Month: March 2021

An unassuming 3-by-4-inch piece of cardstock could become your ticket back to normalcy, with colleges, airlines, event venues and more weighing plans to require documentation of a COVID-19 vaccine. So, to protect that prized proof of inoculation, should you get it laminated? OfficeMax and Staples are currently offering promotions where residents can have their cards laminated for free. But some are concerned that the cards should stay writeable for booster shots down the road. “If you want to laminate it, just know that it might be hard in the future to do anything more to it,” Panagis Galiatsatos, a physician with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told NJ Advance Media. His recommendation: Laminate a copy of the card. But even more importantly, Galiatsatos said people...

More than 40 cases of a mysterious brain illness that resembles mad cow disease have been reported in Canada.  According to CBC, the illness has similarities to the rare and fatal brain disorder known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and its variants, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which is also known as mad cow disease.  But although it is similar to CJD, officials say it is not the same disease.  Health officials in New Brunswick, Canada, are now scrambling to understand how 43 people contracted the illness and what the unknown neurological disease is. Five people have died, officials confirmed.      More than 40 cases of a mysterious brain illness (brain scan file image) that resembles 'mad cow disease' have been reported in Canada  ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced during her weekly news conference Wednesday that all Iowans will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations starting April 5.“Next Monday, April 5, all eligible Iowans can be vaccinated,” Reynolds said. “Expanding eligibility opens the opportunity for more Iowans to be vaccinated, but it also means that more Iowans will be vying for the vaccine appointments as they become available.”Reynolds said Iowans 16 and older can receive a Pfizer vaccine. Iowans 18 and older can get the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.The governor also said more help would be available to more Iowans to schedule vaccinations. She said 211 assistance will be expanded to anyone 65 and up who needs help, plus those 16-64 with underlying health issues.Reynolds also said ...

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He has treated more than 1,000 patients, both in Australia and overseas, for the disease. Many of those in Australia are older, but others are young teachers, laborers and even children. He measures their lesions gently with a ruler, marking them to track their progression. Though they look like the stuff of nightmares — some have ulcers that eat all the way to the bone — most patients describe them as painless. The flesh-eating toxin produced by the bacteria presents a peculiar horror: It both weakens the immune response and numbs the flesh it is consuming. It’s “quite an extraordinary organism, really,” Dr. O’Brien said of the bacterium, “and a formidable foe.” In Mr. Courtney’s case, the ulcer had ravaged the top half of his foot before doctors could give a diagnosis. They have since p...