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Govt eyes revision of pandemic-related laws

The government on Friday discussed measures to combat a potential future pandemic and decided to revise relevant laws to make it mandatory for core hospitals to provide medical services and beds to patients when infectious diseases break out or spread.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

From pandemic to endemic, is Thailand ready?

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokesperson Taweesilp Visanuyothin said last week that the government will declare Covid-19 as endemic in October. The decision to label the infectious disease as endemic was based on the relatively limited number of severe cases and fatalities.

Bangkok Post

Editorial: Dr. Fauci waged war on foolish refusals of facts. He’s earned America’s heartfelt thanks

Anthony Fauci is calling it a career. And the 81-year-old infectious disease expert — one of the most visible health officials in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak — deserves America’s heartfelt thanks. Without Fauci’s steady leadership, the COVID-19 pandemic would have created more havoc on our country…

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Voices: I’m an expert on infectious diseases. Here’s the truth about monkeypox

This isn’t the same as Covid, and it won’t be in the future. Here are the reasons why

The Independent UK

Did an accidental 'blood plague' in World of Warcraft help scientists model COVID better? The results are in

Way before COVID, in 2005 the World of Warcraft game developers accidentally introduced an extremely virulent highly contagious disease into this game which then spread to infect the whole fantasy world and caused a virtual pandemic.

The Conversation

White House Covid adviser Anthony Fauci announces departure from government

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than five decades of service.

France 24

Dr. Anthony Fauci, top infectious disease expert, to retire in December

“I will be leaving these positions in December of this year to pursue the next chapter of my career,” Fauci said in a statement, calling those roles “the honor of a lifetime.”

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Fauci to step down in December to ‘pursue next chapter’ of career

Expert, 81, who has led National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, clashed with Trump over Covid response

The Guardian - US

Fauci announces December departure from government service

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December

The Independent UK

Anthony Fauci to step down from government in December

‘After more than 50 years of government service, I plan to pursue the next phase of my career while I still have so much energy and passion for my field’

The Independent UK

Scientists' big monkeypox fear: It will spread to wild animals and be here to stay

Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human.

Los Angeles Times

Woman's 'bedbug nightmare' on holiday with people 'too scared' to use pool with her

'Abbie' from West Yorkshire was unable to sunbathe or relax because of the medication she was asked to take and when using the hotel swimming pool in Egypt she was left embarrassed when she was asked if she had an infectious disease

Daily Mirror

Make the CDC an Infectious Disease Epidemic Fighter Again

Dr. Walensky's proposed bureaucratic reshuffling is too timid.

Reason

Woman has to have her five dogs put down after she contracted ultra rare disease

Wendy Hayes explained she still has guilt about having to put down her five family dogs after a rescue dog was carrying a rare infectious disease

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Woman has to put down all five dogs as she's first in UK to contract ultra rare disease

Stoke-on-Trent grandmother Wendy Hayes explained she still has guilt about having to put down her five family dogs after a rescue dog was carrying a rare infectious disease

ABC News

Infectious disease experts warn Omicron wave not the last of Australia's COVID-19 pandemic

According to infectious diseases experts, future surges and strains of COVID-19 are still a risk as the winter wave eases.

Inverse

What scientists know — and don’t know — about the Langya virus

Infectious disease researchers have identified yet another virus, but don’t panic — here’s what you need to know about the Langya virus.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Study Connects Climate Hazards to 58% of Infectious Diseases

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the…

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Hundreds of known infectious diseases are worse than ever due to climate crisis

A new study shows how widespread the influence of climate is on human health

The Independent UK

Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases

A new study finds climate hazards aggravate 58% of known infection diseases in people

The Conversation

Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and chaos. I assured them that the Aug. 4, 2022, public health emergency declaration is about government…

ABC News

Israel was a world leader in combatting COVID-19 with vaccines, now they're getting ready for monkeypox

Israel has recorded fewer than 200 cases of monkeypox but the country learned from COVID-19 that moving quickly can make or break a country's response to an infectious disease.

Daily Mirror

North Korea claims it has 'defused' Covid explosion and reports zero cases of the virus

Infectious disease experts have cast doubts on North Korea's claims, with the World Health Organisation saying last month it believed the situation was getting worse, not better

The Independent UK

Prehistoric Europeans drank milk long before humans could digest lactose – study

New research indicates that famine and exposure to infectious disease best explains the evolution of our ability to consume milk.

The Hindu

Koranti Hospital once again stands up to the occasion

Fever Hospital has been in the forefront of battles against infectious diseases

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