Health

Hantavirus outbreak tests post-COVID health communications playbook  Reuters Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks  The New York Times ‘A Press Conference Would Be Nice’  Columbia Journalism Review Will the Hantavirus Outbreak Cause a Lockdown? What Experts Want You to Know  TODAY.com Five things to know about hantavirus from a Stanford Medicine expert  Stanford Medicine

Challenging your mind can help maintain brain health. Here are steps the Alzheimer’s Association recommends.  CBS News Three enjoyable ways to slow your brain’s ageing  BBC AHA Reframes Brain Health as a Lifelong Process  Medscape New Alzheimer’s report highlights growing focus on brain health  WITF Making Brain Health a Routine Part of Clinical Care  Physician’s Weekly

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus  WIRED 16 More People in the U.S. Are Being Monitored for Hantavirus, C.D.C. Says  The New York Times U.S. reports no hantavirus cases from cruise outbreak, monitors 41  Reuters 41 people being monitored for hantavirus exposure. See map of states.  USA Today CDC says there are no

Is hantavirus like COVID-19? Five infectious disease experts answer some of the biggest questions about the outbreak.  Yahoo Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks  The New York Times Hantavirus outbreak isn’t another Covid pandemic – but experts say it’s testing U.S. readiness  CNBC Hawaii doctor: Hantavirus ‘is not the next pandemic’  Hawaii News Now Five

CDC says no hantavirus cases in US, 41 people being monitored  Reuters CDC says there are no U.S. hantavirus cases currently, 41 people being monitored  CNBC Is the Hantavirus in the US? Map Shows States Where Passengers Have Returned Home  TODAY.com Three Kansans being monitored for hantavirus after contact with infected cruise ship passenger  Kansas Reflector CDC monitoring 41

Hantavirus Doesn’t Spread Easily, but Officials May Be Downplaying Risks  The New York Times Hantavirus outbreak isn’t another Covid pandemic – but experts say it’s testing U.S. readiness  CNBC The world’s reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID  AP News Experts say hantavirus risk is low in Iowa despite Omaha’s quarantine  KCRG Five things to

Hantavirus strikes a cruise ship, Californians at risk: Is this the start of something much worse?  Los Angeles Times American Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Flown to Quarantine Center After Positive Test  WSJ Argentina Races to Find Origin of Hantavirus Contagion  The New York Times A Scientist’s Close Call with Hantavirus Aboard the M.V. Hondius Cruise  The New Yorker CDC not

Man Quarantining After Hantavirus Outbreak Speaks Out: ‘I Was In A Really Dark Place’  HuffPost What it’s like for passengers isolating in hantavirus quarantine in Nebraska  BBC How a Hantavirus Cruise Passenger Is Spending His Quarantine in Nebraska  The New York Times Americans exposed to hantavirus remain in quarantine as testing and monitoring for symptoms continue  NBC News New

US cancer clinics scramble to get experimental Revolution Medicines pancreatic cancer drug  Reuters How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough  The New York Times Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough Drug Extends Lives of Patients: ‘I Had a Full Year of Normalcy’  People.com The slippery protein problem  Works in Progress Magazine New pancreatic cancer drug sees patients live almost

Prescriptions for controversial drug shot up 250% for cancer patients after Mel Gibson endorsement  New York Post More Cancer Patients Are Taking Ivermectin. Mel Gibson and Joe Rogan Might Be Why.  The New York Times Ivermectin prescriptions spiked after Mel Gibson touted it for cancer on Joe Rogan’s podcast  Scientific American Cancer patients seek unproven antiparasitic treatments after