Category: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Severe COVID-19 and flu can facilitate lung cancer months or years later
Medical Express Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease’s development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health’s Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center indicates. UVA School of Medicine researcher Jie Sun, Ph.D., and colleagues found that […]
Mar 11, 2026
The Mystery of Losing Your Taste From Long COVID May Finally Have an Answer
Discover Learn how researchers may have finally uncovered why some people experience long-lasting taste loss after COVID-19. A common symptom that many experienced during a COVID-19 infection was a loss of taste. While most affected individuals regained their sense of taste within a few weeks, some experienced a persistent loss over several months. If a […]
Mar 11, 2026
8 children have now died from flu in Mass. this season
Boston.com The child died between the week of Feb. 21 and Feb. 28, the state’s Department of Public Health reported. An eighth Massachusetts child has died from the flu this flu season, state data shows. As of Feb. 28, eight Massachusetts children have died from the influenza, as well as 298 adults, the state’s influenza data […]
Mar 11, 2026
Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made
NYT Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents. The Covid pandemic was an extraordinary moment in history. Starting at the end of 2019, a virus new to science swept across the planet, killed more than 25 million people and caused trillions of dollars in economic damage. But […]
Mar 11, 2026
How one WA county is racing to curb the spread of measles
Seattle Times Getting word that out-of-state travelers may have brought in an extremely contagious virus. Scrambling to notify the public. Tracking exposures. Testing residents. Watching three cases become six, then 10, then 12. The Snohomish County Health Department had again found itself hustling to save lives and prevent hospitalizations, this time in a race against […]
Mar 11, 2026
Marburg virus invades human cells far more efficiently than Ebola, study reveals
Medical Express In a new study published in Nature, University of Minnesota researchers have found that the Marburg virus, one of the world’s deadliest pathogens with an average 73% fatality rate, is unusually efficient at getting inside human cells. They also showed that the virus’s entry protein contains structural features that explain this efficiency and point to a […]
Mar 11, 2026
Long COVID — Here’s What To Know And The Challenges Ahead
Forbes Despite entering the sixth year since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus has not disappeared and the long-term consequences of infection continue to cast a shadow. Long COVID, or post-COVID-19 condition, represents a complex health condition that has affected at least 20 million Americans, according to Yale Medicine. Here’s what to know about […]
Mar 4, 2026
The Mystery of Losing Your Taste From Long COVID May Finally Have an Answer
Discover Magazine Learn how researchers may have finally uncovered why some people experience long-lasting taste loss after COVID-19. A common symptom that many experienced during a COVID-19 infection was a loss of taste. While most affected individuals regained their sense of taste within a few weeks, some experienced a persistent loss over several months. If […]
Mar 4, 2026
A virus that isn’t COVID or the flu is pummeling Northern California
SF Gate Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, typically spreads during winter and spring. If you notice that your office is emptying out, chances are it’s because a respiratory virus that few people have actually heard of is circulating throughout Northern California. According to recent WastewaterSCAN data, concentrations of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, are high in San Francisco, Marin, […]
Mar 4, 2026
More dead geese found in N.J. after widespread reports of suspected bird flu
NJ.com More dead geese have turned up in New Jersey about two weeks after a suspected bird flu wave killed more than 1,000 geese across the state. The dead geese were reported in Woodstown in Salem County, the borough police department said in a statement on Tuesday. The geese were found near Woodstown Memorial Lake. No other […]
Mar 4, 2026