Illustration of the virus which causes measles. Credit: CDC/ Allison M. Maiuri, MPH, CHESThe World Health Organization voiced alarm Tuesday at the rapid spread of measles, with more than 306,000 cases reported worldwide last year—a 79-percent increase from 2022. “We in the measles world are extremely concerned,” said Natasha Crowcroft, a WHO technical adviser on...
By CodeBlue | 14 December 2023 WHO recommends monovalent XBB.1.5 Covid-19 vaccines across different platforms against circulating variants. Malaysia’s MOH has yet to issue an updated Covid-19 vaccine advisory for 2024 or to announce if the monovalent XBB.1.5 vaccine will be procured. Vaccination of a senior male patient at a hospital. Photo by aslysun/ shutterstock.com....
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week reclassified the Omicron BA.2.86 variant—and its offshoots, including JN.1—as a variant of interest as global proportions grow, including in the United States, where it now makes up about 9% of circulating viruses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.Not as dramatic as Omicron-Delta jump The...
By Dr. Chinta Sidharthan Oct 27 2022 Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. A recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) discusses the first WHO fungal priority pathogens list (FPPL), which ranks pathogens that cause acute systemic fungal infections, pose a serious risk of morbidity and mortality in humans, and currently present drug resistance and other...
Share on Pinterest The WHO has just released a formal definition of long COVID. Irina Efremova/Stocksy Long COVID or post-COVID-19 are umbrella terms that refer to COVID-19 symptoms that persist beyond the initial phase of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The absence of a formal definition for post-COVID-19 has made the research of this condition and its...
By Chris Smith @chris_writes A new study provides a key detail surrounding coronavirus symptoms, the likely order in which COVID-19 signs appear in infected patients. The timeline of COVID-19 symptoms could help patients better educate themselves and seek medical care earlier than they might have otherwise, so they can avoid spreading the disease. Knowing the...
Ankur Banerjee, Stephanie Nebehay (Reuters) – Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected rising three-fold in about five months, the World Health Organization said.FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)...
by John Innes Centre Compounds tested for their potential as antibiotics have demonstrated promising activity against one of the deadliest infectious diseases—tuberculosis (TB). Researchers from the John Innes Centre evaluated two compounds with antibacterial properties, which had been produced by the company Redx Pharma as antibiotic candidates, particularly against TB. TB, which is caused by...
By Chris Smith @chris_writes Doctors in Spain think they found a new coronavirus symptom that can easily go undiagnosed even in hospitalized patients. A mouth rash, or enanthem, appeared in roughly 30% of a small cohort of confirmed COVID-19 patients who also displayed skin rashes. The CDC doesn’t list skin rashes of any kind on...
By Emily Henderson, B.Sc. What led you to carry out this research? When I (James) started graduate school, I had never worked in bacteria before. I originally worked with Drosophila, but when I joined Zemer’s lab, we basically came to the table with the question, “How can we address the global need for new antibiotics...
