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 | 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...
by admin | Jan 8, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by The Hill The U.S. is riding another wave of rising COVID-19 infections, as holiday gatherings and a new variant are driving increased transmission. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the wastewater viral activity...
by admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by Fortune Well COVID wastewater levels are trending steeply upward in the U.S. It may leave you wondering if your winter illness is because of humanity’s newest scourge or something different entirely. As always, it’s impossible to distinguish...