Search results
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...
Whooping cough cases on the rise, nearly 3 times as high as last year: CDC
ABC News via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoCases of whooping cough are on the rise across the United States, data from the Centers for Disease...
COVID is rising in California. Here's how to protect yourself from FLiRT subvariants
Los Angeles Times· 4 days agoThere are growing signs of an uptick in COVID-19 in California thanks to the new FLiRT subvariants....
US approves Moderna's RSV vaccine for older adults
Medical Xpress· 6 hours agoFood and Drug Administration on Friday approved Moderna's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for older adults—marking the first time any mRNA shot...
Alaska health officials point to wastewater sampling as useful disease-tracking tool
Alaska Public Radio Network· 1 day agoThe information gleaned from testing at the Anchorage plant is an example of the way wastewater...
Biolabs International LLC launches SpeedySwab™ Rapid COVID-19 + Flu A&B Antigen Self-Tests,...
WROC Rochester· 2 days agoBiolabs International LLC announced earlier in May an exclusive partnership with Watmind USA™; the manufacturer of the acclaimed SpeedySwab™ Covid-19 Antigen ...
Pfizer says tweaked COVID-19 shots boost omicron protection
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 2 days agoPfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is...
Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne COVID-19
Medical Xpress· 1 day 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. Milton is a UMD ...
Whooping cough outbreaks: Why is pertussis on the rise in several countries?
LiveScience· 3 days agoCases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been on the rise in various countries, including the...
Researchers are developing an experimental bird flu mRNA vaccine
Quartz· 3 days agoResearchers are developing an mRNA-based vaccine against the contagious H5N1 bird flu virus that is...