A shingles vaccine created this reaction at the injection site. Some people who received Moderna’s new COVID-19 vaccine also had local redness, swelling, or pain. This summer, Luke Hutchison, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology–educated computational biologist, volunteered for a trial of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. After he got the second injection, his arm immediately swelled up...
7 August 2020, 5:59 am EDT By Jamie P. Tech Times Coronavirus has not yet ended. Worse, there is still no official vaccine nor cure to counter its attack on humans. However, China recently found out that another virus revolves around the country, has the same characteristics as the SARS-CoV-2. The virus is called ‘Novel...
Melioidosis is a condition that occurs when someone comes into contact with certain bacteria in infected water or soil. Some medical professionals also call this condition “Whitmore’s disease,” after the pathologist who first described it. Although melioidosis is most common in southeast Asia and northern Australia, several other countries have also reported it, according to...
In the early stages, shingles can produce an extensive range of signs and symptoms. These vary from very mild skin irritation and pain to fever and other symptoms of severe illness. Until a person develops additional shingles symptoms, they may not realize that this condition is causing their early symptoms. The varicella-zoster virus, which causes...
(Reuters Health) — Acute, non-remitting conjunctivitis may be the only presenting symptom of Covid-19 infections in some instances, according to case reports on five patients in Italy. “Conjunctivitis per se is not a very common finding among positive subjects, but when it occurs, it generally presents with or anticipates other symptoms, such as fever, general...
by Technical University Munich 130 million people in Europe suffer from hay fever and other forms of allergic rhinitis. Until now, these conditions have typically been diagnosed using blood samples or skin prick tests. The latter method is often seen as particularly uncomfortable because the skin is exposed to various allergens and punctured with a...
BY: CAROL YAN, MD, Loss of smell and taste has been anecdotally linked to COVID-19 infections. In a study published April 12, 2020 in the journal International Forum of & Rhinology, researchers at UC San Diego Health report the first empirical findings that strongly associate sensory loss with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the...
Fever occurs when a person’s body temperature rises above the normal range. Although fevers tend to be harmless, they can cause great discomfort. A very high or persistent fever sometimes requires medical attention, though most fevers only require treatment with home remedies. nfection is the most common cause of fever. In fact, developing a fever...
Posted Today A few years ago, Kevin Pierce, a laconic retired sheriff who has lived his whole life in the Central Valley of California, went to see his family physician about some chest pains. An X-ray showed several nodules in his lungs, suggestive of a spreading cancer – not entirely surprising since Pierce is a...
Health care workers visit households in Southern Mozambique to identify men infected with the malaria parasite but presenting no symptoms. Credit: Beatriz Galatas Asymptomatic malaria occurs when parasites are present in an individual’s blood, but do not cause fever or other symptoms. These “afebrile” infections can be detected either by classical diagnostic tests (if there...
