The next pandemic? How a familiar virus exploits new hosts

Influenza A boasts a wide range of natural hosts, with different strains established in different species. This wide network gives it an extra evolutionary advantage, turning it into a perennial…

This year’s new COVID shot has been approved by FDA

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain This year’s newly formulated COVID vaccines are expected to start shipping in the next few days after the FDA on August 22 officially approved and authorized…

Men infected with high-risk types of HPV could struggle with fertility

Electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus (HPV) which occurs in human warts. Credit: public domain Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer type in women, causes approximately…

Mpox disease presents hard-to-weigh risks

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As fears mount globally about mpox, apparently simple questions such as the danger it poses and differences between variants do not have clear and simple answers.…

Low cortisol and hair-trigger stress response in the brain may underlie long COVID, study finds

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Proteins left behind by COVID-19 long after initial infection can cause cortisol levels in the brain to plummet, inflame the nervous system and prime its immune…

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected—it could now turn into the next global pandemic

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The mpox outbreak in Africa is yet another example of how infectious diseases perceived to be “someone else’s problem,” and affecting mainly poor, developing countries, may…

Sudan health minister declares cholera epidemic

Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikipedia Sudan’s health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video…

What we know about the new mpox outbreak

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A surging mpox outbreak in Africa was declared an emergency by the World Health Organisation this week and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control…

Research shows how to reduce inappropriate IV use by more than a third

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research led by Amsterdam UMC, across more than five years and 1,100 patients has demonstrated a strategy for reducing inappropriate IV use by a third, an…

Routine lab tests are not a reliable way to diagnose long COVID, finds study

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported study has found that routine lab tests may not be useful in making a long COVID diagnosis for people who…