Category Archives: Infection

By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 13:16 EDT, 23 October 2023 | Updated: 13:30 EDT, 23 October 2023

Even though COVID positivity rates and hospitalizations have declined in recent weeks, for many concerns persist about becoming ill this fall, a time of the year which typically sees a surge in COVID, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, infections. While data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown […]

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain School policies that require students with COVID-19 to stay out of the classroom for five days are more than sufficient. That’s because children infected with the omicron variant remained infectious for a median time of three days after testing positive for the virus, according to a study by the USC Schaeffer […]

Topline Researchers in the United States have for the first time deliberately infected people with Zika virus, a breakthrough that could help advance our understanding of the disease and accelerate efforts to develop treatments and vaccines. Key Facts Researchers have found a way to safely and effectively infect human volunteers with Zika virus for the […]

Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation Madonna continues counting blessings after being hospitalized for a serious bacterial infection in June. “Less than four months ago, I was in a hospital, and I was unconscious, and people thinking – predicting — that I might not make it,” Madonna, 65, told the fans attending her Sunday, October 22, […]

Using decolonization techniques to remove colonies of bacteria from residents’ skin could reduce the risk of serious and potentially life-threatening antibiotic-resistant nursing home infections, according to the findings of a new study.

Cisco Systems has released fixes for a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities – one of them critical – that could impact tens of thousands of devices running the company’s IOS XE software. The releases arrived at the end of a tumultuous week which began on Oct. 16 with the network vendor announcing it had discovered a […]

Difficult-to-treat, gram-negative bacterial infections can be especially challenging for clinicians. Issues can include multidrug resistance in critically-ill patients combined with a treatment paradigm in which prescribing practices and timing do not always align with positive outcomes. “Over and over again, we see people with repeated multiple antibiotic exposures, multiple infections. Even if it started out […]

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Animal CARE (CAC) is pausing all dog operations for the general public after seeing an uptick in upper respiratory infection symptoms, according to the nonprofit. “We do not want to cause alarm, but with a high volume of unvaccinated stray dogs coming into the shelter, we don’t want to take any unnecessary […]

The Ferrari driver’s weekend started off on a bright note as he claimed pole position on Friday, before he could only finish 12th in Saturday’s sprint race and slipped to sixth in the main grand prix.  Leclerc was later disqualified, along with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, after their cars failed a post-race plank wear check.  To […]