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A medic group in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, help local residents in need to select drugs and deliver to their household amid a COVID flare-up on September 8, 2022. Photo: IC Along with EG.5, a sublineage of the Omicron variant, being classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO), the […]

As the travel industry continues to recover from the pandemic and anticipates another COVID season this fall, with public health warnings about protecting Canadians’ health, Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) reports that, as of MAR, 2023, three-quarters of the nation has achieved some immunity to the virus due to being infected by it. In […]

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Prior infection by a parasitic hookworm has been shown to protect mice from severe SARS-CoV-2 disease, offering a potential explanation as to why certain human populations seemed to fare better during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This work stemmed from an observation that certain regions in the world didn’t fare […]

The study found variations in E. coli’s susceptibility to two common antibiotics within the UW Health system in Madison and the surrounding area. Areas with lower susceptibility had a larger number of cases with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Courtesy of Laurel Legenza/University of Wisconsin-Madison

Omicron has spawned yet another sub-variant that appears to be more infectious and capable of evading existing immunity than many of those that have come before it. Globally, the EG.5 variant – nicknamed “Eris” after the Greek goddess of strife and discord – is steadily growing in prevalence, but there’s currently no sign that it […]

Cooling off in lakes, rivers and streams is a hallmark of the summer — but for an unlucky few, it can lead to an infection caused by Nagleria fowleri, a bacteria more commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba.  In the U.S., there have been at least three reported deaths this year from the infection, which occurs when […]