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Bird flu is back with a vengeance. Medical experts have discovered that one variant of the avian flu virus, dubbed H3N8, has undergone several mutations and can now cause more severe infections. Additionally, the H3N8 virus — which is endemic among poultry farms throughout China — is transmissible by airborne droplets between animals that have … Read more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency rooms saw a spike in cannabis-related events in adolescents, according to new data released on Thursday. Findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed the number of adolescents visiting the ER was higher during the pandemic years than in 2019. Most of the incidents reported by the CDC … Read more
It looks like all that day drinking caught up to us. Medical researchers have found that a jump in alcohol-related liver disease is directly linked to the COVID-19 pandemic years. There were an increasing number of cases of alcohol-related liver illness from 2016 through 2020, the researchers from Washington State University noted. But the increase … Read more
Years after the COVID-19 pandemic started, is the US prepared for the next pandemic? No, according to the outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. “Decades of underinvestment in public health rendered the United States ill prepared for a global pandemic,” Walensky, 54, wrote Tuesday in a New York … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a short list of “priority diseases” that could cause the next deadly pandemic. Most of the diseases are already known to us — Ebola, SARS and Zika made the cut — but the final entry has the terrifying name “Disease X.” The term Disease X is used by the WHO as … Read more
Producers of the new Duggar docuseries say they were “shocked” by the “far-reaching quality” of the infamous family’s controversial church. “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” claims to “expose the truth” about how The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) negatively affected the extensive reality TV family. Guided by parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, … Read more
The head of the World Health Organization warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic, which could be “even deadlier” than the COVID-19 pandemic. In a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. … Read more
The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. WHO said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn’t come to an … Read more
Despite the world shutting down for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it apparently hasn’t negatively affected people’s overall happiness. According to a study published in the annual World Happiness Report that surveyed more than 100,000 people in 137 countries, respondents are happier now than before the coronavirus caused worldwide lockdowns and worldwide uncertainty. The … Read more
Could this cuddly-looking creature have caused the coronavirus pandemic? Three years after COVID-19 brought the world to its knees, the scientific community remains bitterly divided over the origins of the virus, despite the growing consensus that it was manufactured inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during gain-of-function research. But a new analysis of genetic material … Read more
CNN — Hospitals are more full than they’ve been throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. But as respiratory virus season surges across the US, it’s much more than Covid that’s filling beds this year. More than 80% of hospital beds are … Read more
Teenagers’ brains prematurely aged due to the stress of pandemic lockdowns, according to a new study. The study, published in “Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science,” compared scans of teens’ brains from before the COVID-19 pandemic and at the end of the first year — finding their brains aged three years in about 10 months. The research … Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday scoffed at criticism that he “aligned himself” with Democratic leaders at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak — and said he’d “absolutely” cooperate with an investigation by House Republicans into the pandemic. “I don’t align myself with anybody, Chuck,” the retiring chief White House medical adviser told NBC’s “Meet The … Read more
Talk about having the patience of Job. Many Big Apple eateries bravely survived the pandemic-era shutdowns and the challenges that followed. But for one local family of restaurateurs, the coronavirus was just one more cross to bear in a biblical-level string of bad luck. When Peter and Penny Glazier and their son Matthew welcomed diners … Read more
A woman has revealed the terrifying psychosis she said she developed that convinced her she was responsible for COVID-19. Natasha Rea, 33, said she was misdiagnosed with a “mood disorder” at age 14, before being diagnosed with bipolar disorder about 10 years later, in 2013. Rea, from England, reported feelings of intense emotions, deep periods … Read more
Concerns grow over rising flu cases amid pandemic ABC News Is flu making a comeback? New York issues public health warning over ‘early and aggressive’ outbreak Daily Mail Growing concerns over rising flu cases amid the pandemic WHAS11 NY issues flu warning as cases spike FOX 5 New York How the midterm elections could affect the COVID response The Hill … Read more
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Because so many residents in Los Angeles County have dealt with COVID-19 infections, many now view the virus like a common cold or flu. New research suggests that’s far from the truth. With concern over COVID waning, a parallel pandemic is emerging. “We’re still learning about the long term health effects … Read more
A neurologist at a prestigious U.S. research institute has developed an experimental COVID treatment he calls “true revenge” that weaponizes the virus against itself. The treatment, dubbed NMT5, was created by Scripps Research Institute’s Neurodegeneration New Medicines Center founding director Dr. Stuart Lipton and a team of scientists. It’s a derivative of memantine, an Alzheimer’s … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. In fact, it shows signs of lingering for, well, a long time. But even as politicians and health authorities struggle with how, if at all, to keep addressing the current pandemic, scientists are already anticipating the next one. They’re scouring the planet for animal viruses that, like SARS-CoV-2, could leap … Read more