Monthly Archives: August 2023

A new study is offering data to back one of the core assumptions about the spread of Covid: The intensity of exposure to the virus matters, and vaccines and prior infections can only help so much — but they do indeed help. The research, led by scientists at the Yale School of Public Health and […]

(CNN) – COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the United States, but vaccines and immunity from prior infections have adjusted the way our bodies react to the virus that causes the disease. The risk of hospitalization or death from the virus since the height of the pandemic has gone down, even as COVID-19 cases in […]

A 64-year-old Australian woman had an 8-centimeter roundworm extracted from her brain in the world’s first case of the new parasitic infection. The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled, alive and wriggling, from the patient after brain surgery at Canberra Hospital, according to an Aug. 28 Australian National University news release. Researchers suspect larvae were also […]

Tracy Ridout, 53, developed a rare infection called capnocytophaga canimorsus after being playfully nipped on the hand by a German shepherd while playing with her friend’s dog. The tiny wound soon turned into an infection, which quickly spread to her kidneys, liver and blood, leaving Tracy fighting for her life after going into septic shock, […]

Hand hygiene (Adobe Stock, unknown) Infection control became an established discipline in US hospitals in the 1950s, unleashing an infection prevention movement that, over the last 70 years, led to the acceptance of proper hand hygiene as the most effective way to reduce health care-associated infections (HAIs) as well as the establishment of hand hygiene […]