The provincial minister of health in North Kivu, Doctor Nzanzu Syalita Eugène, held a press briefing on Monday February 15, 2021 at the office of the Provincial Division of Health (DPS) branch of Butembo, in which he gave more details on the Ebola virus which resurfaced in the health zones of Biena (Lubero) and Katwa. According [...]
Health officials in Guinea are racing to contain a new outbreak of Ebola that has killed at least four people and raised concerns across west Africa, which previously suffered the worst from the virus. On Monday morning, a fourth victim died in Guinea and four others are being treated in an isolation centre, suffering vomiting, diarrhoea and [...]
Background Exhaled respirable aerosols (5 µm) precautions at other times. However, there is emerging evidence that respiratory activities such as cough and not AGPs are the important source of aerosols. Ashashyou [CC0], from Wikimedia CommonsRead more… Download Citation: Nick M. Wilson, Guy B. Marks, Andrew Eckhardt, Alyssa Clarke, Francis Young, Frances L. Garden, Warren Stewart, Tim M. Cook, Euan R. Tovey medRxiv 2021.02.07.21251309; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.07.21251309 The post The effect of respiratory activity, ventilatory therapy and facemasks [...]
Background Exhaled respirable aerosols (5 µm) precautions at other times. However, there is emerging evidence that respiratory activities such as cough and not AGPs are the important source of aerosols. alvarez Read more… The post COVID-19 Aerosol timeline appeared first on Healthier Environment Living Program.
Politicians facing the spread of coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, lay claim to “following the science”, conferring a Rosetta Stone-like quality on the discipline: a monolithic key to indisputable facts. But as the philosopher Mary Midgley observed, the value of science lies not in how we store facts but how we interpret them. And interpretations are “always [...]
ABSTRACT The periodic emergence of novel coronaviruses (CoVs) represents an ongoing public health concern with significant health and financial burdens worldwide. The most recent occurrence originated in the city of Wuhan, China, where a novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2]) emerged causing severe respiratory illness and pneumonia. The continual emergence of novel coronaviruses [...]
Abstract Fomites can transmit some infectious diseases. Human touch behaviors are known to affect virus transmission in buildings. Using video cameras in a graduate student office, we collected more than 98,000 touch actions from 14 h of high-resolution video data of surfaces touched by fingers, palms, and backs of hands. Based on the collected data, [...]
Background: Elderly patients infected with COVID-19 are reported to be facing a substantially increased risk of mortality. Clinical characteristics, treatment options, and potential survival factors remain under investigation. This study aimed to fill this gap and provide clinically relevant factors associated with survival of elderly patients with COVID-19. Methods: In this multi-center study, elderly patients (age ≥65 years [...]
After traveling to Wuhan, China, a team of researchers from the World Health Organization is readying a preliminary report on the origins of the coronavirus. Wuhan is where the virus was first reported in December 2019. The WHO team’s main public conclusion so far is that it’s “extremely unlikely” that the virus originated in a lab in [...]
Infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus can lead to diverse outcomes, ranging from no symptoms to varying degrees of disease severity, spanning mild illness to death. What determines the degree of severity is unclear, but mounting evidence points to exacerbated and abnormal responses in the innate branch of the immune system as a main driver of [...]
