The inspection of over 400 fur farms will begin next month. Open image viewer Bird flu has been detected at a total of 24 fur farms across the country so far this year. Image: Tomi Hirvinen / Lehtikuva The Finnish Food Safety Authority has announced plans to inspect all 400-plus fur farms located across Finland […]
A medic group in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, help local residents in need to select drugs and deliver to their household amid a COVID flare-up on September 8, 2022. Photo: IC Along with EG.5, a sublineage of the Omicron variant, being classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO), the […]
As the travel industry continues to recover from the pandemic and anticipates another COVID season this fall, with public health warnings about protecting Canadians’ health, Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) reports that, as of MAR, 2023, three-quarters of the nation has achieved some immunity to the virus due to being infected by it. In […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Prior infection by a parasitic hookworm has been shown to protect mice from severe SARS-CoV-2 disease, offering a potential explanation as to why certain human populations seemed to fare better during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This work stemmed from an observation that certain regions in the world didn’t fare […]
Swine flu precautions may weigh heavier on the minds of exhibitors, fairs, and fairgoers after two people contracted swine flu after visiting pig exhibits at Michigan county fairs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported these first two U.S. human infections with the flu virus from pigs in 2023 — one that appears to […]
The study found variations in E. coli’s susceptibility to two common antibiotics within the UW Health system in Madison and the surrounding area. Areas with lower susceptibility had a larger number of cases with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Courtesy of Laurel Legenza/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Omicron has spawned yet another sub-variant that appears to be more infectious and capable of evading existing immunity than many of those that have come before it. Globally, the EG.5 variant – nicknamed “Eris” after the Greek goddess of strife and discord – is steadily growing in prevalence, but there’s currently no sign that it […]
Cooling off in lakes, rivers and streams is a hallmark of the summer — but for an unlucky few, it can lead to an infection caused by Nagleria fowleri, a bacteria more commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba. In the U.S., there have been at least three reported deaths this year from the infection, which occurs when […]
In a recent article published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the changes in olfactory bulb volume and structural connectivity of the brain in patients with olfactory dysfunction (OD) following mild severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Study: Altered structural connectivity in olfactory disfunction after mild COVID-19 using probabilistic tractography. Image Credit: Design_Cells/Shutterstock.com Background Globally, […]
Hybrid immunity has been acquired by significant percentage of the population through previous infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination. A new Nature Communications study estimates the protective effect of hybrid immunity on infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a prospective community-based cohort study conducted in the […]