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AbstractIn developing countries, infectious diseases are thriving due to poor hygiene, inadequate public health infrastructure, and socio-cultural factors. Generally, infections are due to a single pathogen, but due to the shared risk factors for transmission,...

By Adam Owens, WRAL anchor/reporterRaleigh, N.C. — With many still working through the COVID pandemic, another flu season isabout to begin. At a crowded festival in downtown Raleigh, Schrita Taylor wore a mask. She told WRAL News she wants to protect herself and...

For the first time, we have an updated coronavirus vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration today authorized the first redesign of Covid vaccines since they were rolled out in late 2020. If all goes as expected, millions of Americans will be able to receive new...

A shopper exits a store holding multiple shopping bags in Sherway Gardens mall during the stage two reopening from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 30, 2021. REUTERS/Alex FilipeAug 31 (Reuters) - Canada's most populous...

When children go back to school, parents go back to monitoring their kids’ coughs, sniffles, fevers, and other symptoms of illness. But this year will be different. Common colds and other viruses that nearly vanished during the COVID-19 pandemic are starting to...

01/7How is monkeypox different from tomato flu? The past few years have been extremely difficult for us. Not only in terms of the SARs-CoV-2 virus, but we have also been battling diseases that existed way before the onset of COVID-19. Over two years into the...

Written by Knvul Sheikh and Catherine PearsonAs children around the country head back to school for the third time since the COVID pandemic began, a different infectious disease is now spreading globally: monkeypox. Almost every single state and territory in the...

As the pandemic raged in 2020, the White House Coronavirus Task Force scheduled frequent news briefings, some at the White House and others at the CDC or the National Institutes of Health. When the briefings were at the White House, where then-President Donald Trump...

London: Increased risk of neurological and psychiatric conditions such as dementia and seizures is still higher two years after COVID-19 compared to other respiratory infections, suggests an observational study of over 1.25 million patient health records published in...

Aug. 17, 2022 – Tapio Schneider is a climate scientist, and his wife a mechanical engineer. In many ways, they were like many other families affected by COVID: two young kids out of school and endless Zoom meetings from home. But the two weren’t just making...

The daily commute. Catching a first-run film. In-person doctor visits. Standing-room-only concerts. Checking out a hot new restaurant. These common everyday experiences are now fraught with risk as COVID-19 brought widespread changes in how we live, work, play, and...

KEY POINTS  The WHO declared monkeypox a global health emergency.The rare designation means the WHO now views the outbreak as a significant enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is needed.The WHO last issued a global health emergency...

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is still breaking records in hospital overcrowding and new cases. The U.S. is logging nearly 800,000 cases a day, hospitals are starting to fray, and deaths in the U.S. have topped 850,000. Schools oscillate from...

A person arrives to receive a monkeypox vaccination at the Northwell Health Immediate Care Center at Fire Island-Cherry Grove, in New York, U.S., July 15, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz July 20 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 14,000 cases of...

New Delhi: Monkeypox patients are likely to shed high viral loads that can be 'potentially' infectious, German scientists have found. The team, including from University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM),...

Heatstroke is a condition caused by your body overheating, usually as a result of prolonged exposure to or physical exertion in high temperatures. This most serious form of heat injury, heatstroke, can occur if your body temperature rises to 104 F (40 C) or higher....

India on Wednesday reported its first case of Monkeypox in Kerala. A traveller who arrived in Kerala three days ago from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was hospitalised after he displayed symptoms of monkeypox. ​Earlier today, the Centre asked states to ensure...

New York: Those with systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, who received a "booster" dose of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine after receiving the full dosage are about half as likely to experience a subsequent "breakthrough" COVID-19 infection, according to a recent study. This...

First things first: the pandemic is not yet over. More infectious strains are driving up numbers. Aggressive vaccination has ensured that, by and large, even when contracted, Covid manifests as a milder disease. However, considering its long-term effects that are...

Pune: All countries should keep a close eye on Omicron's BA.2.75 subvariant as there still aren't enough samples globally to analyse its severity, the WHO's chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan told the media agency on Saturday. Dr Swaminathan said India is among the...