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Rachelfeldman: Happy Monday, listeners! for Scientific American‘s Soon scienceI am Rachelfeldman. I hope your February will be a great start. Kick off the week by catching up with all scientific news you might have missed.
First, a brief note on the movement of the president who could affect health and science. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has faced at least some ultra -vibrant pushbacks during the confirmation of the U.S. Ministry of Health and Welfare for confirmation for nomination. On Thursday, Republican Bill Cassido, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension, urged Kennedy to take a decisive pro -vactin attitude. Cassidi, who has been practicing medicine for decades, claims that he has a praised member to decide that he will not be vaccinated at least partially Kennedy.
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After many coming and going, Casidy, if he was confirmed, the US Food and Pharmaceutical Bureau, “Extract or delay the review, delay the approval of new vaccines, and that the vaccine review standards will not change. Historical norms have been asked to agree, but it is important to keep in mind the long history of the vaccine.
You can read the details of RFK Jr.’s Scientificamerican.com healthcare results. As we progress, we will deliver the latest information on the confirmation hearing.
Last week, it was quite mixed OTIC in terms of presidential order and federal funding. As of last Friday afternoon, it was reported that the web page had disappeared from a government health agency site. Statistical news The data of the youth risk behavior monitoring system, which is a large -scale state survey on young people’s behavioral habits, including information on gender and sexual identity, has disappeared, and researchers have no longer accessible. The CDC’s social vulnerability index, which emphasizes a group that emphasizes a particularly vulnerable group due to poverty factors, seemed to be down on Friday, like some resources about HIV. It’s not a comprehensive list. This story was very developed as of this recording on January 31st. We are working on deep diving on these changes and the impact of this Friday episode. , Please let us know if you have any specific questions. You can send them to us on Sciencquickly@sciam.com.
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Feltman: Let’s enter some public health news. Last week, you may have seen a headline about the record of tuberculosis in Kansas. Since the CDC has begun to track the case, the first report of dubbing the largest tuberculosis outbreak in Japan seems to be derived from the wrong statement from the State Health Bureau. After the CDC argued, the state’s health authorities offered to clarify and claim that this occurrence has seen the best case number in the country. For one year.
The contradiction has brought confusion about the nature (very realistic and serious) of this. The Health Bureau states that as of January 31, more than 60 people, Wyandotte County and Johnson County, have been diagnosed as activity tuberculosis related to occurrence, but have completed treatment since the diagnosis. There is. “Active” refers to the type of tuberculosis, not whether someone is currently sick. According to state officials, two people have died. Here, to release our situation, there is a Kansus News Service and Bek Shackelford-nwanganga, a KCUR health equity reporter.
Bek Shackelford-nwanganga: It was said that the first case related to this specific occurrence was recorded in January 2024. There was a pretty big spike in the summer. I came and started supporting.
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Shackelford-nwanganga: We are convinced that they are controlling the situation. They hope to find more cases. They have to conduct a lot of contact traces and many surveys to know who they are in contact with. But in most cases, they are satisfied with how the numbers are heading, and they monitor it quite closely.
Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection. It can settle elsewhere in your body, but usually settles in a human lung. When the person is coughing or singing, that can spread that way. Tuberculosis requires many expanded contact with people to catch it.
And there are two types of tuberculosis. Some are known as active tuberculosis. This is when a person is indicating the symptoms. Sustainable cough, blood cough, lung pain, and night sweats, fever, and weight loss. In other words, they are suffering from active infectious diseases and can spread them to others. In other versions of tuberculosis, in the case of potential tuberculosis (sometimes called sleeping tuberculosis), this means that someone has bacteria in the body but does not cause activity infection. Masu. It must be active to spread it to others. Also, if there is a potential case, no symptoms will occur.
Those who have diabetes, those who drink in large quantities, those with HIVs, and those who are immune are those who travel to a country with a high risk of developing illness, especially in a larger country.
As you know, our health authorities are now not warnings for ordinary people. For now, public health authorities have said that they should be clear unless they are safe and have tuberculosis or long -term symptoms. It is really important for those who hear that the Ministry of Health has been exposed to tuberculosis to comply with what they want. That may be fatal, but that’s exactly the case. If you know you may have it or that you may have been exposed, it is important to take it seriously and comply with treatment and testing.
Feltman: Thank you for the update, bek. Listeners can find more information about outbreaks on the Kansas Health Bureau website. I will talk more about TB next month. Have the author, John Green, talk about his new book. Everything is tuberculosis。 But for now, let’s proceed to update bird flu.
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Feltman: US officials have recently informed the world’s health of the first reported appearance of high pathogenic H5N9 bird flu in US birds. This is another strain of bird flu with H5N1, which is a type that makes a wide headline between birds and cows. H5N9 was previously found in US birds, but this is the first time that a virus version, which is likely to seriously ill, has been infected with US poultry. In this case, H5n9 appeared on a duck farm in California. According to what is reported, about 119,000 ducks have been killed, aiming to limit the diffusion of viruses.
Apart from that, last Tuesday, one of the largest egg producers in Japan confirmed the death of a bird flu in the flock. Rose Acar Farms, which has facilities in the seven states, said in social media that the workers have noticed that chickens were dead on January 25 in Indiana. Culling sick chickens has a unique effect. On January 24, the US Ministry of Agriculture’s food pricing report was predicted that the egg price would rise by more than 20 % in 2025.
But last week, we brought some good news to the front of the bird flu. In the research announced on Thursday Science Researchers have later explained about antibody -based immunotherapy to prevent monkeys that have been infected with H5N1 from becoming seriously ill. Researchers say that this antibody targets some of the influenza virus that does not actually change even if the microorganism is mutated. Research on monkeys seemed to be maintained for 8 to 12 weeks for serious illness and death. Scientists have suggested that this could be useful as a protection measure for fast -less ponders and other caregivers at the beginning of H5N1 outbreak. See the January 15 episode for deeper diving in the US bird flu.
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Feltman: Well, this is the next story Technically Health News -But it’s outdated. Basically, fossil hunters seem to have found UKE about 66 million years ago. The amateur fossil devil has made the traces of ancient sea lions spots. Looking at A flower -like; they are actually invertebrates related to sea stars and sea urchins. Further tests suggested that they were bitten by some animals before they were rejected.
Denmark’s East Zealand Museum curator recently announced the discovery in the media. To clarify, this valuable artifact is not explained in the journal that was viewed by the Pear review, so do not be excited about the meaning of ancient Vom. But, of course, this story is making international headlines anyway. Jesper Milan, a Denmark paleontologist, told the BBC that the specimen was the “most famous park work ever.”
Paul Olsen, a professor of the University of Colombia’s University of Colombia, is a technically known leggitarite, but this is a “particularly good example”. I told NPR. He also stated that it was probably like a nausea, like a person who bitten the sunflower seeds and removed the shell, rather than the true up -chuck.
We seem to prosper on bad hair. Research announced last Wednesday Science advancement Cholesterol, diasylgricerol, fatty acids (sebum made of fatty acids, also known as grease prevent ice from accumulating ice in pleasure. Has lost an ice -resistant superpower.
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Feltman: This week’s news round -up is all. On Wednesday, hints will return to avoid phenomena known as “anger fatigue.”
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