{"id":9493,"date":"2026-04-17T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/llcspace.site\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:55:12","slug":"this-week-in-public-health-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llcspace.site\/?p=9493","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uPbT9ckFcRU?si=utDY57W24CVUHnqO\">Dr. Klotman&#8217;s Week 317 Video address<\/a> here. My summary follows,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Measles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">We&#8217;re up to 1714 cases this year &#8211; close to last year&#8217;s 2287<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Utah, South Carolina, El Paso, and Arizona have the most cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Influenza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">There were 12 pediatric deaths this past week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Still, Flu is waning in the US<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">A recent study from Denmark shows that in people >40yo, the risk of heart attack increases 5-fold and risk of stroke increases 3-fold in the 4-weeks following infection with Influenza<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">People vaccinated for Influenza had only half the increased risk as those not vaccinated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID (SARS-CoV-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">It&#8217;s still around at a low level but much less than during its most recent epidemic peaks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">XFG 1.1 is the current dominant strain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Other species affected now include Emperor Penguins and Antarctic seals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID Pandemic Analyses and Theories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Most of the arguments for a &#8220;Lab Leak&#8221; cause for the COVID pandemic rely on circumstantial evidence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">The case for a natural, zoonotic origin for COVID is based on epidemiological analysis of the earliest COVID cases around the Wuhan &#8220;wet market&#8221; &#8211; the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11416802\/\">analysis that John Snow did on Cholera in London.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">A recent genetics study in the journal &#8220;Cell&#8221; proposes that viruses do not adapt to humans after human infection. 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