During the IDWeek conference held in Boston earlier this month, presentations on Climate Change were spread throughout the program. Some talks were on the direct effects of weather on infectious agents. Others discussed what healthcare workers could do to mitigate the effects of climate change, from antibiotic stewardship to decarbonization of day to day operations.
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Author affiliations: Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil (T.M. Wilson); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.M. Wilson, C.D. Paddock, S. Reagan-Steiner, J. Bhatnagar, R.B. Martines, H. Venkat, S.R. Zaki); Pinal County Office of the Medical Examiner, Florence, Arizona, USA (A.L. Wiens); Coconino County Health and Human Services Medical Examiner’s Office, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (M. Madsen); Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (K.K. Komatsu, H. Venkat)
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) shares common clinicopathologic features with other severe pulmonary illnesses. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was diagnosed in 2 patients in Arizona, USA, suspected of dying from infection with SARS-CoV-2. Differential diagnoses and possible co-infections should be considered for cases of respiratory distress during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
We thank 2 anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the manuscript.
M.V. was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement no. 852957). J.Y. was supported by a Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering studentship funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, UK.
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The epidemiology of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) in Jordan is unknown. Our investigation showed 3% of 989 tested dairy cattle, sheep, and goats were RVFV seropositive and 14% were CCHFV seropositive. Ongoing surveillance is needed to assess risk to humans and protect public health.
Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV) and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus (CCHFV) are zoonotic arboviruses. RVFV has been causing sporadic outbreaks in East, West, and southern Africa; the Indian Ocean region; and the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen) (
1). Although Jordan is considered an at-risk country, the disease has not been reported in Jordan (