Sewer sampling, the authors say, could be expanded to track other infectious diseases such as H5N1 avian flu or mpox or to detect unexpected pathogens.
Plaque growth can lead to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other life-threatening cardiovascular events for as long as 1 year.
Post-exertional malaise, or exercise intolerance, was seen in 36% of those with long COVID.
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Also, a UK group adds more evidence that the B117 variant is about a third deadlier.
Patients on long-term dialysis were also more than 5 times likelier to be infected.
States continue to struggle with how best to reach the elderly and minorities, groups at greater risk for severe COVID-19.
Except for a slight decrease from Mar 29 to Apr 11, 2020, emergency department (ED) visits involving drug and opioid overdoses (ODs) were 1% to 45% more frequent than in 2019, according to a JAMA Psychiatry study published yesterday.
People age 35 to 49 have especially contributed to recent outbreaks.
Findings suggest the vaccine provides strong protection after 1 dose and could slow disease spread.
Though US numbers have fallen, the CDC head warns they are overall still very high.
Higher viral loads of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are associated with an increased risk of transmission, according to cohort study results from Catalonia, Spain, published yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases,
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding up to $6.4 million to French biopharmaceutical firm Mutabilis to develop a new class of antibiotics to treat infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) bacteria.
Also, vaccine doses sent to states will rise from 10 million to 10.5 million.
