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Doctors Warn About 3 New COVID Variants—What to Know About ‘FLiRT’ Strains
Prevention via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNew COVID-19 variants known as “FLiRT,” KP.2, KP.3, and KP.1.1, are spreading fast. Doctors explain...
Ignore the disinformation — the US is safer with a global pandemic treaty
The Hill· 2 days agoThis week, World Health Organization (WHO) member states meeting at the World Health Assembly are...
Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne COVID-19
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoThe study, "Relative efficacy of masks and respirators as source control for viral aerosol shedding from people infected with SARS-CoV-2", was published May 29 in eBioMedicine ...
Could a Fungal Infection Cause a Future Pandemic?
Medscape· 3 days agoIn the desolate scenario of systemic fungal infections, precise statistics, clinical histories that include them, simple laboratory tests, new...
As COVID cases rise again, what do I need to know about the new FLiRT variants?
Medical Xpress· 7 days agoFrom the original Wuhan variant, to delta, to omicron, and several others in between, the virus has continued to evolve. New variants have driven repeated waves of infection and challenged doctors ...
COVID Shots Could Use Another Update, Study Suggests
MedPage Today· 3 days agoThe three vaccines updated to target the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 subvariant -- Moderna's and Pfizer-BioNTech's mRNA vaccines...Yu Lin, PhD, of the UNC...
Disgraced EcoHealth Alliance reaped nearly $100M in taxpayer funds since 2008
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoEcoHealth Alliance – a U.S.-based nonprofit with a stated mission of preventing pandemics – received...
Human ‘challenge trials’ entail risk but they could be our best protection against the next pandemic
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFifty years ago this month, as the seasonal smallpox epidemic raged to a peak in India, nobody knew...