Is COVID-19 a Seasonal Virus Yet?
The most common respiratory viruses that cause flu, colds, and RSV tend to cluster in the fall and winter months. Though that means months of elevated risk for sickness, “cold and flu season” is a convenient time for public-health officials to remind people to get vaccinated and wash their hands more frequently.
Experts had hoped that COVID-19 would follow that same pattern, but so far, that’s not the case.
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COVID-19 occurs in every season
Both flu and RSV tend to plummet to near negligible levels in spring and summer before surging again in the fall ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Risk for Autoimmune Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease Increased After SARS-CoV-2
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 -- Patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection have an increased risk for incident autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease (AIRD) compared with matched patients with influenza... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Cadila Pharma introduces vaccine for seasonal flu
The new vaccine targets four strains of the influenza virus subtype -A and B, responsible for seasonal epidemics, the drug firm said in a statement. Developed using proprietary technology employing nano-sized particles, the vaccine mimics the external structure of the virus without containing intact genetic material, it added. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
C.D.C. Shortens Isolation Period for People With Covid
Americans with Covid or other respiratory infections may return to daily activities if they don ’t have a fever and their symptoms are improving. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Quarantines Disease Rates Masks Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Deaths (Fatalities) Tests (Medical) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Influenza Source Type: news
New antibodies target “dark side” of influenza virus protein
NIH researchers explore hidden, vulnerable region of influenza neuraminidase. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - March 1, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Does an October Birthday Protect Kids From Flu? Does an October Birthday Protect Kids From Flu?
New research showed that children born in October may have lower rates of influenza diagnosis.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pediatrics Headlines - March 1, 2024 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Pediatrics Source Type: news
2023 to 2024 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effective for Reducing Risk
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 -- The 2023 to 2024 seasonal influenza vaccine is effective for reducing the risk for medically attended influenza virus infection, according to research published in the Feb. 29 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 29, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Interim Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza - California, October 2023-January 2024
This report describes estimated vaccine effectiveness for laboratory-confirmed flu in California. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - February 29, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Interim Estimates of 2023-24 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness - United States
This report describes estimates of 2023-24 influenza vaccine effectiveness among different age groups. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - February 29, 2024 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Europe Greenlights Two Avian Flu Vaccines Europe Greenlights Two Avian Flu Vaccines
The vaccines, Celldemic and Incellipan, protect against the H5N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 23, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Birth Month Linked to Timing of Influenza Vaccination in Young Children
THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 2024 -- For young children, birth month is associated with timing of influenza vaccination, according to a study published online Feb. 21 in The BMJ.
Christopher M. Worsham, M.D., M.P.H., from Harvard Medical School in Boston,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 22, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
A Signal for T Cells to Remember
Timely modulation of a common signaling pathway can preserve influenza memory in lung T cells. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Nigeria: Bird Flu - Kebbi Sends Additional Specimens to Jos for Tests
[Daily Trust] The Kebbi State Government, on Wednesday, said additional specimens have been taken to Jos, Plateau State, for tests in its effort to curtail the spread of avian influenza (bird flu). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Lawmaker raises new flap over U.S.-funded virology research that critics call risky
A U.S. senator has thrown a political spotlight on yet another U.S.-Chinese research collaboration that critics suggest includes dangerous experiments that could create “superviruses” capable of sparking a pandemic. But contrary to assertions raised by Senator Joni Ernst (R–IA), none of the U.S. funding for the project goes to foreign researchers, and scientists who are part of the collaboration challenge other concerns she raised. And the U.S. funding agency she questioned this week issued a blistering response.
Prompted by information given to her by a group that opposes animal research, the White Coat Waste ...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 17, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
