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Highlights Issue 004

“California Confirms Fourth Human Case of Bird Flu”

Published: October 10, 2024.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-10-10/california-confirms-fourth-human-case-of-bird-flu#:~:text=The%20four%20people%20who%20tested,two%20additional%20possible%20human%20cases


“The Nobel Prize of Medicine to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”

Published: October 7, 2024.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2024/press-release/


“Sabin Vaccine Institute Delivers Marburg Vaccines to Combat Outbreak in Rwanda”

Currently, there are no licensed vaccines or treatments for Marburg, which has a mortality rate of up to 88%. Sabin’s single-dose vaccine, based on the cAd3 platform, is in Phase 2 trials in Uganda and Kenya with no safety concerns reported to date. Results from Phase 1 clinical trials and nonclinical studies indicate that the vaccine is safe and elicits rapid, robust immune responses.

Published: October 5, 2024.

https://www.sabin.org/resources/sabin-vaccine-institute-delivers-marburg-vaccines-to-combat-outbreak-in-rwanda/


“WHO appeal: Marburg virus disease outbreak Rwanda 2024”

Published: October 2024.

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-appeal–marburg-virus-disease-outbreak-rwanda-2024


“WHO News, October 2024”

  • COVID-19 vaccine considerations.
  • HPV vaccine as a single dose.
  • Mpox vaccination.
  • Mpox diagnostic test.
  • Pandemic preparedness cooperation between the WHO, the World Bank Group, and the International Monetary Fund.

https://www.who.int/news


“WHO recognizes healthy, innovative cities across Asia”

Published: September 25, 2024.

https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/item/25-09-2024-who-recognizes-healthy–innovative-cities-across-asia


“Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) – September 2024”

Published: Reunions held from September 23rd to 26th, 2024.

This meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) was held from Monday to Thursday inclusive at WHO HQ.

It covered the following items:

  • Global  Reports
  • Immunization Agenda 2030 and regional updates
  • Respiratory syncytial virus
  • Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome prevention
  • Poliomyelitis
  • COVID-19 vaccines
  • Cholera
  • Mpox and H5N1 updates

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/09/23/default-calendar/sage_meeting_september_2024


“Prevention Strategies for Mpox, including Vaccinating People at Risk via Sexual Exposure, for U.S. Travelers Visiting Countries with Clade I Mpox Outbreaks (CDC)”

Published: September 23, 2024.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2024/han00516.asp


“FDA Approves Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine for Self- or Caregiver-Administration”

Note: Still, this live attenuated influenza vaccine could only be used in persons >18 years of age, and a prescription will be required.

Published: September 20, 2024.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-nasal-spray-influenza-vaccine-self-or-caregiver-administration


“Governments progress on negotiations for a pandemic agreement to boost global preparedness for future emergencies”

Published: September 20, 2024.

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-09-2024-governments-progress-on-negotiations-for-a-pandemic-agreement-to-boost-global-preparedness-for-future-emergencies


“Disease Outbreak News (DONs)”

Published: Up to September 20, 2024.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news


“The silent invaders: Oropouche and Melao viruses, causes of increased public health risks for the Americas”

Published: Infectious Diseases, 1–6. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/23744235.2024.2403712


“COVID pandemic started in Wuhan market animals after all, suggests latest study (nature.com)”

Published: Nature News 20 September 2024

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03026-9


“Public Health Confirms the Third Case of Locally Acquired Dengue in California”

Published: September 9, 2024.

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?prid=4811#:~:text=It%20is%20the%20third%20case,and%20Pasadena%20in%20fall%202023.


“CDC Confirms Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri”

Published: September 6, 2024.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0906-birdflu-case-missouri.html


“Introducing World’s Meningitis Day: October 5th”

Published: September 2024.

https://www.meningitis.org/blogs/introducing-world-meningitis-day

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