Epidemic: Speedboat Epidemiology
Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an American with the World Health Organization, worked…
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$2.68Bn Growth for Companion Animal Diagnostics Market to Hit 4.1% CAGR, Globally, by 2027 with…
Pune, India, July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Insight Partners published latest research study on “Companion Animal Diagnostics Market Size Report, Share, Revenue, Growth Strategy, Industry Trends and Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19…
A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US
At least four people in Florida and one in Texas have been diagnosed with malaria that they must have caught near where they live—because, according to health officials, none of them traveled outside the US or their own states. The very…
The End of the Covid Emergency Is a Warning
The emergency stage of Covid-19 is over—at least in official terms. The World Health Organization declared an end to the Covid global health emergency last week, and the US will end its federal public health emergency for Covid on Thursday.…
A Deadly Cousin of Ebola Has Flared Up in Africa
In February, a 23-year-old Tanzanian fisherman suddenly fell ill, having just returned from a busy trading outpost in the middle of Lake Victoria. Back at home in Bukoba, a district in northwestern Tanzania, he was hit by bouts of vomiting…
It’s Time for a Flu Vaccine—for Birds
The wave of avian influenza H5N1—which so far has hit 76 countries, triggered national emergencies, and created the worst animal-disease outbreak in US history—keeps roaring through wild birds and commercial poultry. More than 140 million…
For older adults, every 500 additional steps taken daily associated with lower heart risk: American…
A new study found that walking an additional 500 steps, or about one-quarter of a mile, per day was associated with a 14% lower risk of heart disease, stroke or heart failure, according to preliminary research to be presented at the…
Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose
To figure out what exactly was causing this antiviral capability, the scientists then incubated the vesicles with the viruses and imaged them under a microscope. They found that the viruses got stuck to receptors on the vesicles’…
Get Ready to Play ‘Guess the Viral Variant’
2020 was the year of Covid lockdowns, 2021 the year of vaccines, and 2022 the year of worldwide reopening. 2023 will be the year of variant prediction. The first Covid variants of concern that were identified—from Alpha in the UK to Beta in…
The UK Is Enduring an Onslaught of Scarlet Fever. Is the US Next?
It’s that backdrop of cases—rising to historic heights with no clear explanation why—that reinforces the alarm over scarlet fever now. The World Health Organization said last week that the health ministries of France, Ireland, the…