LINCOLN COUNTY, Nev. (KVVU/Gray News) – Health officials say a young boy has died in rural Nevada after getting a rare infection. According to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, a 2-year-old child in Lincoln County named Woodrow Bundy died from a Naegleria fowleri infection, also known as a brain-eating amoeba. “It came […]
NEW YORK— A commonly found fungal pathogen that has developed resistance to agricultural fungicides may be responsible for at least 40 percent of drug-resistant aspergillosis cases across the UK, a new study has found. In a paper published in Science Advances on Friday, a team led by researchers from Imperial College London described its analysis […]
SAN ANTONIO (Gray News) – What started as a single flea bite has now left a Texas man without hands or toes. Michael Kohlhof, 35, believed he had flu-like symptoms until his feet went numb. According to a GoFundMe post from Kohlhof’s family, he went to the emergency room on June 19 and was admitted […]
Syphilis rates in the United States have been going up for about 20 years — along with other sexually transmitted infections. But in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that syphilis rates jumped by nearly 32% for all stages of the infection, with a total of 176,713 syphilis cases recorded in 2021. […]
Berkeley N. Limketkai, MD, PhD Source: Twitter The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive pregnancies among US women increased more than 16-fold from 1998 – 2018, according to new cross-sectional data. New research from a team of US investigators showed more than 5 in 1000 pregnancies resulted in a positive case of HCV in 2018—a […]
About one in two women are affected by cystitis during her lifetime, and many suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections. Bladder infections are not only painful and potentially dangerous, but they also pose a significant dilemma for physicians. With antibiotic resistance becoming widespread in urinary tract infections and continually increasing, physicians are often forced to […]
Close to one-fifth of kids with COVID-19 may still have lingering symptoms months after their initial infection, new research finds. The review, of 31 international studies, found that over 16% of children and teenagers with COVID had problems such as sore throat, persistent fevers, fatigue and muscle weakness at least three months later. Experts said […]
ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Rachel Picone to the Pen Bay Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases team. Picone is accepting new primary care patients. Before joining PBMC, Picone worked as a nurse practitioner at HIV Alliance in Eugene, Ore., and in the Infectious Disease department at Berkshire Health Systems in Pittsfield, Mass.
UK researchers have found that people with longer-term COVID-19 symptoms including brain fog showed reduced performance in tasks testing different mental processes up to two years after infection with the virus. Researchers from King’s College London looked at whether infection with COVID-19 affected performance in two rounds of online cognitive testing that took place in […]
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