With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for the past four years. The addition of a novel germ has complicated and expanded respiratory virus season, which was already notoriously difficult to predict. This season had its own unique […]
COVID-19 vaccines were found to cut the risk of heart failure by up to 55% and blood clots by up to 78% following COVID infection, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. The positive health effects lasted for up to a year and were more pronounced right after getting vaccinated. “While […]
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The Republic of Congo has recorded its first cases of mpox in several regions, the health ministry said, an indication of how the disease may be spreading across Africa since sexual transmission was first confirmed on the continent last year. Mpox is a virus that originates in wild animals […]
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO(Reuters) – The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread more aggressively than ever before in wild birds and marine mammals since arriving in South America in 2022, raising the risk of it evolving into a bigger threat to humans, according to interviews with eight scientists. Of more immediate concern is […]
Monday marks the 4-year anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the global COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. Over that period, millions of Americans have been hospitalized and have died from the virus. Additionally, a high percentage of adults have developed long COVID while the infections of thousands of children have led to […]
Monday marks four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Since the first cases in Wuhan, China, in 2019, there have been millions of infections and deaths around the world. MORE: COVID patients are 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue, CDC report finds There have also been […]
Credit – Getty Images The most common respiratory viruses that cause flu, colds, and RSV tend to cluster in the fall and winter months. Though that means months of elevated risk for sickness, “cold and flu season” is a convenient time for public-health officials to remind people to get vaccinated and wash their hands more […]
Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still active in healthy people, according to new research my colleagues and I recently published. HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome, left behind as a result of infections that humanity’s primate […]
TikToker Lilly Downs, 19, has been living with Long Covid for 4 years and says when illness strikes, “my immune system…will just give up” courtesy Lilly Downs Lilly Downs. Lilly Downs was playing soccer competitively every day and taking honors classes in her Golden, Colo., hometown, living what she called the “typical life of a […]
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh reported on Monday its first fatality this year from the brain-damaging Nipah virus when a man died after drinking raw date juice. The virus, transmitted to humans through contact with bodily fluids of infected bats, pigs or other people, was first identified in 1999 during an outbreak affecting farmers and others […]
Humana stock dived 15% to a nearly two-year low early Thursday after slashing its earnings outlook and reporting lackluster growth in its Medicare Advantage plans in the 2024 enrollment period. Other managed care stocks, including UNH and CVS Health (CVS), suffered more moderate losses, partly because they were already hit last week by UnitedHealth Group‘s […]
COVID levels are two to 19 times higher than numbers being reported around the world, a WHO spokesperson said Friday, citing wastewater data. The news comes as the organization warns of the yet unknown dangers of repeat COVID infection, which can occur without symptoms. Because most people have some immunity to COVID due to vaccination […]