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Omicron now 13% of cases in NY and NJ; health officials brace for sharp rise

Enlarge / Medical workers carry a patient to a hospital in New York, the United States, Dec. 13, 2021. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency ) Health officials sounded the alarm Tuesday over the fast spread of the omicron coronavirus, which has now been detected in 77 countries worldwide and 33 states in the US—and […]

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US preps vaccine contingencies amid panic over poorly understood omicron

Enlarge / WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 29: Anthony Fauci (R), Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, speaks alongside US President Joe Biden as he delivers remarks on the Omicron COVID-19 variant following a meeting of the COVID-19 response team at the White House. (credit: […]

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Two Americans Dead & More Infected With Rare Illness Never Before Seen In United States

Two Americans have died and two more are recovering from serious illness after being infected with melioidosis — a rare disease previously only seen sparingly in the tropical climates of South Asia and northern Australia. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the disease had never before been detected on contiguous American soil, but now, after […]

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SARS-CoV-2’s spread to wild mink not a reason to Fear

Expand (charge: Eric Sonstroem / Flickr) Did anybody have”mink farms” in their 2020 disaster bingo cards? It ends up the SARS-CoV-2 virus easily spreads into mink, resulting in outbreaks on mink farms at Europe along with that the United States. Denmark reacted by culling its whole mink people, which obviously went wrong because mink bodies […]