Introduction Since the first report of severe and critical acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2) in December of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China, it has rapidly spread to all regions of the world.1 As of now, there have been over 7.66 billion confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections and at least 6.93 million reported deaths. (Last update: 16 May […]
New Brunswick’s COVID-19 hazard index has more than doubled in a week and is now the highest in the country, according to an infectious diseases researcher and co-founder of COVID-19 Resources Canada. The province is still listed as “severe,” but its score for Oct. 21 to Nov. 3 has jumped to 22.8 from 10 a week ago, […]
Significantly shorter durations of COVID-19 infectivity were seen in health care workers (HCWs) with recurrent vs primary COVID-19 infections, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Current guidance regarding how long individuals infected with COVID-19 should refrain from working to prevent the spread of infection is based on infectivity research conducted early in […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An estimated 95,000–167,000 inpatients at English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals caught SARS-CoV-2 while in hospital during England’s “second wave” of COVID-19, between June 2020 and March 2021, reports a paper, “The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England,” published in Nature. The findings reveal the scale of hospital transmissions […]
Rutgers University Researchers from New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how previous infections help or hinder the body’s subsequent response to unrelated pathogens that cause lung disease. The five-year grant will support the work of immunologists William C. Gause, Amariliz […]
While COVID-19 breakthrough infections—a SARS-CoV-2 infection that occurs after receiving COVID-19 vaccines—can occur, for healthy individuals with vaccine-induced immunity, these breakthrough infections do not often cause severe disease. There has been limited research to uncover why these breakthrough infections do not lead to severe infections, until now. A team led by researchers in the Perelman […]
Alcohol-related hepatitis (AH) represents a significant health issue within the United States, resulting in thousands of hospitalizations a year. Presentation and severity of AH can vary from patient-to patient. The 30-day mortality rate is less than 5% in patients without encephalopathy, jaundice, or coagulopathy.1 However, the mortality rate increases significantly for inpatients. The 1-year mortality […]
Children infected with the Omicron variant remain infectious for three days on average after testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and Stanford University in the U.S. noted that school policies that require students with COVID-19 to stay out of the classroom for five […]
Bone marrow aspiration: Leishmaniasis (Leishmania sp.) in liver transplant recipient. Credit: Paulo Henrique Orlandi Mourao, CC BY-SA 3.0 A tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in Texas and the South in people with no international travel history—caused by a parasite strain that’s different from the imported cases, new […]
You’ll want to know to get the right treatment. Pneumonia, a respiratory infection that affects the lungs, is a condition that can be caused by various agents, with viral and bacterial pneumonia being among the most common types. These two forms of pneumonia share some similarities but also have crucial differences in terms of treatment […]