infections
Four people in Washington state have tested positive this month for a rare fungal infection that can be deadly. It’s the state’s first known outbreak of the fungus, called Candida auris, according to Seattle and King County health officials, though one locally acquired case was detected there in July. The cluster comes as Candida auris […]
Patrick Sison/AP/File CDC data estimates show that JN.1 is quickly spreading across the country and is now the leading variant causing almost half of infections. CNN — The Omicron coronavirus subvariant JN.1 now makes up 44.2% of Covid-19 cases in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The second episode of the HBO hit The Last Of Us opens with a scene in Jakarta, Indonesia. It’s set in 2003, at the beginning of a (fictional) fungal pandemic that goes on to destroy the world as we know it. After an expert in fungal biology evaluates the body of an infected factory worker, […]
People walk past Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in Chicago, the United States, on Dec. 12, 2022. (Photo by Joel Lerner/Xinhua)
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CNN — Doctors should prepare for a possible increase in young patients with enterovirus D68, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday, and that may be linked to more cases of the rare, paralyzing condition acute flaccid myelitis. There was an . . .
So, what do women do? “I stop drinking water or any liquid during journeys,” says Anya. Eight out of 10 women that NH spoke to for this story do the same. But doesn’t that cause more health problems? Yes, it does. Thumping headaches, migraine, dehydration and acne are often result of not drinking enough fluids. […]
The Biden Administration is letting it be known that, if the nation does not get a requested $22 billion in supplemental Congressional funding for
A resident receives a Covid-19 swab test during a mobile clinic at Saint Paul MB Church in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Rory Doyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. health officials are optimistic, albeit cautiously, the country has turned the corner on the unprecedented wave of infection caused by the omicron Covid […]