Category Archives: Infection

Breakthrough research has found that Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections are more likely transmitted from asymptomatic throat carriage than skin-to-skin contact in communities with high rates of infection. This major discovery has far-reaching implications for public health approaches, vaccine development and future research as it challenges previous understanding of how the bacterium is spread. GAS […]

​Poland is the first country to report “high numbers” of cats infected with bird flu across a large area, the WHO said Monday, adding that the risk of human infection remained low. ​The World Health Organization said that since Polish health authorities informed it last month of unusual cat deaths across the country, 29 cats […]

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — Health officials are in the middle of a contract-tracing effort after pigs at the Oakland County Fair tested positive for the influenza A. The fair’s opening day was July 7. According to the Oakland County Health Division, the infections were discovered a week later on July 14. The pig barn […]

Last month, Teddy, our 9-year–old Lab, came up to me demanding scratches behind his ears. Obviously, I complied. But as I was scratching him, my usual comment of “Teddy, you’re a good boy” was replaced with “Teddy, you stink.” I turned to my husband, Teddy’s all-around go-to-guy, and said, “Ed, your boy needs a bath.” […]

Breakthrough research has found that Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections are more likely transmitted from asymptomatic throat carriage than skin-to-skin contact in communities with high rates of infection. This major discovery has far-reaching implications for public health approaches, vaccine development and future research as it challenges previous understanding of how the bacterium is spread. GAS […]

 “The bacteria that cause sinus infections typically live in people’s noses,” Sedaghat says. Also, if a sinus infection is a result of an upper respiratory infection and the symptoms persist beyond 10 days, it’s probably a bacterial infection and not contagious, he adds. Another possible sign of a bacterial sinus infection: If symptoms of an […]

Approximately, 1.7 million individuals develop health-care-associated infections (HAIs) every year, translating to a 4.5 percent prevalence rate in the United States.1 Health-care-associated infections are among the leading causes of death in the U.S as 90,000 to 99,000 die annually from HAIs, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is not surprising that HAIs […]