The World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time has reached a consensus on the definition of airborne disease transmission. According to a report by news agency Reuters, this unified understanding aims to prevent the confusion experienced during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, which some scientists believe led to loss of life. Released …
Airborne viruses will be called “pathogens that transmit through the air” under new terminology the World Health Organization hopes will end a scientific rift that hampered the early response to Covid-19. HT Image After two years of consultations involving over 100 scientists, a WHO-led working group agreed to the term to describe diseases caused by …
London: The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time on what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a technical document on …
In a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers assessed the global, national, and regional burden and trends in tuberculosis. Study: Global, regional, and national age-specific progress towards the 2020 milestones of the WHO End TB Strategy: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Image Credit: SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock.com Background Tuberculosis is a …
)
A woman walks past a mural depicting a frontline worker amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dublin, Ireland, January 12, 2022. REUTERS The world has not forgotten horrors of COVID-19 that became a deadly pandemic claiming scores of lives and infecting a large number of population worldwide. As people across the globe …
Four years have passed since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19, also known as the Coronavirus, a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Despite the decrease in its impact, experts caution that another pandemic could emerge at any time. According to a report by Sky News, infectious disease experts in the UK have expressed …
The coronavirus pandemic continues to have a lingering effect on the world as scientists scramble to understand the many long-lasting effects of the virus. One such is a condition that has cognitive effects like memory loss and difficulty learning, known as brain fog. it leads to a feeling of mental confusion, lack of clarity, or …
Four Years After COVID-19: What Has the Infection Prevention Community Learned? It has been 4 years since COVID-19 was declared a global public health emergency in March 2020. In that time, many lessons have been learned about pandemic response and the role of infection prevention in health care. As we begin to act on those …
Discovering COVID’s origin will shape the next pandemic. Scientists think it was either nature’s way or accidental leak. There’s no consensus. Here’s why. Throughout the pandemic, and since, researchers have focused on China as the origin of the virus, but we still don’t know how it came about (Chinatopix/AP/picture alliance ) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} …
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented exposure to stressors driven by fears of a novel and deadly disease, intense uncertainty, and resulting isolation measures, which in turn resulted in increases in anxiety for many. According to new research however, individuals who were in therapy for anxiety prior to the start of the …