Category Archives: Infection

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An infection expert has called for lateral flow tests to become free again as a new Covid variant spreads. Unofficially called “Pirola”, the new BA.2.86 variant is a mutated version of Omicron, which triggered a surge in […]

Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies in Washington, on Sept. 14, 2022. | Cliff Owen/AP Photo Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top infectious disease expert in the U.S., isn’t sounding alarm bells on the rising number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. yet, but he did caution that […]

Our relationship with pets has changed drastically in recent decades. Pet ownership is at an all-time high, with a recent survey finding 69 percent of Australian households have at least one pet. We spend an estimated $33 billion (in Australia) every year on caring for our fur babies. While owning a pet is linked to […]

While most people are done with COVID, recent numbers suggest COVID isn’t done with people. Nor, for that matter, with Ohio’s deer. Deer, it turns out, are susceptible to COVID infections. While the outcome of human infections can range to hospitalization, long-term health effects and death, whitetails barely show symptoms, if they show any. Most […]

A new report from six Dalhousie University researchers has found government restrictions that limited movement during the first two years of the pandemic likely helped curb the spread of COVID-19. It also found infection, hospitalizations and deaths increased when restrictions eased and the highly infectious Omicron variant arrived. In March 2022, Nova Scotia ended its COVID-19 state of […]

Half of Hongkongers at risk of contracting pneumococcal infections are clueless about the disease, a survey has found, with experts urging authorities to expand a free jab scheme combating the bacteria linked to the city’s second-deadliest medical condition. The study published by the Hong Kong Alliance of Patients’ Organisations and Polytechnic University’s nursing school on […]

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Long-term treatment with golimumab results in relatively low infection rates among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a study has shown. The risk factors for infections include pulmonary disease, higher age, and high corticosteroid (CS) dose. In addition, serious infections (SIs), but not nonserious ones (NSIs), are associated with a higher likelihood of golimumab discontinuation. A […]

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