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How to avoid deadly coryza in chicken - FarmKenya Initiative - The Standard

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SARS-CoV-2 virus may be shed for much longer periods by some infected patients, study shows - News-Medical.Net

January 30, 2022

In a 38-year-old man who manifested mild symptoms of COVID-19 for 20 days, the novel coronavirus continued to be detected in his organism and to undergo mutations for 232 days. If he had not been given continuous medical care, maintained social distancing and worn a mask, he could have spread the virus throughout these seven months. The atypical case of infection by SARS-CoV-2 was part of a study involving 38 Brazilian patients followed on a weekly basis between April and November 2020 by researchers affiliated with the Pasteur-USP Scientific Platform, a partnership between France's Pasteur Institute, the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The patients were followed until they tested negative twice or three times consecutively by RT-qPCR. The study was supported by FAPESP. An article reporting its findings is published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine . It serves as an alert regarding the risk of limiting quarantine for CO...

This Nurse Built a Clinic in the Sierra Leone Village Where She Grew Up. That’s Just the Beginning. - Direct Relief

October 31, 2021

When Isatu Timbo, a registered nurse, returned to the Sierra Leone village where she'd grown up, she encountered something that horrified her. She examined an expectant mother, only to find that the baby had died inside her uterus without her knowing. The situation was urgent, and no medical care was available nearby. Timbo gave her driver $300 to drive the woman to the nearest hospital, about 30 minutes away. The woman died on the way there. Horrified, Timbo paid for her funeral expenses. During the same visit, another expectant mother experienced complications during labor and was transported by bike to find health care. She fell off the bike, and both she and the baby died. "I can't let that happen again. I can't," Timbo said. "I cannot just sit down and see these things happening, while I have the means here in America" to help prevent them. Timbo grew up in the village of Royanka, near Freetown, Sierra Leone...

A Human Approach for Universal Health Coverage - Scientific American

December 30, 2019

A Human Approach for Universal Health Coverage Scientific American

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SARS-CoV-2 virus may be shed for much longer periods by some infected patients, study shows - News-Medical.Net

January 30, 2022

In a 38-year-old man who manifested mild symptoms of COVID-19 for 20 days, the novel coronavirus continued to be detected in his organism and to undergo mutations for 232 days. If he had not been given continuous medical care, maintained social distancing and worn a mask, he could have spread the virus throughout these seven months. The atypical case of infection by SARS-CoV-2 was part of a study involving 38 Brazilian patients followed on a weekly basis between April and November 2020 by researchers affiliated with the Pasteur-USP Scientific Platform, a partnership between France's Pasteur Institute, the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The patients were followed until they tested negative twice or three times consecutively by RT-qPCR. The study was supported by FAPESP. An article reporting its findings is published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine . It serves as an alert regarding the risk of limiting quarantine for CO...