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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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 The former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, has said that the next pandemic could be from bird flu. The World Health Organization recently announced the first human death from bird flu in Mexico, and the virus has been found in cattle across the US. “I really do think it’s very likely that we will, at some time, it’s not a question of if, it’s more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic,” Redfield told NewsNation on Friday.He added that the mortality rate is likely to be...

Former director of the CDC predicts the next pandemic will be from bird flu

Bird flu has held the world’s poultry industry in its unrelenting clutches before, causing catastrophic losses of more than 50 million birds in 2015. After a brief break, where we were lulled into a sense of false security, it came back in full force in 2022. Even now in 2024, we haven’t yet curbed bird flu’s deadly spread—but those passionate about wildlife and disease prevention are doing their part to intervene and, hopefully, slow our many tragic losses of wild and domestic animals.

Rats With Wings, Vaccines, And New Breed—2024’s Solutions to the Bird Flu Crisis

Streoptoccocal Toxic Shock Syndrome cases in Japan are already higher in 2024 than the year-end total for 2023. Japanese health officials havenoted a record increase in a dangerous and potentially fatal bacterial infection without a clear explanation for the rise. By early June, Japan’s Health Ministry had counted just under...

Deadly Bacterial Infection Reaches Record in Japan

The daughter of Cameroon's president has said she hopes that her coming out as a lesbian can help change the law banning same-sex relations in her country. Brenda Biya told the Le Parisien newspaper that there were many people in her situation and she hoped to inspire them. The 27-year-old...

President's daughter hopes coming out will change anti-gay laws

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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Of all the places you can get stung by a bee, the eyeball has to be one of the most unfortunate spots. A rare case study from Wills Eye Hospital in the US state of Philadelphia details the horrifying story of a 55-year-old man who got a barbed bee stinger stuck in his right eye.

Horrific Bee Sting Leaves Barbed Stinger Hiding in a Man's Eyeball

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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

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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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Long COVID is a brutal illness without a known mechanism or cure. Far from being psychosomatic in nature, a new study adds weight to the idea that this misunderstood disease is very much biological.
The lingering toll the SARS-CoV-2 virus exacts on the immune system is widespread and hiding in plain sight, argue researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, CellSight Technologies, and Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center.
When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees.
A radioactive drug called...

COVID's Hidden Toll: Full-Body Scans Reveal Long-Term Immune Effects

 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

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Consuming this product could lead to Botulism: 'a potentially fatal form of food poisoning'

Popular Drink Recalled In California Contains Potentially 'Deadly Toxin'


As extreme storms, floods, fires, droughts, cold snaps, and heat waves hit us harder and more often than ever, more than half of our planet is predicted to shift into new climate zones by the end of the century.



					
			

A new interactive map, The Future Urban Climates, allows you to explore how your home's climate will be impacted.
Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on  Climate Change (IPCC), University of Maryland spatial ecologist Matthew Fitzpatrick matches 40,581 places around the globe to nearby locations currently experiencing their future predicted climate in 2080.
For example, a trip to northern Mississippi today would allow...

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live


Time: It bends and warps, or seems to speed up or slow down, depending on your position or perception. So measuring its passing accurately is one of the most fundamental tasks in physics – which could help land us on  Mars or even observe dark matter.



					
			

Now, physicists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Delaware have developed the most accurate and precise atomic clock yet, using a 'web' of light to trap and excite a diffuse cloud of cold strontium atoms.
"This clock is so precise that it can detect tiny effects predicted...

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clock Doubles Previous Accuracy, Could Detect Dark Matter


The last stand of the wooly mammoth was a sad, sickly affair.
On remote Wrangel Island off the north-east coast of Siberia the last of these once-majestic beasts breathed their final breaths, some 4,000 years ago. For many generations, the wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) had been on the decline, isolated on the island for 6,000 years. Dwindling populations led to inbreeding and a lack of genetic diversity that likely made the creatures very unwell indeed.



					
			

But surprising new research has found that this genetic bottleneck is not the reason the last of the mammoths died.
"We can now confidently reject the idea that...

Inbreeding Not to Blame For Wooly Mammoth Extinction, Surprising Study Finds


A quick scan of your face could one day reveal how well you are aging and whether you are at risk of developing certain diseases.
Scientists in China have found that a comparison of the heat coming off a person's nose, cheeks, and eye area could be an "ideal monitoring and screening tool for healthy aging".



					
			

Trained using facial temperature data from 2,811 Chinese participants between the ages of 21 and 88, their  artificial intelligence program identified several facial thermal patterns that could hint at a person's 'biological clock'.
For instance, the temperature of an individual's nose was found to decrease with...

Your Face's Heat Patterns Could Reveal Vital Clues About Your Health

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


Last year an ant species was caught using antibiotics – now, another has been observed performing amputations.
Researchers have just confirmed with experiments that this surgery and the other treatments ants provide each other do indeed save ant lives.



					
			

While we have known for a few years now that ants treat each other's wounds, we're only just learning how astonishingly complex and precise ant medical care can be.
"Ants are able to diagnose a wound, see if it's infected or sterile, and treat it accordingly over long periods of time by other individuals," explains behavioral ecologist Erik Frank from the University of Würzburg...

These Ants Perform Life-Saving Operations on Injured Nestmates, Similar to Humans

New evidence from the US has backed up previous findings that as of early 2023, an estimated 6.9 percent of American adults – or some 17.8 million US citizens – have ever had long COVID. The data reveal some clear demographic differences among US adults, showing which groups...

Almost 18 Million Adult Americans Have Had Long COVID


The United States is in the throes of a deadly opioid  epidemic that could claim the lives of millions by 2029.
A recent breakthrough in overdose treatments could offer a new strategy for the public health emergency.



					
			

The study, led by researchers at Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis, introduces a novel drug, called compound 368, that seems to greatly enhance the life-saving effects of naloxone in mice.
Naloxone (brand name Narcan) is one of the most common and effective opioid overdose treatments available today in the US without a prescription. It is also an opioid, but instead of activating...

Breakthrough Drug Could Have The Power to Reverse Opioid Overdoses

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New Bird Flu Discovery Suggests Cows Are a Threat For Future Pandemics


The potential of the avian  flu to jump from birds to cows to humans has some scientists greatly concerned.
That very scenario has already occurred twice...

New Bird Flu Discovery Suggests Cows Are a Threat For Future Pandemics

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