GENEVA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned here on Friday that lifting restrictions "too quickly" could lead to a deadly resurgence of COVID-19. Noting at a regular press briefing that "some countries are already planning the...
‘Long Covid’ has become shorthand for a wide range of post-viral symptoms experienced by some patients following a Covid-19 infection. Cases of chronic fatigue after acute respiratory illness are far from unprecedented, but the scale at which they are now occurring is unprecedented. Advocates ...
People also are more likely to be taking drugs alone — without the benefit of a friend or family member who can call 911 or administer overdose-reversing medication. COVID-19 has also caused supply problems for dealers, so they are increasingly mixing cheap and deadly fentanyl int...
Much like with COVID-19, some groups are more vulnerable than others. Dr Sandy Robertson, emergency medicine doctor and chair of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine environmental group, told Sky News that cardiovascular issues become more common during heatwaves. "Your body's able to cool d...
Project 2025 acknowledges the global impact of COVID-19 (albeit with some incorrect claims), but it goes on to suggest a number of policies that could make the next pandemic so much harder to prevent or get under control. Its biggest target? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...
Researchers warn that the animals we consume could become a significant source of a pandemic due to antimicrobial resistance, potentially leading to a wave of deadly superbugs. The World Health Organization predicts that drug-resistant diseases might cause up to 10 million deaths annually by 2050. ...
“One, the covid-19 prevalence in the human population. Two, the contact rates between bats and infected people. Three, whether novel bats are susceptible to infection and able to transmit the infection to other bats.” The latter factor has the most uncertainty, she says, but preliminary ...
As Americans look back on the fourth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Rutgers University–Newark sheds light on why some people succumb to conspiracy theories and bogus beliefs and others don't.
“We know each person, whether a child or an adult, will take more COVID-19 tests when new variants (变种) appear,” Dr. Shidan Tosif said. Because of the above two reasons, we needed to develop a child-friendly testing device. The new device comes in different kinds of colors and...
Antibiotic resistance is reaching dangerously high levels around the world. Drug-resistant infections kill more than 1.2 million people a year globally and, with the figure projected to rise to 10 million by 2050 if no action is taken, the World Health Organization (WHO) classes a...