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A New Hampshire resident has died of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) after testing positive for the rare mosquito-borne disease at the hospital, health officials said Tuesday.

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services revealed that the person who died of EEE was an adult, and was hospitalized due to severe central nervous system disease before they passed away from their illness, according to a press release.

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The man was then identified by his family as 41-year-old Steven Perry. The family told WBZ that Perry did not have any underlying conditions.

This is the first New Hampshire resident to die of EEE since 2014, and the first infection in the state since that year. In 2014, DHHS identified three human infections, including two fatalities.

“We believe there is an elevated risk for EEEV (the virus that causes EEE) infections this year in New England given the positive mosquito samples identified,” said New Hampshire State Epidem..

If a middle-aged man starts clutching his chest, sweating profusely, and gasping for air, everyone knows he’s probably having a heart attack. It’s the “Bollywood drama” depiction of heart problems, says Dr. Basel Ramlawi, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Main Line Health in Philadelphia. “It’s the most dramatic way—but not the most common way—in which patients present.”

Heart problems can actually be quite subtle, he clarifies, and they tend to show up differently in everyone. While someone having a heart attack might, in fact, grab their chest, others—especially women and people with diabetes, who often have nerve damage that prevents them from feeling pain—won’t necessarily experience any chest discomfort at all. Other heart conditions can appear in equally varied ways.

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There’s good reason to pay attention to even the most understated symptoms: “Your heart is the lifeline of your whole body,” Ramlawi says. “It’s the pump that supplies blood to every o..

More than 20 people returning to the U.S. from Cuba have been infected with a virus transmitted by bugs in recent months, federal health officials said Tuesday. They all had Oropouche virus disease, also known as sloth fever.

None have died, and there is no evidence that it’s spreading in the United States. But officials are warning U.S. doctors to be on the lookout for the infection in travelers coming from Cuba and South America.

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Here’s a look at the illness and what sparked the alert:

What is Oropouche virus?

Oropouche is a virus that is native to forested tropical areas. It was first identified in 1955 in a 24-year-old forest worker on the island of Trinidad, and was named for a nearby village and wetlands.

It has sometimes been called sloth fever because scientists first investigating the virus found it in a three-toed sloth, and believed sloths were important in its spread between insects and animals.

How does Oropouche virus spread?

The v..

Jessica Wilson is passionate about the pupusas from Costco. Not just because they’re tasty, but also because they’ve helped the California-based registered dietitian fight back against the mounting war on ultra-processed foods.

It all started in the summer of 2023, when author and infectious-disease physician Dr. Chris van Tulleken was promoting his book, Ultra-Processed People. While writing it, van Tulleken spent a month eating mostly foods like chips, soda, bagged bread, frozen food, and cereal. “What happened to me is exactly what the research says would happen to everyone,” van Tulleken says: he felt worse, he gained weight, his hormone levels went crazy, and before-and-after MRI scans showed signs of changes in his brain. As van Tulleken saw it, the experiment highlighted the “terrible emergency” of society’s love affair with ultra-processed foods.

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Wilson, who specializes in working with clients from marginalized groups, was irked. She felt tha..

A New Hampshire resident who tested positive for the mosquito-borne infection eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, health authorities in the state said.

The Hampstead resident’s infection was the first in the state in a decade, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday. The resident, whom the department only identified as an adult, had been hospitalized due to severe central nervous system symptoms, the department said.

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About a third of people who develop encephalitis from the virus die from the infections, and survivors can suffer lifelong mental and physical disabilities. There is no vaccine or antiviral treatment available. There are typically about 11 human cases of eastern equine encephalitis in the U.S. per year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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There were three cases of the virus in..

With fewer than 70 days to the election, Americans are starting to learn about the distinct visions that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have for our country’s future. Nowhere is the divide between the two candidates wider than in health care. Though health care has frequently played a pivotal role in presidential contests, this November’s election may be among the most consequential for our patients.

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While Harris and Governor Tim Walz will work to build on the successes of the Biden-Harris administration over the past four years—continuing efforts to lower prescription drug costs and address medical debt, for instance—Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have said relatively little about their health policy agenda. But Project 2025 offers a glimpse of what it could look like.

Sponsored by the right-wing think tank, the Heritage Foundation, the Project 2025 policy agenda was written by more than 400 conservative exper..

The world’s deadliest animal can be squashed flat with a quick slap: It’s the mosquito.

The buzzing insects are more than annoying — they spread disease. When they bite and drink blood from a person or animal they can pick up viruses or germs too. If they can go on to bite someone or something else, they deposit the germ right under the skin.

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People in some areas of Massachusetts have been warned to stay indoors when mosquitoes are most active after a rare case of eastern equine encephalitis was discovered. And Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, was recently hospitalized after he came down with West Nile virus.

Both are nasty diseases spread by mosquitoes — though thankfully they are relatively rare.

The best way to avoid getting sick is of course to avoid getting bitten, which means taking steps like using repellent, wearing clothing with long sleeves and long pants and staying indoors when the mosquitoes are out. Lo..

Chatbots are not the only AI models to have advanced in recent years. Specialized models trained on biological data have similarly leapt forward, and could help to accelerate vaccine development, cure diseases, and engineer drought-resistant crops. But the same qualities that make these models beneficial introduce potential dangers. For a model to be able to design a vaccine that is safe, for instance, it must first know what is harmful.

That is why experts are calling for governments to introduce mandatory oversight and guardrails for advanced biological models in a new policy paper published Aug. 22 in the peer-reviewed journal Science. While today’s AI models probably do not “substantially contribute” to biological risk, the authors write, future systems could help to engineer new pandemic-capable pathogens.

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“The essential ingredients to create highly concerning advanced biological models may already exist or soon will,” write the authors, who are..

Every medical intervention comes with both benefits and risks. For vaccinations, the benefits greatly outweigh any potential hazards in most people.

The new COVID-19 vaccines based on mRNA technology are no exception. But one risk associated with them—myocarditis, especially for young men—has raised concerns among the public.

A new study published in JAMA has found that the risk associated with getting myocarditis—which is inflammation of the heart muscle, often triggered by the immune system as it responds to an infection—shortly after getting the COVID-19 vaccine is lower than the risk that can come from getting the disease.

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Researchers led by Dr. Mahmoud Zureik, professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Versailles, studied people ages 12 to 49 who had been hospitalized with myocarditis in France from Dec. 2020 to June 2022, when mass vaccination campaigns were taking place. They s..

Walmart has recalled almost 10,000 cases of “Great Value” brand apple juice after they were found to contain potentially harmful amounts of inorganic arsenic. The recall applies to products sold in 25 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration initially announced the recall on Aug. 15, but updated the recall to a more urgent level on Friday. The new classification, Class II, applies to recalled products that might cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences but are unlikely to cause serious medical issues.

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Both natural and inorganic arsenic are present in many foods and it’s not possible to prevent arsenic from entering the food supply, according to the FDA. Inorganic arsenic, which can be found in drinking water, is highly toxic, while organic arsenic occurs naturally in foods like shellfish, and is considered to be less harmful.

The FDA helps conduct regular testing of arsenic..