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Metro Atlanta sees increase in respiratory syncytial virus in children out of season
Usually, RSV cases increase during the winter months, but this year there is an increasing number of cases in Atlanta before the summer. Meanwhile, a South Georgia detention center failed to seek consent from women undergoing unwanted medical procedures. Other state news comes from Texas, West Virginia, Oklahoma and California.
11 Alive: Childhood RSV Respiratory Illness Spreads In Metro Atlanta
Doctors at Children’s Healthcare in Atlanta are spreading the word: RSV is circulating in Atlanta. Respiratory syncytial virus typically affects babies and toddlers in their first one to two years of life, and although cases typically appear in the winter months, experts are seeing a different trend this year. “We got this significant increase in RSV here,” said Dr Matt Linam, infectious disease physician at The Children’s and associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases in Emory University School of Medicine. “We see it here at The Children’s, as they see it in children’s hospitals across the country.” (Lucas, 6/4)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: At Georgia Immigration Prison, Warnings Regarding Women’s Medical Care Goes Away
Federal immigration officials did not monitor medical treatment at a South Georgia detention center, where dozens of women say they underwent unwanted procedures, including hysterectomies, according to recently released documents. The United States Immigration and Customs Department did not verify whether the women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla had consented to the proceedings, according to the documents. The agency also failed to ensure that an outside gynecologist – now accused of sterilizing women against their will – used a government-funded translation service to explain procedures in the women’s native languages. (Judd, 6/5)
Las Vegas Journal-Review: Extended HIV Testing Arrives in Southern Nevada
When Dr Jerry Cade began treating AIDS patients in Las Vegas over 35 years ago, the diagnosis was considered a death sentence. Today, there are drugs that can reduce HIV in infected people to undetectable levels, so the virus can no longer spread. There are also medicines to prevent infection in people at higher risk. “We have the tools today to eliminate HIV if we have the political will,” Cade, longtime medical director of the UMC Wellness Center, said on Friday on the 40th anniversary of the first five cases being reported. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. of what has been called AIDS. (Hynes, 6/4)
Charleston Gazette-Mail: County Raleigh community says coal dust from nearby mine is breathtaking
Eunice should have been the place to settle down for Becky Rectenwald. Dust settled there instead. Rectenwald, 58, moved from Marmet to the former mining town in County Raleigh almost four years ago for cleaner air and a larger yard for her dogs as she continued to care for her mother . Eight months ago, with a 15% lung capacity with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and bronchitis, Rectenwald left her 79-year-old mother in Eunice in the care of her 18-year-old granddaughter. The filters on Rectenwald’s oxygen machine and ventilator had turned black. She had to go. “The way we have to live is sad,” says Rectenwald. “I can’t be with my family because of this.” (Tony, 6/5)
Houston Chronicle: Texas’ new restrictive abortion law faces an uncertain path
Last month, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott enacted one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, a ban on the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. While Texas isn’t the first state to adopt a six-week limit, it is the first to allow private citizens to enforce it by suing doctors and anyone else who helps perform abortions after six weeks or when. A fetal heartbeat is detected for the first time. This makes the law difficult to preempt in federal court. Lawyers on both sides say the law still faces an uncertain path, even if it is allowed to go into effect as planned on September 1. (Blackman, 6/4)
Oklahoma: Oklahoma family feels pain from counterfeit pills that kill
In a police report, she left a bar in northern Oklahoma City with an acquaintance around 9 p.m. on August 6 and went to a drug dealer to buy oxycodone. In a state medical examiner’s report, she died of a deadly mix of drugs including fentanyl, a synthetic opioid about 100 times more potent than morphine, which international criminal cartels are putting in pills counterfeit and smuggle into the United States by the millions every year. (Dulaney, 6/6)
Oklahoman: OKC creates new plan for homelessness, strategy coordinator position
Oklahoma City is working on a new homeless plan and will begin interviewing applicants for a new homelessness service position. The plan is being prepared for public review and comment with the aim of releasing it by the end of June. The position of Homelessness Strategy Coordinator was approved by City Council at its May 25 meeting. Interviews with the candidates could begin as early as next week, Deputy Managing Director Aubrey McDermid said. (Guillaume, 6/6)
In the California News –
Los Angeles Times: Ticks carrying Lyme disease found near beaches in California
Millions of people enjoy strolling California beaches during the warmer months. Ticks that carry Lyme disease too. This is one of the findings of four years of fieldwork in California’s San Francisco Bay Area and neighboring wine country, involving the collection of some 3,000 western blacklegged ticks. The abundance of blood-sucking arachnids has surprised some biologists and tick experts, in part because it’s unclear which animals can spread them. (Rust, 6/6)
AP: San Francisco has played key role in fight against AIDS, officials say
San Francisco has played a vital role in the fight against AIDS in America and around the world, leaders and activists said on Saturday at a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the first reported cases of the disease. The Mayor of London Breed and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi spoke at the private ceremony at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles were the first major American cities affected by AIDS. (6/6)
KHN: With Tightening Restrictions Elsewhere, California Set To Make Abortion Cheaper
Even though most states are trying to make abortion more difficult, California could make it free for more people. State lawmakers are debating a bill to eliminate personal expenses such as copayments and deductible payments for abortions and related services, such as counseling. The measure, approved by the Senate and presented to the Assembly, would apply to most state-regulated private health plans. (Blûth, 6/7)
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