Category Archives: Infection
Nov
Paul Gutierrez, ESPN Staff WriterNov 26, 2023, 09:42 PM ET Close Paul Gutierrez joined NFL Nation in 2013 and serves as its Las Vegas Raiders reporter. He has a multi-platform role – writing on ESPN.com, television appearances on NFL Live and SportsCenter, and podcast and radio appearances. Before coming to ESPN, Gutierrez spent three years at CSN Bay Area […]
Nov
Dr Mattias Larsson. Photo courtesy of Family Medical Pratice Dr Mattias Larsson* Phương is an 8-year-old usually vibrant and active girl that likes to play with friends, she is good at sports like football and achieves well in school. However, she had been increasingly sick the last seven months. Her parents took her to many doctors […]
Nov
Cases of respiratory illnesses have been surging in northern China, particularly among children, sparking speculation online of a new pandemic threat four years after COVID-19 first emerged in the country. However Chinese health authorities have said the rising infections are a mix of already known viruses and are linked to the country’s first full cold […]
Nov
Covid-19 booster vaccines are essential to help stem the tide of a fifth wave of the virus sweeping the country, epidemiologist Michael Baker says. In the seven days to November 19, 7881 new cases were reported, up by almost 2000 on the previous week. Baker told Morning Report uptake of boosters had slowed, and people […]
Nov
One day, Choco was an excitable, vibrant five-year-old dog, and the next he was barely moving at the vet clinic. “He was feverish. He was shivering. He was lethargic,” said Natasha Richards, Choco’s owner. “He threw up 10 times within 24-hours , uncontrollably. It was the worst thing. I couldn’t do anything for him. I […]
Infection
Genomic analysis of Plasmodium vivax describes patterns of connectivity and putative drivers of adaptation in Ethiopia
Nov
Abstract Ethiopia has the greatest burden of Plasmodium vivax in Africa, but little is known about the epidemiological landscape of parasites across the country. We analysed the genomic diversity of 137 P. vivax isolates collected nine Ethiopian districts from 2012 to 2016. Signatures of selection were detected by cross-country comparisons with isolates from Thailand (n = 104) […]
Infection
Persistent humoral immune response in youth throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: prospective school-based cohort study
Nov
Abstract Understanding the development of humoral immune responses of children and adolescents to SARS-CoV-2 is essential for designing effective public health measures. Here we examine the changes of humoral immune response in school-aged children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2020 to July 2022), with a specific interest in the Omicron variant (beginning of […]
Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty China is grappling with a surge in respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia, in children. The World Health Organization (WHO) said last week that common winter infections — rather than any new pathogens — are behind the spike in hospitalizations. A surge of infections was expected in the country this winter, China’s first […]
Infection
Systematic review of sporozoite infection rate of Anopheles mosquitoes in Ethiopia, 2001–2021
Nov
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