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Congo mystery disease: WHO is sending experts to help

Fri, 2024-12-06 11:52 — mike kraft

WHO sends experts to help Congo diagnose mystery disease BERLIN (Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Friday it is deploying experts to support health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate an as-yet undiagnosed disease linked to multiple deaths in a remote area of the country. The WHO experts are on their way to Panzi, a locality in the southwestern Kwango province, where they will deliver essential medicines and diagnostic kits to help analyse the cause of the illness. Laboratory tests are being conducted to determine the cause, the WHO said, adding that it would share more information as soon as it was available. Yahoo News

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Pain may be the most prevalent symptom of Long COVID -- study

Fri, 2024-12-06 10:22 — mike kraft

Pain Identified as Dominant Symptom in Long COVID

New research shows that pain—a common complaint of individuals experiencing long-term symptoms from the COVID-19 virus—may actually be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported in those with long COVID.

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Most teenagers recover from long Covid after two years but some still have problems -- study

Wed, 2024-12-04 17:42 — mike kraft

Most teenagers recover from long Covid after two years, study shows World’s largest ‘longitudinal cohort study’ reports that older teens and society’s most disadvantaged most likely to be affected PA Media The Guardian

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Air pollution may boost risk of longer-term long-COVID symptoms --study

Wed, 2024-12-04 14:06 — mike kraft

Air pollution may boost risk of longer-term long-COVID symptoms, research suggests In California, one pregnant woman and her twins were sick, and both infants died. CIDRAP

Exposure to small- or fine-particle air pollution may predispose COVID-19 survivors to a longer duration of persistent symptoms by increasing the severity of the infection, among other contributing factors, finds a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

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Men more likely than women to develop COVID-19 pneumonia --study

Mon, 2024-12-02 10:05 — mike kraft

Men more likely than women to develop COVID-19 pneumonia, research suggests Also, California health officials report another illness in a dairy farm worker, pushing the national total this year to 55. CIDRAP

A study of sex-based differences in the risk of COVID-19 pneumonia finds that men were more likely to develop the complication than women (12.0% vs 7.0%) during the declared pandemic period and the early months of the endemic phase of the disease in Mexico.

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The Driving Factor Behind Long COVID May Have Been Identified --studies

Mon, 2024-12-02 09:57 — mike kraft

Mysterious Driving Factor Behind Long COVID May Have Been Identified A persistent form of infection? The Conversation ScienceAlert

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Reduced risk of long COVID after vaccination shown in analysis of 25 studies

Fri, 2024-11-29 17:43 — mike kraft

Analysis of 25 studies shows reduced risk of long COVID after vaccination Two doses of COVID vaccine before infection was tied to a 24% reduced odds of having long COVID. CIDRAP

A new meta-analysis of studies involving more than 14 million people published in the Journal of Infection shows that COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID, with two doses reducing the odds by 24% and one dose reducing the odds by 15%.

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Long COVID: Lungs might hold clues to long COVID brain fog --study

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:37 — mike kraft

Lungs might hold clues to long COVID brain fog - UPI.com The "brain fog" of long COVID might be due to impaired lung function following a person's infection, a new study says. UPI

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Reduced gas exchange in the lungs -- oxygen coming in, carbon dioxide going out -- appears to be associated with brain fog in long COVID, researchers will report in Chicago at next week's annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

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No unexpected COVID vaccine safety concerns in young children--study

Wed, 2024-11-27 12:26 — mike kraft

Study: No unexpected COVID vaccine safety concerns in kids Postvaccination reactions were reported for 47% of children. CIDRAP

A new research letter published yesterday in JAMA Network Open shows no new safety concerns or reactogenicity signals among babies and toddlers who received their first COVID-19 vaccines by the age of 2.

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