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Nov 25, 2024 | 
columbian.com | Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thederrick.com | Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
The Santa Ana winds caused a massive this month in Ventura County, with stunning visuals of in Oxnard reminiscent of 2020 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Although the is now just about contained (as is the Sandy fire in Monterey County), it was the most destructive fire to hit Southern California in six years polluting air past Ventura toward Santa Barbara and beyond.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Ranu S. Dhillon |Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Robert F. Bukaty/AP Despite no known infections of H5N1 bird flu among its dairy cows, Missouri recently detected a case in a person with no apparent exposure to possibly infected animals or related products (i.e., raw milk). A close contact and two health workers who cared for the person all developed respiratory symptoms, but were never tested.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
everand.com | Ranu S. Dhillon |Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Despite no known infections of H5N1 bird flu among its dairy cows, Missouri recently in a person with no apparent exposure to possibly infected animals or, but were never tested. There has not yet been a wider uptick of other potential cases in the same community to indicate efficient human-to-human transmission — the evolution of which is a prerequisite for a possible human epidemic — but this scare underscores the potential danger posed by the ongoing spread of H5N1.
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thelancet.com | Ranu S. Dhillon |Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
In their editorial, The Lancet Infectious Diseases editors highlight regarding the uptake of H5N1 influenza A testing on farms that: “Testing is largely voluntary, and uptake has been low, so the true extent of spread is unclear”. 1The LancetHave we learned anything?. Farm owners have been reluctant to allow testing due to fears of financial loss while farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented, are unwilling to be tested due to concerns of losing work and possible immigration issues.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
statnews.com | Ranu S. Dhillon |Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Although a third U.S. dairy worker has been confirmed to be infected with the H5N1 bird flu, many dairy farms are still unwilling to use even freely offered personal protective equipment (PPE). This is cause for alarm. Working with a pathogen assigned a biosafety level of 3 — meaning it “can cause serious or potentially lethal disease through respiratory transmission” — with at best BSL 2 level protections is playing with fire.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
infobae.com | Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Devabhaktuni Srikrishna es el fundador de Patient Knowhow. Abraar Karan, M.D., es médico especialista en enfermedades infecciosas. Ranu S. Dhillon, M.D., es médico de salud global en la Harvard Medical School.; (Nota de arte: una fotografía y una ilustración acompañan este artículo).
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
statnews.com | Devabhaktuni Srikrishna
Hypertension is considered to be the No. 1 risk factor for death globally. So it’s no wonder convenient, relatively low-cost blood pressure machines with single-size, standard cuffs can be found in both clinics and homes across the U.S. The “Get It, Slip It, Cuff It, Check It” campaign makes it sound incredibly simple. However, these popular machines and simple-sounding advice may lead to wildly inaccurate results for the sizable portion of the U.S. population with wider or longer arms.
