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Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) is rare but deadly. Since there is no vaccine, health experts suggest knowing the symptoms to watch for.

A sudden spike in cases of a rare infection often linked to flesh-eating bacteria is happening in Japan

Researchers have made significant progress in the fight against MRSA by enhancing vaccine efficacy through targeting IL-10, an immune-suppressing molecule. Their findings suggest that neutralizing IL-10 can potentiate the immune response and aid in the clearance of the bacterium in animal models. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have taken a...

MRSA Vaccine Breakthrough: Scientists Find a Promising Way to Fight a Deadly Superbug

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Hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved this decade thanks to a new vaccine, the head of the jab development team has said.Sir Adrian Hill, professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said he hoped the malaria vaccine, the second of its kind, would pave the way for a “really serious” attempt at eradicating the disease.The vaccine, which has been hailed as a scientific breakthrough, is the first malaria vaccine to meet the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) target of 75% efficacy at preventing the disease.The first doses were rolled out in the Ivory Coast on Monday, and were...

Hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved by new vaccine

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Childhood immunization rates plateaued last year, leaving 2.7 million more kids worldwide lacking the protection they need compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Why it matters: Widening gaps in immunization coverage are driving outbreaks of measles and other diseases and compounding a historic drop-off...

Kids' vaccination stalls globally, WHO finds

The first doses of the vaccine were rolled out in the Ivory Coast on Monday.

Malaria vaccine roll-out looks to save thousands of lives

Two children who attended a Liverpool primary school which was battling an outbreak of an infectious stomach bug have died.The pair, five and six, were pupils at Millstead Primary School, in Everton, Merseyside, which closed last month over the Giardia outbreak.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the causes of the deaths of the two children have not been confirmed but that they are “unlikely to be due to Giardia”.The headteacher said the school community was “devastated” after their recent deaths and that both children “filled their classes with joy”.But what is Giardiasis? The Independent takes a look below.What is...

What is Giardia? The stomach bug parasite outbreak which shut down a Liverpool primary school

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Health officials in the United States have confirmed the first human case of bubonic plague in Colorado.
Given the devastation that the plague caused the first time around when it ravaged Europe, it’s hardly surprising that modern day cases make the news and cause some concern.
From 1347 to 1351, the bubonic plague killed between 30 to 50 per cent of the population of Europe, with estimated death figures ranging anywhere from 75 and 200 million people. Doctors at the time wore beaked plague masks in an attempt to breathe in “purified” air.
Thankfully, in 2024, cases are very rare, but health officials...

Human case of the bubonic plague confirmed in Colorado

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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As bird flu (H5N1) spreads among mammals, former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield warns of an inevitable bird flu pandemic.

Former CDC director warns bird flu pandemic is coming

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The FBI has named the man who shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks is alleged to have opened fire while the former US president was addressing a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one audience member dead and two others badly hurt. The 20-year-old...

Thomas Matthew Crooks: What we know about the Trump attacker

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Scientists have found that avian influenza has now invaded the brains of a multitude of mammalian species. Now known to infect more than 50 different mammal species, the number has significantly increased from the roughly a dozen species documented in previous outbreaks. In the spring of 2022, veterinary pathologist Betsy...

Bird Flu Found To Invade The Brains Of 50 Mammal Species, Alarming Experts

 A deadly superbug that causes about 300,000 deaths a year evolved from being a common environmental bacterium and spread rapidly in just over two centuries, according to a new study that could help improve our understanding of immunity against invading bacteria.Pseudomonas aeruginosa can cause multidrug-resistant infections, particularly in people with underlying conditions such as cystic fibrosis and lung damage from smoking. It wasn’t always a specialised human killer, however.Scientists at the University of Cambridge assessed nearly 10,000 DNA samples infected by the bacterium from around the world to construct a “family tree” of the bug and found that just...

Superbug that now kills 300,000 people a year evolved rapidly from common bacteria

Video footage shows a gunman who opened fire at a rally for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on a roof. The FBI says it is treating the incident as an assassination attempt. One bystander was killed in the shooting and two others were critically injured, police said.

Video shows Trump rally shooter on roof

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

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The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw milk samples...

Infectious H5N1 Influenza Virus in Raw Milk Rapidly Declines With Heat Treatment

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United States health officials in Oregon have confirmed the first human cases of the thirteenth-century bubonic plague – that wiped out close to half of Europe – in nearly a decade. Knewz.com has learned that specialists have since called on anyone exhibiting symptoms to seek medical assistance. Alicia Solis, an employee at the Office of […]

First US Case of 14th-Century Bubonic Plague That Killed 50 Million People Confirmed

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A New York company has recalled 40 types of bagged spinach after traces of listeria were found in a batch. 

Solata Foods, LLC. of Newburgh, New York, which operates seven different brands of produce, has issued a recall of its line of “fresh spinach” products, distributed locally in retail stores, according to the Food and Drug Administration. 



The batch was sold as spinach and salad mixes in various sizes across several brand names, such as Solata, Gaia, Uncle Vinny’s, Full Circle, Bogopa, Famer Direct and more.

Pet food recalls spark concerns about dangerous salmonella, listeria infections

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40 types of spinach products recalled due to traces of deadly listeria: FDA

A female prison officer was arrested following allegations she had an "inappropriate relationship" with an inmate. The HMP Highpoint worker was held on suspicion of misconduct in a public office. The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) - which is made up of staff from seven police forces in the...

Prison officer arrested over 'inmate relationship'

The US Sun

HARROWING footage shows a student acting “possessed” while ill in bed, after her holiday hangover turned out to be deadly dengue fever. Cara Pyper had been in Bali, Indonesia, for two weeks when all of a sudden she began to feel “deathly unwell” as if she had been “hit by a bus”. The 22-year-old developed […]

Harrowing footage shows student, 22, ‘possessed’ after her ‘holiday hangover’ turned out to be killer ‘breakbone fever’

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Scientists start human testing of Marburg virus vaccine

University of Oxford researchers start in-human vaccine trial to treat highly fatal Marburg...

Scientists start human testing of Marburg virus vaccine

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