Public Health

More than five million people have been ordered to undergo Covid-19 testing in the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen this week, after some 40 cases of the virus were detected. But they're not the only ones who have been ordered to get tested: an official notice states that some forms of sealife are also expected to join the latest mass-testing drive.

The rollout of the UK’s dual-strain Covid vaccine is set to start on 5 September, the NHS has announced, as it prepares to give boosters to millions of Britons ahead of winter.Some 26 million people are to be offered a Covid jab as part of the autumn booster programme, including all over-50s and those with compromised immune systems.Care home residents and people who are housebound will be vaccinated first during the week of 5 September, before the rollout is widened to the over-75s and those susceptible to serious illness in the following week.Moderna’s dual-strain vaccine, which offers protection against the...

With updated shots coming soon, should you wait to get another dose or get boosted with the current vaccines now?

Thousands more students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds have been accepted onto university courses this year compared to the last time students sat A-level exams before the pandemic. Around 6,800 of this group got the grades needed for their first or second choice university - a rise from 3,770 in 2019, according to Ucas. “We’re encouraged to see early indications of a continued increase in the rate of disadvantaged students gaining places,” John Blake from the Office for Students said. It came as hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland found out their marks on...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said she plans to overhaul the agency to improve its response to public health crises. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and CNBC contributor, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to break down whether the changes could help the agency.

Two Florida residents died weeks apart due to a bacterial infection after consuming raw oysters. In both cases, the oysters came from Louisiana. One of them had visited a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, called Rustic Inn Crabhouse, in July. The Florida Department of Health confirmed it was investigating a person's death linked to the restaurant, NBC 6 reported.

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the nation’s top public health agency on Wednesday announced a shake-up of the organization, saying it fell short responding to COVID-19 and needs to become more nimble. The planned changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — CDC leaders...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 18, 2022-- Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the “Company”, “Arcturus”, “Arcturus Therapeutics”, Nasdaq: ARCT), a global, late-stage clinical messenger RNA medicines company focused on the development of infectious disease vaccines and significant opportunities within liver and respiratory rare diseases, today announced updated data from its ongoing ARCT-154 booster clinical trial. The new results demonstrate broad neutralizing antibody response against Omicron variants of concern, including BA.5, lasting for up to at least six months after administration of low-dose (5 mcg) ARCT-154 booster. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220818005266/en/ Exploratory pseudovirus microneutralization (MNT) assay results...

The development underscores CDC guidance that urges people with suspected or confirmed monkeypox infections to avoid contact with animals — including their pets.

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Rachel Robles contracted Covid in March 2020. The 27-year-old data analyst has not gone a single day without symptoms since. Most doctors did not believe her when she described how she had gone from running the Brooklyn Half Marathon the previous year to enduring such crippling fatigue that her couch felt like quicksand. How she suddenly struggled to put numbers together, despite her technical training. How no matter how many breaths she took, she always felt starved for air.