Bengaluru: The city is seeing a surge in respiratory infections. More cases of RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) are being reported among children as well as adults, say doctors. Cough that refuses to go and fatigue that lingers long after illness are some of the distinguishing features of this round of infections, they point out.Patients tend […]
Waseem Mushtaha’s four children have been out of school for almost two weeks. Instead of learning mathematics or geography, they are being taught how to ration water. “Every day I fill a bottle of water for each one and I tell them: Try to manage this,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking from the southern Gaza […]
Mary Lou Retton excelled against her competitors to win an Olympic gold medal in 1984 — but now the 55-year-old American gymnastics icon faces a more challenging opponent. On a fundraising page earlier this month, Retton’s daughter, McKenna Kelley, wrote that her mother “has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her […]
Scientists gave doses of Zika virus (red; artificially coloured) to healthy volunteers in the hope that a similar protocol could be used to trial vaccines.Credit: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Photo Library For the first time, scientists have deliberately infected people with Zika virus to learn whether such a strategy could help to test vaccines against the […]
A parasite capable of causing a disfiguring skin disease may be endemic in Texas and present in other southern states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2005 to 2019, the CDC identified 1,222 cases in the U.S. that were positive for Leishmania, a parasite transmitted through the bites of infected female sandflies. The […]
Absent for seven months, bird flu has again resurfaced in Iowa, hitting a commercial turkey facility in Buena Vista County and resulting in the destruction of 50,000 birds, the Iowa Department of Agriculture said Friday. The news comes as poultry producers have braced for fall migration, which can bring infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza. […]
Following the beginning of the school year and the return of children to cramped classrooms, COVID-19 infections are rising sharply once again across Canada. Tens of thousands are being infected and more than a hundred people are dying every week. Nurses in Ontario in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic [Photo: Ontario Council of […]
image: Diagnosis and management of postoperative wound infections in the head and neck region view more Credit: 2023 Barbarewicz et al. “The majority of wound infections often manifest themselves immediately postoperatively, so close followup should take place […]” BUFFALO, NY- October 20, 2023 – A new research perspective was published in Oncoscience (Volume 10) on October […]
