Governor Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency for 91 counties in response to the rapidly spreading wildfires in South Georgia. The state of emergency goes into effect immediately and will last for 30 days, unless the governor orders an extension. The state of emergency will allow counties more access to state resources as they battle wildfires.
With spring in full force and summer on the way, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is raising the alarm on tick bites. The agency says the bites are sending Americans to the emergency room at the highest rate in nearly 10 years. During the second week of April, 71 out of every 100,000 emergency room visits were for tick bites.
A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California, raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer. The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed “Cicada,” comes amid broader uneasiness about COVID vaccination rates among seniors who are especially susceptible to the virus.
The Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) published a guide to help healthcare organizations manage cybersecurity risks in AI-driven supply chains. It focuses on gaps in vendor visibility and disclosure, where incomplete inventories and unreported AI-specific risks, such as data leakage and adversarial threats, complicate oversight.
In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, researchers developed a cancer assessment tool that can identify high-risk patients and the tumor cells linked to that risk. The model, called scSurvival, uses a machine learning framework designed to analyze large-scale data at single-cell resolution. With NIH support, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) tested the model on clinical data from more than 150 cancer patients.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research team has discovered an enhanced CRISPR gene-editing system that could enable targeted delivery inside the human body, a key step toward broader clinical use. Researchers identified a naturally occurring enzyme, Al3Cas12f, that is small enough to fit into adeno-associated virus vectors, a leading targeted delivery method for gene therapies.
On April 2, Aligned Medical Solutions initiated a nationwide recall of two convenience kits that contain the Medline Namic Angiographic Rotating Adapter(RA) 10CC Syringe. Associated kits are AMS6908E Angio Pack and AMS6908F Angio Pack. Products can be identified by the pack label inside the sterile barrier of the convenience kit.
Health Care & Hospitals: Partnerships & Resources for Mass Violence Preparation, Response, Recovery and Mitigation - May 21
RESOURCES AND REMINDERS
Reminder: Identify, Isolate and Inform!
Identify, Isolate and Inform: It is important to continueto ask travel questions. The purpose of this notice is to remind healthcare providers about actions to take in Georgia when evaluating patients for possible serious communicable diseases.
Travel Clinical Assistant (TCA)
TheTravel Clinical Assistantprovides post-travel clinical information on travel-related diseases for 231 countries. Diseases with recent outbreaks occurring in the last two years are listed first.
