Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Geneva (Precision Vaccinations News) While the end of polio is within reach, immunization efforts can easily be derailed by spreading vaccine misinformation, wrote the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). While it is near impossible to eliminate vaccine misinformation after it has spread, national health systems can actively monitor for and address misinformation as it arises. Digital Community Engagement enables countries to bridge the gap between their on-the-ground work and digital communities while fostering trust in childhood immunization. In 2022, over five million online social listening results were analyzed from 41 countries in more than 100 languages. The most common misinformation pieces claimed that vaccines were unsafe and that they could cause other diseases. Other fear-inducing misinformation involved how countries or individuals are using vaccines. This is where the Digital Community Engagement (DCE) initiative is proving effecti...

By The Associated Press Ten Israeli women and children and four Thai nationals held captive in Gaza were freed by Hamas, and Israel followed with the release of a group of Palestinian prisoners Thursday. It was the latest exchange of hostages for prisoners under a temporary cease-fire in the Gaza war. Two Russian-Israeli women were also freed by Hamas in a separate release. International mediators are working to extend a cease-fire that's just a few hours from expiring. Israel has agreed to extend the truce by one day for every 10 militant-held hostages who are freed. The cease-fire, which was originally set to expire on Monday, has paused the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinians in decades. Israel has vowed to resume the war in an effort to end Hamas' 16-year rule of Gaza, but it's facing mounting international pressure to extend the truce and spare southern Gaza a devastating ground offensive like the one that has demolished much of the north. Roughly 240 ho...

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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Can mental health issues not being addressed be a potential pipeline to prison? More studies are showing that long wait times for mental health services can have a direct impact on the number of people who end up incarcerated. CBS 21's Elise Person talked to one woman who struggles with Bipolar Personality Disorder. The woman told Person that she's currently on a list that could take her in six to eight months. "So I am currently without a therapist," she says, "If could get in somewhere, that would definitely take some of the overwhelm that I feel on a daily basis." This woman spent a year in prison after turning to drugs in an attempt to self-medicate, because she was struggling to connect with mental health services. But she's not alone in this. Ethan Frost says he was on waitlists for years trying to get mental health services: "It was through the addiction that I ended up incarcerated," says Frost. A 2017 stu...

Credit: Yale University As COVID-19 becomes endemic in the United States, infecting populations in wave after wave annually, scientists are trying to determine whether the timing of these surges will ever be predictable. According to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the virus will likely settle into a seasonable rhythm like influenza, becoming most active during the colder months in northern climes and subsiding in summer. The study was published in mBio . "Having some idea of when we'll have surges in the future is important for public health policy and decision-making," said first author Jeffrey Townsend, the Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Eco...