The CDC website said that as of 5 p.m. Thursday, health officials had identified two cases in Florida, two cases in Utah, and one case each in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, and Washington state. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said Thursday that most of the cases “are within gay [and] […]
Balance del Centro Europeo para la Prevención y Control de Enfermedades (ECDC) de lo que se sabe sobre la viruela símica. Se recomienda que los países europeos se centren en la identificación, la gestión, el rastreo de los contactos y la notificación de los nuevos casos. ¿Qué es la viruela […]
After a dip in US reports of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) early in the COVID-19 pandemic, cases have resurged, according to the CDC’s 2020 STD Surveillance Report. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The report noted that the decline in cases was likely due to pandemic-related disruptions in care and several other factors: […]
Wastewater surveillance is exactly what it sounds like: Concentrated wastewater samples are collected and screened for different bacteria or viruses that may be present in a given community. Researchers like Natalie Exum, PhD ’16, an assistant scientist in Environmental Health and Engineering, have used this tool during the pandemic to spot potential […]
La ministra de Sanidad, Carolina Darias, anunció el pasado 25 de mayo en la rueda de prensa posterior al Consejo Interterritorial del Sistema Nacional de Salud (CISNS), la participación de España, junto al resto de Estados miembros de la Unión Europea, en la adquisición conjunta de Imvanex, la vacuna autorizada en julio de 2013 […]
The Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium announced that its researchers have managed to identify the key that allows the COVID-19 virus to attack cells. What’s more, they have succeeded in closing the lock to block the virus and prevent it from interacting with the cell, thereby preventing infection. […]
De momento las vacunas de AstraZeneca-Oxford, Pfizer-BioNTech y Moderna son las únicas que han sido identificadas con esta molestia. Los efectos secundarios con la orina más frecuentes fueron el almacenamiento. El STUI constituye la enfermedad urológica más frecuente en varones de edad avanzada. Desde hace más de año y medio […]
Projections from a new report by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) suggest that if current trends continue, there will be more than 21 million obese adults in the UK by 2040, a 6 million increase from 2020 figures that the charity described as “staggering”. It would take the proportion of the UK population […]
Results of the COVI-PRONE trial do not support prone positioning for awake non-intubated COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress. However, the effect size for the primary outcome (intubation) was “imprecise and does not exclude a clinically important benefit,” the study team says in JAMA. The COVI-PRONE trial enrolled 400 adult […]
What is the cause of monkeypox? Monkeypox is a member of the Poxviridae family of viruses called orthopoxvirus and is a double-stranded DNA virus. This subset includes the smallpox (variola), vaccinia, and cowpox viruses. A nice review of monkeypox virus is found in Scientific American. How Is This Virus Transmitted and Where Is […]
