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Pakistan reports first case of mpox virus
Pakistan health officials announced on Friday their first case of the year of the deadly mpox virus, after the World Health Organization declared an international emergency over its spread.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
China to screen arrivals for mpox symptoms
China announced Friday it will begin screening people and goods entering the country for mpox over the next six months, just two days after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global health emergency.
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Sick days: Assessing the economic costs of long COVID
A new Yale study finds that the effects of long COVID have caused many Americans to miss extensive work time, and that 14% of study participants reported not returning to work in the months after their infection.
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New research discovers differences in oxygen physiology in people with Down syndrome
A new study published in Cell Reports by researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus reports important differences in oxygen physiology ...
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Nasal spray flu vaccine candidate shows promise when administered alongside high dose annual shot
A unique influenza vaccine candidate that's inhaled and based on technology developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers is safe and could bolster protection against seasonal and pandemic influenza for people ...
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Leishmania strain in Brazil shows resistance to key drugs
Researchers in Brazil who analyzed samples from a 46-year-old patient in the Northeast state of Maranhão found an amphotericin B-resistant strain of the parasite Leishmania amazonensis circulating for the first time in the ...
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Malaria vaccine candidate provides lasting protection in trials
Two trials of an experimental malaria vaccine in healthy Malian adults found that all three tested regimens were safe. The findings are published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
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Study highlights sex differences in notified infectious disease cases across EU
A study published in Eurosurveillance analyzing 5.5 million cases of infectious diseases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) over 10 years has found important differences in the relative proportion of notified ...
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WHO warns more mpox to come in Europe after case in Sweden
The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after Sweden announced the first such infection outside Africa in an outbreak that has killed hundreds in the ...
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Analysis finds Tecovirimat is safe but did not improve clade I mpox resolution in Democratic Republic of the Congo
The antiviral drug tecovirimat did not reduce the duration of mpox lesions among children and adults with clade I mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), based on an initial analysis of data from a randomized, ...
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Exploring emerging diagnostic tools for early diagnosis of endometriosis
Endometriosis is a common, burdensome, chronic disease that affects more than 11% of women of reproductive age in the United States and 190 million women worldwide. Early diagnosis remains a major clinical and public health ...
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Sweden reports first case of deadly mpox strain outside Africa
Sweden on Thursday announced the first case outside Africa of the more dangerous variant of mpox, which the WHO has declared a global public health emergency.
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Mpox vaccine maker ready to produce 10 million doses
Danish drugmaker Bavarian Nordic said Thursday it was ready to produce up to 10 million doses of its vaccine targeting mpox by 2025 after the World Health Organization declared a surge in the virus in Africa a global public ...
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Mpox kills 548 in DR Congo, case recorded in Sweden
The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday an mpox outbreak has killed 548 people there this year, as the first case outside Africa of the virus's more dangerous variant was recorded in a traveler in Sweden.
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What is mpox? A microbiologist explains what's known about this smallpox cousin
On Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ...
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WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern, after rising cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the potential for further spread.
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The threat of mpox has returned, but public knowledge about it has declined
It has been two years since the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an outbreak of mpox, a disease endemic to Africa that had spread to scores of countries.
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Early detection of COVID-19 variants in Prague wastewater reveals upcoming waves faster than clinical data
Researchers at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague together with colleagues from Military Health Institute and Prague Water Supply and Sewerage Company have successfully utilized nanopore-based sequencing ...
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A new global health emergency: What is mpox, where are the outbreaks and will the virus spread?
The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders.
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WHO calls for cholera vaccine production boost
The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday called for increased production of cholera vaccines, highlighting what he called a "critical shortage" around the globe.
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Researchers reveal a novel mechanism of mechanical regulation of bone homeostasis
Professor Changjun Li and his colleagues at Xiangya Hospital of Central South University have published a research paper titled "Mechanical protein polycystin-1 directly regulates osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption" in ...
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What to know about Legionnaires' disease
Legionnaires' disease is a serious lung infection caused by Legionella bacteria. While most people exposed to the bacteria don't get sick, some people are at higher risk of infection and potentially serious illness.
Aug 15, 2024
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Unexplainable chronic itch shows unique blood biomarkers that could eventually lead to new targeted treatments
Millions of patients worldwide suffer from a chronic itching condition with no identifiable cause—a condition known as chronic pruritus of unknown origin (CPUO)—that has no targeted therapies approved to treat it. Many ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Healthy lifestyle lowers the risk of post-COVID complications, finds study
Based on the UK Biobank cohort of more than 68,000 people, a new study led by Dr. Junqing Xie evaluated the impact of various lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol intake, BMI, physical activity, sedentary time, sleep ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Researchers find more effective way to deplete B-cells for the treatment of autoimmune disorders
B-cells protect your body from infection. But sometimes, they misfire and cause debilitating disease. Now, University of Connecticut researchers have shown that a single protein might be able to defuse B-cells gone bad. Their ...
Aug 14, 2024
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