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Ticks and Lyme disease emerge for 2024 season: How to protect yourself from bites
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLyme disease left untreated for a month or more could cause a range of more severe symptoms like...
What to Do If You Find a Tick on You
Time via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSome studies suggest that preventatively taking an antibiotic after a tick bite reduces the risk of developing Lyme disease, and the CDC says it’s...
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...
The US Is Facing an 'Out of Control' STI Epidemic, Experts Warn
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNevertheless, it is the recent rise in syphilis that is concerning health officials most. According...
Superbug ‘colonization’ cases rising in Las Vegas; exec explains why Sunrise Hospital tops list
KLAS articles via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoLas Vegas cases involving c. auris -- a fungus classified by theCDC as a "superbug" -- spiked in...
Ticks love hot weather, too. How to avoid these common tick diseases.
Philly.com· 2 days agoWhen Neal Nemhauser, 76, a retired accountant from Portland, Ore., visited a friend in Pennsylvania...
Health officials warn whooping cough cases rising across Washington
KIRO via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe incubation period for pertussis ranges from 5 to 21 days. Testing can be done by PCR or culture...
...Medical™ Sexual Health Test Results in More Appropriate Antibiotic Treatment and Shorter...
WKBN 27 Youngstown· 3 days agoPoint-of-Care test significantly shortens time from ED arrival to test results, treatment and discharge – significant improvements are seen in the use of antibiotics for the ...
Quick takes: US FLiRT variant proportions rise, first polio case in Angola, norovirus and raw...
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 4 days agoThe FLiRT variants are fueling new COVID-19 waves in some countries, but so far US markers don't...
Whooping cough outbreaks: Why is pertussis on the rise in several countries?
LiveScience· 4 days agoCases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been on the rise in various countries, including the...