CNN — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national health alert Friday to warn clinicians to be on the lookout for infections with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. During July and August, as the US saw widespread heatwaves and above-average coastal sea surface temperatures, Connecticut, New York and North Carolina reported […]
Estimated number of COVID infections soared to more than 60,000 per day on March 19, which was six times higher and three weeks earlier than shown by the state’s testing data. The timing of the state’s earliest COVID-19 fatality, initially thought to be on March 14, has also shifted. NY’s first pandemic death actually came […]
COVID-19 cases in Maine and across much of the nation have surged in recent weeks, just as children and college students return to classrooms. But better tools to combat the virus mean there’s no indication of a return to pandemic-era restrictions such as mask requirements and limits on gatherings. Maine’s case counts have increased from […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. Wayne County – COVID, asthma flare-ups, seasonal allergies, mononucleosis, ear infections, bug bites and stings Dr. Kevin Dazy — Pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Michigan “I don’t want to alarm people, but we’re […]
Kevin Rodriguez Ortiz / Flickr cc More than half of US dog owners surveyed mistrust routine vaccines for their pets, according to a new study in Vaccine. Researchers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Colorado conducted the survey of 2,200 US adults from March 30 to April 10, 2023, in partnership with sampling firm YouGov. They found […]
UMC Utrecht will lead an international consortium that will try to answer a key question that’s in the mind of many pediatricians, infectiologists, pulmonologists and other health professionals: “Why are children that had an RSV infection in early childhood at increased risk of developing asthma later in life?” The project – which will run for […]
E. coli infections that are immune to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, a common treatment, are on the rise despite a six-year decrease in prescribing the treatment. That bucks what’s expected to happen. According to the study of Seattle-area women 50 and older who had not used any antibiotics for more than a year, cases of ciprofloxacin-resistant […]
The recent resurgence of COVID-19 in New York has renewed focus on infection-control practices at schools, nursing homes and hospitals. But current public health efforts are less intrusive than earlier in the pandemic, as health officials assert improved medical treatments and vaccinations reduce the virus’ ability to disrupt society. Still, concerns are mounting that New […]
By Luke Andrews Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Updated: 16:06 EDT, 1 September 2023
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain West Nile virus infections are on the rise this year in California after a particularly wet winter led to more mosquito reproduction, according to health experts. The state had 55 human cases of the virus as of Aug. 25. Five of them were fatal, according to the California Mosquito-Borne Virus Surveillance […]