by admin | Mar 18, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by NorthJersey.com The Northeastern United States is seeing the highest rates of the contagious stomach ailment norovirus in at least two years, prompting health experts to urge the public to take precautions in hopes of mitigating the spread. The...
by admin | Mar 18, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by AOL It’s a noro-easter. The norovirus, a hypercontagious stomach bug, is sweeping across the Northeast, causing schools to shutter and citizens to suffer from violent diarrhea and other alarming symptoms. “It is incredibly contagious,” Dr....
by admin | Mar 11, 2024 | Germs
Originally Published by Yahoo!Life We often think of germs as being on things like door handles, light switches, and cell phones. But they are actually in a lot more places than that, which is why we have rounded up the 6 most surprising germ hot spots out there and...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Cold and flu
Originally Published by CIDRAP Flu levels remain elevated, with increases in half of US regions, as COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) levels stayed on downward trends, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest weekly...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Cold and flu
Originally Published by NorthJersey.com At least two New Jersey children have died from influenza in the past few weeks, state Health Department officials confirmed Thursday, as the state continues to see high flu levels in every region. Few details were released on...
by admin | Feb 26, 2024 | Infection prevention
Originally Published by IFL Science It’s almost four years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As the specter of lockdowns loomed in the West, scientists had already been scrambling for weeks to learn as much as they could about the...
by admin | Feb 26, 2024 | Home
Originally Published by CleanLink Concerns persist about a “tripledemic” U.S. winter, as COVID-19, RSV, and influenza spread at an exponential rate. Through mid-February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 24 states and Washington D.C. are...
by admin | Feb 19, 2024 | Gyms
Originally Published by Health What kind of rash can you get from a gym? You may catch several types of skin infections from the gym, including a staph infection and ringworm. Research has found that bacteria live on 10% to 30% of gym surfaces, such as equipment, the...
by admin | Feb 12, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by Cedars Sinai Investigators in the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai wanted to find out which factors influenced susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and disease severity the most. Was it genetics? Or was it home...
by admin | Feb 12, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by Yale Medicine As cold winter weather drives people indoors and flu, colds, and other seasonal respiratory viruses circulate, SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has continued to mutate and spread. Most recently a strain called...