Notices by Dr Alex 🩺🚼 (alexped@mastodon.uno), page 2

Communicate risks of not getting #Covid #vaccine to boost uptake

📌 Focus on potential harms from staying unvaccinated found to be more effective than messaging on jab’s benefits

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/28/communication-covid-vaccine-uptake-research

Intranasal administration of octavalent next-generation
#influenza #vaccine elicits protective immune responses against seasonal and pre-pandemic viruses (.. for now in ferrets)

📌 The significance of the research is producing a promising universal vaccine candidate which provides protection against a wider range of virus strains over a wider range of
time.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.00354-24

The 🇺🇸Will Buy Flu Shots for Farmworkers to Try to Stop #Bird #Flu

👉…. Health officials are worried about what might happen if people are infected with bird flu and seasonal flu at the same time. It's possible the viruses could swap gene segments, in a process that scientists call reassortment.
Bird flu, for example, could gain the ability to spread as easily among people as seasonal flu does

https://time.com/7005609/flu-shot-farmworkers-bird-flu/

👉 Olympic glory ? There’s another Gold Medal 🥇this summer

This summer there is another gold medal in contention. Few will recognise the competitors, who have also trained extensively and risen to the top of their field. There will be some social media videos but no prime-time coverage. Certainly, no cereal box pictures.

And yet, whoever wins it would have saved millions of lives. (1/3)

☕️ break

#UnoRadio 📻

All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor

https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk

🌹☕️ break

#UnoRadio 📻

True - Spandau Ballet

https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=AR8D2yqgQ1U

Why is #measles coming back?

📌 Health authorities recommend two doses of measles vaccine to prevent outbreaks. If more than 95% of people in a community are vaccinated twice against measles, the virus cannot find new people to infect.

📌 However, while most people in Europe are vaccinated against measles, many regions are falling short of the 95% target.

👉 That is why measles is coming back

https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/why-is-measles-coming-back/

What Is #Autism Spectrum Disorder? #ASD

📌 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with symptoms of impaired social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors or interests.

📌 ASD encompasses a group of related disorders and may present in different forms ranging from limited language ability and intellectual disability to substantially above-average language and intellectual function but difficulty with social communication.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2818060

#caturday #MyPhoto

Gatto abruzzese ( …accento caratteristico )

#GoodEvening 🥂🌹

#UnoRadio 📻 #MyPhoto 📷

Bob Dylan - Tomorrow Is a Long Time

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=UHG06Q45ziI

#UnoRadio 📻

#GoodSunday ☀️🌹

💫 How Would You Feel - Ed Sheeran 💫

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=VnK4SO3AUxw

Sun….. sea… bike ….. (almost) perfect!

#MyPhoto

Action needed to tackle #HPV hotspot

“Europe aims to eliminate cervical cancer by improving HPV vaccination and screening. Local campaigns are ramping up in Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia”

https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/action-needed-to-tackle-hpv-hotspots/

How #measles was eliminated and then came back

📌 measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is 97% effective, so why are we seeing so many outbreaks?

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=x_ZbG3zllNM

Human Papillomavirus (#HPV) Vaccine Coverage and Confidence in Italy 🇮🇹

📌 Within the 🇪🇺, cervical cancer is the second most prevalent cancer following breast cancer among women aged 15 to 44.

📌 Each year, around 33,000 cases of cervical cancer are reported in the 🇪🇺, leading to approximately 15,000 fatalities

📌 🇮🇹 experiences approximately 3500 new cases and 1500 deaths annually

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/2/187

👉 #ZeroTolerance 😡

Female genital #mutilation

📌 Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful [horrible 🤬] practice that involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to female genital organs for non-medical reasons, with different levels of severity, the most radical of which is commonly called infibulation

📌 Every year an estimated 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing FGM the majority of whom before they turn 15 years old

https://www.who.int/health-topics/female-genital-mutilation#tab=tab_2

#Covid, nuovo #vaccino nasale in fase sperimentale

📌vaccino a subunità proteica, formato da nanoparticelle contenenti una porzione della proteina spike in associazione ad una proteina batterica che agisce come adiuvante

1️⃣ si può conservare a temperatura ambiente

2️⃣estremamente efficace nel prevenire non solo le complicazioni della malattia, ma le stesse infezioni visto che agisce sulle mucose e impedisce al virus di entrare nel nostro organismo

https://www.repubblica.it/salute/dossier/vaccini/2023/12/13/news/vaccino_nasale_covid_19-421634733/

#WHO: Surge in Respiratory Infections in China Not Due to New Pathogens

📌 Respiratory illnesses—including #Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, respiratory syncytial virus (#RSV), and #influenza—have been on the rise among children in China

📌The increase in illnesses tracks with the relatively recent lifting of COVID19 restrictions in China, similar to last winter’s surge in RSV cases in the US stemming from what some experts called an “immunity debt.”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813159?guestAccessKey=0005ea83-b440-4504-95d6-41bfbe2bad99&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=121323&adv=000001935867

Continued Progress in the Development of Safe and Effective #RSV Immunizations

📌 Before 2023, there were no immunizing tools to protect older adults and all infants from illness due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

📌 In 2023, two RSV vaccines for older adults, one of which is also approved for use in pregnant persons, and a long-acting monoclonal antibody to protect infants and some toddlers up to 19 months of age were approved by FDA and recommended by the ACIP

https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMe2311862?articleTools=true

The Long Quest for a #Universal #Flu #Vaccine Finally Takes Its First Steps

📌 The search for a shot that could protect us against many strains—and maybe a pandemic—is notching achievements at last. But the flu’s endless mutation and our own biology stand in the way

https://www.wired.com/story/the-long-quest-for-a-universal-flu-vaccine-finally-takes-its-first-steps/