(CNN) – COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the United States, but vaccines and immunity from prior infections have adjusted the way our bodies react to the virus that causes the disease. The risk of hospitalization or death from the virus since the height of the pandemic has gone down, even as COVID-19 cases in […]
A 64-year-old Australian woman had an 8-centimeter roundworm extracted from her brain in the world’s first case of the new parasitic infection. The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled, alive and wriggling, from the patient after brain surgery at Canberra Hospital, according to an Aug. 28 Australian National University news release. Researchers suspect larvae were also […]
Tracy Ridout, 53, developed a rare infection called capnocytophaga canimorsus after being playfully nipped on the hand by a German shepherd while playing with her friend’s dog. The tiny wound soon turned into an infection, which quickly spread to her kidneys, liver and blood, leaving Tracy fighting for her life after going into septic shock, […]
Hand hygiene (Adobe Stock, unknown) Infection control became an established discipline in US hospitals in the 1950s, unleashing an infection prevention movement that, over the last 70 years, led to the acceptance of proper hand hygiene as the most effective way to reduce health care-associated infections (HAIs) as well as the establishment of hand hygiene […]
Dr. Berne’s Whole Health Products has recalled four types of eyedrops after one failed sterility tests. Recalled are all lots of MSM drops 5% and 15% solution, organic castor oil eyedrops and MSM mist 15% because one lot of the MSM drops 5% was positive for bacterial and fungal contamination, according to an announcement with […]
Aug. 29 (UPI) — Surgeons in Australia pulled a live 3-inch-long parasitic worm from the front of a woman’s brain in what is believed to be the first time this type of infection has been found in humans. Doctors in Canberra found the light red worm during a biopsy they were carrying out on the […]
Guess who’s back, back again? Not that it ever really left us. COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, is on the upswing yet again across the U.S. and in Michigan, where the first U.S. case of a new variant, BA.2.86, was identified earlier this month at the University of Michigan’s lab. While COVID-19 […]
<p text="EJIDO PADRE KINO, Mexico — The boy came home from school weakened by fever, his ears burning-hot. Over the next few days, the 7-year-old got sicker — vomiting and complaining of abdominal pain, his mother recalled. Then, the telltale red spots appeared on his hands. But none of the doctors in this rural community […]
Getting a pedicure is a good way to destress. But it can also be a headache if you end up walking out with an injury or infection. To avoid this, Dr. Joy Rowland, a podiatrist with Cleveland Clinic, encourages people to do some research beforehand. “Those wanting to get a pedicure should look into the […]
ByNisha Anand | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar Aug 29, 2023 11:00 AM IST Share Via Copy Link Researchers believe that the woman contracted the infection while gathering edible shrubs near her residence in Australia’s New South Wales. In the world’s first case, an eight cm live worm was pulled out from the brain of a […]