Medical officers beat due to the increasing Coronavirus infection numbers Alarm

In view of the substantial increase in Coronavirus Infection in Germany, the Medical Alarm have failed. For a second pandemic wave of the health departments &quot be;just besetzt", the Chairman of the Federal Association of the Physicians of the Public health service (BVÖGD), Ute Teichert said, the Newspapers of the Funke media group. "With the […]

Dutch report new coronavirus infection on mink farm

Dutch authorities announced Friday that yet another mink farm has been infected with the novel coronavirus, making 18 in total, with thousands of animals to be culled. The outbreak was reported on a farm at Landhorst in the southeast, the Health Ministry said in a statement, in the same region where 17 other farms were […]

Study calculates the probability of developing symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection

What is the probability of developing more or less serious symptoms following infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus? The researchers from Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in cooperation with Lombardy Region based health institutions as well as universities in Milan and the US, calculated it in a study conducted on 4,326 Lombardy residents. The analysis, available online […]

Researchers discover key player in hepatitis A virus infection

How hepatitis A virus (HAV) manages to enter liver cells called hepatocytes and initiate infection had remained a mystery for fifty years until now. University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers designed experiments using gene-editing tools to discover how molecules called gangliosides serve as de facto gatekeepers to allow the virus entry into liver […]

Radiologists detail COVID-19 infection controla and radiographer protection in CT exam areas

In an open-access article published ahead-of-print by the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), a team of Chinese radiologists discussed modifications to the CT examination process and strict disinfection of examination rooms, while outlining personal protection measures for radiographers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. As Jieming Qu, Wenjie Yang, and colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong […]

Could a smartwatch identify an infection before you start spreading it?

A pre-print study using data from medical wristbands suggests that evidence of disrupted sleep could predict when study participants were coming down with the flu—24 hours before they became contagious. The study is posted on the arXiv and has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. It is in its second round of review […]