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2-year-old boy dies after being infected with rare brain-eating amoeba, officials say

LINCOLN COUNTY, Nev. (KVVU/Gray News) – Health officials say a young boy has died in rural Nevada after getting a rare infection. According to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, a 2-year-old child in Lincoln County named Woodrow Bundy died from a Naegleria fowleri infection, also known as a brain-eating amoeba. “It came […]

‘Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War’ Episode 3 free live stream: How to watch online without cable

“Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War” season 2 is airing its third episode on Saturday, July 22 on Crunchyroll. It will air on the service about an hour after it does in Japan. Here is everything you need to know about “Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War” on Crunchyroll, including how to watch and how much it […]

Genomic Analysis of Aspergillus Shows Prevalence of Drug-Resistant Fungal Infections in the UK

NEW YORK— A commonly found fungal pathogen that has developed resistance to agricultural fungicides may be responsible for at least 40 percent of drug-resistant aspergillosis cases across the UK, a new study has found. In a paper published in Science Advances on Friday, a team led by researchers from Imperial College London described its analysis […]

Emerging Options For Patients With Blood Cancers in Need of HSCT

Mitchell E. Horwitz, MD, professor of medicine, director of the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, discusses the next steps for research following the FDA approval of omidubicel (Omisirge) for patients with blood cancers in need of an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Transcription: 0:10 | For […]

Diabetes- and CVD-Related Mortality Rise after Steady 10-Year Decline

While the overall age-adjusted mortality rate for diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) declined between 1999 and 2019, researchers found an average annual 1% increase since 2014. Following a decade-long decrease in diabetes- and CVD–related mortality, new research published in The American Journal of Medicine shows this trend has reversed. According to the study, the overall […]

Single flea bite leads to amputation of man’s hands, toes, family says

SAN ANTONIO (Gray News) – What started as a single flea bite has now left a Texas man without hands or toes. Michael Kohlhof, 35, believed he had flu-like symptoms until his feet went numb. According to a GoFundMe post from Kohlhof’s family, he went to the emergency room on June 19 and was admitted […]

Why Are So Many People Getting Syphilis? An Expert Explains the Uptick in Cases

Syphilis rates in the United States have been going up for about 20 years — along with other sexually transmitted infections.  But in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that syphilis rates jumped by nearly 32% for all stages of the infection, with a total of 176,713 syphilis cases recorded in 2021. […]

US school district removes classic novel ‘The Fixer,’ about a 1911 blood libel

JTA — Late last year, a mom in South Carolina requested that her local school district remove nearly 100 books from its shelves — including a classic novel about antisemitism. The challenge to “The Fixer,” an award-winning 1966 work by Bernard Malamud, came amid an ongoing flurry of attempts by conservative activists to take books […]