{"id":8172,"date":"2025-08-01T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/llcspace.site\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:02:00","slug":"this-week-in-public-health-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llcspace.site\/?p=8172","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D10SFL_knjk?si=H2tC2M8hxSWLFrhq\">Dr. Klotman&#8217;s Week 280 video address<\/a>. My digest is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yersinia Pestis<\/strong> (plague)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">A 73 year-old man contracted bubonic plague from his cat who probably caught it from infected rodent fleas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The patient was treated with antibiotics and recovered<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The cat died at the end of January <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mosquito-borne viruses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Europe is seeing a surge of Dengue, West Nile, Zika, Chikungunya, and yellow fever<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The vectors for these viral infections are the Aedes albopictus (Tiger mosquito) and Aedes aegypti whose populations are in resurgence likely as a result of climate change <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rabies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Bats are the animal most associated with rabies transmission in the US<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">A recent (small) trial of applying oral rabies vaccine to bats&#8217; fur has shown that an entire bat colony can be vaccinated this way because bats groom each other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H5N1 Influenza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">There have been three new cases of H5N1 in cattle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The states showing the greatest H5N1 activity recently are Oregon and New Jersey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Cases in domestic cats and raccoons have also been reported recently<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Human antibodies to H5N1 are most often seen in older rather than younger adults<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Both young and older folks mounted an immune response to trial H5N1 vaccination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">COVID cases and SARS-CoV-2 mRNA in wastewater show a very strong correlation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">COVID in wastewater is especially high these days in CA, NV, FL, and AL <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Texas, LA, and a few other states may not be far behind the states mentioned above<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The dominant strain in the US is now XFG accounting for ~49% of cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>West Nile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">We have 49 cases as of this week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Most of them are in Arizona and Louisiana<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Texas has its fair share and may grow because the recent floods in Central Texas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Even NYC now has cases of West Nile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My random thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">As relates to getting plague from cats. This is extremely rare. Indoor-Outdoor cats are more likely to bring you Murine Typhus after associating with Possums that are carrying typus-infected fleas. We get a few cases in Austin every year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">As relates to oral rabies vaccination of bats and other mammals, I have to wonder whether adding the vaccine to all meals served at White House functions and the vending machines at HHS might improve public policy &#8211; making it less bat-shit crazy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">As relates to arthropod-vectored viral infections, I&#8217;m sure that flood mitigation in Texas is much less important than delivering a more extremely gerrymandered state map to the Governor&#8217;s office. Besides, all this climate change nonsense and its relationship to communicable diseases is all part of some hoax that could be better treated by incarcerating Anthony Fauci or maybe sacrificing a virgin. Sigh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Dr. Klotman&#8217;s Week 280 video address. 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