Immunology

Long COVID? Get Ready For Long Colds Next

A new paper has given a name for long-term symptoms that test negative for COVID-19- "long colds." Coronavirus is very similar to the common cold, so similar that coronavirus was not known to be distinct until the 1960s. Most who were infected wi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2023 - 8:44am

WHO Panel On Coronavirus Was Clearly Told Not To Mention China So It Says All Countries 'Made Mistakes'

The latest coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, China. You'd barely learn that from yet another non-report courtesy of the World Health Organisation, they don't mention it until page 15. You certainly won't learn anything about how it bega ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 19 2024 - 10:30am

Cigarettes Have Long-Term Consequences For The Immune System

Cigarettes are a co-morbidity for almost everything and a risk factor for the rest, but it isn't just first-order disease that may be in the future of cigarette smokers. A cohort of 1,000 healthy volunteers aged 20 to 70 in 2011 were examined to see w ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2024 - 12:44pm

1 In 10 Pregnant Women Who Get COVID-19 May Get A Long Covid Diagnosis

Any long-term effects of COVID-19, which originated in China and became the third coronavirus pandemic of the century, in the general adult population remain unclear. Some clearly have it while others are told it as an undefined blanket term, like fibromya ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2024 - 3:16pm

Hygiene Hypothesis And Why Amish Kids Have Less Asthma

If you do not have your 11-year-old child in a car seat while driving and in a bicycle helmet while playing, you are putting them at severe risk.  We have to protect them.  Or not. While we expose kids to all kinds of harmful cultural stuff at earlier and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2024 - 9:21am

SARS-Like Virus Can Jump Directly From Bats To Humans- And There Is No Treatment

Researchers have discovered a new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2024 - 3:21pm

5 Important Things To Know About Bird Flu

The UK has just recorded its second outbreak of bird flu in less than three months. At the end of November, the relatively new subtype H5N8 – which was first spotted in late 2009 in China and which has since made its way westwards as far as the Netherland ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 6 2024 - 8:50am

At 3 Cases In 6 Months, Monkeypox In The US Is Effectively Contained

Monkeypox (Mpox) is an infection transmitted by skin-to-skin contact and causes fever and painful skin blisters. It is in the Orthopoxvirus genus of viruses, which includes smallpox, so those vaccinated against it have cross-protection, smallpox vaccines a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2024 - 1:12pm