Another influenza outbreak – the Hong Kong flu – started to spread from China in 1968. It was caused by a compound virus, which combined the Asian virus from ten years earlier with a form of bird flu. It killed around 1 million people – most of them older than 65. 另一场流感爆发—...
The FDA notes that Lucira was accurate in 99.3% of negative samples and 90.1% of positive samples for influenza A and 100% of negative and 88.3% of positive COVID samples. It was 99.9% accurate for negative influenza B samples, but there was not enough circulating virus to determ...
"It means for people with full vaccinations, the rate of severe symptoms and death has been lower than that of the influenza," Zhang said. China will keep the "zero-COVID-19" strategy on the social level to prevent a...
I'll certainly be eager to see that data once it's available, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope that this thing is a potential COVID-killer. While UV light is well documented to combat viruses like influenza and coronaviruses like the one that causes COVID-19, the little ...
Influenza, flu for short, is a serious and contagious respiratory illness caused by the influenza virus. Flu mainly spreads via tiny droplets made through coughing, sneezing, or talking. These droplets can travel about six feet and can land in the mouths or noses of others nearby.Symptomscan ...
COVID-19co-infectioninfluenza virusseverityfatalityBackground: An emerging outbreak of COVID-19 has rapidly caused global pandemic. Few studies were reported on the incidence and role of influenza virus co-infecdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3576904Wang, Ge...
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung tissue. It’s caused by a number of viral infections, such as the influenza (flu) virus or SARS-CoV-2 – the culprit in COVID-19. Bacteria and certain types of fungus can also give rise to pneumonia. With pneumonia, the lungs become inflamed an...
His county was hard-hit by COVID-19, Horton said, with nearly 90 deaths. So when measles cases came to his town of 8,600, Horton feared for his community. He said the local hospital has been busy administering vaccines since the outbreak started. “Out here on the south plains of Texa...
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Vaccines based on the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 are a cornerstone of the public health response to COVID-19. The emergence of hypermutated, increasingly transmissible variants of concern (VOCs) threaten this strategy. Omicron (B.1.1.529), the fifth VOC