Author: Claudinne Miller
Does the end of Covid emergency declarations mean the pandemic is over?
STAT News If you have been looking for a sense of pandemic closure, the World Health Organization’s declaration Friday that it was ending the Covid global health emergency was about as close to it as you are likely to get. The reality is that although battlefield metaphors are often employed to describe humankind’s struggle with the SARS-CoV-2 […]
May 9, 2023
Science Some people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, experience a range of symptoms after the resolution of infection, such as neurological issues that include generalized pain, neuropathy, and myalgia. Serafini et al. found that non-infectious viral RNA was detectable in the dorsal root ganglia of hamsters after intranasal infection with SARS-CoV-2. This phenomenon […]
May 9, 2023
Long Covid May Affect Genes Involved in Pain Signaling
Pain News Network About 16 million people in the United States have Long Covid, a poorly understood disorder that causes body aches, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, brain fog and other symptoms long after an initial infection with COVID-19. For some, the symptoms are mild, but for other they are so severe they become disabling. Why do […]
May 9, 2023
4 more cases of Haemophilus influenzae confirmed at Marcus Garvey Academy
Detroit News As students grieved the loss of a 6-year-old classmate, they returned to school at Marcus Garvey Academy on Monday. The Detroit Public Schools Community District says grief counselors were on hand to provide support. The Medical Examiner’s Office told 7 Action News his cause of death is not yet determined. The Detroit Public […]
May 9, 2023
Two Congo virus-related deaths cause alarm in Pakistan
AJ A total of 16 cases of the virus found in Balochistan province since the beginning of the year, of which 11 were detected this month. Pakistan health authorities are alarmed after two people died of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in the country’s Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The first death from the disease, commonly […]
May 9, 2023
Rise of mpox cases in Chicago raises concern about possible summer spread
NBC News Diagnosed cases have been “increasing slightly” in eight countries the past three weeks, some in vaccinated people, the World Health Organization said. A recent uptick in mpox diagnoses in Chicago, some of them in people vaccinated against the virus, has raised concerns about a possible increase in cases among gay and bisexual men […]
May 9, 2023
The World’s First RSV Vaccine Just Got Approved in The US
Science Alert For the first time, a vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) seems poised to help thousands. The vaccine received approval on May 3 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people over 60, and it’s a significant moment that’s been decades in the making. Should it receive approval from the US […]
May 9, 2023
Fortune COVID will evolve to evade popular antiviral treatment Paxlovid, a critical line of defense for the unvaccinated and those at risk of severe disease and death from the virus—of this, Deborah Birx is certain. During her time as White House COVID response coordinator under former President Donald Trump, from March 2020 through January 2021, Birx […]
May 2, 2023
Broad-Spectrum Antivirals: A New Frontier in the Fight Against Emerging Diseases
SciTechDaily A UCLA study discovered potential broad-spectrum antiviral agents capable of combating various RNA virus families, including those causing future pandemics. Particularly effective were cyclic dinucleotide (CDN) STING agonists, which showed therapeutic promise against the Chikungunya virus and other arthropod-borne and respiratory viruses, including COVID-19. The aim is to develop these antivirals alongside existing ones for future disease outbreaks. A new […]
May 2, 2023