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Health officials are banking on vaccinations to contain monkeypox and polio before those become standing threats in the United States. They're counting on updated boosters to restore waning immunity against Covid-19. With influenza expected back in the US this fall, flu shots could be critical to prevent severe illness and keep hospitals from…

Piata Tauwhare, 30, from Hokitika, was found dead at a tanning salon in Swansea on May 28. Photo / SuppliedEvery year, otherwise healthy New Zealanders drop dead with no warning. Researches hope new funding will prevent more deaths, writes health reporter Emma Russell.Ifan Jones remembers kissing his 30-year-old wife goodbye and saying "I love…

Researchers have found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or death due to COVID-19 by over 40 percent; and over 50 percent if prescribed early in onset of symptoms.Trial compared the effect of ivermectin, fluvoxamine, and metformin in randomized…

COVID-19 Prevention Strategies Monitoring COVID-19 Community Levels to guide COVID-19 prevention efforts. Persons can use information about the current level of COVID-19 impact on their community to decide which prevention behaviors to use and when (at all times or at specific times), based on their own risk for severe illness and that of…

So monkey pox is *** rare disease that's caused by infection with the monkey pox virus. Monkeypox virus is actually related to the same virus that causes smallpox. However, the symptoms that we're seeing with monkeypox are much more mild compared to smallpox and I wanted to come in as well that the virus that causes monkeypox is not…

A man’s nose began to rot in one of the most shocking monkeypox cases reported so far. The 40-year-old German patient went to his doctor after a red spot developed on his nose. It was then assumed to be a sunburn, and the man was sent home. But within a few more days, the lesion on his nose began to turn black.…

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when prevention seemed light years away, several scientists launched trials to see whether a tuberculosis vaccine developed in the early 1900s might protect people by bolstering the immune system.The Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin vaccine has long been known to have broad effects on the immune system, and is…

Roughly 5,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine intended for Fort Lauderdale, Fla., left the national stockpile’s warehouse in Olive Branch, Miss., on July 19. They somehow ended up in Oklahoma.Then Tennessee. Then Mississippi again. Then, finally, Florida.In Idaho, a shipment of 60 vaccine doses disappeared and showed up six days later, refrigerated…

While your feet have the super important job of helping you get around on a regular basis, you probably don’t notice much about them unless you’re using them or looking right at them. But when you have tingling in your feet, it’s hard to think about anything else.Tingling feet isn’t a medical term, but doctors definitely know what it means. It…

The case was found In Rockland County, which has a stunningly low polio vaccination rate. Dr. José Romero, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, noted that the majority of people with polio don't have symptoms and so can spread the virus without knowing it. "There are a number of individuals in the…