Researchers in Belgium report on the case of a 90-year-old woman who was simultaneously infected with two different variants of concern (VOCs) of COVID-19, in a Case Report being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) held online this year. On March 3 2021, the woman, whose medical history was…
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New research being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, reveals raw dog food to be a major source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, making it an international public health risk. With some of the multidrug-resistant bacteria in raw dog food identical to those found in hospital patients…
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The dangerous mcr-1 gene, which provides resistance to the last-resort antibiotic colistin, has been found in four healthy humans and two pet dogs. In two cases, both dog and owner were harbouring the gene, according to new research being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) held online this year.…
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Katherine Walton, the owner of Walton Cake Boutique in Sydney, Australia, has been sharing her creations on Instagram since 2018 but in the early months of the pandemic she noticed a new baking movement rising online — a surge in a specific type of online baking collaboration called “collabs.” “I saw that more and more…
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But the variant may fuel outbreaks in unvaccinated communities and populations. “We are vaccinating more people every day, but we are not on a trajectory to be able to interrupt transmission by the fall,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Colorado. “Unless we can do that, just about everyone I know…
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday called for a federal investigation of the process that led to the approval of a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease that has spurred sharp criticism from lawmakers and the medical community. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ independent Office of the Inspector General,…
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VENICE — The International Monetary Fund took a step on Friday toward easing widening global inequality and helping poor nations get access to vaccines, saying its executive board approved a plan to issue $650 billion worth of reserve funds that countries can use to buy vaccines, finance health care and pay down debt. The decision…
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Yousra Attia Wedding season is slowly making it back on everyone’s radars. With the plethora of celebratory ceremonies of love coming your way, planning is necessary. You need to brainstorm wedding gifts, make travel arrangements, figure out what makeup look you’ll replicating, and the most important of all, finalize your outfit. Of course, a dress…
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After many months without physical connection, a post-vaccination summer has led many New Yorkers to usher in the season with a full-fledged return to public canoodling. While a P.D.A. sighting might have been off-putting before the pandemic, some see the increase in couples kissing, touching, hugging and grinding on the dance floors as a sign…
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Largely freed from domestic travel restrictions, Americans have been flocking to national parks in record numbers this spring and summer. Several parks — including Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park — have already set monthly visitation records. Many sites are gearing up for their busiest years in history. And so, in place of…
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