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Today β€” 8 July 2024News

The Killer Stalking Sri Lanka’s Men

Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.

Collecting freshly dried anchovies on Kallady Beach near Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. Residents, particularly men, have seen rising rates kidney disease at increasingly younger ages.
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Embattled Alzheimer’s Researcher Is Charged With Fraud

28 June 2024 at 18:05
Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at City College, published studies supporting simufilam, now in advanced clinical trials.

Β© Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

Hoau-Yan Wang’s work underpinned research into a diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease and simufilam, a drug in advanced clinical trials made by Cassava Sciences in Austin, Texas.

New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall

27 June 2024 at 19:22
As the virus continues to mutate, the C.D.C. urged Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.

Β© Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times

Across every age group, a vast majority of Americans who were hospitalized for Covid did not receive one of the shots offered last fall, according to data presented at a meeting of the C.D.C.

Federal Officials Revise Recommendations for R.S.V. Vaccine

26 June 2024 at 18:00
Among Americans aged 60 to 74, only those with certain health conditions need to receive the shots, the agency concluded.

Β© Pfizer, via Associated Press

Pfizer’s Abrysvo is one of three R.S.V. vaccines approved by the F.D.A. The other two are GSK’s Arexvy and Moderna’s mRESVIA.

A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Here’s What It Might Look Like.

20 June 2024 at 14:39
There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient.

Β© Guadalupe Pardo/Associated Press

Workers in Lima, Peru, collected dead pelicans from a beach in 2022. The H5N1 virus has been rapidly gaining new hosts.

Bird Flu Has Infected a Third U.S. Farmworker

30 May 2024 at 15:45
The worker had respiratory symptoms, unlike the first two. But the risk to the public remains low, federal health officials said.

Β© Aaron Ontiveroz for The New York Times

A dairy farm in Colorado in 2019.

Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic

24 May 2024 at 13:57
Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

Β© Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Last year’s World Health Assembly in Geneva. Member countries have failed to reach their goal of finalizing a pandemic treaty before this year’s session begins on Monday.

Milk Containing Bird-Flu Virus Can Sicken Mice, Study Finds

24 May 2024 at 10:40
The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.

Β© Jonel Aleccia/Associated Press

Bottles of raw milk are displayed for sale at a store in Temecula, Calif.

A Second Dairy Worker Has Contracted Bird Flu, C.D.C. Reports

The new case, in a Michigan farmworker, did not suggest that bird flu was widespread in people, health officials said, adding that the risk to the general public remained low.

Β© Jackie Katz Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC, via Associated Press

An electron microscope image of an avian flu virion.
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