Treating chikungunya using HIV/AIDS drug efavirenz
Efavirenz, an HIV drug, shows potential for treating chikungunya virus, inhibiting replication and reducing viral load ...
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City health officials investigate bird flu in two household cats
City health officials are investigating two bird flu cases in household cats, marking the first known infections in pet cats ...
Measles is unlike other viruses: What to know about long-term complications
Measles is unlike other childhood viruses. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops ...
What We’ve Learned About School Closures for the Next Pandemic
Five years after the global Covid pandemic was declared, there is widespread agreement that closing classrooms was ...
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COVID-19 5 years later: Humboldt County health leaders reflect on pandemic’s lessons
This is the first of two parts about the fifth anniversary since the COVID-19 pandemic began. “I remember … kind of panic and ...
Eye-Popping WHO Report Shows Measles Surging Across the Globe
A joint WHO/UNICEF report this week shows that measles has made a dramatic comeback across Europe and Central Asia.
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A Clearer Picture of Covid’s Lasting Effects on the Body
Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term ... sometimes invisible changes in different parts of the body. Some of these effects, such as chronic ...
Five years after the Covid pandemic, health experts are finally ready to say that it’s over
With deaths and hospitalizations down, experts say vaccines and immunity from infection have helped turn the page on the Covid pandemic ...
Could Spring Break Act as a Measles Superspreader?
With Spring Break season now in full swing, parts of the U.S. remain in the throes of a measles outbreak. Airlines for America anticipates that 173 million people will travel for the break this year, ...
Province warns of measles spread as northern Alberta community deals with outbreak
An outbreak in the community of John D'Or Prairie, which is about 575 kilometres north of Edmonton and part of the Little Red ...
When Covid hit Black Americans hard, too many white Americans shrugged
The higher rates of infection and death weren’t the result of anything Black people had done to make ourselves sick; they ...