Jason Gale
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Mpox Risks Heighten With Mosaic Of Infection Patterns
The virus is riding international transport routes into neighboring countries.
- Friday August 23, 2024
- Author: Jason Gale, Janice Kew
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Mpox Risks Heighten With Mosaic Of Infection Patterns
The virus is riding international transport routes into neighboring countries.
- Friday August 23, 2024
- Author: Jason Gale, Janice Kew
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Mpox Surge Raises Fear Of Spread Before Patients Show Symptoms
The speed with which the mpox outbreak is spreading is an unsettling development that may indicate risk for future pandemics.
- Tuesday August 20, 2024
- Author: Janice Kew, Antony Sguazzin, Jason Gale
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Mpox Emergency Response Is Constrained by Scarce Financing
The WHO appealed for support this week by declaring the latest mpox outbreak in Africa an international health emergency.
- Sunday August 18, 2024
- Author: Ashleigh Furlong, Jason Gale
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Covid Patient Dies After Record 613-Day Infection Spawned New Mutations
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
- Friday April 19, 2024
- Author: Jason Gale
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Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions
Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long Covid symptoms from a coronavirus infection were linked to small increases in neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions in the largest global vaccine safety study to date.
- Monday February 19, 2024
- Author: Jason Gale
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Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions
Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long Covid symptoms from a coronavirus infection were linked to small increases in neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions in the largest global vaccine safety study to date.
- Monday February 19, 2024
- Author: Jason Gale
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What Is Disease X? How Scientists Are Preparing For The Next Pandemic
(Bloomberg) -- It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: “Disease X.” In fact, the term was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats — novel coronaviruses like the one that causes Covid-19, for example — instead of just known ones, like the Ebola virus. ...
- Monday January 22, 2024
- Author: Jason Gale
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Does JN.1 Prefer The Gut To The Lungs? Evidence Emerges Of Covid Shift
Spiking Covid-19 cases detected in wastewater have prompted some scientists to ask whether JN.1, the strain driving an explosive winter surge, is selectively targeting peoples’ intestinal tracts.
- Thursday December 21, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale
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Does JN.1 Prefer The Gut To The Lungs? Evidence Emerges Of Covid Shift
Spiking Covid-19 cases detected in wastewater have prompted some scientists to ask whether JN.1, the strain driving an explosive winter surge, is selectively targeting peoples’ intestinal tracts.
- Thursday December 21, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale
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Covid Loss of Smell Takes Up To Three Years To Return, Study Finds
The loss of taste and smell — hallmarks of a coronavirus infection early in the pandemic — became a stubborn blight for many long Covid sufferers, but new research shows that the sensory problems gradually abate.
- Friday November 10, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale
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Long Covid Study Links Lingering Virus With Bowel-to-Brain Havoc
Covid may trigger complex biological reactions from the bowel to the brain, leading to persistent neurological symptoms in some people, according to a study that points the way toward a treatment.
- Monday October 16, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale
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Long Covid Study Links Lingering Virus With Bowel-to-Brain Havoc
Covid may trigger complex biological reactions from the bowel to the brain, leading to persistent neurological symptoms in some people, according to a study that points the way toward a treatment.
- Monday October 16, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale
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Superbugs Are ‘Dangerously High’ Threat In Greece, India, Turkey
Drug-resistant microbes exact a heavy toll: They claim 79,000 lives a year across 34 OECD and EU/EEA countries and ratchet up annual medical costs by an average of about $28.9 billion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said.
- Thursday September 14, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale
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Superbugs Are ‘Dangerously High’ Threat In Greece, India, Turkey
Drug-resistant microbes exact a heavy toll: They claim 79,000 lives a year across 34 OECD and EU/EEA countries and ratchet up annual medical costs by an average of about $28.9 billion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said.
- Thursday September 14, 2023
- Author: Jason Gale