A surge of respiratory illnesses related to flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other infections has been sweeping across some parts of China and mainly infecting children, as the country experiences its first full winter since easing COVID-19 restrictions. Amid media reports of “undiagnosed pneumonia” cases overwhelming hospitals over the past few weeks, health authorities […]

One area of treatment that clinicians have struggled to get optimal outcomes is associated with patients who have cystic fibrosis (CF) and are colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P aeruginosa). The pathogen remains in the lungs of these patients, and over time, subsequent infections become more difficult to treat. It can have clinicians eventually running out […]

Santé publique France pointe une hausse importante des cas de pneumopathies chez les enfants en cette fin d’année. À titre de repère, l’activité médicale serait environ deux fois plus importante que l’hiver dernier à la même période. Le retour de la mycoplasma pneumoniae, une bactérie peu active ces dernières années, pourrait expliquer ce regain. La […]

by Peter Kasson, University of Virginia, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] COVID-19, flu, mpox, noroviral diarrhea: How do the viruses that cause these diseases actually infect you? Viruses cannot replicate on their own, so they must infect cells in your body to make more copies of themselves. The life cycle […]

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/scientists-analyze-ant.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2023/scientists-analyze-ant.jpg" data-sub-html="RBD mAbs form seven groups (RBD-1 to RBD-7) based on binding and structural profiles. Credit: Immunity (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.10.007″> RBD mAbs form seven groups (RBD-1 to RBD-7) based on binding and structural profiles. Credit: Immunity (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.10.007 After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in 2020, vaccines, antibodies (Abs), small molecule […]