LB.1 is the latest COVID-19 subvariant to make headlines as it circulates in the United States. The highly contagious strain, which emerged shortly after the “FLiRT” variants, including KP.3 and KP.2, is causing an increasing proportion of infections. As the U.S. sees an uptick in cases and emergency room visits around the country, some are […]
It’s summer 2024, but the COVID-19 pandemic is still hanging around. And while the virus continues to evolve, it’s doing so in more predictable ways. Specifically, the expected summer uptick in infections has arrived: The number of COVID cases is “likely” on the rise in at least 39 states and isn’t dropping anywhere in the […]
Called highly pathogenic avian influenza, the H5N1 bird flu virus making headlines in Michigan and across the U.S. got its name because it is so well adapted to infecting and killing birds. H5N1 has been circulating in the U.S. since January 2022 and globally since 2021. What has scientists and researchers worried, however, is that […]
It’s summer 2024, but the COVID-19 pandemic is still hanging around. And while the virus continues to evolve, it’s doing so in more predictable ways. There are new variants in town, a reformulated vaccine on the horizon and fresh preventive treatments to help protect the most vulnerable people from getting severely ill from COVID. At-risk […]
The start of the summer season is coming in hot, and you can expect plenty of scorching temperatures with it. Heat waves bringing soaring temperatures have hit the West, with multiple cities issuing excessive heat warnings. Last summer also brought record high heat across the country, along with repeated warnings about heat illness — and […]
(NEXSTAR) — It took just a few weeks for a new COVID variant to rank as the most prominent in the U.S., unseating its fellow ‘FLiRT’ spin-off of the once-dominant Omicron variant. The latest projections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show KP.3, a sublineage of the JN.1 lineage of the Omicron variant, […]
If you’ve had COVID-19, you may want to have your eyes checked. SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, can infect the inside of your eyes, according to research published in April in the journal PLOS Pathogens. This holds true even if the virus didn’t enter your body through the surface of your eyes. Pawan Kumar […]
A blood test that detects Alzheimer’s 10 to 15 years before a patient shows symptoms could be made available on the NHS within a year. Previous studies have shown the test, which measures levels of a protein in the blood called p-tau217, is cheaper, easier and at least as accurate as the current diagnosis options. […]
A person in Mexico has died from avian influenza, aka bird flu, amid an ongoing global outbreak of the virus affecting poultry and other animals. The 59-year-old died in a hospital in Mexico City in April after becoming infected with a strain of bird flu called avian influenza A (H5N2), the World Health Organization said […]
Three people in the United States — all of them dairy farm workers — have tested positive for bird flu this year amid the outbreak among dairy cattle, and the U.S. government is ramping up efforts to keep the virus from spreading further. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is hardly a new virus, […]
As the nation begins its second summer following the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency, a new family of viral subvariants that virologists are calling FLiRT is on the rise. “This is not a surprise; this is always in the cards,” Edwin Michael, PhD, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida College […]
Three people in the United States — all of them dairy farm workers — have tested positive for bird flu this year amid the outbreak among dairy cattle, and the U.S. government is ramping up efforts to keep the virus from spreading further. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is hardly a new virus, […]