Author: Claudinne Miller
A Golden Age of Vaccines Is Here. What It Means for You.
Barrons Pharmaceutical companies are currently developing vaccines for a range of purposes, from preventing disease to treating cancers. Roll up your sleeves. Effective new vaccines have hit the market for everything from pneumonia to shingles to RSV to, of course, Covid-19. And that’s just the beginning. There were 258 vaccines in development as of 2020, according […]
Nov 29, 2023
Why You Are More Likely to Get Sick This Winter, in Charts
WSJ With Covid-19 here to stay alongside flu and RSV, wintertime illnesses have become harder to dodge. Covid-19 is settling in as a wintertime fixture, and infections are expected to rise again as the weather cools and holiday gatherings pile up. The virus is on a collision course with the seasonal scourges of flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, […]
Nov 29, 2023
This Blood Type Could Help You Dodge Covid
Bloomberg Several studies have now shown that people with blood type O are less susceptible to contracting Covid, and those with blood type A are more likely to get it. In the early days of the pandemic, those findings were hotly debated. But one study this summer described the mechanism by which Covid interacts with blood cells. It […]
Nov 29, 2023
China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
AP A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the country’s health ministry said Sunday. Recent clusters of respiratory infections are caused by an overlap of common viruses such as the […]
Nov 28, 2023
‘Long Covid triggered our MCAS, but doctors didn’t believe us’
BBC People with long Covid feel “forgotten, unheard, disbelieved, isolated”, barrister Anthony Metzer KC told the Covid-19 Inquiry last month on behalf of advocacy groups for people with the condition. A growing number of people who have secondary illnesses thought to be triggered by long Covid – including an immune disorder called mast cell activation syndrome […]
Nov 28, 2023
COVID variant BA.2.86 triples in new CDC estimates
CBS News Nearly 1 in 10 new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are from the BA.2.86 variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Monday, nearly triple what the agency estimated the highly mutated variant’s prevalence was two weeks ago. Among the handful of regions with enough specimens reported from testing laboratories, BA.2.86’s prevalence is largest […]
Nov 28, 2023
COVID Tied to Changes in Brain Microstructure
MedPage Today lterations seen in both long COVID patients and those who recovered from infection. People who had SARS-CoV-2 infection showed brain changes on diffusion microstructure imaging (DMI), cross-sectional data suggested. Widespread microstructural alterations were seen in people with long COVID neurologic symptoms and in people who had COVID but recovered, reported Alexander Rau, MD, […]
Nov 28, 2023
National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS)
COVID-19 NWSS Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S.
Nov 28, 2023
Two more in Cambodia infected with H5N1 avian flu
Khmer Times Health officials in Cambodia are investigating two new severe human H5N1 avian flu infections, pushing the country’s total for the year to six cases. The four earlier cases involved an older H5N1 clade that has been circulating in the country’s poultry for at least 10 years. Scientists quickly posted sequences to the GISAID […]
Nov 28, 2023
Nearly 3 million birds euthanized in Iowa due to Avian Influenza
HIgh Plains Journal Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to spread across the High Plains and the Midwest and Iowa has become a hotspot for this contagious poultry disease. There are now 15 reported outbreaks in commercial poultry operations and backyard flocks across the state. These avian flu cases have led to the euthanasia of nearly […]
Nov 28, 2023