Decisions taken to end the universal wearing of face masks in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries are placing patients and staff at greater risk of covid infection and need to be reversed, a group of healthcare workers in Scotland who are affected by long covid has said. The Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition, which is participating in the Scottish covid inquiry, described policies to withdraw…
Seventeen percent to 20% of caregivers reported poor mental health in the lockdown periods of 2020-2021.
University of Minnesota http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 Study findings that reveal a sensitivity of 47% for COVID-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs) compared with reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction…
University of Minnesota http://tw in-cities.umn.edu/ 612-625-5000 The H5N1 virus infecting dairy cattle in multiple states was probably circulating in the animals for 4 months before…
Republican lawmakers from dairy states warn against alarm over H5N1 bird flu in cattle, and seek more federal assistance to farmers in key battleground states.
When SARS-CoV-2 became the latest virus to shape human history, few people alive had witnessed global devastation from a novel infectious disease.Influenza h…
Researchers uncover why some homes in rural Madagascar where bubonic plague is endemic are infested with fleas. Based on their findings, they recommend ways to…
New estimates presented at ESCMID Global Congress show that antimicrobial resistance prevalence in WHO gram-negative priority pathogens may be “substantial” in countries lacking current data.
The world’s response to outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polio has slowed over the past decade, according to finding presented at the CDC’s Annual Epidemic Intelligence…
More than half of the domestic cats on a Texas dairy farm that were fed unpasteurized milk from cows infected with the bird flu got…
