In this issue of the Journal, Thornhill et al. report on 528 persons with monkeypox in a cohort spanning 16 countries on five continents.1 The authors provide important demographic, epidemiologic, and clinical details on the largest reported cohort of patients in the latest emerging infectious disease outbreak of global importance. Diagnosis relied […]
Con el objetivo de mejorar las pruebas de diagnóstico Covid, así como las de otros virus, un grupo de investigación del Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2SysBio), centro mixto del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) y la Universidad de Valencia (UV) ha desarrollado un método mediante la técnica de edición genética conocida como […]
The FDA, along with CDC, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, state, and local partners are investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States and Canada potentially linked to fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo and HEB, purchased between March […]
SARS-CoV-2, or at least pieces of it, sticks around longer in some infected individuals than respiratory sample testing would suggest, a recent study found. After respiratory samples tested negative, a small proportion of the 113 study participants continued to shed SARS-CoV-2 RNA in their feces—about 4% of them for at least […]
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the likely cause of multiple sclerosis (MS), new research confirms. Investigators found the risk of MS increased 32-fold following EBV infection. Dr Alberto Ascherio This study is the first to provide compelling evidence of a causal link between EBV and MS, principal investigator Alberto Ascherio, MD, DrPH, professor of […]
Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIv) have recently been detected on the East coast of Canada (December 2021) and the United States (January 2022) and have been found in both wild birds and poultry (1). This comes after the same strain (known as H5N1) swept through Asia, Africa, and Europe […]
Crean una vacuna contra el virus de la esclerosis múltiple y la enfermedad del beso. Este hecho hace que una posible dosis ayude a frenar el virus que está asociado a trastornos como la esclerosis múltiple y algunos tipos de cáncer. El fármaco logró inducir una respuesta inmunitaria contra el […]
La enfermedad por el virus del Ébola es una enfermedad infecciosa grave que se propaga entre humanos por transmisión de persona a persona. La infección se produce por contacto directo o indirecto con la sangre u otros líquidos o secreciones corporales (heces, orina, saliva, semen) de personas infectadas, solo cuando […]
La influenza es una infección vírica que afecta principalmente a la nariz, la garganta, los bronquios y, ocasionalmente, los pulmones. La infección dura generalmente una semana y se caracteriza por la aparición súbita de fiebre alta, dolores musculares, cefalea malestar general importante, tos seca, dolor de garganta y rinitis. El […]
Anosmia, the loss of smell, is a frequent and often long-term symptom associated with COVID-19 that can severely burden a person’s quality of life, making it extremely difficult to taste foods, detect airborne hazards in the environment, and carry out other functions dependent on the sense. While the devastating impacts […]
