{"id":8428,"date":"2022-06-10T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/diseases-suppressed-during-covid-are-coming-back-in-new-and-peculiar-ways"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:50:58","slug":"diseases-suppressed-during-covid-are-coming-back-in-new-and-peculiar-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/diseases-suppressed-during-covid-are-coming-back-in-new-and-peculiar-ways","title":{"rendered":"Diseases suppressed during Covid are coming back in new and peculiar ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>The Covid-19 pandemic has abated in much of the world and, with it, many of the social restrictions implemented to curb its spread, as people have been eager to return to pre-lockdown life.<\/b><\/p>\n

But in its place have emerged a series of viruses behaving in new and peculiar ways.<\/p>\n

Take seasonal influenza, more commonly known as the flu. The 2020 and 2021 U.S. winter flu seasons were some of the mildest on record both in terms of deaths and hospitalizations. Yet cases ticked up in February and climbed further into the spring and summer as Covid restrictions were stripped back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen a flu season in the U.S. extend into June,\u201d Dr. Scott Roberts, associate medical director for infection prevention at the Yale School of Medicine, told CNBC Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCovid has clearly had a very big impact on that. Now that people have unmasked, places are opening up, we\u2019re seeing viruses behave in very odd ways that they weren\u2019t before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And flu is just the beginning.<\/p>\n

Respiratory syncytial virus, a cold-like virus common during winter months, exhibited an uptick last summer, with cases surging among children in Europe, the U.S and Japan. Then, in January this year, an outbreak of adenovirus 41, usually responsible for gastrointestinal illness, became the apparent cause of a mysterious and severe liver disease among young children.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Washington State has been experiencing its worst flare-up of tuberculosis in 20 years.<\/p>\n

And now, a recent outbreak of monkeypox, a rare viral infection typically found in Central and West Africa, is baffling health experts with over 1,000 confirmed and suspected cases emerging in 29 non-endemic countries.<\/p>\n

Viruses behaving badly<\/b><\/p>\n

At least two genetically distinct monkeypox variants are now circulating in the U.S., likely stemming from two different spillover infections from animals to humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization noted earlier last week that the virus, whose symptoms include fever and skin lesions, may have been going undetected in society for \u201cmonths or possibly a couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two strains probably indicate this has been going on longer than we first thought. We\u2019re at a concerning time right now,\u201d said Roberts. He noted that the coming weeks will be telling for the course of the virus, which has an incubation period of 5 to 21 days.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear whether the smallpox-like virus has mutated, though health experts have reported that it is behaving in new and atypical ways. Most notably, it appears to be spreading within the community \u2014 most commonly through sex \u2014 as opposed to via travel from places where it is typically found. Symptoms are also appearing in new ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients are presenting differently than we were previously taught,\u201d said Roberts, noting that some infected patients are bypassing initial flu-like symptoms and immediately developing rashes and lesions, specifically and unusually on the genitals and anus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of unknowns that do make me uneasy. We are seeing very atypical behaviors in a number of ways for a number of viruses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Restrictions reduce exposure, immunity<\/b><\/p>\n

One explanation, of course, is that Covid-induced restrictions and mask-wearing over the past two years have given other infectious diseases little opportunity to spread in the ways they once did.<\/p>\n

Where viruses did manage to slip through, they were frequently missed as public health surveillance centered largely on the pandemic.<\/p>\n

That indeed was the case in Washington\u2019s tuberculosis outbreak, according to local health authorities, who said parallels between the two illnesses allowed TB cases to go undiagnosed.<\/p>\n

Now, as pandemic-induced restrictions have eased and usual habits resumed, viruses that were in retreat have found a fertile breeding ground in newly social and travel-hungry hosts.<\/p>\n

The recent monkeypox outbreak is thought to have stemmed, at least in part, from two mass events in Europe, a lead adviser to the WHO said last month.<\/p>\n

Meantime, two years of reduced exposure have lowered individual immunity to diseases and made society as a whole more vulnerable. That is especially true for young children \u2014 typically germ amplifiers \u2014 who missed opportunities to gain antibodies against common viruses, either through their mother\u2019s womb or early years socializing.<\/p>\n

Missed childhood vaccinations<\/b><\/p>\n

That could explain the uptick in curious severe acute hepatitis cases among children, according to health experts who are looking into possible links to Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also exploring whether increased susceptibility due to reduced exposure during the Covid-19 pandemic could be playing a role,\u201d the U.K. Health Security Agency said in April.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also expressed concern that lockdowns may have caused many children to miss childhood vaccinations, potentially raising the risks of other vaccine-preventable illnesses such as measles and pertussis.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the Covid pandemic, access to primary care, including childhood vaccinations, was unavailable to many children,\u201d Jennifer Horney, professor of epidemiology at the University of Delaware, told CNBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo prevent increases in these diseases, catch-up vaccination campaigns are needed globally,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Beware surveillance bias<\/b><\/p>\n

That said, there is also now greater awareness and surveillance of public health issues in the wake of the pandemic, making diagnoses of some outbreaks more commonplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cCovid has raised the profile of public health matters so that we are perhaps paying more attention to these events when they occur,\u201d said Horney, adding that public health systems set up to identify Covid have also helped diagnose other diseases.<\/p>\n

Professor Eyal Leshem, infectious disease specialist at Sheba Medical Center, agreed: \u201cThe general population and the media have become much more interested in zoonotic outbreaks and infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he also warned of the role of \u201csurveillance bias,\u201d whereby individuals and medical professionals are more likely to report cases of diseases as they grow more high profile. That suggests that some viruses, such as monkeypox, may appear to be growing when in fact they were previously underreported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that the disease is more prevalent, but that it gets more attention,\u201d Leshem said.<\/p>\n

Still, the increased monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks is no bad thing, he noted. With the increased spread and mutation of infectious diseases \u2014 as seen with Covid-19 \u2014 the more awareness and understanding of the changing nature of diseases, the better.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public and media attention will help governments and global organizations direct more resources into surveillance and protection of future pandemics,\u201d Leshem said, highlighting research, surveillance and intervention as three key areas of focus.<\/p>\n

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