MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A worrisome international outbreak of monkeypox, a less harmful cousin of the smallpox virus, has now reached the United States and Canada. As of Saturday, 92… [+6925 chars]
Most COVID-19 patients recover from their acute infection within two weeks, but bits of the virus dont always disappear from patients bodies immediately. Now a new study, one of the largest focusing … [+8311 chars]
While we might not be hearing the daily COVID numbers anymore, the virus hasnt gone away. In the UK alone, thousands of new cases continue to be recorded every day. Meanwhile, theres a very large gr… [+5573 chars]
LONDON (AP) A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as a random event that might be explained by r… [+5419 chars]
Alberta now has five confirmed cases of avian flu that have spread from birds to mammals. Five skunks from central Alberta have been lab-confirmed as having avian influenza. “We had an unusually la… [+3314 chars]
Theresa Babb was 12 when a birthday gift from a doctor broke her spirit. Doctors were trying to determine why the pre-teen was overweight. A hospital stay in Halifax coincided with her birthday. Wi… [+5134 chars]
Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that is… [+6641 chars]
(Bloomberg) -- As cases of monkeypox climb, European health officials are calling on countries to review the availability of vaccines and step up efforts to identify and report new cases of the viral… [+1166 chars]
