Health

Linked media - Associated media A Michigan farm worker has been diagnosed with avian influenza, state officials announced Wednesday, making it the second human case associated with the outbreak among cows. Officials said the individual was infected with the virus, called H5N1, after being exposed to infected livestock. The individual had only mild symptoms and has fully recovered, officials said. They did not provide further details to protect the privacy of the farm and the workers, they said. In 2022, a person in Colorado with direct exposure to infected poultry became the first confirmed human case of H5N1 in the…

Related media - Associated media The government has officially este miércoles el nombramiento de Sonia Cavallodaughter of the former Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo, as eAmbassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). The appointment became effective pursuant to Decree 433/2024, which takes the form of the president Javier Milei and Chancellor Diana Mondino, which was published in the Boletín Oficial. The official designation will now go to the Senate of the Nation, which will have to pay attention to the designation of Cavallo as ambassador. The Executive Power was named in the Ministry of External Relations, International Trade and…

Associated media - Associated media As they travel, farm animals can also leave pathogens in their wake. In one study, scientists found that disease-causing bacteria, including some that were resistant to antibiotics, flowed off moving poultry trucks and into the cars behind them. The trucks were “just disseminating these antibiotic-resistant bacteria,” said Ana Rule, an expert on bioaerosols at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and an author of the study. Contaminated transport vehicles have also been known to spread pathogens long after the infected animals have disembarked and may be playing a role in the dairy cow…

Connected media - Associated media As he lay on his deathbed, his publisher gave him a gift of 12 bottles of wine. By then Beethoven knew he could never drink them. He whispered his last recorded words: “Pity, pity — too late!” For a composer, deafness had been perhaps the worst affliction. At age 30, 26 years before his death, Beethoven wrote: “For almost 2 years I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people: I am deaf. If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with…

Associated media - Connected media Mr. Bouton said that he had not been aware of the full extent of Dr. Oxnam’s alcoholism and that he had had inklings about his behavioral problems. He said that it was remarkable that Dr. Oxnam had been able to work through them. But in 1992, Dr. Oxnam told the society’s board that he was going to resign. “The Bob part of me was touched that they pressured me to reconsider,” he wrote in his book. But he left. In addition to his wife, whom he married in 1993 and who was president of the…