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Ticks and Lyme disease emerge for 2024 season: How to protect yourself from bites
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe good news is that people treated with antibiotics near the onset of the disease often recover...
How the pandemic gave power to superbugs
KPBS San Diego· 5 days agoAntibiotics cannot cure COVID. The impact of this pandemic overuse has lingered even as the pandemic has faded. Globally, about 75% of patients...
The Public Health Community Must Tell the Whole Measles Story
Time via AOL· 4 days agoA Delaware health officer chalked it up to measles’ reputation. The public “considered it a mild,...
Health officials warn whooping cough cases rising across Washington
KIRO via Yahoo News· 2 days agoGiven that pertussis circulation appears to be increasing locally, the health department is asking...
Intoxication without alcohol: Auto-brewery syndrome
Medical Xpress· 55 minutes agoHow can someone have alcohol intoxication without consuming alcohol? Auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut fungi create alcohol through...
Visby Medical™ Sexual Health Test Results in More Appropriate Antibiotic Treatment and Shorter...
WKBN 27 Youngstown· 4 days agoThe study found that use of the Visby Medical Sexual Health Test, a point-of-care (POC) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, shortened time from specimen collection to ..
Whooping cough cases on the rise, nearly 3 times as high as last year: CDC
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCases of whooping cough are on the rise across the United States, data from the Centers for Disease...
Oregon reports 770% spike in whooping cough cases as vaccination rates keep falling
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoOregon Health Authority reports that among 16 infant cases reported in Oregon...diagnosed with pertussis, Lane County officials recommend you take antibiotics< ...
Global experts spotlight interventions, investments needed to fight antibiotic resistance
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 5 days agoWith the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the already limited arsenal of...
New partnership aims to improve antibiotic access in low-resource nations
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 3 days agoA partnership that could help expand access to new antibiotics in low- and middle-income countries...