Reuters Two more cases of a new strain of the mpox virus have been detected in London, in household contacts of the first patient, health officials say. The two individuals are now under specialist care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. All three patients were infected with the Clade 1b variant of the … Read more
Mpox, the high infectious disease that used to be called monkeypox, has been declared a public health emergency in Africa by the continent’s top health body. Scientists from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) say they are alarmed by the speed at which a new strand of mpox has been spreading. … Read more
6 hours ago By Philippa Roxby, Health reporter Reuters Mpox, formerly called monkeypox, is a viral infection and can be deadly A new strain of the mpox virus spreading quickly along the eastern border of Democratic Republic of Congo is “incredibly worrying”, say health officials monitoring its spread. The virus, which can cause lesions across the whole … Read more
Patient had mild illness and fully recovered from the first infection of A(H1N2)v detected in UK Source link
The highest air temperature recorded during the study was 45C but during the rainy season high humidity could often make it feel hotter. The women were scanned using a portable ultrasound devices to record the foetal heart rate of their unborn babies. Readings were taken at the start of their shift, in the middle of … Read more
Washington: Researchers believe that developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) that can quickly and accurately identify lung diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis could relieve the strain that winter months place on hospitals. Tuberculosis and pneumonia – potentially serious infections which mainly affect the lungs -often require a combination of different diagnostic tests,- such as CT scans, … Read more
Winter pressures being felt in spring, as Covid cases remain high and other illnesses rebound. Source link
If yesterday’s workout is making your muscles scream today, take it as a good sign. You most likely have “delayed onset muscle soreness” (DOMS), and it means you worked hard enough to create tiny tears in your muscle fibers. It can happen when you bump up your workout intensity, frequency, or length, or when you … Read more
March 21, 2022 — Pavlo Bazilinskyy got out just in time. In February, the scientist was visiting family in Ukraine and recovering from a nasty case of COVID-19 before starting a new job at the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. With the threat of war looming, Bazilinskyy moved his mother from Chernihiv, a city … Read more
He noted that B/Yamagata tends to surge in certain years and then virtually disappear in others. “Just the evidence we haven’t seen it for a while, I don’t think that by itself is a convincing argument,” Kennedy said. “Data suggesting that since we haven’t seen a single case since March 2020, that’s good, but … Read more