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Ohio health officials reported the state's first flu-related pediatric death of the 2021-22 season Friday.Officials said an 8-month-old boy from Ashland County died from a flu-associated illness.The Ashland County Health Department investigated the death.Ohio health officials report that there have been 972 flu-associated hospitalizations reported in the state so far this flu season compared to the 108 reported during the same time period within the 2020-21 influenza season, which saw an unusually low amount of influenza compared to more typical flu seasons.Health officials said that at this point in the 2019-20 flu season, there were 10,540 hospitalizations.The health department said COVID-19 prevention efforts like wearing face masks, staying at home, hand washing have likely contr...

A 3D-printed coronavirus model is seen in front of the words coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on display in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 1 (Reuters) - The world's first "human challenge" trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to the coronavirus has found that symptoms had no effect on how likely an infected person is to pass the disease on to others. The findings underscore the difficulty in preventing community infections as the Word Health Organization (WHO) warns of a rise in cases. The research project, run by Open Orphan (ORPH.L) with Imperial College, London, showed that among the 18 participants that caught COVID-19, the severity of symptoms, or ...

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After This Pediatrician Took Her 6-Year-Old to Get Her COVID Vaccine, 'It Was a Whole Celebration' | PEOPLE.com Skip to content Top Navigation Close this dialog window Explore PEOPLE.com Close this dialog window Share & More Close this dialog window View image After This Pediatrician Took Her 6-Year-Old to Get Her COVID Vaccine, 'It Was a Whole Celebration' this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.

The rapid growth of the more transmissible BA.2 variant of Covid-19 is continuing in Los Angeles County. As of March 12, the latest date for which data is available, 32% of local positive Covid tests that underwent laboratory sequencing turned out to be the result of BA.2. During the week ending March 5, 16.7% of sequenced cases were found to be BA.2, meaning that the variant’s share of new cases very nearly doubled in just 7 days. The final week of February, BA.2 accounted for 6.3% of new cases, which means that the variant’s share of infections more than doubled the week before, also. Given the continued rapid spread of BA.2 in other regions where it took root earlier — such as the U.K., South Africa, Singapore, India and the Northeast United States — it’s likely that ...

The Washington Post was bashed on social media for using the term 'pregnant people' when referring to a COVID breakthrough infection study on expecting mothers. The Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper stirred up a frenzy with its headline, 'Pregnant people at much higher risk of breakthrough covid, study shows,' along with several uses of the term 'pregnant people' throughout the story while only using the word 'woman' once.  One Twitter user with the handle Karlene Nation slammed the Post as 'idiots' for calling women 'pregnant people.'  'Women fought for rights/freedoms,' Karlene tweeted. 'Woke MORONS stripping women of identities.  'Do NOT make the mistake to call me a 'pregnant person,' a 'person who breast feed,' or 'person who menstruates.' You WILL have a problem. Another Twitter user with ...

There's no longer any doubt that exercise can be a serious mood booster for people with major depressive disorder. Even an hour of physical activity a week can be enough to reduce the risk of future episodes.   Surprisingly, little is known about the more immediate effects of exercise on specific characteristics of both mood and mind among people with depression, both during an exercise session and straight after. "A lot of previous research on the effects of exercise on mental health, in general, have used very broad measures of wellbeing," says Iowa State University kinesiologist Jacob Meyer. "What we were interested in, specifically, is: how does acute exercise – that is, one session of exercise in a day – influence the primary symptoms of depression." Chronic forms of depression ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - The resurgence of the bird flu has infected birds in at least 25 states and it could impact farmers, hunters and even your dinner options. North Dakota just confirmed the first bird flu case within a backyard chicken flock in Kidder County but that doesn’t necessarily mean the virus just arrived. “I’ve been getting reports for the last 10 days that have been seeing snow geese that have been either dead or exhibiting some kind of characteristics of a possible sickness so you have the test results and then you have what hunters are seeing out there on the landscape,” said Doug Leier, biologist at North Dakota Game and Fish department. “With the migratory birds that carry this virus continuing to make it’s way across our state, we want to make sure that all o...

A man in his 30s went to the ER with excruciating pain after he injected cocaine into a penile vein. The doctors said the penis was black, ulcerated, and releasing a foul-smelling discharge. Cocaine is highly addictive and one of the "most dangerous drugs available," the doctors said. Loading Something is loading. A man's penis turned black after he injected it with cocaine, according to a report by the Amercian Journal of Case Reports. The 35-year-old Hispanic ma...

He said farmers who used it without protective equipment, damaging their skin, should be worried. "If they went out the next day and actually used it again, and the next day, you could absorb more Paraquat through the skin, into the blood and then into the brain," he says.