Photos via the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center. ### The Northcoast Marine Mammal Center is reporting an influx of ailing California sea lions who are coming ashore with their bodies depleted by a potentially fatal disease called leptospirosis. “Lepto is a bacterial infection that attacks the kidneys and can be fatal to these guys,” the nonprofit […]
Rashes caused by Chickenpox infection. (CDC/ K.L. Herrmann/PHIL) India is currently witnessing multiple health crises unfold all at once: on one hand, there are fears of the Nipah virus’ resurgence in Kerala, on the other daily COVID-19 cases are almost touching a hundred after months. Further, there has also been a nationwide surge in mosquito-borne […]
West Nile virus activity is apparently increasing across Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued a high-risk warning for West Nile infections for all state regions except the southeast, which is currently in a moderate risk. KDHE says most West Nile infections happen in late summer and early fall. About 20 percent […]
As we move into autumn and winter we expect to see an increase in the circulation of acute respiratory infections (ARIs). There has been an increase in COVID-19 case rates and hospital admissions in Wales, England and Scotland in recent weeks which is potentially concerning. This increase may be driven by changes to variants circulating […]
The southern state is battling its fourth outbreak since 2018 of a virus for which there is no vaccine, with at least two dead. Experts have fanned out in India’s southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees as the deadly Nipah virus killed two people amid the latest […]
NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (UPI) — The government and local hospitals are seeking to promote greater awareness about sepsis and better combat what is an overreactive immune response to infection that can result in chills, rapid breathing, confusion and sometimes death. Some of the latest efforts include a device that monitors blood flow, precision medicine […]
Jiaxin Yu,1,2 Wei Zuo,1,2 Hongwei Fan,1,3 Jiayu Wu,1,2 Luyao Qiao,1,2,4 Benyu Yang,1,2,5 Wenxi Li,1,2,5 Yang Yang,1,2,* Bo Zhang1,2,* 1Department of Pharmacy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Infectious Medicine, Peking […]
Long Covid goes by many names. Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma, but the outlook for sufferers is no better than when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. Although its prevalence has recently decreased to 6% of the U.S. adult population, there has been no significant progress in understanding its causes, […]
NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – India’s southern state of Kerala shut some schools and offices this week as officials raced to halt the spread of the deadly Nipah virus, after it killed two people in the fourth outbreak since 2018. Here is what we know about the virus: WHERE DID THE VIRUS COME FROM? […]
Escherichia coli, or E. coli, are a diverse group of bacteria. They typically thrive within the intestines of healthy animals. And, most of the time, they’re perfectly harmless. But in some cases, certain strains are capable of causing severe disease, by rapidly spreading through the human digestive system, wreaking havoc throughout the bloodstream, and eventually […]