Hacker News with Generative AI: Disease

Tuberculosis is rising in the U.S. again. How did we get here? (nationalgeographic.com)
After declining for three decades, tuberculosis (TB) rates in the U.S. have been increasing steadily since 2020, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health, Public Health, Disease, Tuberculosis, United States

25 points by irunmyownemail 23 days ago | 60 comments

Egypt is certified malaria-free by WHO (who.int)
The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Egypt as malaria-free, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants.

Egypt, Malaria, Public Health, WHO, Disease

40 points by _Microft 24 days ago | 3 comments

Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time (sciencedirect.com)
Chronic psychosocial stress increases disease risk and mortality, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear.

Science, Health, Stress, Disease, Biomedical Research

186 points by andrewstetsenko 44 days ago | 55 comments

Diet can change your immune system (nature.com)
Claims about food and immunity are everywhere. Now scientists are exploring exactly how nutrition acts on the immune system to boost health and treat disease.

Nutrition, Immunity, Health, Disease

14 points by gnabgib 48 days ago | 0 comments

Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri (nytimes.com)
A possible cluster of bird-flu infections in Missouri has grown to include eight people, in what may be the first examples of person-to-person transmission in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.

Health, Disease, Missouri, Avian Flu, Public Health

104 points by ctoth 66 days ago | 35 comments

Loss of bats to lethal fungus linked to 1,300 child deaths in US, study says (theguardian.com)

Science, Environment, Public Health, Bats, Disease

9 points by rntn 89 days ago | 0 comments

P. boydii – Deadly fungus lacking antimycotic treatment (wikipedia.org)

Medicine, Fungi, Disease

6 points by hi-v-rocknroll 99 days ago | 0 comments

Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people (arstechnica.com)

Public Health, Disease, Mosquitoes, Curfew

8 points by _Microft 103 days ago | 0 comments

They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They're Fighting to Learn Why (nytimes.com)