Sitting next to someone with a hacking cough on a crowded plane or train, hearing the friend you had a drink with last night has since tested positive for Covid, or your child’s schoolfriend has thrown up in the classroom, most of us fear the worst and wonder if, or simply just when, we’ll come down with the same lurgy.
With the winter flu and vomiting bug seasons well underway, Covid infections still circling — and now news of measles
The National Institutes of Health has selected Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo as the new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Marrazzo, who is currently the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, succeeds Dr. Anthony Fauci as the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Fauci stepped down from his role last December after more than 50 years of government service. He had held the position since 1984.
Since his retirement, Dr.
Monkeypox patients could pass on the disease for up to four weeks after symptoms appear, experts tell DailyMail.com as the virus spreads to eleven nations.
Dr Amesh Adalja, an emerging infectious diseases experts at John Hopkins University, made the warning in an interview today.
People who catch the virus initially suffer a fever before rashes and skin lesions appear on the face and body. The virus can then be passed on through touching the affected areas or via droplets expelled
In November, a new coronavirus variant took the world by storm. Omicron has since caused an unprecedented wave of infections, striking about 90 million people in just 10 weeks. That’s more COVID-19 cases than were recorded in all of 2020.
Omicron also left scientists scratching their heads. It’s riddled with mutations, which might normally doom a virus. Early experiments showed that omicron wasn’t nearly as good as the previous coronavirus variant champ, delta, at melding with a cell’s membrane —
Lateral flow tests may be less effective at detecting Omicron even when people are at their most infectious, a US real-world study has found.
Researchers at the US Covid Sports and Society Workgroup examined lateral flow and PCR tests results from 30 people working in offices where there had been an Omicron outbreak in December.
It took an average of three days longer for people to test positive on a lateral flow test — which give results in as little
A new Covid variant that has more mutations than have ever been seen before is becoming dominant in South Africa and is feared to be ultra infectious and vaccine resistant, scientists warned today.
Experts said the variant is growing ‘very quickly’ in South Africa and is driving the country’s surge in infections.
Around 100 cases of B.1.1.529, its scientific name, have been detected so far in three countries and the World Health Organization is convening an emergency meeting tomorrow to
