The authors recommend using portable air purifiers that stir up and clean the air or, in the case of close contact, wearing an N95 respirator.
The loss of activity is equivalent to 15% of the US population becoming completely immobile for 1 day.
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Today the World Health Organization (WHO) dashboard shows 3 new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which raise the outbreak total to 3,194 cases, including 2,133 deaths. A total of 346 suspected cases are still under investigation.
Also today the DRC’s multisector Ebola committee (CMRE) said three cases yesterday originated in Kalunguta, Mambasa, and Mandima—all current virus hot spots.
The problem appears to be a mucus barrier that takes awhile to overcome.
A massive measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accelerated again over the past few weeks, with spread to new areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said yesterday in its weekly outbreaks and emergencies report.
California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday signed two bills that limit medical exemptions for vaccines in schoolchildren.
Facebook yesterday announced the launch of new features to battle vaccine misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, a move that was applauded by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Researchers find no difference in health worker infections from flu, other viruses.
The group again voiced no preference to the flu shot or inhaled vaccine for kids.
Genentech, part of the Roche Group, yesterday announced promising phase 3 trial findings for the use of one-dose baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza) to safely treat flu in children, according to results presented on Sep 1 during the Options X Congress in Singapore.
Six more Ebola cases were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak, raising the overall total to 2,983, according to numbers reflected today on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Health officials are still investigating 397 suspected infections. Four more people died from their infections, bringing the fatality count to 1,990.
Afghanistan has one more wild poliovirus (WPV) case, and Angola and Ghana each have one more vaccine-derived polio case, according to the latest weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiate (GPEI).
The three new cases come during the same week Nigeria reached the 3-year mark of no WPV transmission.
