Category: USA
STOP PRESS: World Health Organisation believes that Long COVID may be a thing
It seems the World Health Organisation has suddenly become aware of something called Long COVID after their chief scientist tweeted the following yesterday:. More...
Federal Reserve: Cognitive difficulties in 62 percent of adults with long COVID
“A degree of cognitive difficulty is especially common, cited by 62 percent of adults who currently report long-term COVID symptoms compared with 30 percent of those who have never had long-term symptoms.” More...
CDC: Advice for schools on monkeypox
What should we do if a person who has been exposed to monkeypox develops symptoms while in our setting? More...
USA: up to 4 million people out of work due to long Covid
Around 16 million working-age Americans (those aged 18 to 65) have long Covid today. More...
CDC: Paralytic poliomyelitis in an unvaccinated person in New York
In June 2022, poliovirus was confirmed in an unvaccinated immunocompetent adult resident of New York hospitalized with flaccid lower limb weakness. More...
Monkeypox: anecdotal report of a double mpox vaccine breakthrough infection
A report on Reddit today of a couple who were double vaccinated against monkeypox who now have a confirmed breakthrough infection. More...
Monkeypox: 87% of household samples still contaminated after 15 days
Of the 31 environmental swab samples collected by the CDC from the property of a person infected with monkeypox, 87% were still contaminated with the virus after 15 days. More...
Monkeypox: Anecdotal evidence of reinfection within three weeks
An anecdotal report from Reddit of someone who may have become reinfected with monkeypox within three weeks of his first infection, although an uncleared persistent infection is also a possibility. More...
USA: Polio in New York City wastewater
Sewage samples in New York City provided to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified presence of polioviruses indicating a risk of community transmission. More...
Monkeypox: Infected by a kiss on the cheek, unimaginable pain, then my DOGS got lesions..
David Watson from California giving evidence on his recent experience with monkeypox – he caught it by kissing a friend on the cheek – his husband then became infected – then his TWO DOGS started showing lesions. More...