Enlarge (credit: Peter Dazeley / Getty Images ) Smoking can really clog up the lungs, even for people who’ve never been near a cigarette. Turns out that smoking habits from the early 1900s are still inflicting damage—not on tobacco users or their families, but on people with cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary […]
Enlarge / Epidemiologists analyzed all 25 James Bond films to assess 007’s health risks while traveling around the world. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A graduate student in epidemiology working in the field leads a perilous life, as Wouter Graumans discovered when he came down with a serious case of food poisoning while visiting […]
Enlarge / Two classrooms had to be shut down due to a series of problems with maintaining policies meant to limit the spread of the pandemic. (credit: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty Images ) On Friday, the CDC released a report that traced the spread of the Delta variant through a California elementary school. It’s tempting […]
Enlarge / COVID-19 has taken a terrible toll on Brazil. (credit: Michael Dantas / Getty Images) Almost from the moment it made the jump to humans, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been picking up mutations and creating new lineages as it expands into different populations. In practical terms, the vast majority of these mutations makes absolutely […]
Enlarge / Liang Wannian (2nd L) and Peter Ben Embarek (3rd R) both members of the WHO-China joint study team, shake hands after the WHO-China joint study press conference in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on Feb. 9, 2021. (credit: Getty | Xinhua News Agency ) Facing intense international pressure and criticism, the World Health […]
Enlarge / Aerial view showing a tractor digging graves in a new area of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida, where COVID-19 victims are buried, in Manaus, Brazil. (credit: Marcio James / Getty Images) While attention has been focused on the worrying new variants of SARS-CoV-2, there has been some good news: despite the evolution of a […]
Expand / Municipality workers eliminate the renowned blue seats onto the”Promenade des anglais” in Nice, southern France, so as to limit chances for folks to collect. (charge: VALERY HACHE / / Getty Images) With the dramatic increase in diseases in the USA, there is increasing debate of whether countries will need to return to serious […]
Expand / / In case you can not socially space, a facial mask assists. (charge: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images) Many nations that commanded their COVID-19 instances from the spring are now seeing climbs in diseases, increasing the possibility that they will face another wave of instances, as most epidemiological models have predicted. But at […]