Up to 60% of health care workers may have long COVID 4 years after infection

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WHO verifies deadly hospital attack in war-torn Sudan

The Al Deain Teaching Hospital in East Darfur’s capital, Al Deain, was struck late Friday, killing scores of people, including 13 children, two nurses, a doctor and multiple patients.

WM truck overturns transporting dead ducks suspected of bird flu contamination

A Waste Management truck overturned on U.S. 33 near Blue Lake in Whitley County, Indiana on Friday while transporting dead ducks from farms known to be carrying bird flu.

Federal Judge Blocks Immunization Schedule Changes, Stays ACIP Member Appointments

Antibiotic used in COVID patients tied to increased signs of antibiotic resistance

In a new study this week in Nature Microbiology, Langelier and a team of US researchers show that, in addition to having no clinical benefit for COVID patients, use of azithromycin was associated with potentially harmful changes in the upper respiratory microbiome and increased expression of antibiotic-resistance genes after only one day of exposure.

Newer Groundwater Linked to Increased Parkinson’s Disease Risk

PD risk was 24% higher among individuals whose drinking water came from municipal groundwater systems or private wells on carbonate aquifers — the most common aquifer type in the US — compared with those whose drinking water came from all other aquifer types.

What is behind the UK’s meningitis outbreak and how serious is it?

Meningitis infections in a county in the south-east of England continue to increase, with five new cases confirmed on Wednesday in what experts have said is one of the fastest-growing outbreaks of the disease they have seen in the UK.

Cuba’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade