by admin | Jun 25, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by Huffpost We don’t typically associate hot weather with viral illnesses, but COVID has thwarted that in recent years. This summer seems to be no exception: Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that COVID test...
by admin | Jun 3, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by Infection Control Today As most health care professionals know, norovirus, or the stomach flu, consists of viruses that irritate and inflame the stomach and intestine linings. Highly contagious, norovirus can cause days of nausea, vomiting,...
by admin | Apr 1, 2024 | Viruses
Originally Published by The News Minute Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a respiratory virus that commonly affects individuals of all ages but is particularly notorious for its impact on infants and young children. This article aims to provide an overview of RSV –...
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...