Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, responds to former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx’s warning that US agencies “are making the same mistakes they made with Covid.

In a positive finding, the CDC emphasized that there is no evidence the virus has spread from the Louisiana patient to others, and the mutations alone are unlikely to spread from person to person. CDC scientists also confirmed, however, that the Louisiana virus samples are closely related to candidate vaccine strains already developed for bird flu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported double the cases of norovirus compared to previous years in early December.

Noroviruses, also known as food poisoning or the stomach bug, are “ common and highly contagious ,” according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. About 1 in 15 people across the U.S. get the virus annually, experts said.

Local health care facilities have advised residents to be on the lookout for patients presenting with norovirus symptoms such as nausea, stomach pain, body ache, headache and fever.

The CDC reported more than double the cases of norovirus, commonly known as stomach flu, compared to previous years in early December.

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A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that cases of tularemia in the U.S. have increased, with some cases being reported in Arkansas.

The United States is seeing a dramatic increase in norovirus cases, with reported outbreaks reaching their highest numbers since 2012. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3 feet long. The noodle-thin parasites then burrow their way out, breaking through the skin in burning blisters.

There were 91 outbreaks reported during a week in December — more than double what was seen in previous years, the CDC says.