that weakens their immune system.
What makes this vaccine different?
“The protective effect of current vaccines depends on our adaptive immunity, such as antibodies,” explained researcher Shou-wei Ding. In other words, from our ‘acquired immune system’ which arises from experience gained from previous infections. For example, our immune system produces memory cells the first time we encounter a virus, so that it is better prepared the next time and an immune response can be initiated more quickly. This principle is also used in vaccines, where the basis is often a weak virus, part of it or an imitation of the virus. Vaccination is the Riverside UC focus on another aspect of our immune system: the small molecules that cause ‘RNA interference’ (RNAi) after infection.
“We focus on the whole genome”
How does it work?
RNAi is a biological process that specifically targets defective protein
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Revolutionary Universal RNAi Vaccine Developed by Researchers to Provide Immunity for All
Respiratory infections with a strong incidence in people over 60 years of age
Asunción, IP Agency.- The Ministry of Health reports that severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) mostly affect groups of people over 60 years of age and older, as well as children under 2 years of age who do not have the complete vaccination schedule. for influenza or SARS-CoV2.
This is stated in the updated Sentinel Surveillance report corresponding to epidemiological week (EW) 14 and reproduced by the health portfolio.
Within this period, the proportion of admissions to the intensive care unit, as well as that of deaths from SARI, so far remains within what was expected.
The respiratory viruses identified in
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Respiratory infections with a strong incidence in people over 60 years of age