epidemics

FILE - In this June 13, 2017, file photo, a man injects heroin into this arm under a bridge along the Wishkah River at Kurt Cobain Memorial Park in Aberdeen, Wash. The government said non-fatal overdoses visits to hospital emergency rooms were up about 30 percent late last summer, compared to the ...

Fast-acting antidote in sight for cholera epidemics. Date: March 9, 2018; Source: University of Gothenburg; Summary: Groundbreaking discoveries regarding the onset of cholera are paving the way for a future, fast-acting antidote for cholera epidemics. Share: FULL STORY ...

Paul Richards says the West panicked during the Ebola epidemic in Africa in 2014, in "Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic'. Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at five important new books on famines, deadly epidemics and the pesticide poisons in our food. ***.

“This really is an epidemic of epidemics,” said Dr. Michael Brumage, the Charleston health department's executive director. “The number of overdoses does not convey the full scope of the tragedy that's playing out in front of us.” Lawmakers and federal officials often cite $45 billion as the amount of money ...

Certainly, Biomedicine has learned how to deal with HIV. In her opening session lecture at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 2018 conference Chair Judith Currier reminded her audience of the grim situation at the time of the first CROI 25 years ago, when AIDS was the leading cause of ...

In Europe, there were more than 21,000 cases of measles and 35 deaths last year, a fourfold increase in cases compared to the previous year. With more than 5,000 cases each, Romania and Italy had the biggest epidemics — and the drive to vaccinate children against measles has even become a leading ...

While this may be a dream for many, only a small percentage are able to dedicate themselves to the grueling process required to accomplish this goal. Biology Professor Joshua Loomis was able to do this, and the scope of his novel, “Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power Over Humanity,” ...

Early intervention is vital to lessening the impacts of epidemics. In the case of the Ebola outbreak, proactive U.S leadership helped to avoid a worst-case scenario of 1.4 million infections in four months. Early action also lowered the risk of infection among U.S. citizens, and reduced the chance of a viral ...

Vodafone is partnering with the government of Ghana to share the movements of its customers to help track and contain the spread of epidemics such as the Ebola virus. The charitable arm of the mobile phone company said it would provide real-time tracking data from its 8.7 million customers in Ghana, ...

We are reminded each year to get vaccinated against the influenza virus. The severity of the annual outbreak is not known with certainty in advance, but a major pandemic is bound to occur sooner or later. Mathematical models play an indispensable role in understanding and managing infectious diseases.

About one in every 10 people who died last week nationwide succumbed to influenza in a season so fierce it is on track to be one of the worst flu epidemics on record, a top federal health official said Friday. “We may be on track to break several records,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for ...

It need not be that way, argues Jonathan Quick in “The End of Epidemics”. A doctor and a public-health veteran who has worked in more than 70 countries and at the World Health Organisation (WHO), Mr Quick rounds up examples of failures and triumphs to show what stops epidemics from flaring up.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dramatically scaling back its efforts to prevent global epidemics in 39 of 49 countries because funding is running out, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have reported. The agency describes its work on global health security, aimed at detecting ...

Early intervention is vital to lessening the impacts of epidemics. In the case of the Ebola outbreak, proactive U.S leadership helped to avoid a worst-case scenario of 1.4 million infections in four months. Early action also lowered the risk of infection among U.S. citizens, and reduced the chance of a viral ...

The simulations are simplified versions of computational frameworks commonly used to investigate the global spread of real-world epidemics, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Nevertheless, they help understanding basic features of the more complicated and realistic models.