image: Doug Reed, Ph.D. view more Credit: Doug Reed PITTSBURGH, September 29, 2023 – Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vaccine Research Center have developed an improved way to test potential vaccines against bird flu. The report was published this week in the journal iScience. Concerning reports about […]
COVID can cause a number of life-threatening complications. Sepsis, a reaction to an infection that causes your immune system to damage the body’s tissues and organs, can be fatal. 1 Researchers found that a sixth of sepsis cases between March 2020 and November 2022 were caused by Covid-19 infectionsCredit: Getty Sometimes called septicaemia or blood […]
The woman was believed to have been infected while she was gardening with bare hands that had been scratched by a pet cat. (Image credit: Alex Ratson via Getty Images) A woman in Australia has become the third known person to be infected with a species of bacteria that normally causes deadly “blackleg” disease in […]
What You Need to Know The Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is taking proactive steps to address the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by allocating $100 million to the Defeating Antibiotic Resistance through Transformative Solutions (DARTS) project. The voluntary recall of Scynexis’ antifungal medication, Ibrexafungerp, due to potential cross-contamination with a non-antibacterial […]
Photomicrograph of spleen tissue showing the presence of numerous Leishmania donovani parasites in the amastigote form they take after infecting a host. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The organisms that cause visceral leishmaniasis, a potentially deadly version of the parasitic disease that most often affects the skin to cause disfiguring disease, appear to […]
It may not have lodged itself in the public imagination as indelibly as the coal tip that flattened a primary school at Aberfan in 1966 or the lethal 1989 stadium crush at Hillsborough or 2017’s conflagration at Grenfell Tower. But the scandal in which thousands of people around the world were given transfusions or injected with […]
States are seeing an alarming surge in cases of congenital syphilis, a preventable infection that can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death — or lifelong complications such as blindness or deafness. Congenital syphilis, which occurs when a pregnant mother infected with the sexually transmitted infection syphilis passes it on to her fetus, disproportionately affects Black and […]
DALLAS CENTER, Iowa — “COVID is not pretty in a nursing home,” said Deb Wityk, a 70-year-old retired massage therapist who lives in one called Spurgeon Manor, in rural Iowa. She twice contracted the disease and is eager to get the newly approved vaccine because she has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which weakens her immune system. […]
Japan’s health ministry says a weekly coronavirus survey shows infections may have passed their latest peak. The ministry says about 5,000 medical institutions reported 54,346 cases in the week through September 24. That’s down 32,164 from the previous week. The average number of patients per institution stood at 11.01 nationwide, or 63 percent of the […]
Nipah virus update: Kerala Health Minister Veena George has shared an update on Nipah virus update in the state. The state Health Minister Veena George said that four people, including a nine-year-old boy, who were under treatment for Nipah in Kozhikode have recovered. While speaking to news agency ANI, she shared the good news and […]