Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“We’re seeing the emergence of dengue in areas where we’ve never seen it before,” Adam Waickman, an immunologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, said during the meeting. “Effective dengue control is going to require multi-layered efforts.”

Particles of dengue virus (red; artificially coloured) infect a tissue specimen.
Image Credit: Science Source/SPL'

#Dengue #InfectiousDisease #Virology

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03453-0

'Concerns over zoonotic diseases have greatly increased since the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus emerged in China in late 2019 and spread swiftly across the globe. A study published by BMJ Global Health on Thursday found that environmental and population changes over the past six decades were driving growing numbers of such “spillover events” such as that which caused the coronavirus pandemic.'

https://www.ft.com/content/17c0ebb6-8391-45e9-943a-99dfe3d37f4c

As the great Groucho Marx said, “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others.”

'The EU is poised to water down a landmark piece of car pollution legislation after extensive lobbying from the automotive industry, which experts say will cause an estimated €100bn in health and environmental costs.'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/07/eu-poised-to-water-down-new-car-pollution-rules-after-industry-lobbying

"Here, we describe an mRNA-based platform enabling delivery of pathogen-specific immunoglobulin A (IgA) monoclonal antibodies into mucosal secretions. The platform consists of synthetic mRNA encoding IgA heavy, light, and joining (J) chains, packaged in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) that express glycosylated, dimeric IgA with functional activity in vitro and in vivo."

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(23)00430-5

"Uma startup de saúde ginecológica do Reino Unido lançou, recentemente, um tampão que funciona como um teste PCR para diagnóstico de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis (DST) nas mulheres. Segundo a empresa Daye, o tampão funciona como substituto do cotonete ou espéculo vaginal utilizados nos testes de rastreio e consegue igualmente identificar clamídia, gonorreia, microplasma, ureaplasma e tricomonas."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/06/p3/noticia/startup-britanica-lanca-tampao-detecta-doencas-sexualmente-transmissiveis-2069180

It's going to take all the running in the world just to stand still.

"A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT, according to a study published on 6 November in Cell Reports Physical Science1. The specialized classifier, which outperformed two existing artificial intelligence (AI) detectors, could help academic publishers to identify papers created by AI text generators."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03479-4?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1699287337

This is the sort of thing Rick Santorum warned us about:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/dining/drinks/wine-cider.html

'Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reinforcing those findings via new research presented in October at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's conference, suggesting that a specific strain of the Leishmania parasite has likely been living in the U.S. for years.'

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/11/01/1209681147/leishmaniasis-sand-flies-tropical-disease-endemic-north-america-united-states