Category Archives: Infection

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/ou-researchers-discove.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2023/ou-researchers-discove.jpg" data-sub-html="Credit: Journal of Natural Products (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00382″> Credit: Journal of Natural Products (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00382 Fungal infections are killing thousands of Americans each year, some with a morbidity rate of nearly 80%. To make matters worse, only a handful of antifungal treatments are available, and even those are becoming less effective […]

Researchers with the University of Oklahoma’s Natural Products Discovery Group recently published findings that indicate a novel breakthrough treatment for fungal infections. Fungal infections are killing thousands of Americans each year, some with a morbidity rate of nearly 80%. To make matters worse, only a handful of antifungal treatments are available, and even those are […]

BATON ROUGE – As most students prepare to return to school, a local boy is hospitalized battling a rare bacteria and other health issues — but his classmates are rallying to support him. A prayer vigil for Madden Brown is being held at Central Private school Monday at 8 p.m. Madden is a rising 8th-grade […]

When Shahinur Begum traveled hours north to Dhaka with her son last month, it was supposed to be a chance to visit her husband sick with cancer. But within days of arriving in Bangladesh’s teeming capital, she had a new health emergency on her hands. Her 14-year-old son, Sabbir, was admitted to hospital vomiting blood, […]

Professor Cyrille Cohen, an expert on the immune system from Bar-Ilan University, told Ynet Live: ‘Speed with which the new strain is spreading in the UK is certainly troubling’; A new booster vaccine from Pfizer will be available in Israel and around the world at the end of August

The EG.5 variant now makes up the largest proportion of new COVID-19 infections nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated, as multiple parts of the country have been reporting their first upticks of the virus in months. Overall, as of Friday, 17.3% of COVID-19 cases nationwide were projected to be caused by EG.5, […]

Indications of new waves of COVID-19 infections are emerging in the UK this summer, fueled by new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the disease. According to the ZOE Health Study which encourages smart phone users to submit health reports, 52,375 symptomatic COVID cases were reported on August 3, leading to a prediction of […]

August 8, 2023 At a Glance Researchers identified a genetic variant found in many people who didn’t develop symptoms when they were infected by SARS-CoV-2. Understanding how this variant helped people fend off the virus could lead to better ways to protect against COVID-19. At least 20% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that […]

After being bitten by a stray cat, a man in the U.K. developed an infection from a species of bacteria unknown to science. In 2020, the man, 48, went to the hospital with swollen hands only eight hours after the cat bit him multiple times, says a new paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal […]

RSV infections can be dangerous for certain adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Each year, it is estimated that between 60,000-160,000 older adults in the United States are hospitalized and 6,000-10,000 die due to RSV infection. Adults at highest risk for severe RSV infection include: Older adults Adults with chronic heart […]